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From: ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Dos 3.3 file copier needed
Message-ID: <91133.102017ART100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 14:20:17 GMT
References: <166433@tiger.oxy.edu> <15684@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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In article <48875@ut-emx.uucp>, daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Dave Huang) says:
>
>In article <15684@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
>writes:

>Don't the docs for AmDos have instructions for
>patching FID?

Yep, and they seem to work (boy, hard to get used to using that                \
FID thing... :-)), but this won't help the original poster
much at all if he doesn't have FID in the first place.                         |

The problem here is FID is pretty much essential in this case,
since dos 3.3 is missing some of the useful file-handling capabilities
of prodos that would make writing a copy program a non-difficult
task (i.e. mli calls or the B and T parameters) and copy II+
and similar programs don't recognize a 3.5" disk with AMDOS on it.

One could probably find a copy of FID (or possibly some other dos 3.3
file copying program) or even an entire dos 3.3 system master in
the ancient part of a user group's library. The legality of giving
out copies of dos 3.3 system software is a question, though.