Re: Profile operations from command line.

[JCarlson <jcarlson1701@gmail.com>]

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<1i4hwt0.3yzite7yvfz5N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
(David Empson) wrote:
>  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
> (whichis 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
> withnamed volumes.

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


Do you know where I can get such documentation?

Thanks

Josh