ND-10516 — FILE-HANDLER

Status: IN-PROGRESS — real floppy decoded, real installer + main program + sample data found

Field	Value
ND article number	ND-10516
Product name	FILE-HANDLER
Functional category	Databases & File Access
CPU target	ND-100

What is known — real floppy, decoded

Floppy 10516C01-D (downloaded via NDwiki, imaged by Torfinn "Tingo" Ingolfsen) mounts cleanly:

INSTALL-FH-C01:PROG        real installer program (compiled, not decoded)
FILE-HANDLER-C00:PROG      the main application (206848 bytes — the largest file on the disk)
FILE-HANDLER-C00:HELP      online help text
EMPLOYEES-C00:DATA         sample data file ("Employees")
SALES-DESC-C00:DATA        sample data-description file ("Sales")
SALES-C00:DATA             sample data file ("Sales")
UE-ERMSG-EN-B00:ERR        User Environment error-message file, English

Reading it: FILE-HANDLER ships with two worked sample datasets (Employees, Sales) — matching the pattern already seen with UNIQUE's CUSTOMER-REG/PART-REG/ORDER-REG samples (see ND-10730) — suggesting this is a similar end-user data-management tool rather than a programmer's library. The presence of a UE-ERMSG (User Environment error message) file suggests FILE-HANDLER is built on the User Environment framework, same as other menu-driven ND-100 utilities in this catalog.

No :MODE/:BATC install script was found — INSTALL-FH-C01:PROG is a compiled installer, not decoded here.

Documentation

• No PD sheet, no PI sheet located.

Provenance & open items

• Source: one real floppy image, downloaded via NDwiki and decoded in this session (ndfs -t/ndtool -x).
• TODO: FILE-HANDLER-C00:HELP was not read; the installer's interactive prompts were not decoded (compiled binary).

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Parent: ../README.md (Software catalog)