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Installation:
INSTALL.PRG has been so designed, that the installation from either drive
is possible. You should note that in this case the original diskette will
be required. In the case of updates, installation must be carried out
again.
IBM COMPATIBLE - main dialog:
If this button is active, only IBM compatible formats will be possible.
These are: Tracks : 40 or 80
Sectors : 8,9,15,18 or 36
Sides : 1 or 2
Cls size: 1 or 2
Some advice for all users who wish to interchange disks or data between
different computers: you should take care NOT to include any special
characters within filenames e.g. ä, ü, ö, +, -, etc. since when DOS
tries to load such files, some strange error messages may result.
PS: In case you should be surprised that with DD diskettes two sectors
per cluster is IBM compatible, this was the cse with me too, but this
really is the case.
FAST LOAD FORMAT - Menu Settings, Format parameters:
This menu entry was previously found under ADDITIONAL HEADERS. Also see
the manual page 23.
AUTOMATIC STEPRATE - Menu Settings, Floppy parameters:
When this option is active, E-Copy automatically sets the steprate in the
following way: DD = 3ms, HD = 6ms an ED = 12ms. This will only be useful
when no steprate setting is required by the hardware, e.g. HD usage with
MegaSTE, TT and FALCON. You will see the steprate that has been set by
E-Copy in the main dialog and that you can no longer set a lower one
(e.g. 2ms). Good HD and ED modules will automatically set the steprate
to match the hardware so that you can always leave this set at 3ms. Too
high a step rate can be recognized by an excessive racket when reading
a diskette, but do not worry as no harm to the drive will result.
READ SPEED - Menu Actions, Test disk:
When displaying the speed of diskette reading with a normal ST(E) without
a hardware accelerator, you may notice a large difference between the
starting and average values. The problem lies in the slowness of TOS.
This can be partially offset by the use of NVDI or a hardware accelerator.
BACKGROUND OPERATION - Menu Settings, User interface:
In the first case, this only makes sense when it is in use as an accessory.
Whilst operating in the background, starting or stopping another program
will cause E-Copy to be terminated too. The reasons for this lie within the
operating system. When working under a multi-tasking system (MultiTOS,
Mag!X, ...) you can fully exploit this option since the former restric-
tions have been removed.
SAVE SETTINGS - Menu Settings:
The settings of the standard buttons as well as various parameters and
options can be adjusted for the individual user. When the current config-
uration is saved, an INF file will be saved in the same directory that
E-Copy was started from. This next time that the program is started, this
will be re-loaded automatically. You may return to the original settings
at any time by simply deleting ECOPY.INF.
ATTENTION: Under no circumstances should you use an INF file created
by a version of E-Copy before V1.5 in conjunction with the
current version.
Here I would like to go into a couple of special applications of E-Copy.
1. Copying "foreign" system diskettes:
E-Copy has the ability to copy diskettes that are not readable by TOS -
for example, Spectre diskettes. However, to do this you must know the
format that each diskette posesses. In the case of Spectre, this is 10
sectors and 80 tracks. You should now enter this format by hand into the
main dialog (in this case the clustersize is irrelevant since the FAT
must not be analysed). You should then de-activate the option "Read disk
type", to prevent E-Copy from trying to analyse the system sectors. In
this case, "Re-copy" is no longer possible, since E-Copy cannot change
the arrangement of the diskette.
2. Finding the physical make up of a "Foreign" system diskette:
To do this, you can use use the action "Test diskette". Switch off "Read
disk type" and enter a format by hand. Then call "Test disk" and when the
first track has been correctly read, abort with ESC. Then increase the
number of sectors by one, until an error message is reported. Afterwards,
repeat this to determine the number of sides, and finally the number of
tracks until you have the complete format.