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- SOURCE MERGER COPYRIGHT 1980 JAMES L HELMS 1009 LEYTE RD CORONADO CA 92118 "SOURCE MERGER" IS AN ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE PROGRAM THAT ALLOWS YOU TO "MERGE" TWO OR MORE SOURCE (.SRC) FILES INTO ONE LARGE FILE. EXAMPLES OF THIS WOULD BE ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE ROUTINES COMMON TO MANY PROGRAMS THAT YOU WRITE, SUCH AS KEYBOARD INPUT, RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION, AND SO FORTH; OR COMMON PARAGRAPHS OF LETTERS THAT YOU GET TIRED OF TYPING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. "SMERGE" IS LOADED BY ENTERING FCS AND TYPING: FCS>RUN SMERGE AN INTRODUCTION MESSAGE WILL THEN BE DISPLAYED: SOURCE FILE MERGING PROGRAM V2.0 COPYRIGHT (C) 1980 BY J L HELMS HIT BREAK <DOWN ARROW> TO STOP OR RETURN TO CONTINUE [] - IF YOU DESIRE NOT TO CONTINUE WITH THE PROGRAM, THEN HITTING THE BREAK KEY WILL RETURN YOU TO FCS. OTHERWISE, HIT THE RETURN. THE PROGRAM WILL RESPOND WITH: INSERT DISKS WITH SOURCE FILES TO BE MERGED. HIT RETURN TO CONTINUE > AT THIS POINT, YOU SHOULD (1) ENTER THE DISK CONTAINING THE SOURCE FILES THAT YOU WISH TO BE MERGED INTO THE DEFAULT DRIVE; (2) INSERT A DESTINATION DISK INTO THE OTHER DRIVE (IF AVAILABLE); (3) HIT RETURN. UPON HITTING 'RETURN', THE DIRECTORY OF THE DEFAULT DRIVE WILL BE DISPLAYED, ALLOWING YOU TO VIEW THE FILE NAMES WITHOUT HAVING TO REMEMBER THEM. IN ADDITION, THE PROGRAM WILL ASK: DESTINATION FILE NAME > TEST (OR 1:TEST, ETC) THE DESTINATION FILE WILL THEN BE OPENED, AND YOU WILL BE ASKED: SOURCE FILE NAME > 0:ABC (OR 1:XYZ, ETC) THE SOURCE FILE WILL BE OPENED, TRANSFERRED INTO THE DESTINATION FILE, AND PRINTED ON THE SCREEN. AFTER THE FILE IS COMPLETELY TRANSFERRED, YOU WILL BE ASKED: QUIT OR RETURN TO CONTINUE > IF THERE ARE OTHER SOURCE FILES TO BE MERGED, THEN HIT "RETURN", AND THE DIRECTORY WILL BE DISPLAYED AGAIN, AND YOU WILL THEN BE ASKED TO SUPPLY THE NEXT SOURCE FILE NAME. IF YOU WISH TO QUIT, THEN ENTER "Q", AND THE DESTINATION FILE WILL BE CLOSED AND THE PROGRAM WILL RETURN YOU TO FCS (FILE CONTROL SYSTEM).