UTILITIES.HELP
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VIP UTILITIES HELP.. VIP TERM
INAL COMES WITH SEVERAL UTIL-.ITIES TO H
ELP WITH FILE TRANSFER. THERE.ARE FOUR U
TILITIES. THE FIRST IS VIP.DISK MANAGER
. IT PUTS MANY USEFUL DISK.COMMANDS INT
O A SINGLE EASY-TO-USE.MENU. IT ALSO CO
NTAINS SEVERAL USEFUL.UTILITIES. THE OT
HER TWO UTILITIES.ALLOW CONVERSION OF SE
QUENTIAL FILES TO.PROGRAM FILES AND ALLO
W FILE TRANSFER.USING THE "NEW" PUNTER P
ROTOCOL.... VIP DISK MANAGER..
VIP DISK MANAGER CONTAINS 14 DISK.COMMA
NDS:.. 1 DISK DIRECTORY.
2 FORMAT NEW DISK. 3 INITIALIZE
DISK. 4 COPY FILE TO SAME DISK.
5 COPY FILE TO NEW DISK.
6 RENAME FILE. 7 ERASE A FILE.
8 VALIDATE FILE. 9 EXIT
TO BASIC. A ASCII-CBM CONVERSIO
N. C COMBINE DISK FILES.
P PRINT DISK FILE. S SPLIT DISK
FILES. V VIEW DISK FILE.. USE
OF THE FIRST NINE COMMANDS IS.SELF EXPLA
NATORY WHEN YOU USE THEM..WHEN USING ANY
OF THE COMMANDS NOT.RELATING TO SAVING
A FILE, THE COMMAND.MAY BE ABORTED BY PR
ESSING ANY KEY. IF.YOU PRESS STOP, YOU
WILL EXIT THE.PROGRAM. TO RESTART THE P
ROGRAM, TYPE."RUN" AND PRESS RETURN...
THE LAST FIVE COMMANDS REQUIRE SOME.FURT
HER EXPLANATION.... ASCII-CBM CO
NVERSION.. AS IS EXPLAINED IN THE MANUA
L FOR VIP.TERMINAL, COMMODORE HAS ITS OW
N.STANDARD FOR CHARACTERS, DIFFERENT FRO
M.THE NEARLY UNIVERSAL ASCII STANDARD..T
O PROVIDE CONFORMITY WITH THE ASCII.WORL
D, VIP TERMINAL USES PURE ASCII..THE CON
VERSION COMMAND IS USED TO CON-.VERT PUR
E ASCII FILES TO THEIR.COMMODORE ASCII E
QUIVALENT, AND VICE.VERSA. WHEN YOU SEL
ECT THIS COMMAND,.YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR
THE NAME OF THE.FILE TO BE CONVERTED AND
THE NAME OF.THE CONVERTED FILE. VIP DI
SK MANA-.GER AUTOMATICALLY PUTS THE EXTE
NSION.".CONV" ON THE CONVERTED FILE. YO
U.WILL STILL PROBABLY WANT TO USE THE.BU
ILT-IN CBM CONVERSION MOST OF THE.TIME..
.. COMBINE / SPLIT DISK FILES.. BE
CAUSE VIP TERMINAL USES VIRTUAL.SAVING T
ECHNIQUES, YOU CAN CREATE FILES.LARGER T
HAN WILL FIT INTO THE COMPUTER..ON THE O
THER HAND, THE WORKSPACE IN VIP.TERMINAL
ONLY ALLOWS FILES OF ABOUT 7K..SINCE MA
NY OF YOUR FILES ARE LONGER,.LARGE FILES
MUST BE BROKEN DOWN TO BE.USED. THESE
TWO UTILITIES ALLOW YOU TO.COMBINE SMALL
ER FILES INTO ONE LARGE.FILE AND SPLIT L
ARGE FILES INTO SMALLER.MORE USABLE CHUN
KS... WHEN COMBINING FILES, YOU WILL BE
.ASKED FOR THE NAMES OF UP TO FOUR FILES
.TO BE COMBINED. THESE FILES WILL THEN.
BE COMBINED. IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN FOUR.
FILES TO COMBINE, YOU WILL HAVE TO DO.TW
O OR MORE COMBINING OPERATIONS... WHEN
SPLITTING A FILE, YOU WILL BE.ASKED FOR
THE FILE NAME, AND THE NUMBER.OF BLOCKS
FOR EACH PART. VIP DISK.MANAGER WILL TH
EN AUTOMATICALLY SPLIT.THE FILE INTO CHU
NKS OF THE LENGTH.THAT YOU SPECIFIED. E
ACH CHUNK WILL.HAVE THE FILE NAME, FOLLO
WED BY A SEQ-.UENTIAL ALPHBETIC LETTER S
TARTING WITH."A". YOU MAY THEN SEPARATEL
Y LOAD THESE.FILES INTO THE WORKSPACE FO
R MANIPULA-.TION.... PRINT DI
SK FILE.. VIRTUAL TECHNIQUES CAN CREATE
FILES.LARGER THAN WILL FIT IN THE WORKS
PACE.OF VIP TERMINAL, THUS MAKING THEM.I
MPOSSIBLE TO PRINT FROM THE WORKSPACE..T
HIS UTILITY ALLOWS THE USER TO PRINT.THE
SE LARGE FILES. WE SUGGEST THAT YOU.USE
IT TO PRINT THIS HELP FILE....
VIEW DISK FILE.. THIS UTILITY MAY B
E USED TO VIEW ANY.DISK FILE. WHEN YOU
SPECIFY THE NAME.OF THE FILE, IT WILL BE
DISPLAYED..WHEN THE END IS REACHED, YOU
WILL BE.ASKED TO PRESS A KEY TO RETURN
TO THE.MENU..... FILE CONVERSION U
TILITIES.. VIP TERMINAL XL COMES WITH S
EVERAL.UTILITIES TO HELP WITH FILE CONVE
RSION..THE FIRST OF THESE UTILITIES WILL
.CHANGE BASIC PROGRAMS DOWNLOADED IN AN.
ASCII FORMAT INTO A PROGRAM FILE TO BE.L
OADED AND USED. THERE ALSO IS A UTIL-.I
TY TO CONVERT A BASIC PROGRAM INTO A.SEQ
UENTIAL FILE. THE "NEW" PUNTER.TERMINAL
WILL TRANSFER PROGRAMS AND.FILES USING
THE "NEW" PUNTER PROTOCOL.... CONV
ERTING BASIC PROGRAMS.. TO CHANGE A SEQ
UENTIAL BASIC LISTING.INTO A PROGRAM FIL
E, LOAD THE PROGRAM.CALLED "BASIC-TO-PG
M" AND RUN IT. YOU.WILL BE ASKED FOR TH
E NAME OF THE.SEQUENTIAL FILE. IT WILL
THEN BE.CONVERTED INTO A PROGRAM FILE.
NOTE.THAT IF THE CONVERTER ENCOUNTERS AN
Y.ERRORS, OR LINES LONGER THAN 80 CHARAC
-.TERS, THE PROGRAM WILL NOT WORK. ONCE
.THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN CONVERTED, IT WILL
.BE RESIDENT IN MEMORY, AND YOU MAY SAVE
.IT TO DISK... TO CHANGE A BASIC PROGRA
M THAT YOU.HAVE ON DISK TO A BASIC SEQUE
NTIAL.LISTING, YOU WILL HAVE TO LOAD THE
PRO-.GRAM INTO YOU COMPUTER AND TYPE A
ONE-.LINE BASIC COMMAND, INCLUDING THE N
AME.OF THE FILE TO BE SAVED. THE PROGRA
M.WILL THEN BE LISTED TO YOUR DISK IN A.
SEQUENTIAL FILE FOR TRANSFER. THE ONE-.
LINER IS:.. OPEN8,8,8,"(FILENAME),S,W":
CMD8:LIST..REPLACE (FILENAME) WITH THE N
AME YOU.WISH TO GIVE TO THE FILE ON THE
DISK..THE NAME MUST BE DIFFERENT FROM TH
AT OF.THE PROGRAM FILE. ONCE THE PROGRA
M NAS BEEN LISTED TO THE DISK, THE CURSO
R.WILL RETURN. THEN TYPE "PRINT#8:CLOSE8
".AND PRESS RETURN. THIS WILL CLOSE THE
.DISK FILE AND COMPLETE THE PROCESS....
THE "NEW" PUNTER TERMINAL.. FOR
THOSE OF YOU DEVOTED TO PUNTER.BBS'S, WE
HAVE SUPPLIED A COPY OF A.PUBLIC DOMAIN
"NEW" PUNTER TERMINAL.PROGRAM ON THE DI
SK. IT'S USE IS SELF-.EXPLANATORY. ADD
RESS QUESTIONS TO YOUR.PUNTER BBS SYSOP.
.. SINCE VIP TERMINAL XL IS AN X-MODEM.
TERMINAL, AND SINCE HUNDREDS OF BBS'S.AN
D COMPUSERVE USE X-MODEM, WE RECOM-.MEND
THAT YOU BEGIN TO SEEK OUT THESE.NEW SO
URCES OF PROGRAMS AND INFO. GO.AHEAD AN
D EXPAND YOUR HORIZONS TO .OTHER COMPUTE
RS AND OTHER SYSTEMS..
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