disk directory

Sorts disk directory listings and can set display options.

Users were advised to reserve track 40 as a text area for a manual disk directory.

Creation of this file type must be accomplished by direct manipulation of the disk directory.

The program's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing will not be altered.

She stopped the program and read the disk directory, then touched a key that copied it to her drive without displaying the function on the screen.

After analyzing the disk directory, Disk First Aid determines whether it is able to repair any damage that was detected.

By double clicking on the Alias icon, the remote computer is called, and the disk directory window opens just as if it were directly connected to the user's portable machine.

This 1 KB extension to BASIC added a number of disk-related commands, including the ability to read a disk directory without destroying the program in memory.

An altered/infected file's date and time in the DOS disk directory listing may have been updated to the current system date and time when the file was altered/infected.

If a user changed disks without manually rereading the disk directory the system would write on the new disk using the old disk's directory information, ruining the data stored on the disk.

WordStar 2000 was brought up to date and now supported features such as disk directories, but lacked compatibility with the file formats of existing WordStar versions and also made numerous unpopular changes to the interface.

Because Usenet grew rapidly, the limited capabilities and simplistic article storage scheme (all articles were placed in a single disk directory and there was no facility for expiring old articles) quickly made A News impractical to use.

A reader server is one that makes the articles available in the hierarchical disk directory format originated by B News 2.10, or offers the NNTP or IMAP commands, for use by newsreaders.

This gave the user a total storage capacity of 113.75 kB per disk side, of which about 10 kB were used to store DOS itself and the disk directory, leaving about 100 kB for user programs.

The DOS Wedge and various third-party cartridges and extenders such as Epyx FastLoad, Action Replay and The Final Cartridge III allow viewing of the disk directory using special commands without destroying the current BASIC program.