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ND-210793 — NOTIS-BG for ND-500 (English)

Status: IN-PROGRESS — real floppy decoded, real VTM-based install confirmed

Field Value
ND article number ND-210793
Product name NOTIS-BG for ND-500 (Business Graphics), English version
Functional category Office — NOTIS suite
CPU target ND-500
Related products Same DDBTABLES:VTM + VTM-COMPOUND:PROG pattern documented in VTM-TERMINAL-INTERFACES.md

What is known — real floppy, decoded

Floppy 210793C01-EN-02D (downloaded via NDwiki, imaged by Torfinn "Tingo" Ingolfsen) mounts cleanly:

DDBTABLES-E-E04:VTM        VTM terminal-type configuration file
DDB078:VTM                 a second, smaller VTM table
VTM-COMPOUND:PROG           real VTM-COMPOUND installer/table-builder — confirms the pattern already
                            documented generically in VTM-TERMINAL-INTERFACES.md §3 with a real
                            in-the-wild product using it
BG-PRINTERS-C01:SYMB       printer configuration source
BG-EX01-EN-C01:CDBG        real example chart file 1 (binary format, not decoded)
BG-EX02-EN-C01:DABG        real example chart-data file (binary format, not decoded)
BG-EX03-EN-C01:CDBG        real example chart file 3 (binary format, not decoded)

CDBG and DABG are NOTIS-BG's own binary chart-definition and chart-data file types — opened with ndtool -x and confirmed to be compiled/binary (not text), so their content was not transcribed, only their existence and file-type extensions.

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: VTM-COMPOUND:PROG's interactive session was not run/decoded — see VTM-TERMINAL-INTERFACES.md for the generic procedure this program follows.

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