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→Drawer: Tapes and Disks
The only limitation is how many drawers (tapes or disks) you own. The size of your filing cabinet is this number.
If the file you are working on becomes filled to its maximum capacity WDRDWRITER will tell you and you can Save what you have, then continue by opening another empty file. When the second file is full (or when you are finished working, say, due to an interruption) you must Save the second file, but WITH A DIFFERENT NAME. You MAY NOT have two different files with the same name within the filng cabinet of WDRDWRITER. If you already have Saved a file named "letters" on a disk, then try to Save another file also named "letters" on the same disk WDRDWRITER will Delete (erase) the first file. If you already have Saved a file named "letters" on ONE disk, then save another file, also named "letters", on ANOTHER disk, obviously WDRDWRITER will not be able to erase the first file. However, it is a bad practice to have more than one file with the same name. If you use the same file name more than once you will eventually erase a file accidently.
Another reason not to do this has to do with Chain Printing one file after another; you would confuse WORDWRITER if you told it to print the flle named "letters" immediately after the file named "letters". Instead of asking you which to print first, WORDWRITER would merely be unable to interpret what you meant, then stop, being unable to continue.
====Tape====
If you are not using a disk system you will be storing (Saving) your files on tape. When you retrieve (Load) your files from tape you must (1) put the correct tape in the tape recorder, (2) rewind or fast forward to the beginning of the file [using the digital counter on the tape recorder], then (3) play back (Load) the file into the console. Tape files are not "named". You must write down a list of your tape files.
When you Save a file on tape you are using the tape recorder in its Record mode. When you Load a file from the tape recorder into the console you are using the tape recorder in its Play mode. Before you begin to Save a file on tape make sure there is enough tape to Record the file. In other words, do not begin Saving (Recording) near the end of a cassette. Worse than that, do not begin Saving so that you cut off the beginning of a another file previously Saved further along on the same tape.
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