Re: Apple IIe help

["Kirk" <kirk@m33access.com>]

Things are looking up! Playing with the system utilities I learned that the
disk I was trying to use in D2 was DOS 3.3 and not ProDOS. So I figured out
how to copy it into ProDOS format and everything seems to be working!
Thanks for all the help, everyone!

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote in message
19990901204758.29663.00003417@ng-fk1.aol.com">news:19990901204758.29663.00003417@ng-fk1.aol.com...
> "Kirk" <kirk@m33access.com> wrote:
>
> >The ProDOS that I seem to have is version 1.x and when I use the menu to
> >identify drive 2 it will show a list of what's on the drive in "slot 6
drive
> >2" and I had check to see if there were errors on the disk and their
isn't.
> >It's ok.
>
> You are in the System Utilities.  Select the option "Quit to
> BASIC" or run the file "BASIC.SYSTEM" to exit to the
> BASIC prompt.
>
> >When I try typing CATALOG,D2 at the DOS prompt drive 2 comes on and then
I
> >get an I/O error.
> >
> >Once I get it to show what's on drive 2 how do I run it? Thanks for you
> >reply!
>
> ProDOS has an interesting command called "-".  As long
> as you append an "-" in front of an executable file, it'll run
> whatever the format of the file.  So to run the file:
>
> CONVERT
>
> You would need to type:
>
> -CONVERT
>
> That should do the trick.  Good luck!