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would prove most useful.
Anyway without much further ado we'll give you a run
down of the commands available.....
[square brackets] indicate optional parameters
<angle brackets> indicate required parameters
d: is a drive letter
(usually a destination drive)
s: is a drive letter
(usually a source drive)
ARC VERSION 2.20 PAGE - 12
1) general DOS commands
a:
Selects drive a as the default drive. Whenever a
command uses a drive letter as an optional parameter, and
you do not specify the drive letter, the default drive will
be used. Valid drives are the letters a through h
d:filename
This will search drive d: for the program specified and
if it is found it will be run. If its a machine language
program, then ARC will SYS to its load address. Note that
the LOAD is non relocating. That is .. its the same as LOAD
with ,8,1
date dd,mm,yyyy
This is used to set the date. dd is the day, mm is the
month, and yyyy is the year. Since the date is stored
internally in the same format as used on the IBM PC, the
possible values for yyyy are 1980 through 1980+127.
If you enter an illegal value for one of the above
parameters, then the date won't change.
The date is stored in the header to every archive
entry, and is a useful way to keep track of which backup is
more recent than another. It is also useful when posting
programs on bulletin boards for public access, as it
indicates how recent a particular version of a program is.
Of course, the date won't always be meaningful. In this case
we suggest you just leave it set to the default of
01jan1980.
ARC VERSION 2.20 PAGE - 13
dir[/w] [s:[pattern1]] [s:[pattern2]] ...
Lists a directory to the screen. Some examples are:
dir - lists default directory
dir a: - list directory of drive a
dir b:??? - list files on drive b whose
names are 3 characters in
length.
dir a*,b* - list files from the default
drive whose names start with
'a' or 'b'
dir a:t* c:t* - lists all files on drives a:
and c: whose names begin
with 't'
dir/w - lists the default directory,
filenames only.
dir/w a:a* b:b* - lists filenames only for files
on drive a: whose names begin
with "a" and on drive b:
with "b".