SJDMK@UNO.BITNET (11/19/86)
I got alot of good response for my previous notice about the ram drive but now I have another question. First of all I'll do a short summary of the answers to question #1. I'll post a more complete summary in a couple of days. ProDOS automatically creates a ram disk. Whenever you want to put something on it, precede the file name with /ram. For example: to store a program called ANIMALS on the ram disk, assuming you have it in memory, type SAVE /RAM/ANIMALS. To find out what's on your ram disk, type CAT /RAM or CATALOG /RAM. The ram disk is 128 blocks long (I would imagine 64k). Now for my next question: Is there any command similar to this: COPY ANIMALS /RAM/ANIMALS The reason for this is, I can put a BASIC program onto the ram disk by loading it from my disk and SAVEing it to the ram disk as described above. I want to transfer a text file from one to the other. I could write a program which reads the text file into an array and then writes it to the ram disk file but that seems very inefficient. Any ideas? While I'm on a roll, I'll throw out another question: In a BASIC program, can you have two files open at once? One for reading from and the other for writing to? I tried it but as soon as the program came down to my input statement (which it was supposed to get from the input file), I was prompted at the screen with a "?". Thanks for all your help. It's nice having a bunch of experts to ask questions to when you get stuck... Steve Steven J. Dawson BITnet: SJDMK@UNO.BITNET