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- From: "C.J Coulson" <C.J.Coulson@ncl.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Cu Amiga Cov.Disk
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 14:10:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- ked@mfltd.co.uk (Kev Digweed) wrote:
-
- |> Even if the CD's contain no more "material" but instead just gave you the stuff
- |> un-compressed and ready-installed, it would be a big step up from having to
- |> hunt down 4 blank floppies and decompressing it all every time you get a new
- |> mag (a lot of coverdisks are supplied as DMS files, so you can't even
- |> decompress straight to HD).
- |>
-
- Get hold of FmsDisk from Aminet (disk/misc/FmsDisk.lha). This lets you
- create virtual floppies on your hard drive. I`ve been using it for a
- few years now, and it makes unDMS`ing direct to HD a doddle. The only time
- I need to unDMS to a real floppy is for trying out non-DOS DMS`d floppies,
- but for coverdisks it`s ideal.
-
- Then again, I don`t see why so much stuff is DMS`d in the first place, when
- LhA or LZX would do a much better job...
-
- Rgds
- Chris
-
- +- The Best of Both Worlds...
- | A4060/50-28MB/530MB/CV64 P150-24MB/1.3GB/Stealth64VRAM/CDROM |
- c.j.coulson@ncl.ac.uk -+
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