Found a Masterfile 8000 Disk - How to Run?

[Amagni]

We found a pair of 3" disks in a donation at the Australian Computer Museum yesterday and while I was able to read them in my CPC, they appear to be intended for a PCW:

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I used a Ulifac to image the disks to DSK files, and opened the first DSK in a PCW emulator.  I thought I'd just be able to type "MF8000" at the CP/M command line but it just sort of waits a few seconds then goes back to the prompt:
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Is there something else I need to type to get it to run?

The second disk was marked "daily" and had some kind of text files on both sides:
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I can open the files in Notepad++ but they have a bunch of control characters in them and I'd prefer to use the right software if anyone can identify it.

Thanks in advance!

[robcfg]

Interesting...

The manual definitely says that typing MF8000 at the prompt should start the program.

You can check the manual here: https://habisoft.com/pcwwiki/doku.php?id=en:aplicaciones:masterfile_8000

I checked the Masterfile 8000 from the PCW Wiki and it starts without problem.

One thing I've noticed is your version of CP/M is different than mine, maybe that could be the issue?

[Amagni]

Ok, I downloaded the Masterfile 8000 disk from the wiki you linked, and that one runs.
I can open the files on my disk with that, but it looks like they're just the example files anyway:
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I'm still not sure how to read the files on the other disk, I guess they are for a word processor but I don't know which one:
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[robcfg]

Have you tried good ol' LocoScript?

[GeoffB17]

Yes, looking at the filenames in the images, there are disks with LOCO date there, they need to be loaded from within LocoScript.

Accoring to the first inage, which is a DIR of the MasterFile disk, yes, I see what the problem there is.

There seem to be a number of versions of the MF susyem, but all the files which I suppose WERE MF8000,COM have been renamed - maybe as different installed variants, and there is NO MF8000.COM.  Instead, you've got MF8000P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, CU and FX.  What the reason for all that is, I don't know.  You might try any of them, i.e. instead of entering MF8000 enter MF8000P4.  At least you'll be on the disk with the dem0 files.

OK, it's a much more complicated system, but you could try a version of the CP/M dBASE II.  I've got that here running fine BOTH on my PCW, and also on Joyce.   Much easier to find info on the web regarding running the dBASE part of the system, AND also using the programming (almost MySQL) options where you do things from the dot prompt.  You might even find published books about using dBASE.

Geoff