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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED CP/M UTIL.
1 0 . E N H A N C E D C P / M U T I L I T I E S
This section deals with the use of each of the
new CP/M utilities individually, in order to
provide you with the information you need in
order to use the utilities for more than just
enhancing your CP/M. If you do not use CP/M,
then this section will prove to be of little
interest to you.
The Rana Systems enhancements to Microsoft Apple
II 16—Sector 56K CP/M 2.2 consist of five system
utilities: FORMAT, COPY, PROFILE, SGLDRIVE, and
ENHANCE. The first two are replacements for
utility programs provided by Microsoft on their
original CP/M distribution diskette.
FORMAT is used for initializing new diskettes
for use under CP/M. It can also be used to
reformat 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.
COPY is used to make exact one—for-one copies of
a diskette onto another diskette. Unlike the
standard CP/M utility PIP, COPY does not copy
the diskette file-by—file. Instead, COPY reads
every sector on the original (source) diskette,
sector—by—sector, and then writes the informa-
tion, sector—by—sector, onto the duplicate (tar-
get) diskette. The enhanced COPY provides the
capability of duplicating all the various dif-
ferent size diskettes used on the various Elite
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