★ APPLICATIONS ★ DIVERS ★ CAT II ★ |
| Cat II (Practical Compµting) | Applications Divers |
CAT COMMAND UTILITY PROGRAMS are always in great demand as programmers get to work on a new machine. Peter Paton's Cat II goes a good deal further than the Amstrad's rather limited Cat command in giving you information about the files you have on cassette. Cat II works by reading file header information from the cassette buffer used by Cat, which begins at 47244. This yields a wealth of information about each file, as can be seen from the sample screen shown here. Contributions wanted Contributions to Amstrad Open File are very welcome. Just send a cassette and a description of the program, typed double spaced if possible. A printed listing helps but is not essential. We are most interested in utility programs, short programs which show off interesting Amstrad commands, and generally useful routines and discoveries. Programs more than 100 to 150 lines long are unlikely to get in. PC
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