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- Documentation for RDC.TOS - 01/05/1986
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- NOTICE:
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- This program is made available free of cost to all non-
- commercial users. It is not to be sold or traded in any manner.
- All displays and notices must be left in their original, unaltered
- state.
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-
- Warnings:
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- This program works on systems with TOS in ROM or 1 Meg RAM
- upgrades only. It has been designed to read, format and write 80
- track single sided disks only and has not been tested for other
- uses. A later release will allow double sided disks if computer
- system has double sided drives and enough memory (720K+).
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-
-
- Introduction:
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- RDC stands for Reasonable Disk Copier - it is designed to read a
- single source disk into a segment of the computer's memory and then
- allow you to make as many copies of that disk as you like,
- formatting and then writing to drive A or drives A AND B.
-
- Let's pretend that you are the disk librarian for a large 520ST
- user's group, and in order to replenish the club's supply for the next
- meeting you face the monumental task of making 20 copies each of 5
- different disks out of the club's library. You need to make 100
- copies!
-
- Let's look at the standard way of doing this (assuming you have
- two disk drives).
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- (1) Format 100 disks!
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- (2) Insert the first disk you want to copy into drive A. Insert
- the first blank disk into drive B.
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- (3) Drag the A: disk icon onto the B: disk icon. Answer all
- questions and initiate a disk copy operation.
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- (4) Wait while the computer reads the source disk (A) into memory.
- You may have noticed that the entire source disk fits into
- memory (if it does not, you haven't enough memory in your
- machine, read Warnings section above!).
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- (5) Wait while the computer writes the information onto
- the destination disk (B) from memory.
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- (6) Remove the disk from drive B and set it aside. Insert a fresh
- disk into drive B and push the copy button in the dialog box to
- start the next copy. Notice how the computer insists on re-
- reading the information from the SOURCE disk in drive A even
- though the disk was not removed or changed in any way? A WASTE
- OF PRECIOUS TIME. Repeat this step 19 more times for this
- particular source disk.
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- (7) Grab the next disk to be copied and put it into Drive A. Put a
- new disk into Drive B. Start the next copy operation. Repeat
- steps 4 through 6 for all disks to be copied (5).
-
-
- Now, let's look at the RDC way of doing it!
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- (1) Set aside the proper number of new or blank disks (100).
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- (2) Insert your disk containing a copy of RDC.TOS into drive A.
- Open the disk folder and then double-click RDC.TOS.
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- (3) When the title screen appears, remove the disk from drive A.
- Press the [RETURN] key for a menu of options.
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- (4) Insert the first disk to be copied into drive A.
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- (5) Select menu option #1 (press the [1] key and [RETURN])
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- (6) The computer now reads the disk in drive A. When the computer
- is finished, you will be presented with a new menu of options.
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- (7) Insert two blank unformatted disks into BOTH DRIVE A AND DRIVE
- B. Select #3 on the menu (WRITE TO BOTH DRIVE A AND B).
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- (8) The computer now FORMATS and WRITES to the blank disk in drive
- A. When it is finished, it will beep through the speaker in
- the monitor (turn up the volume!). When this happens, the
- computer starts FORMATTING and WRITING drive B. while this is
- happening, you may remove the disk from drive A and replace it
- with a new disk to be copied to. When the computer is finished
- copying to drive B, it will beep again, and you may remove the
- disk from drive B and insert a new disk to copy to.
-
- (9) After loading two new disks in the above step, you notice that
- the menu has returned to the screen. You also notice that the
- menu has remembered your last selection (#3). This means that
- you may now simply press [RETURN] and the computer will now
- start making two more copies in drives A and B. Repeat steps 8
- and 9 for all needed copies of this source disk (20).
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- (10) When you are ready to make copies of a different source disk,
- you merely repeat steps 4 through 9.
-
- And that's all there is to it!
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- Please note that the program can write copies on drive A alone
- if desired, thus saving even more time if you have only one drive as
- some of us do. All you need to do is select option #2 on the menu
- instead of #3 (and ignore references to drive B in the above
- instructions) if this is desired.
-
- If you have any comments, gripes, or suggestions I can be reached on
- Compuserve at [72507,2146] or The Key System BBS @ (415) 352-5528.
- I am planning to release an enhanced version of the program with
- more features at a later date; I would like some feedback and/or
- suggestions.
-
- Thanks for everything!
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