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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: GS only ProDOS 8 release
Message-ID: <43447@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 00:39:02 GMT
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In article <1631@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>Try DAVEX. It's been doing all of this for years now. I was hoping that
>Apple would package a version of DAVEX as an alternative O/S with all of
>the //s. 

Praise is always accepted cheerfully...but a couple of notes.  Davex isn't
an operating system, it's just a command shell that sits between you and
ProDOS 8.  Davex doesn't, for example, generally let you work with extended
files or access devices past the first two in any slot (except for slot 5).

If ProDOS 8 is ever modified to do stuff like that, Davex would benefit
automatically (and I would revise it to take better advantage of new
OS features, too).
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