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- PXUTIL ver 1.2
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- An EPSON PX-8 installation of Simon J. Ewins' OSUTIL: an easy to use disk
- utility with cursor addressable file directory. Ted Nevals
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- The file directory contains the file name and size for all the files on that
- drive. The logged drive may be found by looking at the 8th line of the menu
- on the right. You will see something like: [A: 4 fls 23k free] The
- logged drive is A:, there are 4 files on this drive and 23 kilobytes of free
- space is present. This 8th line may also contain prompts and report status
- of operations. To move the cursor around the file directory, press the arrow
- keys.
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- The right arrow key itself will "tag" a file for operations. The left arrow
- key will "untag" the file. An asterisk denotes tagged files. Once a file has
- been tagged, it will be affected by the "+" and "-" operators. In the
- [0k] box, the total size of the tagged files will be displayed.
-
- + will copy all the tagged files after asking you (on line 8) "Copy to
- drive? ". Respond with a letter (A, D thru G, or H). Press [RETURN] to
- abort the "+" tag copy operation.
-
- - will delete all the tagged files after getting your response to
- "Prompting? ". Answer [Y] (either upper or lower case will be accepted for an
- answer to any prompt) to be asked about each file prior to deleting. If you
- answer [Y], PXUTIL displays each file name followed by a question mark.
- Answer [Y] to delete or [N] to skip. Answer [N] to delete every tagged file
- without asking. Press [RETURN] to abort the "-" tag delete operation.
-
-
- To Copy the file that the cursor is on, press C. The prompt "Drive
- [d:]/Swap? " will appear on the 8th line. Answer with a drive letter or [S].
- Any drive letter other that the one logged on presently will result in a
- simple copy operation to that drive. Answering with the drive letter of the
- presently logged drive will cause the "Name? " prompt to appear. Give a
- different name to the file to make a copy of it on the same drive. Giving
- the same name will produce the "Overwrite? " prompt. If you answer [Y]
- PXUTIL will simply overwrite the same file. An [N] answer will abort the
- copy operation. If you have given a different drive to copy to and a file by
- the same name is on that drive, the "Overwrite? " prompt will be presented.
- To copy a file from one diskette to another on a single drive system, you
- could choose the [S] option. The file will be read into memory, then the
- "Insert DEST. disk" prompt will appear. Insert the destination disk in the
- drive and then press [RETURN] to continue copying. To abort the operation at
- this point, press [STOP] instead of [RETURN]. After PXUTIL has copied the
- file onto the destination disk, it will display the "Insert SOURCE disk"
- prompt. After inserting the source disk, press [RETURN]. Swap is not
- permitted on drive H (MCT).
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- To Delete the file that the cursor is on press D. The file name followed
- by a question mark will be displayed. Answer [Y] to delete and [N] or
- [RETURN] to abort.
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- Rename the file that the cursor is on by pressing R. The "Name? " prompt
- will appear. Answer with a valid 8 character name plus optional 3 character
- extension to rename the file. Press [RETURN] to abort the rename.
-
- Log a new drive with L. [RETURN] will abort.
-
- To View or print the file that the cursor is on, press V. The prompt
- "Send to printer?" will appear. Answer [Y] to print the file and [N] or
- [RETURN] to display it. To abort the View/print operation, press [STOP].
- When the screen stops scrolling during View, press [RETURN] to continue, or
- [STOP] to return to the PXUTIL menu.
-
- A file's Attributes may changed by pressing A. A prompt with 4 choices
- will appear: "R, W, S, or D? ". [R] will change the file to read-only
- status, [W] will change to read-write status, [S] will change to system
- status, and [D] will cancel system status. You may change any 2 attributes
- at once by separating them with [/], e.g. [R/S] followed by [RETURN] will
- change to the file to read-only and system status. The first letter of the
- file's extension will be changed to lower case for read-only. The second
- letter will be changed to lower case for system status. If the file has no
- extension, `'s will be used.
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- To Execute the program (.COM extension only) that the cursor is on, press
- E. The program name will be displayed along with the "Parameters" prompt.
- Enter any run-time parameters now, or [RETURN] if none.
-
- The amount of charge left in the battery is displayed just below the Quit
- option.
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- To Quit PXUTIL and return to the A> prompt, or the PX-8 system MENU if you
- have it on, press Q.
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- PXUTIL changes the tape size to 64k for use with C-60 tapes. If you use
- C-30's, change byte 102h to 1Dh. If you use C-90's (very risky!), change
- 102h to 5Eh for 96k.