Re: Defective RAM on Apple IIgs

["William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:l6Leh.899$yC5.520@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...
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: "William Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com> wrote in message
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: > Bryan,
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: > Some DOS files cannot be directly copied to ProDOS.
: > There is a program on the ProDOS User's Disk that
: > converts these files so that they can be copied,
: > and it also copies the files for you. If I'm not
: > mistaken, it is called Convert.
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: Bill,
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: I am not sure what you are referring convert?
: It is simple to copy some files from DOS 3.3 to
: ProDOS as convert.  It is an example of binary file
: and the length is 16,384 bytes.  It may be corrupted
: when copy is done.  Do you know if there is a special
: instruction how to avoid corrupted file?
:
: Bryan Parkoff


Correct, some DOS files; Binary, Text, Data, etc... can
be directly copied; but there are DOS files that ProDOS
can not run unless you convert them. Binaries made from
protected disks that loaded with their own IOB can be run
from either DOS or ProDOS without conversion. I can't be
much more clear than that.

On the ProDOS User's Disk there is a program called
Convert that will convert these to ProDOS. I imagine
that some registers between DOS and ProDOS are
different and those files are not corrupt, they just
can't run under ProDOS without conversion.
Check out the program.

William Garber
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