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From: tsang@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Tsang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hmmm.
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Date: 6 Apr 89 18:47:23 GMT
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In article <8904060243.aa28839@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET
 ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes:
>  I want to make a nice, fast booting PD8 disk with my telcom programs on it so
>I do not have to put up with the slow GS/OS boot.  (Yes, I like GS/OS and I am
>impressed at how much it can do, but Kermit only needs PROdos 8)
 
>  I tried formatting a disk, copying P8 from the system folder of my system
>disk, adding basic.system, renaming P8 to PRODOS, and stuffing all of my other
>telcom files on it.  Sounded fine to me...
 
>  Unfortunately, it crashes when I try to run basic.  Annoying; since I can't
>  get kermit to run without it.
 
You might try copying BASIC.SYSTEM from SYSTEM.DISK onto your telecom disk.
This contains all of Applesoft's runtime DOS routines ('cat', 'catalog',
'open', etc).  Think of it as half of what DOS 3.3 gave you.

If you don't need to access Applesoft at all, you might not need
BASIC.SYSTEM.  But some SYS files do require it, because they didn't
want to rewrite the standard (Pro)DOS commands...

  Donald Tsang
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