Copy and Update Files STUDENT EXERCISES. Main Menu. Set up Basic Group. Highlight DOS or WINDOWS Menu. BASIC PROGRAM MENU GROUP . Add. Add software, models, input or update program mnemonic to MAIN menu (See Appendix\I and II). Then choose program files from MAIN menus. Main Menu and Other Service. Start Navigator for PC to aol server. Get URL or FTP. Login to telnet. Transfer from DOS to freenet host. Select Excel. OPEN MACROS. Choose program tabs. Start Java CONSOLE. RUN Javac and Java. RUN Basic or Java Programs. Qbasic Editor or Gwbasic Subdirectories. Move to program subdirectories. Choose programs to RUN as desired. Qbasic Editor does not require switches. Excel. Choose tab and RUN. Go to DOS. Batch Command. Use batch file capabilities. DOS 4.0 Gwbasic Compiler. RUN commands uses program names with a file parameter switch to allow for additional files. Use additional parameters following the slash / of Gwbasic commands. LOCATE DATA FILES. List All Files. Enter LANGUAGE and lesson mnemonic for a directory. RUN different programs. Use program statements to open data files. Print all language files (See Ch. 1, Disk List #4, German Directory and Appendix\II\PartII.wp). Design Interactive Dialogue or Graphic Models. Choose interactive models. Choose dialogue boxes or graphics programs with lines. Display graphics. Change Material in Document Files to Program Files (See Appendix\II\String.wp Show). RETRIEVE program code files in Word Processor. SAVE AS new program code. Change model. Internet FTP. Open or INSERT new input data files in system documents. Add remarks to documents or hot link. Refer to on-line or printed documentation in the future. DEFINE DATA RECORD FIELDS. Data Field Statement. Define eight data fields on relative file verb records with Field or type as statements. Use the eighth field for many purposes. This is not a Web file. MOVE MODELS TO OTHER COMPUTERS. Host Files. Transfer, FTP or COPY and PASTE (.html) word list data files from one computer to a host or other computer (Chapter 3, Oper. #16). Make Files Larger. List verbs conjugated in current files. One trans record points to one verb record. Add verbs to present tense files. Adding verbs to files complicates logic. RUN Programs to Compare Words. Compare new word lists against the number of verbs on files. New verb files may become out of synchronization with infinitive lists. Avoid adding duplicate verb records to new files. If duplicate verbs are detected on old file lists, place a tick mark (or MARK) in front of the second verb in the list. Delete (or PACK) verbs on file at a later time. Rewrite Files. Compare new file verb lists with verb lists from trans files. Check each verb file for each tense.

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Lang. #5 Update Relative Verb File CREATE RECORDS FOR MODEL HARD DRIVE FILES. Select Software or Browser Package. COPY (.html) files. Convert to verb data file. Duplicate DOS or TI99 Data File. Read each relative verbs file record into memory. Add one to a record counter. Keep track of blocks of verb records. Move blocks of verb file records. Read the next block and move (COPY). ADD MORE VERBS TO DATA FILE. More Comprehensive Word Lists. Add verbs to old initial data files. Create verb records at the end of the file. Use tutorial graphic and instructions. Software. APPEND. Basic. RUN the same program that created the initial verb relative file. Index Key Additions. 1. RUN programs to list the last verb record entered on the verbs file. 2. Find the last record to determine the end of file record number. 3. Append Verb Records. A. Add one to the last index key counter. Add new groups of verb records to the end of the file. B. Larger computers automatically find the end of relative files to append records. New Groups to Conjugate. Add new group of conjugated verbs to old lists of verbs on files over a period of time as language lessons progress. Add one to record number key for each new record. Use higher record key record index reference. Close relative files on which these new verb forms are stored as data fields. Save data files. Sequential File. Open sequential files for initial verb file. Append records to the files. Convert sequential files to relative files.

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Copy and Update Files Software. Select software. Select Database or Spreadsheet. Create files. Duplicate Verb Records. Do not place duplicate record for the same verb infinitives on the same new verb file. MOVE DATA FILES. Convert Web or Software Files. SAVE DIF or (.html) files AS sequential ASC files. 1. COPY to Memory or Disk. EXPORT new verb files from one hard drive laboratory subdirectory to another. 2. COPY from Memory or Disk. IMPORT or APPEND new verbs groups onto the end of old verb files on the other subdirectory. Convert to Relative Files. CHANGE OR UPDATE VERB INPUT DATA FILES. LIST Files. Review relative file verb lists to determine if any errors are present. CHECK FOR ERRORS. Verify Word Files. Update verb forms on records on file to change tenses. Correct. RUN the Update program. Correct errors in any data field of a verb record before practicing the next level of exercises. Change Stems. REPLACE vowels or other letters. PRACTICE EXERCISES. File Folder. Program models open word files. Construct sentences and phrases. Compare various lists in data arrays. Detect Errors. RUN the Selverb student lesson sentence exercise model example (Lang. #1). Errors may be detected. RUN the Update programs later (Lang. #5). ONE COMPUTER ONLY. PROGRAM UPDATE DATA FIELDS ON VERBS FILES. Update Programs Input File (Appendix\II\PartII Prog. #9 Update). RUN. Read any verbs record from the relative file to update. List eight data fields from each chosen conjugated verb record. 1. Position the cursor on the field to be updated by moving the mouse. 2. Use a (direction) key. 3. Press the (Enter) key. Update Program Screen Display Layout. All conjugated forms of the verb appear on a screen at one time. All data fields of a verb record are shown. Basic. Use one line Visual Basic. Use dialogue box in for each data item field that is updated on screens. Update One Field at a Time. The cursor appears on the first verb form. No Change. If the verb form next to the cursor is correct, hit the (Enter) key. Save the verb form in memory. Correct. Change incorrect verb forms. Position the cursor at the incorrect form of the verb. Move the cursor over letters. Use INSERT or DELETE to correct the appropriate form. Depress the (Enter) key. Save this entry in memory. Display (for TI99). After the last data field is entered, save corrected verb records on disk. Take all the data fields from the computer memory record buffer. Print any verb conjugation record change. Write data to a disk file. Complete corrections to all incorrect verbs on a file. Enter the word

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Copy and Update Files Finish the program RUN. Modify Update Programs to Correct Infinitive and SAVE. Infinitives are stored in the first data field. If the infinitive is incorrect, correct the spelling. Note the last record updated. New Infinitive. Quickly locate the marker on the end of the file to add new records. Clear the screen. Then conjugate new verbs. New trans File. Use the updated infinitive list to create a new index file key. Sentence Program Model and Infinitive. Infinitives are the most frequently form of the verb used (Appendix\II\PartII Prog. #14). Match or compare records and data fields. Rename. Do not RENAME relative files. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM UPDATES. Follow Texts. Select resources available. Choose verbs lists for data records. Create and update any verb record. Define data item field lengths in the first program. 1. Enter the Present Tense Infinitive Form of the Verb. Build the initial present tense conjugation file. Create verb records in Verb programs. Do not enter past attribute data for the file. The past tense is usually listed in another section of language text books. 2. Update Program. RUN the Update relative file program with the Open update (TI99) mode statement. 3. COPY Present Tense. Data item fields unchanged. 4. Other Tense. Eighth Data Field in a Relative File. Update the eighth or last data field of the relative file verb record exclusively. Enter past (or future) tense form of verbs from text books into computer verb files. 5. Polish. Use perfective and imperfective aspects to update the eighth field of verb files. Correction File Summary. Enter : Enter infinitive. Correct verb form errors in data fields for any person. If no correction is necessary touch the (space) bar key or (Enter) key. Accept the data field as it appears on file. Relative files are not copied to change to verb records, unlike sequential files. Change records in a buffer area. The buffer record replaces the old record. The name of the file is still the verbs file. The location of the file does not change, nor does the name of the file on disk mnemonic through the keyboard. ENHANCE MODELS FOR MORE COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE. Second File Copy. Create files on different disks or with a different file name on the same disk directory. Update Blank Data Item Fields of Sequential Files. Data fields can indicate if verbs are reflexive, perfective etc. Add data fields to indicate groups of words such as reflexive verbs. Add data fields to sequential files. Choose different programs. Add reflexive flags to the French verb record and update, if desired. Add words as data. Add descriptive fields to records. Descriptive data may be of use during file edit RUNs. Enter Data. Create new data files. The second data file format is like the first data file with new data. Data fields contain different forms of words for other tenses. Add new data to computers information stored. Write Programs as Required. Use verbs on one list. Create a matching second language list. Add equivalent meanings. RELATIVE FILES KEEP LANGUAGE MODELS CURRENT. New Basic Compiler. Files do not have to be passed, converted or translated. If a new compiler is used, redo the file for the model. Use New File. Open the file as an input file. Enter infinitive. Enter mnemonic through the keyboard. Process matches of mnemonic keys in memory. Locate records from a random file by record indexes corresponding to mnemonic code. Re-

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