Re: where can i download the various OS's for my GS?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

limtc wrote:
> Thanks, that's a good (but short) list. It is weird that "Verify" is
> included but not "Move".

That's because VERIFY just reads the directory entry of a file, which
is the beginning of almost every command--very little VERIFY-specific
code is required.

VERIFY is also a very useful command within a program, and is seldom
used from the command line.

> The problem I have is that I wish to construct a simple ProDOS system
> disk for my son (just ProDOS + BASIC.System), and the only one I have
> I have BASIC.System not in root directory (I used to divide folders
> with COMPILER.System, BASIC.System, etc), and I cannot move the files
> around, and I don't have any file utilities to do that.
> 
> Still thinking.

The usual way is to copy the files to a new disk, but that requires
the ProDOS utilities.  As you can see, there's a basic set of disks
(or programs on one disk) that is essential to using ProDOS.

You can copy a SYS program by BLOADing it:

  BLOAD /DSK/SUBDIR/BASIC.SYSTEM,A$2000,TSYS

then CREATE the file where you want it:

  CREATE /DSK/BASIC.SYSTEM,TSYS

and then BSAVE it at the new location:

  BSAVE /DSK/BASIC.SYSTEM,A$2000,TSYS

If space is tight, you can DELETE (UNLOCK first?) the old file
before the BSAVE.  (Of course,if power fails before the BSAVE
completes, bad luck!).

After the file is copied, you'll probably want to LOCK it.

> On 4锟斤拷23锟斤拷, 锟斤拷锟斤拷1时40锟斤拷, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>The list of available Prodos commands can be found here:http://www.landsnail.com/a2ref4.htm
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Mike
> 
> 


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