DIRPUT - two new commands for the Junior Computer with DOS

DIRPUT elektor september 1984 E Schmidt DIRPUT two new commands for the Junior Computer with DOS It is surely a sign of progress (?) when in order to make our lives easier, using com- puters, we have to complicate them even further, with these same computers. The end result decides whether it has been worth the trouble and certainly in the case of the few changes described here the benefits are clear. Two extra commands The new "DIRECTORY" instruction of the DOS (its shortened form is "Dr), when it is not followed by a track number, provides a listing of the contents of a diskette from the DOS command interpreter without having to call some BASIC program. It is still possible to use the original form DI TT, where TT is the number of a track. The result in that case gives the number of sectors in the track. It is important to remember that only the first half of the directory (32 of the 64 possible file names) can be accessed with the new instruction. This is not usually such a dra...