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Flex09 User Manual
FLEX UCS: DIR

The DIR command is used to display the contents of a FLEX disk directory. It is similar to the CAT command, but displays all directory information associated with each file. The user may display selected files on multiple disks, and may include or exclude catalog-protected files. DIR reports the total number of files, the number of sectors in use, size of the largest file, and free sectors on each disk. NOTE: this program is a GIMIX product, and not related to any other programs of the same name.

DESCRIPTION:

The general syntax of the DIR command is:

DIR,[,+P][,<drive list>][,<match list>]

where "+P" is the protected-files option, <drive list> is a list of up to 4 drives to be scanned, and <match list> is one or more partial file names.

If "+P" is included in the command line immediately after "DIR", then the DIR command will process all the files on the disk, including those which have been catalog-protected with the PROT command. If the option is omitted, protected files are excluded from the listing but are included in the printed total at the end of the listing.

<drive list> can be one or more drive numbers separated by commas or spaces. For each drive specified, a header is displayed, directory entries matching the match list are displayed, and totals are printed. If the drive list is omitted, DIR defaults to the working drive.

<match list> consists of one or more sets of name and/or extension characters which are to be matched against file names in the directory. The sets must be separated by commas or spaces, and must be in the form [<partial name>][.<partial extension>]. The match function compares the letters in the set to the beginning of each file name (and extension), and those files which match all the letters in the set are listed. For example:

DIR HARDF .BAK A.C TEXTFILE.TXT

will list all files on the working disk with names beginning with "HARDF", then all files with the extension ".BAK", then all files with names beginning with "A" and extensions beginning with "C", and finally the file "TEXTFILE.TXT". A file named HARDF19.BAK would be listed twice, as a "HARDF" file, and as a ".BAK" file. For convenience, all lower case letters in the match list are translated to upper case before the comparison, so "l.dat" and "L.DAT" are equivalent, and both will match "LIST.DAT". If the match list is omitted, DIR lists all files on the drive.

For each drive DIR prints a header giving the disk name and volume number entered when the disk was formatted, and the date it was formatted. Then it scans the directory once for each item in the match list, listing all files which match. For each file, the following information is displayed: directory entry number, name and extension, an "R" if it is random-access, the disk addresses of its beginning and ending sectors, its size in sectors, the date it was last written to, and a 4-character field indicating which protections are set for it (Write, Read, Delete, or Catalog). Example:

+++DIR +P,3,A.CMD,LETT,ERR

Directory of drive 3
Disk Name = VIRTDISK.GMX #1   Disk Created 28-Mar-84

File #  Name   Type  R   Begin  End    Size    Date      Prot
   2    ASMB   .CMD      01-04  07-02    47   28-Mar-84  W.D.
  13    LETTER .BAK      1B-01  1B-01     1   28-Mar-84  .R.C
  14    ERRORS .SYS  R   1B-02  1B-04     3   28-Mar-84  ....

Listed: Files=     5 :  Sectors=    51 : Largest=     47
Total:  Files=    35 :  Sectors=   291 : Largest=     75 : Free=245

Two set of totals are printed at the bottom. The first line is for the listed files only, while the second is for the whole disk, including protected and non-matching files. If multiple disks are specified, separate totals are printed for each disk.


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