Re: Apple ProDOS CP/M disk & file utility

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <rcarvel-0405011338020001@net-208-246-254-210.in-addr.worldspice.net>,
 
> Does anyone here know if an Apple II program with the following abilities
> exists?
> 
> 1) Must be able to transfer files from Apple ProDOS to Apple CP/M format
> disks, and vice versa.
> 
> 2) Must be able to format floppies in Apple CP/M format and create
> bootable Apple CP/M disks.
 
Bootable for WHICH Apple II Z-80 card?  There were several to choose
among...
 
Anyway 2) certainly exists -- it was delivered with each Apple II
CP/M system.  Yep, all other CP/M systems had it too -- after all,
what good is an OS if you cannot format disks and make them bootable?
 
BTW formatting CP/M disks is very easy: format them for any Apple OS
you'd like, then fill all bytes on each and every sector on the disk
with hex E5 -- that's it!  Making the disk bootable is somewhat
harder, but basically consist of filling the system tracks (on Apple
CP/M disks the first three tracks) with the correct boot image, which
can be picked from another bootable CP/M diskette.  While doing this,
do account for the special sector interleaving used by Apple CP/M:
it's different from Apple DOS, Apple Pascal and Apple ProDOS
interleaving.
 
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