Word: cd
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...will ask you to sign-in. Type ANONYMOUS for your user id, and type username for your password. Once connected to the remote system, a couple of commands are necessary to examine and transfer programs. First, LS prints out the directory of files. CD changes the directory level, so that other files can be accessed...
...users should type CD /ibmpc/isib. Typing LS will then provide a list of sub-directories (such as GAMES, DOC, etc.) typing CD and then the sub-directory name will then move the user to that directory. Type GET filename to copy a file you are interested in into your mainframe directory. Typing GET program-library list will give you a list of many of the available programs. Now program-library. list can be typed out with the CAT filename command (similar to TYPE from...
...Seeburg's jukeboxes are back, playing compact discs instead of 45s. For $1, customers can listen to three selections from CDs (the jukebox accepts no change). Eighteen plays can be heard for $5. One major attraction is that a CD jukebox can play 700 to 1,000 different songs, compared with the 200 or so that are offered by a traditional machine. Seeburg expects to sell 4,500 of its new jukes by next June...
...with Bob Dylan and the Band, Van Morrison's It's Too Late to Stop Now -- if the list of other memorable live albums goes on after these, it doesn't go on for long. Live/1975-85 is structured, with occasional exceptions, in chronological order, and, in its tape and CD configurations, each of the three parts is like a self-contained concert, so it is not necessary to play the whole set straight through to pick up the momentum or feel the impact. But Springsteen is after more than just putting together a family album, a memoir of glory days...
...about to assume tremendous importance as a data-storage tool. The most visible example of that capacity is the audio compact disc, introduced commercially in 1983. More than 50 million CDs and 1.8 million players will be sold this year, generating total revenues of more than $1 billion. CD sales have been increasing fourfold each year, helping to send LP record sales into decline. A CD stores music in digital form in some 15 billion microscopic pits on its aluminum surface. As the CD spins inside its player at up to 500 r.p.m., a laser scans the pits and beams...