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Re: ProDOS master



On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Doug Mccomber wrote:

 To: David Schmidt
 Re: Re: ProDOS master
 By: David Schmidt to comp.sys.apple2 on Wed Jan 04 2012 10:51:03

> From Newsgroup: comp.sys.apple2
>
> On 1/4/2012 10:16 AM, Trash80 wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to set up a disk for use with 2QWK.  I need to patch it using q
> > in order to work with certain file names.  This isn't the issue I'm having
> > led me to a search for a ProDOS master disk image because according to the
> > docs I should be patching files suck as p8 and pro.fst.  I can't find a di
> > image or shk file that has those.
>
> Those aren't ProDOS master disk elements... those are GSOS artifacts
> that are used to support ProDOS.  So if you were running GSOS, or
> looking at a GSOS master disk (images/gs/os/gsos/System_6.01.zip) you'd
> see those files.  But they weren't ever part of a ProDOS 8 master disk.
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That's explain why I couldn't find them!  Odd that I didn't see a reference to
GSOS in the docs.

Regards,
Doug
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*Ah*.  Mybad.

ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/gs/os/prodos16/
ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/gs/os/gsos/

-uso.