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- From: chris.lambertus@uttsbbs.uucp (Chris Lambertus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: RE: ADVICE ON CONVERSION?
- Message-ID: <5.61.uupcb@uttsbbs.uucp>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:34:00 GMT
- Reply-To: chris.lambertus@uttsbbs.uucp (Chris Lambertus)
- Organization: The Transfer Station BBS, Danville, CA - 510-837-4610/837-5591
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- -> >My question is this: I have all sorts of old programs and things
- -> that I used t >deal with, and they're ALL in DOS 3.3.
- -> >[...] So, I'd like to move it all to
- -> >3.5" disks, but what is the best way to do that? Do I have to
- -> convert >everything over to ProDOS?
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- Well, archiving is fine, but if you want to retain the usefullness of
- the DOS 3.3 files, use AMDOS..it's a shareware utility that patches DOS
- and FID to work with 800k disks. It splits the disk into 2 400k
- volumes, s5,d1 and s5,d2. I've used it myself, and it works great.
-
- -Chris
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