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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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