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ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED DOS UTIL.
9 . 5 . F I D E N H A N C E U t i l i t y
The FID ENHANCE utility does for Apple’s FID
utility what ENHANCE did for Apple’s DOS. It
makes it more intelligent. FID, as it exists in
its original form from Apple (supplied by Apple
on the DOS master diskette) does not exactly
follow all of the conventions which Apple has
defined for reading and writing to diskettes.
If it did, it would work with every Elite Series
drive except the Elite Three (special case).
FID, as it comes from Apple, will work correctly
on the Elite One drive without any modification.
In fact, FID will even function correctly with
the Elite Two drive except it will refuse to
copy files to all of the Elite two diskette.
Unmodified FID should never be used on a Elite
Three since it has a tendency to “butcher” di-
rectory entries. In addition, FID only allows
you to specify a drive number of 1 or 2 because
that’s all Apple gave you on their Disk II
controller card.
But never fear! Rana has come to the rescue.
FID can be saved from its own stupidity!
FID ENHANCE is a very straight forward, down to
business utility which will teach FID all those
little things it should have known to begin
with. The catch is that FID ENHANCE must be on
the same diskettes as FID, which means using the
“dumb” FID to put it on the diskette.
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