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Short: Creates images of disks (inc PD source)
Uploader: thorium@xtra.co.nz (Shamus Husheer)
Author: thorium@xtra.co.nz (Shamus Husheer)
Type: disk/misc
Disk Imaging Program (DIP) V1.0 by Shamus Husheer.
This is a piece of software somewhat similar to DMS or PackDev. It reads a
floppy disk (or a device that looks like a disk) to a file. That file can
then be packed with whatever archiver you want, and stored or transmitted.
Later the file is written back to the disk (or device) as though a direct
track based copy had been done. This preserves all disk structure.
Features:
- DIP IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
- DIP Includes Sources (in assembler)
- DIP Reads ALL tracks of a disk, ensuring a true copy (unlike DMS)
- DIP files can be directly used as FMS floppy unit files
- DIP is 1908 bytes (uncompressed)!!!!!
If you're looking at this for source examples, also get BFC.lha
(same author) as the source is similar but more complex.