PIPPING FILES TO OTHER PARTITIONS When you transfer files from your partition

to another partition you must be careful not to do so while another person is working in that partition. If you add a file to another

partition it will change the Directory of that partition. When the other person tries to Save any work he or she will get a RIO error message and lose the entire file.

The correct method of transfering files to another person's partition is to wait until the person is out of the partition or off the

network, or is prepared to receive the file.

The other person will have to enter a CTRL C before trying to save any files after you PIP one to their partition.

Alternatively, a person can always PIP a fil from another partition to his or her partition without any trouble. If you are trading files

with other people, let them PIP the file in your partition to their partition. This is the best method.

3.7 TYPE (To See a File's Contents).

If you wish to look at the contents of a particular file you can use the CP/M command TYPE. This command displays the contents of a file on your CRT screen. (TYPE will only work with files containing letters and numbers. It will not work with files containing only graphics or computer command codes.)

TYPE is part of the operating system and is automatically on every drive. You use it from the Command Prompt by entering TYPE, Drive Letter, Colon, Filename, RE'.lURN. For example, C>TYPE A:QBROWN~X<CR> would display on your

sc~ the contents of the file QBROWN.FOX on drive A.

If the file you wish to look at contains more lines than can fit on your CRT screen, the file will scroll up across the screen very fast until the end is reached. In other words, long files flash across the screen much too fast to be read, stopping only at the end with the final lines displayed. However, you can freeze this scrolling action at any time by entering a CTRL S or by pressing the PAUSE key. CTRL S instantly stops the file from moving up the screen.

Another CTRL S restarts the scrolling action. By

alternately freezing and scrolling the file you

you have to be quick with your freeze commands;

it may take you a little practice to get the timing right.)

NOTE---The TYPE command does NOT print out the contents of a file onto a piece of paper even if there is a printer connected to your workstation. If you wish to have the contents of a file printed onto paper you must use the

command CTRL P in conjunction with the TYPE

command. See section 5 for information on printers and section 3.8 for information on CTRL P.

(You can also use a word processing program to look at the contents of a file. With a word processing program you can read the contents and also add, change, or delete them. With the TYPE program you can only look at what is in the file, not edit it. However, it takes fewer keystrokes to see a file with TYPE than with a word processing program, so if all you want to do is check what is in the file you may wish to use TYPE.)

NOTE---Files created with word processors and other applications programs often place special computer command symbols in the file that can be successfully read only by that particular application program. If you try to read such a file with the TYPE command it may cause your workstation to display bizarre

material on the screen or stop functioning until it is Reset with the RESET switch (see section 2.14) •

3.8 CTRL P (Typing to Paper).

NOTE---Anything already on the screen before the CTRL P was entered will not be file. B>Cl'RL P TYPE B:Warnpees.nov<CR>, for example, would send to the printer the command

line, the contents of the file Warnpees.novand everything else you did until you sent another CTRL P or a CTRL C.

NOTE~-If you wish to print a file created either with a word processing program or some ott applications program with its own set of print commands, you should use that program's print commands and not ^Cl'RL P. This is because the print commands associated with an applications program allow you much greater control over exactly what is to be printed and in what

manner. Also, files created with word processing programs contain invisible, embedded computer commands that CTRL P can neither understand nor carry out.

3.9 OSIm SUHtI"l" FILES ^(»I HDIB'l'

To avoid serious errors, the proper

parti tion must be assigned to yom: A drive when Using CP/M'sSubmit utility. When using a Submit file you must be logged to the partition ~

Dri ve A, and the parti tion ~ou have logged to Dri ve ~ must not be ~ partl tion that anyone else could be logged to while you are running the Submit file. If someone else is logged to your A drive partition while you are using Submit, one or both of you may get a BOOS

RIO

ERROR, your Submit file may malfunction, or random portions of your Submit file may harm someone else's work.

(For general information on using Submit see your CP/M Manual; this section will only cover special considerations when using Submit

in a network environment.)

1- NEVER have the SYSTEK partition assigned to your A drive while you are using SWmit.

2- Be sure that no one else will be

logged to the partition you have assigned to your A drive. In other words, if you have Partition CHICO assigned to your Drive A, make sure that no one else will log into the CHICO Partition (on any of their drives) while you are using Submit.

To be safe, follow this procedure when using Submit:

A- If the SYSTEM Partition is assigned to your Drive A, re-assign it to another partition

(A>Assign C: SYSTEM<CR». See Section 2.11.5 for a description of the ASSIGN Command.

B- Assign a partition that no one else will be using to your Drive A (C>Assign A:

XXXXXX<CR» •

C- Log on to your Dri ve A (C>a:<CR».

D- Run your Submit file (A>SUBMIT XXXXXX.XXX<CR». I f the partition assigned to your Drive A does not contain a copy of the Submit program (SUBMIT.COM), you can take it from any partition on another drive, and you can also take the Submit file from another drive.

Thus, A>C:SUbmit D:XXXXX<CR> would take

SUBMIT.COM from drive C and apply it to the file

XXXXX on Dr i ve D.