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OS COMMANDS +CSS FILES* (MTM)

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You can RENAME FILE.EXT/PR1,FIL2.EX2/PR2 but you can't do this from Disk to Disk

You can COPY FILEDESCRIPTOR,FILEDESCRIPTOR leaving out the V(olume) and PRI currently set, for the appropriate file, and this works DISK>DISK. You can leave the DISKs off if both files are on the same disk. You have to delete the old FILEDESCRIPTOR otherwise you will have two copies of the file.

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To analyse a strange magnetic tape MTANAL MAG1: (or 2)

To copy from a magnetic tape which you have just MTANAL-ed:

COPY MAG1:,FILE.EXT,RECL=xx,NF=1,SKIP=yy (default 0) If you don't want to SKIP omit this descriptor entirely SKIP=0 gives you an error NF=ALL copies the whole tape into the file specified

COMPILE, FORTRAN AND LINK

To Compile a FORTRAN Program and display the process on the Terminal

FORT FILE,CON:

You don't need the .FTN File extension. You can direct the output to the printer by

FORT FILE,LP:

or if you are confident you can omit the output altogether.

Exactly the same applies to LINKing

LINK FILE,CON:

If you have several files to LINK you can put them in a FILE.LNK file and the LINK will find this file without further instruction. After successful compile and link then

LO FILE

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Tue Aug 5 05:37:08 MET DST 1997