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- From: jnomina@andy.bgsu.edu (A.P.K.)
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
- Message-ID: <BuGD31.59A@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
- References: <1992Sep11.193723.9947@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 06:37:48 GMT
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- grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep10.190124.2225@cci632.cci.com> fjs@cci632.cci.com (Francis Schwalm) writes:
- >>Does anybody have ANY idea how a person who has an unexpanded model 3 apple
- >>][c with two 5-1/4 disk drives can extract a single file from an 800K -disk-
- >>archive? If anybody out there ever figures out a way for me to do that,
- >>tell me, because it's currently impossible. How the hell does apple expect
- >>me to do it?
- >
- > This may be a shot in the dark, but assuming you are using a server to
- > post to the internet anyway, you should be able to use Sciibin and Nulib
- > to extract the files on your site and then download JUST the ProDOS and
- > BASIC files.
-
- I too would imagine that this might work. However, for anyone
- not in the know, DON'T download the ProDOS file. Within the System
- Folder is a file called P8. Unless things have changed since last I
- checked, P8 is the Prodos-8 file, which will need to be renamed to
- ProDOS. (At least this was true with the older systems when I bothered
- to dig out ProDOS for 8-bit applications.) I couldn't say for sure,
- having been rather busy in school and not keeping up on things, but
- might there have been any changes to ProDOS which might make it
- incompatible on older systems? That MIGHT be why they didn't put
- the new version up as a stand-alone...
-
- Jim
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