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- ■ Development history, v1.0 to v3.01
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- │ AMOS started as an idea. An idea of being able to salvage data that would
- · otherwise be lost. I thought this was a great idea, and contacted IBM for
- · some technical doc on HPFS. "The doc for HPFS is classified", I was told.
- · I was unable to breach this barrier (Does it have something to do with
- Microsoft's rights on HPFS?), so AMOS is all my own work.
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- Without documentation, it is pretty hard to write a program for accessing and
- even writing HPFS-drives. And very easy indeed to trash drives, making them
- unreadable, OS/2 unbootable, and the like. Which is why AMOS has been such
- a long time underway, and which is also why nobody but my beta-testers saw
- AMOS until the v1.0 release.
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- Having written AMOS v1.x, the next step naturally is to include HPFS drives
- in the normal DOS drive lettering scheme using a TSR. This is AMOS v3,
- which is still read/only, and will probably remain that way for quite a while.
- Supporting the structures necessary for writing HPFS drives is costly in
- terms of memory...
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- To make AMOS, hundreds of hours of work have been used. Most of the time has
- been used in a sector-editor, trying to figure out the cryptic ways of HPFS.
- Enjoy!
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- ■ Release history of AMOS v3
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- │ v3.01 Released 07. nov 1994.
- │ - Fixed a bug in the -i parameter causing some files not to be shown
- · - Fixed a bug in CloseFile, sometimes causing applications
- · using DosDupHandle to crash
- · + Improved performance a bit
- + Reduced memory requirements by about 2k to 40720 bytes
- + Removed some typos in the documentation
- + Added benchmark tests to the documentation
- + Updated OZ.REG to include the correct address
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- v3.0 Released 05. nov. 1994. First public release.
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