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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED DOS UTIL.

9 .

E N H A N C E D D O S U T I L I T I E S

This section deals with the use of each of the

enhanced DOS 3.3 utilities individually, in

order to provide you with the information you

need to use the utilities for more than just

enhancing your DOS. If you do not use DOS, then

this section will prove to be of little interest

to you.

The Rana Systems enhancements to Apple’s DOS 3.3

consist of five system utilities: FORMAT, CLONE,

PROFILE, ENHANCE, and FID ENHANCE. The first is

a more versatile replacement for the DOS “INIT”

command, which was removed in the enhanced DOS.

The second is a more versatile replacement for

the DOS COPY and COPYA utilities supplied on

original DOS distribution diskettes from Apple.

FORMAT is used for initializing new diskettes

for use under DOS. It can also be used to

reinitialize old diskettes (completely erasing

any old data on the diskette). The enhanced

version of FORMAT supplies you with the

capability of formatting diskettes ranging from

143K Disk II diskettes all the way up to a full

652K Elite Three diskette.

CLONE is used to make exact one—for—one copies

of a diskette Onto another diskette. CLONE reads

every sector on the original (source) diskette,

sector—by—sector, and then writes the informa-

tion, sector—by-sector, onto the duplicate

(destination) diskette. The enhanced CLONE pro-

vides the capability of duplicating all the

various different size diskettes used on the

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