dalel@servio.UUCP (Dale LaFountain) (08/02/90)
Ok. Two questions: 1) I have heard good things about UniDos, but I am interested in using Dos3.3 with my new Prodos only HD (it's a PowerDrive w/ a Quantum 105meg drive). Can UniDos be used to make "normal" Dos 3.3 partitions, or can it only be used from a 3.5 disk? I'm getting really tired of hauling all those 5.25" disks to college and back with me. :-) 2) I just put SoundSmith .9 on my HD, and it doesn't want to run. Is this an impossible dream, or can it be done with the correct setup? And yes, I'm running System 5.02 with all the tools and such, and have configured SS to work from a 3.5 in the past. 2.a) Would someone be willing to mail SoundSmith .94 to me? I dont't have ftp access for another two months, and I've heard good things about it. If so, please e-mail to dalel@pro-pac.cts.com and NOT my return path, as I cannot retrieve files from dalel@servio.SLC.COM. Thanks in advance, Dale dalel@servio.SLC.COM for e-mail, non-program type data dalel@pro-pac.cts.com for e-mail, program type data prophet@oxy.edu for the heck of it.
wack@ee.udel.edu (214 Smith) (08/02/90)
In article <603@servio.UUCP> dalel@servio.UUCP (Dale LaFountain) writes: >Ok. Two questions: > >1) I have heard good things about UniDos, but I am interested in using Dos3.3 >with my new Prodos only HD (it's a PowerDrive w/ a Quantum 105meg drive). Can >UniDos be used to make "normal" Dos 3.3 partitions, or can it only be used >from a 3.5 disk? I'm getting really tired of hauling all those 5.25" disks >to college and back with me. :-) > Well, sorry, I only have an answer to your first question :-) I believe UniDos divides up a 3.5 disk into two 400K disks formatting them as DOS 3.3, including the boot tracks. This pretty well precludes using it on a hard drive. (I'm not 100% sure that it works this way, but its my best guess, as its how I patched DOS 3.3 when I first got my GS, except I used 7 partitions). However, depending on your needs I may have the program you are looking for. I wrote a program about 6 months ago to package up a DOS 3.3 5.25 disk as a S16 file. These can be stored on any prodos volume, and started from the finder, a shell, etc. The only problem is you can't write to this 5.25 (well you can, but the changes never make it back to the actual file. Think of it as writing to a /ram disk and never copying it back to permanent storage), and you have to reboot when you are done (since DOS 3.3 wants control over all of bank 0 of memory, overwriting part of GS/OS). I think I could make it do writes, and even quit nicely back to GS/OS, but I didn't have enough time, its kind of sloppy (I'm still using the P16 interface because I can't afford to buy the new manuals), the ORCA/C compiler was driving me nuts (when the H**L is 1.1 coming out? I keep hearing that its here, but they haven't sent me my copy! Anyone else get theirs?), and I didn't think there was any interest. If there is enough interest I could probably package the current version up as an alpha release, and make it work as a desktop application (currently it runs in the text environment) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Wack Gravitation cannot be held responsible Internet : wack@udel.edu for people falling in love -- Albert Einstein