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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: AppleWorks and Unidisk Query
Message-ID: <154@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 88 19:43:58 GMT
References: <934@hsi.UUCP>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lines: 47
Keywords: Experiences with diskswapping.

In article <934@hsi.UUCP>, archer@hsi.UUCP (Garry Archer) writes:
> Anyone out in Appleland have this type of set up (or similar):
> 
> Apple IIc (no additional RAM, just basic 128K), Apple Unidisk 3.5" 800K disk
> drive (with the "Catalyst" program that supposedly comes with Unidisk) and
> AppleWorks 2.0, specifically on a 3.5" disk.
[ ... ]
> Because I can't always afford extra RAM and additional disk drives like most
> people who read this group (how do you students DO IT ??? -- don't answer that!)
> I've had to suffer constant disk swapping when using programs like AppleWorks.
> My question is; with the set up similar to the one described above, if one
> has AppleWorks' startup, program and data disks all lumped onto one 800K 3.5"
> disk, then I imagine by setting up AppleWorks to look for data files in
> subdirectories on the 3.5" in the Unidisk drive (the boot drive in this case)
> rather than the default internal 5.25" drive on the IIc, then NO MORE
> diskswapping, right?  Except for data on other disks that is.

Any version of AppleWorks can be put on a UniDisk and run, although only
versions 1.3 or greater will recognize it by slot and drive (have to go
through ProDOS prefix for earlier versions).

There are a number of ways to go about setting up with program/data disks:

You can put the appleworks program in one subdirectory, and the data files
in another.  This is best if you only have a few data files of relatively
small length - eventually you'll run out of room, unless you delete some
files.

You can also set up so that AppleWorks is on the 3.5" drive, and put the
data disk in your internal drive.

My roommate (who has the same setup as you do, from your description) does
a combination of the two ways -- he has AppleWorks (with spellchecker) and
several other programs on his 3.5" disk, and keeps current files on the 3.5"
disk.  After a paper is considered "old," he puts them on 5.25" flops.

Personally, my favorite way is to stuff AppleWorks and my spellchecker
(actually, most of the programs I have) into my RAMdisks (I have 2 meg,
with 1.8 of it partitioned for RAMdisks).  I do a lot of typing for other
people, and keep the files on 5.25" flops.  I have every paper that I've
written since I was a junior in high school on a 3.5" disk, although they
don't go there until the paper is old.  I keep current files on 5.25" flops.
Must be a holdover from when I only had my DuoDrive (not what I'd consider
the "good old days").

-- 
Mike Jetzer
"Hack first, ask questions later."