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Ballistic Software Presents:
RamCopy is copyright 1988 by Stephen Gunn All Rights Reserved
This archive in unmodified form may be freely distributed as long as no
charge is made other than for media and distribution costs. It should NOT be
posted anywhere where a copyright is extended over posted material.
(like CompuServe, like anybody pays any attention to CompuServe's copyright
over posted material anyway)
Docs for RamCopy:
What it is: RamCopy is for people with 1 Meg (or more) of ram, but only one
drive. 500 owners with the clock/memory card fall into this category, as do
all 2000 owners (they both have a meg, that is). What RamCopy allows you to
do is to copy a disk in just one pass, without swapping back and forth;
it reads the entire source disk into ram, asks for the destination disk,
then formats, writes, and verifies the destination disk.
How to use it: Pretty simple; the only thing you have to make sure of is
that nothing else is running, and I mean NOTHING. The easiest way to
accomplish this is to break into your startup sequence with a control-d
before it has done anything. RamCopy will not work if workbench is loaded,
or if you've been using the machine for a while (because memory will
become fragmented), and of course you must have 1 meg. Okay, so nothing
else is running; type ramcopy. It will prompt you for the source disk
(in drive 0, if you have 2 drives why are you using this program?), insert
your source disk and press return. Now you'll find out if you have enough
memory, if you don't RamCopy will exit now, if you do, it will read in
the entire source disk and then prompt you for a destination disk. Insert
the destination disk, press return, and RamCopy will format, write, and
verify the destination disk. When it's done you'll be prompted as to
whether you want to do another copy. If RamCopy encounters any errors
in the source or destination disks, it tells you what the problem was and
then exits.
The Plea:
I'm a poor starving CS student, and if you like and use this program, I'd
really appreciate the modest sum of $2
Please send me money:
Stephen Gunn
944 S. Wisconsin
Oak Park, IL 60304