DISK.SEARCH V02 10FEB89

DESCRIPTION

The programs in this file allow searching of specified ASCII

strings in a specified file on a floppy diskette. All of the

matching strings are displayed on the CRT screen, as well as

all .PROGRAM names.

PREPARATION

Load the file DISK.SEARCH into memory.

PROGRAM EXECUTION

When the "disk.search" program is executed, it PROMPTs for

the ASCII string to look for and the filename to check. After

this has been entered, a search is done for the ASCII string.

All .PROGRAM's are displayed on the CRT screen as well as all

lines that contain the ASCII string matches.

MESSAGES

***** DISK SEARCH PROGRAM HAS FINISHED *****

This message gets displayed when the program is finished.

*** Floppy error nn ***

If a floppy error occurs during the program, then this message

will get displayed, where 'nn' is a number which corresponds to

the internal floppy disk drive error code. The codes are:

2 = File already exists (creating new file with same name)

3 = File does not exist (opening file for reading)

4 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

5 = Disk full (writing to disk)

6 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

7 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

10 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

11 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

12 = Floppy not ready

13 = Floppy read error (diskette may be bad)

14 = Communications error between VAL & floppy

41 = No STX received during block transfer

42 = Incorrect checksum received during block transfer