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Subject: Appleworks Disk Full
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 15:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 15:16:00 1987
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I am not a regular user of Appleworks, but I believe an innaccurate
DISK FULL message can be generated if an attempt is made to write on
a disk formatted for the DOS 3.3 operating system instead of the
ProDOS operating system.

The System Utilities disk that comes with the the //c can format
disks for either operating system.  Appleworks is a ProDOS program,
so it is important that data disks be formatted for the ProDOS
operating system.

The disk track used for the disk directory (catalog) differs between
the two operating systems.  If a ProDOS program looks at the track
on which it expects to find the directory without first checking
track 0 to make sure the disk is a ProDOS disk, it won't find
information on where to put another file and may well conclude that
the disk is "full."