Re: Dos 3.3 w/800k disks

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Randy Herx writes ...
> 
> Hello again..  I have 12 - 5-1/4" disks from Softside magazine from years
> ago.  I would like to put these files on a 3.5" disk but they won't work
> with prodos due to the way prodos handles filenames with spaces in them...
> 
> ex: PR LOSE.BAS becomes PR.LOSE.BAS in prodos.
> 
> What I would like to do, is format a 3.5" disk to Dos 3.3 and copy the files
> there.  Can this be done?
 ....

Rubywand wrote:
> 
 ....
> Second, DOS 3.3 Launcher turns out to create and use standard 143,360-byte
> ProDOS order (.po) disk image files. These can easily be moved to any ProDOS
> disk including hard disk, RAM disk, or Zip Disk. Also, you should be able to
> download .dsk disk images on your PC, use an emulator to transfer the contents
> to a DOS 3.3 format .po disk image, and transfer the .po file via NULL modem
> for use under DOS 3.3 Launcher. Or you could convert 5.25" .sdk (shrinked disk)
> files to .po disk image form using Nulib and transfer these via NULL modem.
>

     One addition to the above: DOS 3.3 Launcher does give its disk images a
special filetype (User#1 or, in hex, $F1, I think).  So, to use a standard .po disk
image from some other source, you would need to have its filetype set to the one
DOS 3.3. Launcher expects.



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