OCLC Micro: Volume 3 Issue 2
Table of contents
DOS‐tips
Mark BendigPerhaps you've had the experience of starting up a program, such as a compiler or file conversion program, then realizing that you forgot to make some vital changes to your file…
NETWORds
If you received your copy of Pro‐Cite before Aug. 1986, you may have problems using the key disk with the OCLC M300XT Workstation because of an incompatibility with the key disk…
Word's Worth: MYC OPY, R‐I‐G‐H‐T?
Ray LyonsI am still amazed when I hold my stereo recordings to the light and see the rainbowed patterns in the grooves. “That's the music,” I say to myself. Perhaps my fascination dates…
Hard Disk Management:: A Menu Approach
Margaret MartinezIf your hard disk is (soon to be) installed, you're ready to learn about hard disk management. In this article, I'll attempt to briefly define hard disk management and why it's…
Desktop Publishing: The Fourth Revolution
Deborah AlpertDesktop publishing technology has been described as the fourth revolution in publishing. When the editor asked me to write an article about desktop publishing, I was going to…
Automating OCLC Dial Access
Erwin K. WelschMore and more librarians are using micro‐computers for dial access to OCLC and other bibliographic or information databases. Because such access incurs telecommunications as well…
CDS 224 Autodial Modem and PC‐Talk III
David U. KimIn the summer of 1984, Sam Houston State University library began using an M300 Workstation for DIALOG database searching, with a 2400‐baud CDS 224 Autodial Modem and PC‐Talk III…
Using EDLIN to Create or Modify Files
Margaret MartinezIn my article on p. 13 I described one method of building batch files. Since the files were short ones, I used the COPY CON command to copy the text of what I entered at the…
Not for Novices
Mark BendigOne common use of DOS batch files is to copy multiple files from one disk or sub‐directory to another. For example, you may have a batch file called BACKUP.BAT that looks somewhat…
RE:Views
R&R Relational Report Writer (R&R) is an after‐market product aimed at dBASEIII and dBASEIII Plus users. It offers dBASE users the opportunity to produce reports that take full…