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ATCopy2.1 (c) Copyright 1991 by Peter Vorwerk ATCopy2.1
New in version 2.1:
In the new version 2.1 the length of a file will no longer
change if you use the OPT B option. This caused some trouble
if you use compressed files. Thangs to Jeff Christensen for
reporting this bug.
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The program ATCopy2.0 is an update for the version 1.0. But
this new version is SHAREWARE instead of PD. If you find this
program useful and use it regular, please send $10 ( or
DM 10 ) to the follow address.
Peter Vorwerk
Jägerstr. 3-5
(W) 3000 Hannover 1
Germany
The program may be distributed for non-profit only ( a price
of more than $7 per diskette is surely no more a self cost
price ! ) and this manual is also copied. ( You are allowed
to copy only the program without the manual to your harddisk
or your workdisk, but you are not permitted to distribute the
software in this form! ) If you want to include this software
in an other library, than in the one of Fred Fish, please
contact me frist.
Surely everyone, who have an Amiga with an XT/AT Board ( the
older SideCar works well too ), knows it is principle pos-
sible to copy files between the two computers. But the way to
do this is not very comfortable. In the new version of the
Janus.library ( 2.63 respectively 33.1 ) you can use wild-
cards, but only in one direction ( form the XT/AT to the
Amiga ). Let's say you want to copy several files from the
Amiga to the XT/AT, you have to copy each file seperatly. The
first relase of ATCopy produced a scriptfile with the sepe-
rate commands. Now we skip this step and translate the files
direct through the socalled Dual-Ported-RAM. The program has
an icon and can be startet from the workbench. If you start
the program without any parameters, the files will be asked
for interactiv by the well known ARP-Filerequester. From the
CLI you are able to specify beside the filenames two other
parameters.
USAGE: ATCopy Files...,TO/K,OPT/K
Files... means a list of filenames, the keyword
TO specify the PC-path ( for example <TO A:> means
that all files are send to the floppy A: . If you
don't specify the keyword TO, the files will be
send to the current PC-path. ) and after the
keyword
OPT you can specify one ( and only one ) of the follow
options.
B Translate the files binary ( no conversion of
characters and CR's will not be translated in
CRLF's. )
CR Translate the files with conversion of characters,
but also CR's will not be translated in CRLF'.
NC Translate the files binary and CR's will be
translated in CRLF's.
If you don't specify the keyword OPT the files will be trans-
lated by full conversion. This means both conversion of char-
acters and CR's will be translated in CRLF's. This is the way
the new programs AREAD and AWRITE works. These files are
distributed by Commodore with the XT/AT Board. If you use the
program ATCopy from the workbench you can't ( at this
time ? ) use the keywords TO and OPT. The program use the
standards ( current directory and full conversion ).
INSTALLATION
On the diskette you will find a subdirectory called PC. This
directory contain three programs AT.EXE, XT.EXE and
PCCOPY.EXE. At least two of this programs you must copy by
AREAD DF0:ATCopy/PC/name.EXE A:name.EXE /B
to the XT/AT. In each case you will need the program
PCCOPY.EXE and it depends on your board the file XT.EXE or
AT.EXE ( who had thought this ? ). The program PCCOPY.EXE is
memoryresident and need start only once, for example in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT ( this is the Startup-Sequence of the XT/AT ).
The programs XT.EXE and AT.EXE are called by the Amiga
program ATCopy. Therefore it is necessary that at this time
no program is running. You are in the CLI of the XT/AT and
you are able to start a new program. This limitation is not
very well, but I don't know how to start a PC-Interrupt from
my own Amiga-program or how to start a program at the XT/AT
by a hotkey let's say ALT-2. If someone knows details on one
of these questions, please write me a short note. I think it
could be an other way of pay the SHAREWARE.
The usage from the Amiga is already descripted above and so
it's not necessary to repeat it again.
NOTE: The program needs the ARP.library ( at least
version 39. ).
Please notice that on an XT/AT you can't use all the
characters in filenames that are available for the Amiga. In
fact the space, nationalcharacters or the sqare braces are
not supported. Please notice that also there are strict
limitations in the lenght of the filename and the extension.
Only one extension with 3 characters and 8 characters before
the dot "." are allowed. You can't use filenames starting
with a dot. so ".info" is no legal filename and the two names
"DemoDatei.info" and "DEMODATE.INF" specify the same file on
an XT/AT !
Everyone who had paid the SHAREWARE will get updates as quick
as possible and even can get the soure if he/she want it.
Please give me a short description of your enviroment. I need
this because if the program wont work in a special enviroment
it is easyer for me to send the new version first to these
people who have this special enviroment.
Bugreports or improvements are welcome.
I hope that the translation from the Amiga to the XT/AT is
easyer using this program.
My program use parts of the ARP.library ( especialy the
Filerequester and the routine GADS ). Without this help it
had been ( nearly ) inpossible to write the program. I'm
sorry, but the informations by the Janus.library are very
rarely. Therefore it can be that the program ATCopy don't
work in all parts on all configurations. ( I have tested it
on my own Amiga 2000 with AT Board and on an Amiga 1000 with
SideCar. I don't had access to an XT Board. )
P.S. There is one more limitation by starting the program
from the workbench. You can't specify more than one TOOL
by "SHIFT Left Mouse". The first TOOL will work with all
the PROJECTS you had specified and the reminder TOOLS
will be skiped.
Solution: Don't specify any files by "SHIFT Left Mouse".
The program will ask you for each file by the
ARP-Filerequester.
Please excuse my bad english, but my schooltime is long ago.