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PARADOS UTILITIES PROGRAM
PARADOS offers a powerful utilities program where the user can perform various disk
operations such as formatting, renaming, copying etc. All of the different formats are
accepted from within the program, and all, with the exception of ELECTRO formats, are
automatically detected by PARADOS.
To enter the utilities program, type |DRIVE.
You will see the main part of the screen left blank (this is filled with filenames when you
Log a disk), the menus at the bottom, and the Information block on the right hand side.
THE ELECTRO FORMATS
Formats marked 'E' in the format list above are ELECTRO formats. The ELECTRO formats are
additional, special formats. There is only one reason you would want to use an ELECTRO
format, and that is if you own the disk utility XEXOR. XEXOR recognises the PARADOS ROM,
but only supports the ELECTRO extended formats.
Supplied with XEXOR is SETB.COM, a program used for configuring CPM Plus to read/write
the ELECTRO formats. This allows you to use programs such as NSWP with large format 3.5"
disks.
There is no way that PARADOS can auto-detect for ELECTRO formats - it must be told
specifically that it is handling them, and which type. This is because the sector IDs for the
formats are all the same. For example, if you are using DATA DS 80 format, the most useful
of the ELECTRO formats, then Configure in PARADOS must be set to 80 tracks, double sided
on drive B, and ELECTRO formats must be enabled on the Configure Format menu.
When you Log onto a disk using the SHIFT L command, the main screen area will be filled
with the filenames of the files on that disk. If the file has attributes differing from the
default settings, then PARADOS shows this by highlighting part of the extension. The first
character of the extension highlighted denotes the file is set to READ ONLY and the second
character highlighted means the file is set to SYSTEM (hidden).
You can move the bar selector using the up and down keys. This is used to move onto
particular files, to tag them etc. Whichever file the selector is on is referred to as the
current file. The main display of PARADOS will scroll if there are too many files on the disk
to be displayed on one screen.