Apple 13-0010--001 Computer Drive User Manual


 
ELITE SERIES USER MANUAL ENHANCED DOS UTIL.
9.3. PROFILE utility
The PROFILE utility is the heart of the enhanced
DOS system. It is this utility which allows you
to tell DOS where various drive models are lo-
cated on your system, and also allows you to
declare the drive as a different model (an Elite
Two as a Disk TI, for example) to allow you to
read and create diskettes to be interchanged
with other Apple II DOS systems.
PROFILE has absolutely no effect on the Elite
Controller card since the enhanced DOS functions
with it completely automatically. Enhanced DOS
does not need to be told to use all four drives
on the Elite Controller, and to only use two
drives on the Disk II controller; it’s all auto-
matic.
To get PROFILE running, type:
BRUN PROFILE
and the utility will respond with:
PROFILE V2. 1 COPYR. (c)(P) 1982 RANA SYS.
FROM WHICH SLOT AND DRIVE
IS DOS IMAGE TO BE WADED?
ENTER SLOT NUMBER (7-7)
Since PROFILE will only make definition changes
to on-disk copies of the enhanced DOS (the in
use in-memory copy of DOS cannot be modified),
the first thing PROFILE needs to know is where
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