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- From: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: DMS help
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 17:11:05 GMT
- Organization: Gnome's Steamware
- Sender: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- In a message on 20-Feb-96 19:45:28, brendan davis wrote to Bill Yeadon:
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- BY>> I have a few files with a .dms extention. How do I "unARC" these
- BY>> puppies? I have dms but I can't figure it out. Thanks
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- BD> > try DMSII Intuition Interface on aminet its easy to use
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- True. You could also try (from CLI)
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- dms write <filename[.dms]> to <device>
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- where 'device' is usually a floppy drive. The 'to' keyword is needed.
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- I've always thought the 'read' and 'write' commands were the wrong way
- round. But it depends which way you're facing. To me, 'read' would
- logically mean read a .dms file and de-mash it to a disk: while 'write'
- would write a .dms file from a disk device. However, it aint so and it
- confuses many users like me.
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- I expect you've seen that DMS is banned in future on aminet? There's a
- file somewhere there named DMS SUCKS, by Urban Mueller, which explains
- why.
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- John
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