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- From: Duncan Grisby <dpg1001@cam.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Re-mounting DF0:
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 17:24:11 GMT
- Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
- Message-ID: <4d0snr$lg6@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
- References: <4d0req$cvm@bsdi002.britain.eu.net>
- Reply-To: Duncan Grisby <dpg1001@cam.ac.uk>
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- In article <4d0req$cvm@bsdi002.britain.eu.net>,
- Adrian Boone <a.boone@kainos.com> wrote:
- >Hi all,
- > Don't you find it really annoying when all the stuff on a CD is in DMS
- >format and you can only decompress it to DF0: when it would be much quicker to
- >decompress it to RAD: or HF0: (using Hfmounter on aminet - you can have up to
- >twelve fake floppies mounted from your hard disk). I can 'Assign DF0:
- >dismount', 'Mount HF0:' and 'Assign DF0: HF0:' so that the CD is fooled into
- >decompressing to HF0:, but I don't know how to remount DF0: when I'm finished
- >without rebooting as it doesn't seem to have a mountlist in Devs:DOSdrivers.
- >Can anyone shed any light on how to do this or tell me where DF0: is mounted in
- >the startup sequence?
-
- DMS has a TO argument. Just do:
-
- dms write foo.dms to rad:
-
- If the extraction is done by scripts stored on the CD, you'll have to
- copy the scripts elsewhere and modify them.
-
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