Re: who still uses DOS 3.3 (was Apple DES program)

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <mnementhCntwM2.56w@netcom.com>,
David R. Villegas <mnementh@netcom.com> wrote:

>I use DOS 3.3 because the RWTS is simple and makes it easy to repair old
>disks and crack programs so I have backups once the originals die in a few
>years.  Softkeying a program using DOS 3.3 is easier than manipulating it
>to work under ProDOS.

I can't imagine how RWTS could be easier to use than the ProDOS block access
calls. You don't even need to write code to do system calls if you have the
ProDOS Exerciser program. I wrote a program that can display a DOS catalog
using the read_block call. It can even handle nonstandard catalogs such as
two track ones like you can make with some old Beagle Bros program whose
name I've forgotten.
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