Re: USCD Pascal on a CFFA drive

[AppleCPM <a2@wilserv.com>]

Hi!

On Apr 4, 6:01 pm, David wrote:
> The partition map shouldn't be an issue. Pascal ProFILE Manager was
> written for the 5 MB ProFILE hard drive, which has no partition map.
> (Someone subsequently modified it to work with other hard drives.)

    That would be me, I believe.

> PPM works by creating an artificial "partition" inside a ProDOS volume,
> by reserving a block of space at the end of the volume, creating a file
> called PASCAL.AREA in the ProDOS directory (with storage type 4, which
> ProDOS recognises but doesn't know how to interpret the contents), and
> marks all its blocks used in the volume bit map.
> The internal structure of the Pascal area is then handled by running PPM
> while in Pascal.

    The "PASCAL.AREA" can be accessed and maintained from ProDOS using
a program I wrote back around 2002.  At that time I uploaded the
program and the Pascal source for it to Asimov.
>ftp://public.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/programming/pascal/PPM.shk
If you decide to play with it PLEASE don't try the function that
creates "PASCAL.AREA".  Updating the program is on my "to do" list but
there are other items on the list ahead of it.

Willi