Re: DOS Commands?

[Doug Browning <wpg750@mb.imag.net>]

Actually, you don't rename a newly formatted disk to "startup". There's no files
to rename since the formatting cleared anything that was on there to begin with.
DOS 3.3 automatically creates the startup file using a basic program that is
currently loaded in the machine.

Supertimer wrote:

> "Dave Mednick" <dmednick@savhbytes.com> wrote:
>
> >I'm progressing..  I finally got a DOS 3.3 Master Diskette for my //e.
> >
> >Now... it's been since 1982 or so since I've played with the thing.  Anyone
> >know where I can get a DOS 3.3 manual?  I don't even know how to format
> >disks!  I think it was the INIT command... or something to that affect.
>
> Type INIT STARTUP to format the disk.  Then to rename any
> BASIC program to "STARTUP" for that program to autoboot.
>
> However, two years after 1982, Apple released another OS
> that completely replaced DOS 3.3.  It is called ProDOS and
> is based on the SOS operating system developed for the
> Apple III.
>
> ProDOS is superior in several ways.  It supports hard drives,
> CD-ROMs, and 3.5" drives, for one thing.  Another is that it
> supports folders.  You should get the ProDOS System Disk
> because most of the software for the IIe written since 1984
> use ProDOS.  It is also about 3x faster in disk operations.
>
> Some ProDOS commands and their MS-DOS equivalents
>
> PREFIX = CD
> RENAME = RENAME
> DELETE = ERASE
> Instead of just typing the name of a file to launch it as you
> would in MS-DOS, under ProDOS, preceed the file name
> with a hyphen.  "-STARTUP" for example.



--
Doug Browning
dougbrow@mb.imag.net
www.mb.imag.net/~wpg750