Re: Defective RAM on Apple IIgs

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

William Garber wrote:
> "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message dumdnaLOvZOj--HYnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d@comcast.com">news:dumdnaLOvZOj--HYnZ2dnUVZ_qWvnZ2d@comcast.com...
> :
> : There is no problem.
> :
> : The differences you observe are a result of DOS
> : storing the load address and length of the file
> : as the first four bytes, while in ProDOS these
> : values are stored in the directory.  This will
> : shift the contents of all sectors by 4 bytes,
> : making them all "unequal".
>
>
> Thanks for the reminder, Mike. I knew there was
> something like that, but I figured I'd just tell
> him to use the conversion program on the ProDOS
> User's Disk and he'd be set. I still think that
> would be easier than having him go to the trouble
> of trying to convert them manually.

My guess is that he has *already* converted them,
and that's why the observed sector contents are
different.

-michael

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