Re: Profile operations from command line.

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

JCarlson <jcarlson1701@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got a profile drive hooked up to my //e enhanced (yah!) and am
> able to access to from the ProDOS utilities, but can't figure out how
> to access it from the Applesoft command line. I tried to do a simple
> catalog command by doing "catalog S5,D1" (slot 5 is where I have the
> profile controller card installed) and only get a path not found
> error.

You missed a comma. Try:

cat,s5,d1

If you omit the comma after "cat" (or "catalog") then BASIC.SYSTEM is
looking for a directory called S5 on drive 1 on the current slot (which
is probably slot 6, if you booted from floppy).

> I didn't get any documentation with the ProFile so I'm not to
> sure how to work with it correctly.

You don't need documentation specifically for the ProFILE, just
documentation on how to use ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM for dealing with
named volumes.

You probably also want to learn about subdirectories and the prefix
command. You need to use subdirectories if you want to store a moderate
number of files on anything larger than a 5.25" floppy.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz