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31 октября 1995
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IS-DOS - users: A short guide on system drive IS-DOS

<b>IS-DOS</b> - users: A short guide on system drive IS-DOS
Category "IS-DOS - to users. No 1


              Eliseev VA

          A short guide

       on system drive IS-DOS.
(C) PENCRAFT 1995
(C) IskraSoft 1995

    This guide contains a list of
all the files that make up the basic set of IS-DOS, with brief 
explanations of the each file. Files in the list in 
alphabetical order of names and grouped into sections 
corresponding directory of the drive that allows you to quickly 
find information on any of interest to you

file. Guide does not pretend to be the
description, and contains only an overview of the files and 
commands a base disc.


    SHELL directory contains mostly
system utilities and program file
shell:

cache.com - a program for maintenance
cache memory in the system IS-DOS (reframing, changing the 
size). 

coca.com - software for copying directory with all its 
constituent files and subdirectories.


copy.com - fast copier files, copy files by the mask from the 
command line. 

copy25.com - copier files by mask,
automatically calls
coca.com, but can also be used independently.

delete.com - a program to remove files.

exebat.com - the shell
bat-files.

exepac.com - a program to extract code blocks processed by the 
utility cdpacker.com (needed to run

Print Screen Program Files ps.com.

exescr.com - a program to display the screen files.

extkey.txt - text file describing the
system response to pressing the hot key.

extprint.txt - a text file that defines the program print the 
various files. 

extview.txt - a text file that defines the program for viewing 
various files. 

filecopy.com - basic multifunction copier files.

flush.com - utility for management mode of the cache.

gmen.com - program-purpose devices (rapid, systematic and 
ongoing). 

help.com - program output file-tips.

mask.com - a program for working with file panels on a 
mask-pattern. 

menu.com - Larry USER-menu.

menu.mnu - text file describing the main menu.

mkdir.com - program to create directories.

move.com - software for copying a file with the destruction of 
the source file (transfer). 

remote.com - program for quick disposal of files and 
directories with all of them included in the files and 
subdirectories, including including protected (after its 
application you must use a utility arzt.com

correction maps employment of disk blocks).

rename.com - rename files and change file attributes in the 
directory. 

tv.com - a program for viewing text files.

viewtune.com - program to configure
parameters tv.com.

wait.com - a program to simulate two
logical devices on a single drive
(Necessary for the Anglo-Russian
dictionary).


    In addition to these files directory SHELL contains two 
subdirectories: HELP and MNU. HELP subdirectory contains the 
help-files for all programs located in directory SHELL, and MNU 
subdirectory contains 5 files with descriptions of USER-menu 
comprising the basic kit. In this directory is also recommended 
to place all your files USER-menus, except, of course,

Local.

    By default in a subdirectory of MNU contains files:

disk.mnu - menu for disc.

ms_dos.mnu - menu "Working with MS-DOS".

res.mnu - menu-resident program. "

rkey.mnu - menu, location of Russian
keys.

tr_dos.mnu - menu "Working with TR-DOS".


    UTIL directory contains common utility
Destination:

abba.com - duplicating copier, a device A to B, from C to D and 
back, it is recommended to create a working copy system.


acca.com - version of the copyist, working with device A to C, 
from B to D and back again. 

adbc.com - version of the copyist, working with device A to D, 
from B to C and back. 

arzt.com - program to find the disk
"Lost" blocks and auto-correction maps employment drive.

arzt +. com - the program to fill the empty space on the disk, 
remaining after removal of the file carries the latest files to 
free space in the middle of the disc. 

bad.com - program to find the bad-blocks and automatically 
exclude them from disk space.


blk_tune.com - Setup block device drivers.

calcul.com - program-calculator.

calculat.com - a calculator with extra features.

cd +. com - the program to compare directories on the current 
and alternate panels. 

cls.com - utility for clearing the screen, useful for the 
bat-files. 

cmp.com - bitwise comparison of two files.

copy_all.com - duplicating copier for
create working copies of a single
drive.

copytune.com - program to configure
parameters copiers filecopy.com,
copy.com etc.

date.com - a program to install and display the current date, 
it is recommended to insert her challenge in the autoexec.bat 
to set the date when the system boots. 

dev.com - setting the logical names of devices served by the 
various drivers. 

diskname.com - a program to install
tag-name drive.

eliminat.com - program for the removal of
memory resident programs and drivers.

exhumer.com - a program for reading
textual information from the "dead" drive.

fdir.com - a program that allows access to directories and 
files destroyed catalog. 

fileshow.com - a program to output
Display maps employment drive and the image on the localization 
of its current file. 

find.com - search for specific file on disk.

free.com - determining the amount of free disk space.

freenew.com - display of maps employment drive.

from_trd.com - copier files from disks TR-DOS disks on the 
IS-DOS. 

mark.com - search and mark files by wildcard mask.

mon.com - monitor the command line.

path.com - Setup ways
search files.

path.txt - a list of ways to find files.

qu.com - restore deleted files.

renam.com - a program to rename
files.

run.com - run the program, given in
as a parameter at the request of "Run?
Y / N ", usually used in bat-files.

show.com - program output system information.

sort.com - sort the files in the directory.

to_trdos.com - copier files from floppy disk IS-DOS on the 
TR-DOS. 

tree.com - the phone "directory tree" and a quick transition to 
the desired directory. 

treecat.com - a program to compile
"Directory Tree".

treefile.com - the program generates a list of all files on the 
disk directories with the date of creation and the size in 
blocks. 

unicolor.com - versatile tool color settings in the programs of 
IS-DOS. 

wait_ent.com - the program stops
execution of a command file, waiting for pressing ENTER.

UTIL directory is just one subdirectory
HELP, contains descriptions of files in a directory UTIL.

RES directory contains TSRs and drivers of some devices:

attr.bat - batch file to automatically remove the hidden 
attribute for all files in the current directory.


attrh.bat - batch file to install
attribute "hidden" from selected files.

bat.res - resident Larry
bat-files.

calc.bat - batch file to count
Checksum files.

calc.com - program for the checksum file.

calc.res - resident program to calculate checksums of files.

ch.bat - batch file to checksum files.

ch.com - program to check the checksum file.

ch.res - TSR for the checksum file.

choose.com - an expanded program of select devices, you can 
work with up to eight devices instead of six. 

choose.res - resident version of the program selection device.

clock.res - emulation program hours
displays the current time in the upper right corner of the 
display. 

clockset.bat - batch file to run the emulator clock and set the 
current time.


clockset.com - utility to set the current time.

coder.res - program-text transcoder, converts files from the 
IBM-format IS-DOS, as well as wet-format to regular.


contig.res - a program to convert files to a segmented 
continuous. 

cpfil.res - a program for a byte
compare two files.

date +3. res - the program displays a special line of the file 
shell creation date of the current file and other useful 
information. 

del.res - removal of files that can be
work on the mask from the command line.

dry.bat - batch file to convert text files from the wet-format
common (used in USER-menu for disc.

dump.com - a program to display the 16-hexadecimal dump of the 
current file in a text file. 

dump.res - resident version of the program
dump.

gmen.res - a program to assign device (system, quick and 
current). 

indi.res - Programme display registers
keyboard to display the command line.

junc.com - utility programs for service-transcoder, as well as 
drivers character input / output devices. allows you to connect 
to a character conversion table. 

mkdir.res - program to create the directory.

mon.res - resident monitor command
line.

ren.res - a program to rename
file and change the attributes of working
from the command line on the mask.

scan.res - tool to serve the resident programs, search and
selection of files by mask.

set.com - a program to load resident programs.

standart.bat - batch file to load a standard set of memory 
resident programs installed on your system by default, is 
useful after the removal of residents eliminat.com team with 
the key / r. 

star.bat - batch file to run
program "Starry Sky".

star.res - TSR "Starry Sky" for the screen-saver in the pauses 
in time.


svres.com - program for the conservation of resident programs 
or drivers installed on disk space, useful when update drivers 
or resident programs.


univ.res - tool to serve the resident programs, search and
selection of files on a mask or a mark for
other resident programs.


    RES directory contains 4 more subdirectory: HELP, which 
collects files program descriptions, TRANS, containing a set of 
programs-transcoder for all occasions life, TYP drivers display 
on 42 and 64 characters per line and KEY with drivers

keyboard.

    TRANS subdirectory contains the following
Program:

bas_is.com, bas_is.res - Decoders
format from SPECTRUM-BASIC in the text
format IS-DOS.

cc_is.com - recoder in format
HiSoft C Compiler in text format
IS-DOS.

convert.com, convert.res - Decoders format from TLW2M 
(production of the MOA with non-standard encoding).


from_tlw.com - recoder in format
TLW2 + (r production. Cordial encoded KOI7).

gens_is.com, gens_is.res - Decoders from GENS assembler format 
to text format IS-DOS. 

ibm_is.com, ibm_is.res - Decoders
format from the IBM text format IS-DOS
(Removes the second byte newline).

inv.com - a tool to switch tables, code tables on the back of 
recoding. 

is_cc.com - from text transcoder
IS-DOS format to a format HiSoft C Compiler.

is_gens.com, is_gens.res - recoder in text format IS-DOS format 
assembler GENS. 

is_ibm.com, is_ibm.res - recoder
in text format IS-DOS format IBM
(Inserts the second byte newline).

is_pas.com - recoder in text format IS-DOS format HiSoft PASCAL.

pas_is - recoder in format HiSoft
PASCAL r text format IS-DOS.

tasw.com, tasw.res - Decoders from
format in a text editor TASWORD
text format IS-DOS.

tran.res - Universal transcoder,
working with the code tables, the merged utility junc.com 
(table files collected in the directory Q: RES \ TRANS \ TABL). 


    Subdirectory TABL TRANS directory contains a variety of 
tables for translating texts from different formats to

IS-DOS. If necessary, you can create
with the utility inv.com table for
reverse conversion.

             List of tables:

bulg_alt.cod - Bulgarian encoding
koi8_alt.cod - KOI8
main_alt.cod - Basic Standard
tasw_alt.cod - TASWORD
tlw2ms.cod, tlw2ms.tab - TLW2M with non-standard encoding MOA


    TYP subdirectory contains a directory RES
usually three display driver with command
files necessary to install them:

ty42.typ - a standard display driver 42
character in the string.

ty42_f.typ - advanced display driver,
allows you to display and graphical
images of characters with codes less than 20H (useful for 
debugging programs, print). 

ty64.typ - additional driver 64 characters per line, used in 
the text editor and viewer text file tv.com.



    KEY RES subdirectory of the directory contains
usually the standard keyboard driver ZX
SPECTRUM and a set of tables that you can choose various 
options for layout, Russian characters on the keyboard. Since 
July 1995 was issued a new, advanced driver

keyboard and a set of tables. He
allows more convenient to organize work in a text editor by 
increasing the number funktsiionalnyh keys. Thus, the contents 
of subdirectory KEY: 

                                       ...

ktest.com - utility to display the pressed key code, useful for
drawing file extkey.txt and develop their programs in the 
medium IS-DOS. ttyin.key - the standard keyboard driver ZX 
SPECTRUM. 

ytsuken.tab, tsukeng.tab, yaverty.tab - various options for 
layout in the Russian character. 

ytsuken.bat, tsukeng.bat, yaverty.bat - batch files to set 
various layouts in the Russian character.



     SERVICE directory contains mainly system files and 
utilities needed to setup, configuration and maintenance of the 
system: 

atomizer.com (in versions prior to 3.0 -
atom.com) - utility to connect to
shell ink-file containing a color change.

bad.com - tool for automatic
Search and exclusion from employment card
drive for bad blocks.

boot.com - utility to generate the area of ​​the boot loader 
when creating a new system boot disk.


check.com - utility for controlling automatic scans of control
sums of com-files are executed.

con.com - A utility for joining the modified system file to boot
disc area (used after reconfiguration of the system and save 
the new configuration, sv. com). 

connect.bat - a batch file that performs the connection to 
system files and forming a boot disk.


create.com - a high-level program
formatting devices for IS-DOS (generates a directory structure).

demon.com - monitor for viewing the contents of the disk in a 
16-hex, or character form with the possibility of disassembling

(By program type DOCTOR Rodionova).

doctor.com - tool for testing and
Recovery Disk format IS-DOS
800K.

doctor_2.com - tool for testing and
recovery diskette in the format of TR-DOS
630K.

format.com - A utility for low-level
formatted diskettes in a format IS-DOS.

image.com - a program to decompress the image of a block 
device, pre- saved as a file program

sv_image.com, useful for quick installation of e-RAM-disk.

is_dos.sys - the main system file that contains the core of the 
system IS-DOS, as well as drivers and resident programs that 
are installed in the system by default. 

is_tune - A utility for configuring the colors in
programs format.com, doctor.com, etc.

isrld.com - program for quick reset of system files, useful for
need for a quick configuration change.

shell.com - restart file shells.

shelltune.com - program to configure
color file shells and store them
in the ink-file for future connections
utility atomizer.com.

sv.com - program to save a system file copy of the current 
system with all installed drivers and resident programs, used in

Customizing the system.

sv_image.com - program to create an image of a block device 
file for later use by image.com.



    Besides the traditional subdirectory
HELP, SERVICE directory also contains a subdirectory, BLK, 
which houses a block device drivers. This is usually the 
drivers of electronic RAM-disk, allowing organize a paged 
memory Spectrum 128, 256, 512, 1024, etc. The virtual

disc, featuring a very high speed data transmission. Since 
February 1995 subdirectory BLK enlarged disk drivers TR-DOS, 
allowing to work (although so far only in reading) with disks 
TR-DOS file directly into the panels without the use of 
copiers. Thus, the contents subdirectory BLK:


ed_ *. blk - one of the drivers in the RAM-disk
Depending on the type of computer, by default the system comes 
with a driver ed_128.blk for the Spectrum 128, or the driver 
for the computer ed_scorp.blk SCORPION 256.


menu.mnu - the text of the local USER-menu
loading block drivers.

ram *. bat - one or several command
files to create
RAM-drives of various configurations.

tr-dos.blk, tr-dos0.blk - drivers drive TR-DOS.


    In the subdirectory HELP directory BLK among others 
contains a text file ed_blk.hlp, which contains a list

All existing block drivers
brief annotations for each of them.


    EDIT directory contains all the files
needed to run a text editor, IS-DOS:

coder.com - text converter
files from the wet-format to regular.

cut.com - utility to cut the long
rows on rows of a given length.

dry.com - utility routine editor.

ed *. ovr - overlay editor.

ed_copy.com - routine to create backup copies of the edited 
file. 

ed_ext.txt - list of file extensions
allow editing of the text
editor.

ed_mac.txt - a description of the macro editor.

edit.com - basic working module editor.

edit_aux.wet - a temporary file, clipboard editor.

editor.com - routine launch editor (start menu).

segm80.res - a special resident
program that monitors the degree of segmentation file and 
allowing more firm to work with files very

long (hundreds of kilobytes).

tab.com, wet.com - official sub editor.


    The directory also contains a subdirectory EDIT KRYPTON, 
which placed the software package to encrypt text files with 
individual code-password. The program is useful, if necessary 
protect the text from prying eyes. 


    PRINT directory contains files related to printing program, 
device drivers, printing, and some auxiliary files. 

dump.lpr - Device Emulator print
intended for debugging print, custom device drivers and allows 
you to display a 16-hexadecimal dump print file, including all 
the control codes, bytes and initialization, etc. 

inilp +. com - the initialization of non-standard printing 
devices. When you run it sends to the printer port, the 
contents of a text file inilp +. txt, which It contains all the 
necessary codes to set. 

inilp +. com - text file containing
command to initialize the printer command inilp.com.

print.com - launches the procedure for
Print program.

print.txt - text file containing
description of the directives print management with
code table control user printer. Such a system can be used to 
print text Printers with non-standard system commands.


printune.com - configure the program to print the text.

prt.com - the main working file of print texts.

prt_menu.com - additional working
file of the press, organizing user interface.

window +. lpr - print device emulator,
Allows you to view all the printable information, including 
control codes in symbolic form. May used for debugging programs 
and print drivers, together with an expanded display driver 
ty42_f.typ. 


    In a subdirectory of the directory HELP PRINT are text 
files with descriptions program to print the text, as well as a 
text file detailing prt.txt entry points and the variables of 
procedure to print the text for self-use. 


    DRIVE subdirectory contains a set of
printer drivers for the organization printed on 
EPSON-compatible printers with various encodings. The kit 
usually consists of 10 different drivers for printers with 
different encodings, the first 1 or 2 character name of the 
driver (up to underscore character) are the type of encoding, 
the rest - the type of interface. In this subdirectory contains 
the same text file lpr.txt c technical description of the most 
special device drivers, print, created by experts Iskra Soft 
for different connection options printer.



    Standard kit includes IS-DOS
set of drivers for a template to connect the printer ZX LPRINT 
III or a special set of drivers for your computer SCORPION. 


    In addition to the catalog subdirectory PL
PRINT typically contains the program print
graphic ps.com all
necessary files:

$ Grafprn.pac - packaged unit workers
procedures of the program print graphics
images.

*. Tab - various options for the conversion tables for printers 
with nonstandard graphics modes.


*. Scr - Screen capture files.

lptb.com - a program to fine-tune
Program printing images, allows you to set margins, etc.

ps.com - runs the program file print graphics.


    Catalogue HELP, located in the root
catalog system disk contains the following files:

autoexec.hlp - a description of the command file
autoexec.bat, automatically calls
when the system boots.

error.txt - a list of system errors
indicating the code displayed on the system
display.

extent.txt - file description extent.txt.

main.hlp - USER-description menu are automatically called when 
the system boots. 

shelhelp.hlp - a brief overview of the file shell IS-DOS, 
displayed on the display command HELP (key "1" shell). 


    MSDOS directory contains the programs
allowing the communication level
floppy disks with the computers IBM PC, running on MS-DOS. It 
contains the following Files:


form_msd.com - formatter
diskettes in the format of MS-DOS 720K.

from_msd.com - copier files from floppy MS-DOS on floppy IS-DOS.

msdos.com - emulator file shells
MS-DOS, you can rename and
delete files on floppy MS-DOS, create new directories and browse
TOC disc.

to_msdos.com - copier files from floppy disk IS-DOS on floppy 
MS-DOS. 


    And finally, the last directory, which first appeared on 
the system drive IS-DOS 3.0, and usually called ADVERTISE

contains a price list with the company Iskra Soft
list of all available programs in the medium IS-DOS, and other 
advertising information.



    In conclusion, it remains only to add that the root of the 
drive contains three very important files, namely: 

autoexec.bat - a batch file containing commands to be executed 
automatically when the system boots.


extent.txt - text file containing
description of the reaction system by pressing the ENTER key on 
files with different extensions. 

main.mnu - text entry menu, which after the system boots from a 
file autoexec.bat.



    Additionally, in the root directory of the file can be 
treecat.txt, which is a special text file used by the utility 
for tree.com implementation of a rapid transition in any

directory at any level of nesting.





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