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- From: dkaupp@netcom.com (Blitter)
- Subject: Re: DMS diz extractor for PC
- Message-ID: <dkauppDKL759.4xt@netcom.com>
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- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:00:44 GMT
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- Joseph Waldvogel (joewald@crl.com) wrote:
- : Robert Buonincontro (robert.buonincontro@canrem.com) wrote:
-
- : : A friend of mine set up a BBS on his IBM computer using PC-Board for Dos.
- : : He is planning to put an Amiga section online but is looking for a diz
- : : extractor to handle Amiga DMS files. Does anyone know if one exists?
-
- : : I already gave him a dms tester that was in the DMS program archive but
- : : it doesn't extract diz files.
-
- : There is NONE! DMS commpresses WHOLE Amiga Disks! IBM's can't even read
- : a AMIGA FLOPPY let alone Un-Commpress the file to the Floppy. You HAVE
- : to expand it to a Floppy. (Though it is Posible to set up a RAD Disk if
- : it's setup like a Floppy, I have done that before). He doesn't NEED a
- : DMS Extrander for his IBM Anyway, Why would he? Not like he can RUN the
- : software. Besides Most Amiga software is packed with LHA Anyway, and he
- : can Unpack that with his IBM.
-
- Actually there is one, but its for Unix and Amiga. The author did not
- releases a PC version. Most PC's can't read Amiga floppies but to read
- the information from a .dms file does not require a floppy drive.
-
- I think the program is on Aminet, if there isnt a PC version, ask the
- author to compile a PC version.
-
- Btw, alot of the Megademos are in .dms format. But if the BBS owner wants
- to include an Aminet CD rom the major drawback is the 8.3 file names.
- Unless its W95.
-
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