Re: Can't initialize Disk

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@es.co.nz>]

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In article <3A0E68A7.35EE67D@Concentric.net>, Gabriel Morales 
<Togega@Concentric.net> wrote:


> Eric Shepherd wrote:
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>> There's no INIT command in ProDOS.  You have to use the system utilities
>> disk to format disks.
>
>  ??
>
>  Can't any (w/few exceptions) bootable ProDOS disk make another bootable
> ProDOS disk? Perhaps I am missing a step, but I remember initializing
> disks in this manner- by typing INIT and an program name.
>
> --
> Gabriel Morales <http://www.GabrielMorales.net>

You must be misrembering :-). The older Apple DOS has an INIT command but
ProDOS BASIC doesn't, unless the copy of ProDOS you had was patched. I don't
know if such a patch exists.

It's fairly simple to add commands to ProDOS, but they have to reside in
memory with everything else. If they get put in memory below BASIC.SYSTEM
they're liable to be overwritten since most programs assume all memory up to
BASIC.SYSTEM is free. If they're put into the reserved ProDOS region,
something has to be removed from ProDOS to make room for it.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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