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- From: sdalimon@acs.ryerson.ca (Shawn D'alimonte - ELCE/F95)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Diskette duplication
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 02:25:44 GMT
- Organization: Ryerson Polytechnic University
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- Bob Goetze (rgoetze@pica.army.mil) wrote:
- : I am looking for some clues, hints, help to duplicate several
- : AmigaDOS (?) diskettes. I have a system running on an Amiga
- : platform with just a screen, videodisk, and mouse. There is no
- : way to duplicate the diskettes.
-
- After booting the machine from a workbench disk just insert the disk you
- want to copy, click on its icon and choose copy from the menu. The rest
- is similar to the MS-DOS diskcopy program.
-
- : I was hoping for an MS-DOS or
- : Windows application that would allow me to copy them using
- : another platform. I need to make a backup set(s) of these disks
- : for archival purposes. They appear to be Work Bench 1.3???
-
- I don't think that is possible, unless the PC disk controller could be
- made to read 11 sector disks. I don't know how flexible they are.
-
- : I'm sorry I'm not at all familar with Amiga so I'm not sure if
- : that is an operating system, disk format or what! Thanks for
- : any help offered.
-
- Amiga is the name of the machine. The OS is called AmigaOS, AmigaDOS or
- Kicktart. Workbench is the GUI.
-
- --
- |Shawn D'Alimonte |First Year Elec Eng |
- |sdalimon@acs.ryerson.ca|Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Ont., Can.|
- |aa600@torfree.net |Amiga Freak(A1200/020/14MHz/2MB/80MB) |
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