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FASTCOPY 2.01
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When it comes to copying and formatting disks, GEM can prove sluggish.
Put life in your machine. Inject it with FastCopy.
Not only will FastCopy allow you to copy disks using one or two
drives, but you can specify how many tracks to copy and whether or
not the destination disk should be formatted.
Formatting is possible using 9 or 10 sectors per track and, if your
disk drive can cope, formatting can go all the way to 85 tracks.
There are five main options:
Copy
Scan
Format
Directory
Quit
COPY
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Copy will copy a disk according to the parameters set below.
For instance, if yes is highlighted by the Format Dest heading, the
destination disk will be formatted before the contents of the source
disk are copied onto it.
If yes is highlighted by the Verify heading, the copy will be check to
ensure that it matches the original after the copy process.
The drive icons by the Source Disk and Dest Disk heading determine in
which drive the disk to be copied can be found and which drive to copy
to. If you've only got one drive, FastCopy will request that you swap
disks whenever appropriate.
One Side is for copying single sided disks while Two Sides is for
copying double sided disks.
Pressing the plus (+) sign towards the right of the Sectors sign will
increase the number of sectors per track. Pressing the minus sign (-)
has the opposite effect. If you try to copy a 9-sectors-per-track disk
with the Sectors setting at 10, you'll get an error message.
Start at and End at determine the start and end track to be copied. èthe start value can not be higher than the end value.
Multiple copies lets you copy the source disk across numerous other
disks.
SCAN
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This checks a disk's format. All the parameters that can be altered
for copy can also be altered for Scan. Obviously Dest Disk becomes
redundant in this case. Source Disk being used to determine which
drive the disk to be scanned is in.
FORMAT
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This option is not generally accessible. Only when Disk-def Infos is
highlighted can you format a disk.
WARNING
Formatting completely erases anything on disk. Do not fiddle with the
formatting options while you've got the coverdisk or any other
valuable software in the drive. A slip could cost you considerable
anguish.
DIRECTORY
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Click on this icon to check what's on a disk before copying or
formatting.
QUIT
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Exits you to the Desktop.
By all means experiment with all FastCopy's features - just make sure
you've got an unimportant disk in the drive when you start.