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APPENDIX L
THE DOS 2.5 DISK
UTILITIES
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Your
DOS 2.5 Master Diskette contains three new utility
pro-
grams in addition to the standard disk utilities handled by the
DUP.SYS
file.
These three
programs,
each of which appears on
the disk directory with a .COM
extender,
fu
nction as follows:
COPY32.COM allows
you
to copy files from diskettes formatted
and written to under ATAR
I
DOS 3 to DOS 2.5 diskettes
,
convert·
ing the tiles in the process from DOS 3 to DOS
2.5.
OISKFIX.COM allows you to correct some problems that may
occur with tiles on DOS 2.5 and DOS 2.08 diskettes.
U
nder cer-
lain conditions
,
you can also use this utility to recover deleted
files.
SETUP.
COM allows you to change certain DOS parameters
.
You
can also use it to create an AUTORUN .SYS file that will automati-
cally load and run a BASIC program
when
you boot your system.
Note
: RAMD ISK .COM is not a disk utility per se
.
It is used only to
set up the RamDisk on a
130XE.
See Appendix
K,
for details.
Selecting and Loading
a Utility
All three utilities are binary files that are loaded and run using
option
L,
BINARY
LOAD,
from the DOS 2.5 Menu
.
For example
,
to begin using the COPY32.COM program
,
with the DOS 2.5
Menu on your screen
,
you would type
l
and press
[AeWTI],
then
type COPY32.
COM
as the name of the file to load and press
IReWTI
l
again
.
Specific instructions for using each utility
follow.
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