/RAM5 stealth

[Forrest <forrest@ns1.net-gate.com>]

Here's something mildly interesting: a local school had a problem making
backups of a program that was using a custom version of ProDOS with a
very odd disk format.  Nothing would copy it.

Interestingly, the program let you reach the BASIC.SYSTEM command line and 
do anything you liked from that point.

What to do?

Aha.  The school was running IIgs systems...

So: set up /RAM5, start up normal ProDOS, stick a copy of C2+
or Cat Doctor onto /RAM5.  Reboot the custom ProDOS, exit to BASIC.SYSTEM,
run C2+ or Cat Doctor from /RAM5.  Copy all program files to /RAM5, reboot
normal ProDOS, copy all program files from /RAM5 to normal format disk.

After that it was all over but the shouting.

:)

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