command/VERIFY command/VERIFY
NAME
VERIFY -- Checks stored program against the one in memory
ABBREVIATION
v <shift> E
SYNOPSIS
VERIFY "<file>"[,<device>[,<rel_flag>]]
FUNCTION
This command causes your computer to check the program on tape or disk
against the one in memory. This is proof that the program you just SAVEd
is really saved, to make sure that nothing went wrong. This command is
also very useful to position a tape so that your computer resumes
writing following the end of the last program on the tape. All you do is
tell the computer to VERIFY the name of the last program on the tape. It
will do so, and tell you that the programs don't match (which you
already knew). Now the tape is where you want it, and you can store the
next program without fear of erasing an old one.
VERIFY without anything after the command causes the computer to check
the next program on tape, regardless of its name, against the program
now in memory. VERIFY followed by a program name (in quotes) or a string
variable searches the tape for that program and then checks its. VERIFY
followed by a name and a comma and a number checks the program on the
device with that number. The relocate flag (<rel_flag>) is the same as
in the LOAD command.
INPUTS
<file> - file name and/or pattern to be checked
<device> - storage device number
<rel_flag> - relocate flag (0 or 1)
RESULT
Verification.
EXAMPLES
VERIFY
Checks the next program on the tape.
VERIFY "REALITY"
Searches for REALITY on tape, checks against memory.
VERIFY "ME",8,1
Searches for ME on disk, then checks.
NOTES
Device 1: tape.
Device 8: disk.
BUGS
None
SEE ALSO
DLOAD
DSAVE
LOAD
SAVE