Radio Shack TRS-80 model III Owner's Manual page 75

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TRS-80
MODEL
III
DISK
SYSTEM
If
you
specified the source/destination drives, trsdos
will
request
the
password,
skipping
the
first
two
steps.
trsdos
will
then take
charge of formatting and
verifying the destination disk
as
well
as letting
you
know
if
there are
any
errors or
flawed
tracks.
CONVERT
Model
I to
Model
III File
Conversion
Utility
CONVERT
Model
I
formatted
diskettes
cannot be used
in
the
Model
III
Disk System.
However,
the
convert
utility
can read
a
Model
I
diskette
and copy
its
non-
system
files
onto
a
Model
III
trsdos
diskette. This
diskette
may
then be used
normally
in the
Model
III
Disk System. The
original
Model
I
diskette
may
still
be used
in
a
Model
I
Disk System,
since
it is
unchanged by convert.
convert
does not convert or change
data;
it
converts
the
file
storage format.
For
this
reason,
Model
I
Disk basic programs
may
require slight
changes
before
they will
run properly
in
the
Model
III
Disk System. Model
I
machine-language
programs
may
require
major
or
minor changes
before they
will
run
in
the
Model
III
Disk System,
You may
make
these
changes on
the
Model
I
diskette before
using
convert,
or
on
the
Model
III
diskette containing the converted
files.
For
hints
on program
conversion,
see:
•
Technical Information
in this
manual
•
Technical Information
in the
Model
III
Manual
•
The
manual,
Instructions
for Converting
Specified
Model
I
Programs
for use
on
trs-80
Model
III.
Drive
Usage
In two-drive systems,
the
files
must
be copied onto
a
Model
III
system
diskette
in
Drive
0; in three-
or four-drive systems,
the
files
may
be copied onto
a data
diskette
in
Drive
1,
2 or
3.
During
the
conversion process,
the
Model
I
diskette
is
referred
to as the
'
'source";
the
Model
III
diskette, the ''destination/'
The
source
diskette
cannot
be
in
the
same
drive as
that
of
the destination diskette.
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