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- Instructions for The Ultimate RAMdisk Copy Program
- July 27, 1986
- File name ULTCPY.PRG or ULTICOPY.PRG
-
- Program and documentation copyright (c) 1986 by David
- Duberman
-
- If you find this program useful and/or would like to receive
- the source code, if for no other reason than to remove the
- two annoying requests for a keypress, send a blank formatted
- 3.5" diskette and a check for $5 to:
-
- David Duberman
- 1645 West Selby Lane
- Redwood City, CA 94061
-
- How to use The Ultimate RAMdisk Copy Program
-
- It's finally here! The program every RAMdisk user in the ST
- universe has been breathlessly awaiting! This program does
- no less than to copy automatically every file and every
- folder (except the AUTO folder) from any floppy to a ramdisk
- (or to any other disk).
-
- You don't have to use the program from an AUTO folder, but
- it's the easiest way. Simply copy the program into the AUTO
- folder on your boot disk after copying in a ramdisk program.
- Of course, you should use a .PRG type ramdisk program rather
- than an .ACC type, which won't run out of the AUTO folder.
- The best ramdisk available today is in the public domain, and
- comes in two forms, usually called RAMDISK.PRG and
- RAMDSK1M.PRG, plus a RAMDISK.DOC instructions file. Its main
- advantage is that its contents survive a press of the Reset
- button. You can download it from the Atari Base BBS at Atari
- headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The number is (408)
- 745-5308.
-
- The recommended ramdisk program uses drive D: for the
- ramdisk; others use C:, and some let you specify which drive.
- You can tell ULTICOPY which drives to use for both input and
- output in one of three ways. The easiest way is to create a
- two-character ASCII file named COPY.INF in the main directory
- of your boot disk. One way to do this is to use the Personal
- Pascal editor or any other text editor. You can also use 1st
- Word in non-WP mode, or print to disk from ST Writer. Or if
- you're using ColorWriter, the great new word processor from
- Shanner International Corp., just rename the standard output
- .DOC file. In any case, the first two characters in the file
- are what's important ; the program ignores any characters
- beyond these. They should be the letter specifiers for the
- input drive and the output drive, in that order. For
- instance, to copy all files and folders from floppy drive A
- to ramdisk D, the file should be:
-
- AD
-
-
- Any lower case letters are converted to upper case. Another
- legal file to copy everything from drive B to drive C would
- be:
-
- bc
-
- If the program doesn't find the COPY.INF file, it prompts you
- for the two letters. You're prompted for each separately;
- enter each in upper or lower case. If you don't enter two
- letters between A and Z, you're prompted again. If you press
- Return at either prompt, the program uses a default of A, and
- for the output drive the default is D.
-
- Then the program goes to work and copies all files and
- folders (except the AUTO folder) from the specified floppy to
- the specified ramdisk. The program uses recursion to handle
- nested directories several levels deep. Count on about six
- levels of subdirectories deep with full (11-character) folder
- names; more with shorter folder names. All files from all
- folders are copied into the correct folder on the ramdisk.
- Warning: if your directories are nested too deeply, the
- program may crash!
-
- That's it! Crude but effective, and the price is right! The
- program is no slouch speed-wise, either. Pass this program
- and instructions file to your friends if you like, but please
- don't sell it for profit! Thank you.
-