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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: DMS reading non-df0: drives?
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 96 02:33:13
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- William F. Maddock (wmaddock@icon-stl.net) wrote:
- : I've been trying to pack a HD floppy I have with DMS. My HD floppy drive is
- : DF3:. The problem I'm running into is that I can't get any version of DMS to
- : read from anything but DF0:
- :
- : Could some kind coder out there *please* write a DMS that's capable from
- : reading from something *other* than DF0:?
- :
- : I would appreciate it.
-
- New Shell process 12
- 12.Blister:> dms ?
-
- The DMS-Masher: Command Line Version 1.53 Turbo PRO
- Copyright ⌐ 1989-92 SDS Software
- Updated ⌐ 1993 Blackhawk/PARADOX
-
- [...]
-
- DMS Read file[.DMS] [FROM Dev:] [TEXT filetext] [CMODE mode] [LOW lowtrack]
- [HIGH hightrack] [NOVAL] [NOZERO] [ENCRYPT password]
-
- [...]
-
- DMS Readhd file[.DMS] [FROM Dev:] [TEXT filetext] [CMODE mode] [LOW lowtrack]
- [HIGH hightrack] [NOVAL] [NOZERO] [ENCRYPT password]
-
- [...]
-
- The FROM argument is what you need to use. e.g.
-
- dms readhd ram:testhd.dms from df3:
-
- (for high density disks)
-
- dms read ram:test from df0:
-
- (for double density disks)
-
- The WRITE and WRITEHD commands have an analogous TO option.
-
- -- Mat.
-