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1541 cable AMENDMENT
Hello Nigel...
First of all, thanks for your
continued hard work at making
Commodore Free, and thank you for your
"plugs" of my BBS and the C64/128 BBS
List that I maintain. :)
I just got finished reading the latest
issue, and I wanted to point out a few
things in reference to your X1541
article. First, the .lnx file
extension is for the Lynx program,
written by Will Corley. The first
version was simply called Lynx. The
second version was Lynx II. The third
version was Lynx III, and so on...
Through the final version he released,
Lynx XVII. I happen to have a
collection of every version of Lynx
that Will Corley ever released,
and I also was one of the few people
that sent Will Corley a contribution
for his work.
The program you talk about in your
article, Ultimate Lynx, was a hacked
version made by another author that
was supposed to support different disk
drives (Lynx was written solely for
the 1541), such as the 1581 and
SFD-1001. I haven't had good
experiences with Ultimate Lynx. In my
opinion, the best version ever written
was Lynx XVII. Not only did it link
and unlink files with the .lnx file
extension, it also included a very
good directory editor, sector editor,
file copier, and more. I have one of
Will Corley's disks of utilities,
which he called U-1541. It includes
LynxXVII, and his short description
for the program says, "You name it,
it does it!"
Anyway... I just thought that if you
were going to talk about the .lnx
files, you really should give credit
to the original program and the
original author, and not only mention
the later "hacked" version.
As long as you're going to talk about
.lnx files, you might as well also
talk about other file-linking
programs. There were several that
were commonly used for file transfers
to and from BBS's and Q-Linkback in
the late 80's and early 90's... Lynx,
as discussed, linked files without
compression and had the .lnx file
extension. Arc was another popular
program. Although not fast and not
very userfriendly, the great thing
about Arc was that it actually
compressed files in addition to
linking them.
Arc files have a .arc file extension.
Library and Arkive were two other
programs which, like Lynx, only linked
files without compressing them.
Library files have a .lbr file
extension, and Arkive files have a
.ark file extension. Arc files of
around 200 blocks or less can be
converted to Self-Dissolving Arc
files, with the file extension .sda.
Likewise, Will Corley wrote a program
to convert .lnx files of around 200
blocks or less to Self-Dissolving Lynx
files. The program converts
"filename.lnx" to "[filename]". Most
people, myself included, would rename
the bracketed file to "filename.sdl".
There is a great program that was
released on Q-Link called Omega-Q.
The final version of that was Omega-Q
2.1. This program had many useful
disk utilities in it. The best part
was that it would dissolve .arc, .ark,
.lbr, and .lnx... all from one
program! It would only dissolve them,
however. To create them, you still
needed to use the original program.
Anyway, I just wanted to elaborate a
bit on what I read in your X1541
article... :)
Keep up the great work!
-Andrew
COMMODORE FREE
Andrew Glad you are still reading the
magazine I have to point out that
credit for the idiots guide to the
1541 should go entirely to
Rio Baan
The article was kindly reprinted from
his website
Here is his Website URL
http://www.geocities.com/cdsixfour/
x1541.htm