Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!think!whitney
From: whitney@think.COM (David Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Advise on disk drives / UCSD Pascal
Keywords: UCSD Pascal, Apple II GS
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Date: 5 Aug 88 00:13:35 GMT
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In article <398@usl.usl.edu> skb@usl.usl.edu.UUCP (Sanjiv K. Bhatia) writes:
>[ I am posting the following message on behalf of a friend who does not have
>access to network. ]
>
>I have a copy of UCSD Pascal with the book telling me how to use it.  However,
>I have to keep on changing the diskettes in the drive to edit, compile, and
>execute the programs I write.  To make the matters worse, I have to transfer
>files across the diskettes because compiler, editor, and execute files are on
>different floppies.
>
>I am a new user of this system.  My system's configuration includes a 5-1/4"
>drive, a 3-1/2" drive, a printer besides the CRT.  Can someone over the net

You don't need a hard drive. Just copy everything off of the distribution disks
onto one 3.5" inch disk. It all fits. This will solve your constant disk-
swapping woes. You will, though, probably have to use a 5.25" for your work
files, as all the system crud with UCSD takes up most of the directory space
on the 3.5". Even though the disk itself is far from full, you can't really
store more than ten or so files on it.

David Whitney, MIT '90                   DISCLAIMER: Nobody knows what I'm up
{out there}!harvard!think!whitney         to. Don't blame them for my actions
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