Re: where can i download the various OS's for my GS?

[limtc <thyechean@gmail.com>]

Thanks everybody who help - now I have a simple ProDOS 8 environment
for my son! This is based on one of my own multiple directories disk I
used to have.

Since I do not know how to move files around yet, and cannot do mass
delete of files, so I still left some garbage here and there, but at
least this is a start.

On 4月23日, 下午8时03分, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > More questions:
>
> > - can you do a mass delete, etc, using wildcards or other means?
>
> Not with standard features provided by BASIC.SYSTEM. It doesn't support
> wildcards.
>
> > - can you rename disk prefix?
>
> Do you mean the volume name of the disk? Yes.
>
> RENAME /OLDNAME,/NEWNAME
>
> The slash at the beginning identifies it as a complete pathname, which
> starts with the volume name.
>
> "Prefix" has a special meaning in ProDOS. It is actually a command to
> BASIC.SYSTEM and a call to the ProDOS kernel which specifies a prefix
> which is automatically added to the front of a partial pathname (a
> filename or pathname which doesn't start with a slash). This is useful
> if you are working with subdirectories.
>
> For example, if you have a disk called PROGRAMS with a subdirectory
> DEMOS and that subdirectory contains several files you want to work
> with, then you can do this:
>
> PREFIX /PROGRAMS/DEMOS
>
> and then just use the filename for each file in the DEMOS subdirectory,
> e.g.
>
> RUN DEMO1
>
> will run /PROGRAMS/DEMOS/DEMO1
>
> Once you've set a prefix, it will remain active until you change it. You
> can clear the prefix using the command:
>
> PREFIX /
>
> This will revert to no prefix, or using the last accessed slot and
> drive.
>
> PREFIX with no parameters will print the current prefix, and if you
> haven't set one, it will print the name of the volume in the current
> slot and drive (after reading it from the disk).
>
> --
> David Empson
> demp...@actrix.gen.nz