Re: DOS 3.3 for 1.40 MB disk, for a system with non-working 80-column code?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

Rob Greene <greeneratcharterdotnet> wrote in message news:<Xns92DDE6F01FAEBRob.Greene@216.168.3.44>...
> I do remember the old ProFile hard disk came with a program that allowed 
> DOS to use a 5MB ProFile disk as something like 35 floppies.  I think 
> that they were all 140K.  Anyway, they were accessed via the volume 
> number.  The ProFile was just a big ProDOS device -- and the utility 
> just mapped the ProDOS blocks into the appropriate (virtual) tracks and 
> sectors.  As I remember, you just needed to run the utility and it would 
> hook right into DOS and be seemless after that.
> 
> Not sure if that specific program would do the trick or if somebody has 
> something similar.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't have it anymore.  I'll poke around, just in case 
> though.
> -Rob

It'd be interesting to see.  Megadisk in Dapple is a ProDOS block
device, apparently.