Re: What is PRODOS?

[cust_ts@cc.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)]

In article <36hm5i$p8b@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Mark W. Blunier <blunier@prairienet.org> wrote:
>
>Is PRO-DOS entirely different from Apple-dos?

Yes, except for the fact that sector copiers work with both.

 Does it
>change the way apple dos works?

No.

  Is it it needed to
>run the binski programs?

Is this a Russian version of BinSCII? :-) 
Yes, ProDOS is required.

Just for the record, here are some of the differences between ProDOS and
DOS 3.3:

Feature				DOS	ProDOS
-----------------------------------------------------
File name length		32	15
Case sensitive filenames	yes	no
Supports >140K drives		no	yes
Supports Integer BASIC		yes	no
File system			flat	hierarchical

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