<copying exercise for Winchester Research Unit>
Another great QDOS feature I discovered which saved loads of time. I used:
5 CLS
10 FORMAT ram1_mdv1_
15 WSTAT ram1_
30 WCOPY ram1_ to flp2_f05_2_
35 STAT flp2_
40 ed 30
I did the ED 30 so I could edit for the next mdv.
Now what I didn't expect was that after down arrow to save the line,
when I pressed ESC there was another implicit RUN!
OK 'RUN<enter>' isn't a load of typing by itself, but when one has maybe
350 microdrives it IS, especially as sometimes one has to run dozens of
times to eventually read some files.
Everyone talks about the unreliability of microdrives, but the majority
of these haven't been amended for over 20 years, and I am finding very
very few failed files, and only two (so far) failed cartridges.
Tony
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