Profile utility – Rana Systems Elite Series User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL

ENHANCED DOS UTIL.

9 . 3 . P R O F I L E u t i l i t y

The PROFILE utility is the heart of the enhanced

DOS system. It is this utility which allows you

to tell DOS where various drive models are lo-

cated on your system, and also allows you to

declare the drive as a different model (an Elite

Two as a Disk TI, for example) to allow you to

read and create diskettes to be interchanged

with other Apple II DOS systems.

PROFILE has absolutely no effect on the Elite

Controller card since the enhanced DOS functions

with it completely automatically. Enhanced DOS

does not need to be told to use all four drives

on the Elite Controller, and to only use two

drives on the Disk II controller; it’s all auto-

matic.

To get PROFILE running, type:

BRUN PROFILE

and the utility will respond with:

PROFILE V2. 1 COPYR. (c)(P) 1982 RANA SYS.

FROM WHICH SLOT AND DRIVE

IS DOS IMAGE TO BE WADED?

ENTER SLOT NUMBER (7-7)

Since PROFILE will only make definition changes

to on-disk copies of the enhanced DOS (the in

use in-memory copy of DOS cannot be modified),

the first thing PROFILE needs to know is where

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