Re: ADTgs issues

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

"Polymorph" <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Michael, I always wondered if DOS3.3 and ProDOS disks were essentially
> formatted in the same way.

Yes at some level: the physical format of the sectors is mostly the same
(apart from interleaving). However
ProDOS treats pairs of sectors as 512 byte blocks.

>
> Probably well off topic, but one thing I could never work out was why
> there is no equivalent of the "init" command in ProDOS?? It always
> seems rather frustrating to have to run the disk utilities to
> accomplish this (especially when you've grown up using DOS3.3).

Doing INIT from DOS 3.3 required some code to be resident in memory, i.e.
take valuable space at all times.
Nice but wastefull. Makes much more sense to load a program from the disk to
do something that is not done every day.



>
> cheers,
> -p
>