ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL

ENHANCED DOS UTIL.

9. ENHANCED DOS UTILITIES

This section deals with the use of each of the enhanced DOS 3.3 utilities individually, in order to provide you with the information you need to use the utilities for more than just enhancing your DOS. If you do not use DOS, then this section will prove to be of little interest to you.

The Rana Systems enhancements to Apple’s DOS 3.3 consist of five system utilities: FORMAT, CLONE, PROFILE, ENHANCE, and FID ENHANCE. The first is a more versatile replacement for the DOS “INIT” command, which was removed in the enhanced DOS. The second is a more versatile replacement for the DOS COPY and COPYA utilities supplied on original DOS distribution diskettes from Apple.

FORMAT is used for initializing new diskettes for use under DOS. It can also be used to reinitialize old diskettes (completely erasing any old data on the diskette). The enhanced version of FORMAT supplies you with the capability of formatting diskettes ranging from 143K Disk II diskettes all the way up to a full 652K Elite Three diskette.

CLONE is used to make exact one—for—one copies of a diskette Onto another diskette. CLONE reads every sector on the original (source) diskette, sector—by—sector, and then writes the informa- tion, sector—by-sector, onto the duplicate (destination) diskette. The enhanced CLONE provides the capability of duplicating all the various different size diskettes used on the

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