Re: three questions about //e

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:41:04 +0000 (UTC), "S. Teramoto"
<s-teramoto@cistron.nl> wrote:

>ii)  Is there a clock/calendar card which remembers the year, so that you
>do not need a new ProDOS patch every so many years?

I know of no clock cards for the IIe that will let you avoid the 7
year patch problem.  However, you could always write, or try to get
someone to write, a program that gets started every time you boot a
ProDOS disk that would check the current year and if it was less than
the last time it checked, it could apply the 7 year patch right then.
This way you would never have to apply the patch manually to that boot
disk and it would seem like you have a clock card that remembers the
year.

The only problem with this solution is that it will only patch ProDOS
on the disk that was booted with this program.  You would have to
either put this program on all your ProDOS boot disks or have the
program tell you when it has patched ProDOS so that you could then
copy the PRODOS file off of that disk onto all your other boot disks.

The only model of Apple II that will allow you to use ProDOS without
having to patch it every 7 years is a IIgs and even then, I think you
need to boot into GS/OS first and start ProDOS from there for it to
work.

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