Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual
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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED DOS UTIL.
Unlike the INIT command, FORMAT will not save
the hello file onto the diskette once the
diskette is formatted. This is because FORMAT is
also a program, and only one program can fit
into memory at one time. This means that the
only program FORMAT would have around to save as
the hello file is FORMAT itself, and its unlike-
ly that is the hello program you will want.
Once FORMAT is finished, you can go back and
save the hello program Onto the diskettes you
formatted. The enhanced FID utility can be used
to copy binary and text files. Refer to your DOS
manual and also the FID ENHANCE utility later in
this section.
Once you’ve specified the HELLO file name,
FORMAT allows you specify a little something
extra which INIT does not permit:
INVOKE HELLO FILE HOW (A-C)? A
A)
RUN <HI FILE>
B)
BRUN <HI FILE>
C)
EXEC <HI FILE>
The default (RUN <HI FILE>) is the only choice
you get with INIT and is therefore the default.
If you specify the RUN option, then your hello
file must be an Integer BASIC or Applesoft
program. If you specify the BRUN option, then
your hello file must be a binary (machine
language) program. And, if you specify the EXEC
option, your file must be a text file containing
DOS commands. For more explanation, refer to
your DOS manual under each of these commands.
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