Win95FS
To produce my articles for Archive Magazine, I type
them into the Series5, save the file as text (File|More|Export as text
file...) when I'm done, and then transfer to the Acorn for editing.
Graphics files (usually screen dumps produced with the
<Ctrl><Fn><S>key combination) are transferred and
converted to sprites with PsionFS from Innovative Media Software.
Application files are more of a problem, partly because of the long
filenames they can have.
Even the trick I used with my S3a of saving everything to a DOS partition on one of my hard drives or a DOS floppy won't help, as the filenames are still truncated. There is a solution to that in the shape of the excellent Win95FS from Warm Silence Software. This will preserve the S5 filenames within a DOS partition, allowing them to be saved and loaded.
The fact that Win95FS will also allow RISC OS files and applications to reside in a DOS Partition (or a DOS format SCSI drive), while preserving the icons is especially useful here. It means that Connector can live within a DOS Partition, saving the S5's files directly to the partition. This allows me to transfer files without any file name truncation, as long as Connector is set up not to cut the file names down.
Of course, Win95FS has more uses than just for a Series 5 owner, but this struck me as a particularly handy one that no-one had mentioned before. I now use it to access and modify my PsiWin backups without having to load up Windows. It also means that I can keep a second copy of my backup in a separate DOS partition as a last resort should anything go wrong with the first copy. I was going to say that Win95FS is an essential purchase for any Series 5 owner wanting to back up to an Acorn, although PsiRisc uses a different system that makes it unnecessary. It would also be important for anyone using ArcLink5 for transferring files with long names. I recommend Win95FS to anyone using Windows 95 on an Acorn, and would add that it is even more useful for backing up if you have a Series 5 as well. Other applications will allow the use of long file names, so you could look at them as well if that is all you need.
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