ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL | CP/M ENHANCEMENTS |
Once again CP/M will indulge you by displaying those files which Rana so nicely supplied you. (What a pair of nice companies, right?) (if you are an Elite Three user, keep in mind that your drive will read standard Apple diskettes.) This little exercise shows that the enhancer diskette should be okay.
The next step is to format a blank diskette. For now, you’ll need to use the FORMAT utility Microsoft supplied on the CP/M master until you’ve created an enhanced CP/M. To get FORMAT running, simply type:
FORMAT<RETURN>
(Tough, right?) After CP/M loads the utility into memory, FORMAT will “sign on” by saying something like:
Apple ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Formatter
(C) 1980 Microsoft
Format disk in which drive?
If any part of your “sign on” message is dif- ferent, you may have a newer version In such a case, it would be wise to look up FORMAT in your CP/M manuals to make sure Microsoft didn’t change something for which these instructions have yet to be updated.
Now you will need a diskette you can format (you’ll also need a second one later). If you want to format a used disk remember that all the
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