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FLOPPIES.EXE COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi FLOPPIES.EXE
NAME
floppies.exe - relocates dos floppy disk driver requests
SYNOPSIS
floppies [load_umb] [delete]
device=floppies.exe [load_umb]
floppies VECTOR [interrupt-number interrupt-id]
COMMAND LINE RULES
Command line has following rules
- Operands consist of options and terminating ';' (semi-
colon). Except for ';' , the order is unimportant.
- The character ';' (semicolon) terminates command line.
Operands after the character are ignored.
- All operands are case sensitive, and generally must be
in lower case. In this version VECTOR is the only
upper case operand. On config.sys line, operands are
converted to lower case and then interpreted.
- The character '/' can be placed anywhere ' ' (the white
space) can be placed.
- Alphabetic part of an option can be abbreviated down to
one character, if there is no ambiguities. For example
the delete option has the syntax [d[e[l[e[t[e]]]]]].
DESCRIPTION
It is possible to load floppies.exe into UMB (upper memory
block) by appropriate load command, such as devicehigh=
instead of device= or using loadhigh command.
Alternatively, using load_umb option when loading under dos
command line finds the smallest space on upper memory block
that fits and loads itself there.
The delete option is the option to tell resident (loaded as
TSR) floppies to be deleted from memory.
Floppies.exe is a character mode device driver or a TSR
(Terminate and Stay Resident) program to relocate most of
floppy device driver requests from dos block device driver
and use int40 instead of int13. Since floppies and IDE
disks cannot run concurrently due to the organization of DOS
device drivers, floppies.exe, under control of concache.exe,
replaces most of data transfer requests for floppies against
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FLOPPIES.EXE COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi FLOPPIES.EXE
DOS device driver to floppies.exe. This allows IDE disk
operations without interference from floppy disks'. Flop-
pies.exe accepts only read, write, and write and verify
device driver functions to free dos block device driver from
most of lengthy floppy operations. It works only when con-
cache.exe requests floppy operations to floppies.exe.
For VECTOR argument, see the corresponding subsection in
concache.txt.
SEE ALSO
concache.txt, eqanda.txt, overview.txt.
FEATURES
Due to interrupt overlay order, delete option may not always
work.
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