RANA Systems Elite Controller, User Manual

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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL CP/M ENHANCEMENTS
Once again CP/M will indulge you by displaying
those files which Rana so nicely supplied you.
(What a pair of nice companies, right?) (if you
are an Elite Three user, keep in mind that your
drive will read standard Apple diskettes.) This
little exercise shows that the enhancer diskette
should be okay.
The next step is to format a blank diskette.
For now, you’ll need to use the FORMAT utility
Microsoft supplied on the CP/M master until
you’ve created an enhanced CP/M. To get FORMAT
running, simply type:
FORMAT<RETURN>
(Tough, right?) After CP/M loads the utility
into memory, FORMAT will “sign on” by saying
something like:
Apple ][ CP/M
16 Sector Disk Formatter
(C) 1980 Microsoft
Format disk in which drive?
If any part of your “sign on” message is dif-
ferent, you may have a newer version In such a
case, it would be wise to look up FORMAT in your
CP/M manuals to make sure Microsoft didn’t
change something for which these instructions
have yet to be updated.
Now you will need a diskette you can format
(you’ll also need a second one later). If you
want to format a used disk remember that all the
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