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- On 10 Jan 1996, Adrian Boone 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
-
- I have never used hf0: but I always have a RAD: mounted, and DMS works fine:
-
- dms write path:file.dms to rad:
-
- and away you go... (RATE: 800 tracks per minute)
-
- Of course the AmigaGuide interface on the Aminet CD's defaults to DF0:
- but theres still no reason why you can't use a shell, or Dopus.
-
- > 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?
-
- Its not, its in the ROM.
-
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