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ü!Pleasedoread--newinformationssinceversionof13.1.1990!Ç
Hepberg,2/5/1989
Welcome
to
üëFastCopyIIIü
ÉFasterthanLight!
Ç
0.äProgram-InformationÇ
Concept,Design,DocumentationandDevelopment
üMartinBackschatÇ
Beta-Tester
üRupertKaiser&"Gogl",ManfredMessnerundStephanEnglhardtÇ
Designerofthetitlepicture
ü RalphSethÇ
êThankstoÇ
üEverybody,whosupportsthedevelopmentofFastCopyIII,
Everybody,whocritizescontructively,
Everybody,whofinanciallysupportstheproject,
Everybody,whofinanciallysupportedFastCopy2.00,and
thusindirectlyalsosupportstheIII.rdpart
Ç
1.äInstallationÇ
FastCopyrunsasaprogramandasanaccessory.Tostartitfrom
theDesktop,callit>>FCOPY_3.PRG<<.TomakeTOSrecognizeitas
anaccessorycallit>>FCOPY_3.ACC<<andputitontheboot-disk
(A:fordrivesandC:forharddisks).
2.äHowtouseÇ
YoufindabriefSurveyofallfunctionsFastCopyoffersyou
inmainmenuunder>>Help<<.Buttoexhaustthevarietyofall
functionsyouneedthemanual.For50Deutsch-Mark(30US$
respectively)I'llsendyouanprintedenglishmanualandthe
latestversionofFastCopyondisk.Inadditiontothatyou'llbe
registeredintheupdate-list,thatmeansyou'llalwaysgetanew
versionimmediately.
Thediskalsocontainsademonstrationprogram.Toloadit,
clickonthefile>>fcpydemo.prg<<(runsinanyresolution;I
recommendlow-res!).Afteramomenttheoutstandingtitle
pictureappearsonscreenandagainafterashorttimean
outstandingdigitalsoundwillcomeoutofyourmonitor
(extractsofCarlOrff'sCarminaBurana).Toquitthedemomake
areset.
Ç
3.äHowtocopyÇ
üA)ÇFastCopyisFreeware.Thatmeanseverbodyisallowedtocopy
anduseitforfree.PD-/Freeware-mailingservicesshould
considerofactingfairagainstmeandofmakingaspecial
donationtothehardworkingauthor.
üB)ÇYouareonlyallowedtocopyFastCopyasapackage.This
packagehastocontainthefollowingfiles:
FCOPY_3.PRG - Thecopyprogramitself
and/or
FCOPY_3.ACC
FCOPY_3.DOC - TextinGerman(Wordplus)
FCOPY_3.TXT - TextinGerman(ASCII)
FCOPY_3.EDC - TextinEnglish(Wordplus)
FCOPY_3.ETX - TextinEnglish(ASCII)
5.äPleasenotice...Ç
...thatwhenusingthefunction"NewConf."andconvertinga
biggerformatintoasmalleronewhileneedingtwoormore
reading-acts(Insert...)youreallyhavetousetwodiskettesas
sourceanddestination.Thishappensforexampleifyouwantto
converta890KByte-Diskintoa720KByteoneandonlyhaveless
than890KBytefree.
Butwhenusingthefunctionproperly,thatmeansconvertinga
smallerformat(e.g.9sectorspertrack)intoabiggerone(e.g.
11sectorspertrack),thisproblemdoesn'tappear.
5.äWhattodoincaseof...Ç
Forallnothavingreadthemanual,heresomeusefulhints:
êWhattodoincaseof...Ç
ê...theformatfunctiondoesn'twork,toomanydamagedtracks?Ç
Somedrives,especiallyolder5¼-inchones,mayhave
problemswiththeFast-Format.InthiscaseIrecommend
toswitchtothesaverregularFormat-mode"Format
Dest."by<q>.
Thesameproblemmayappearifyouareusingprocessor-
speederslikeHyper-Cachea.s.o.Inthiscaseusethe
regularformatmode,too.
ê...copyingastrangediskformat(e.g.Spectre-128,Minix)?
Ç IncaseofformatsuncompatibletoTOS(andMS-DOS)
alwaysswitchofftheautomaticconfigurations
recognition("ReadDiskConf.")by<r>.Readthemanual
oftheemulator(e.g.Spectre,Minix)andinstallthe
formattheyuseinthefieldtitled"SetDisk
Configuration".
ê...copyingonlytheusedsectors(GetSectors:used)doesn't
Ç êwork?
Ç Thisproblemcanresultfromseveralreasons:
a.TheDiskhasastrangeformat
Inthiscasehavealookonthehintabove...
b.TheFATofthediskisdamaged
Ç Thetablecontainingtheinformationwhichsectors
arefree,usedordamagedisunreadable.Inthis
caseswitchofftothe"GetSector:all"-modeby
<g>.InthismodeFastCopyignorestheFAT.
ê...thesteprateisalwayssetto3ms?
Ç ThesteprateisinstalledwithhelpofTOS.
FastCopyonlysupportstheofficialversions1.0,1.2
(Blitter-TOS),1.4,1.6(STE)andlater.Different
(inofficial)versionsmaycauseproblems.Inthiscase
youcan'tsetupthesteprate.Solution:Bootan
officialTOS.
ëThefinalNote:Ç
Everbody,forwhoFastCopyisaprecioustoolforworkingwith
theST,cansendtheirdonationsand/ortheircontructivecritic
to
üMartinBackschat
Bergstr.16
8071HepbergÇ
üWestGermany
Ç