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CP/M Software - MTX User Club
Germany
Library Structure
If you source MTX User Club Germany libraries
from other locations, such as the
gaby.de ftp site,
they are more than likely to be in the original
format produced by the User Club, i.e., library (.LBR)
files. The instructions on the first disk in the
library, "Club.000", gives the instructions for
expanding these libraries.
Obviously, the comments in the
individual archives are in German! Unfortunately, but again,
it's not surprising, that the text files were written using the
special German characters such as A, E and O with umlauts (
¨ ) and the eszett ( ß ) character. On my PC, these characters are not
present in the default font set, giving Google Translate some difficultly in translating
the content of the text files but it's possible to work out most
of the important information.
So, with help from Google Translate, here are the main points
from the
comments file in the first disk in the library - this disk
contains a number of compression and library utilities that are
needed to work with files in the rest of the library and library
files containing a list of the files on the individual disks. Hopefully,
I have put the sense of the document into English - if you speak
German and I have mangled the meaning too badly, please let me
know!
Most of the disks in the library have a Table of Contents
file in the form -source.xxx where "source" is one
of the names shown below and "xxx" is the disk number.
(Note : This page was written before I started using Word to
replace the German characters that were not displayed properly
on a UK PC, the "translated" text files on the main
MTX User Club Germany page are
probably more accurate)
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* MTX USER CLUB GERMANY *
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Contents of the PD's of MTX User Club Germany
Included on this disc are the following libraries:
These files are all LZH-crunched, so that the
contents fitb onto a Type 03 Floppy disk.
Sources of files in the library :
| CLUB. LBR |
Public-Domain CLUB.nnn |
| CLICK. LBR |
Public-Domain KLICK.nnn |
| CATALOG.LBR |
Public-Domain SIG/M.nnn |
| CP/MUG. LBR |
Public-Domain CP/M-UG.nnn |
| PNET. LBR |
Public-Domain PICO-NET.nnn |
| UKUG. LBR |
Public-Domain UK-UG.nnn |
| BIGBRD. LBR |
Public-Domain BIG-BOARD.nnn |
| UnCRUNCH |
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| UCRL.COM |
UnCrunch for LZH compressed files |
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| Library Manager |
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| NULU.COM |
Library Utility |
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Explanation
The names of the LIBRARIES are derived from
the name of the Table of Contents Files on
the disks. I have removed the dash
from the beginning of Table of Contents File
to avoid confusion between these and the
library.
The reason to put the contents of the disks
in libraries is quite simply the fact, that
a Type 03 format a disk only has 64
Directory entries, but the MTX user-Club
Germany has significantly more PD's on
offer. Sure, I could simply put the PD table
of contents files one after the other in one
(or more) large files, but finding anything
in such a large file would be difficult and
due to its size, working with only one Type
03 Drive is not feasible. So compression is
required.
In the current version of the Library, the
Tables of Contents files are packed into
libraries which are then "crunched"
(compressed) into LZH files.
| Original:-XXXXXX.nnn
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example -CLUB.002 |
| In Library XXXXXX.LBR |
i.e. CLUB.LBR |
| Compressed: XXXXXX.LYR |
i.e. CLUB.LYR |
Now to UNCR.COM:
UCRL.COM Expander = UNCRUNCH
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| Input : UCRL A:XXXX.LYR
B: |
Result : XXXX.LYR expanded from A:
to B: XXXX.LBR |
| Input : UCRL A:*.* B:
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Result : all *.?Y? A: and sets the
result to B: |
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| With only a single
drive, the files must be split with UCRL
on a twin drive system to be made
useable |
Now to NULU.COM:
NULU.COM Library Manager
| Input : |
Result : |
| NULU |
NULU Output |
| -O XXXXXX |
Opens Library XXXXXX.LBR |
| -U user: |
user: = Disk/User, e.g., F0: |
| -E *.* |
Get everything |
| -X |
Exit |
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| Example: two drives: B:
with this disk, C: with SPACE! |
| A> c: |
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| C> nulu |
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NULU |
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COPYRIGHT 1984 |
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SYSTEM SOLUTIONS |
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TYPE M FOR MENU |
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C0 AWAITING COMMAND:>-o b:club |
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Library B0:CLUB.LBR open. |
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Buffer size: 253 sectors |
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Active entries: 38, Deleted: 0,
Free: 26, Total: 64. |
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AWAITING COMMAND C0:>-e *.001 |
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Extracting... |
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-CLUB .001 to C0:-CLUB .001 |
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-EXTRACT MEMBERS A0:> |
Hopefully, that gives you enough
information to start working with the libraries,
for the reasons described above, the contents
are difficult to translate into English. A
number of the original archives are stored on the
gaby.de ftp site. |
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