Subject: Re: Dos 3.3 w/800k disks
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"Randy Herx" <rherx@magicnet.net> wrote:

>Hello again..  I have 12 - 5-1/4" disks from Softside magazine from years
>ago.  I would like to put these files on a 3.5" disk but they won't work
>with prodos due to the way prodos handles filenames with spaces in them...
>
>ex: PR LOSE.BAS becomes PR.LOSE.BAS in prodos.
>
>What I would like to do, is format a 3.5" disk to Dos 3.3 and copy the files
>there.  Can this be done?

Yes.  You need a program called DOS 3.3 Launcher.  It allows you to
create disk images of DOS 3.3 5.25" disks for storage and launching
on an Apple II or IIGS hard disk or 3.5" floppy disk.  Almost seems like
using an Apple II emulator on an Apple II.  ;-)

You should be able to fit about five DOS 3.3 disk images onto one 3.5"
disk.  DOS 3.3 Launcher runs under ProDOS, so the disk images
reside on ProDOS volumes.