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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
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- Subject: Re: DMS reading non-df0: drives?
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 02:51:10
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- W R BENNETT (bspwrb@bath.ac.uk) wrote:
- : In the referenced article, m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry) writes:
- : >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
- : >
- :
- : Isn't that the nasty unauthorized hacked version of DMS which got deleted
- : from Aminet?
-
- It might be. There are loads of hacked versions around.
-
- : I thought the last bona fide DMS was 1.11, which AFAIK is
- : still on Aminet,
-
- Yep,
-
- dms111.run util/arc 40K 179 V1.11 of the popoular Disk Archiver
-
- : and (certainly on my system) quite happily groks floppies
- : other than df0: Whether it handles HD disks or not I don't know, although
- : it does have a HIGHTRACK switch which might allow for this. I suggest you
- : download DMS 1.11 and try it out - if it doesn't do the business for you,
- : then perhaps try xpk instead?
-
- DMS 1.11 (the last version released by the original authors, in 1992 or so)
- does not support high density disks, nor does it support write verify, though
- I think that there are other hacks around to implement this.
-
- -- Mat.
-