Re: Accessing prodos from dos 3.3

[sfxerzf@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Stephen E. Adams)]

none (none@awinc.com) wrote:
: 	Is there any way to call up prodos from a prodos formatted disk 
: containing prodos, from with dos 3.3. For some reason both my appleworks 
: and proterm will not boot up any more. Any suggestions? thanks.

Nope.  That's like trying to run an OS/2-based program from within 
MS-DOS.  ProDOS and DOS 3.3 are two different operating systems.

What you need to do is to make backup disks of your AppleWorks and 
ProTerm original disks, and reboot using the backups.  [Hopefully, you 
haven't been using the ORIGINALS to work from - right?].  If you're not 
able to boot up in ProDOS anymore, it sounds like your ProDOS system file 
has either been renamed, corrupted, or removed from the disks.

Both the AppleWorks and ProTerm original disks include the ProDOS 
operating system files on them, so by making backups of these originals, 
you should be able to boot once again in ProDOS.  Oh, I forgot - you'll 
need to use the System Utilities disk that came with your Apple in order 
to make the backups.  DOS 3.3 won't even recognize a ProDOS disk, so it 
won't be able to make ProDOS disk copies.

Good luck.

Later...

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