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Non-Professional IBM-Type and IBM-Copy SHAREWARE Version 0.1
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THE PROGRAMS INCLUDED IN THIS FOLDER ARE SHAREWARE, THAT IS THEY MAY BE COPIED
PROVIDED NEITHER THE DOCUMENTATION NOR THE PROGRAMS ARE CHANGED IN ANY WAY AND
ARE KEPT TOGETHER IN THIS FOLDER. THEY ARE DEDICATED TO NON-PROFESSIONAL TIME-
TO-TIME USERS ONLY. A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL VERSION, INCLUDING A WRITTEN
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAMS, IS AVAILABLE AT THE ADDRESS BELOW. PLEASE DIRECT
COMPLAINTS AND PROPOSALS FOR EXPANSION TO THIS VERY ADDRESS, TOO.
Goal:
The programs included can either list files of the MS DOS-format on standard-
AMIGAs or copy them to AMIGA-DOS. They can only be run from the CLI.
Description:
The programs work on Disks in Standard-MS DOS and ATARI ST-format with an
ID-Block in position 0. This block is written by TOS and MS DOS from version
3.2 onward.
When started, you are prompted for an MS DOS or ATARI ST Disk. Please enter
the number of the Drive (0 for DF0:,1 for DF1: and so on). Before pressing
<RETURN>, please make sure that the lights of the Drive have faded. The Disk
should not be removed until the program has finished.
Afterwards, the computer tries to read the BootBlock. Now is the chance for
you to find out whether the disk in Drive contains a BootBlock: If it
doesn't, the lights will go out (all of them).
Next, the contents of the main directory are displayed. Select the file to be
processed by its number, if it is a subdirectory, its contents are displayed
as well and you will be prompted again. .. will return to the parent directory,
as usual in MS DOS.
If you selected the COPY-program, the source file will be copied to RAM:MS DOS.
FILE.
ATTENTION: The present version processes correctly formatted and readable
disks only, on ReadErrors: See above.
REMARK: We tested the programs on 3½-Inch disks only, but 5¾ should not cause
real trouble. Also, we must confess that we only had ATARI- and AT-
formatted MS DOS disks at hand, but they worked properly.
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Professional Version:
The professional version is safe and allows working with the IBM-Files
directly with standard-programs and device DOS: (like most file-requesters
and editors) that only open files for reading.
(May be applicable to the more recent
Kickstart-Versions only, testing still in process. We had to find out that
DOSLIB does not support standard library functions, nor do the standard
programs like "dir","cd" and so on use the DOSLIB. Not to mention that all
of the Offsets of DOSLIB as mentioned in the RKM are all wrong. DAMN TO
HIM WHO IS RESPONSIBLE! YOU OWE ME ONE TERRIBLE WEEK OF MY LIFE!).
The licensed version, as mentioned above, can be received from:
Frank Wübbeling Softwarevertrieb
Stadtlohnweg 33/W30
D-44 Münster
Tel. 0251/866261
The current price is 50,- DM, excluding the costs for foreign mail.
== Latest News: ==
We're planning a new version, supporting the standard-CLI commands (or replacing
these with updates). Probably there will also be a COPY-Prog to FastCopy a
MS DOS-Disk to AMIGA-DOS. We hope that we will also (at last!!) be able to
write to a DOS-Disk (although there are strange Hardware-Problems).
Note that we will find out the need for an update by measuring the acceptance
of the old one. The update version will be distributed at a low price for owners
of V1.2. If you already hold one of these: DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL ON YOU!!