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- IMAGE READ/WRITE
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- RIMAGE.EXE
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- This utility will read a 360k floppy (in either drive A: or B:), track by
- track, and save its image to a file called 'IMAGE.DUP' in the current
- directory.
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- No options other that drive selection, it just does it.
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- 'IMAGE.DUP' contains a complete image of the floppy from sector 0 track 0
- to sector 8 track 39.
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- If errors occur while reading the floppy, you will be asked if you wish
- to continue anyway. Answer <Y>es, and reading will continue as if the
- error had not happened. The data read from the track where the error
- occurred will be written to the image file, however, it's unpredictable
- how much of the data actually came from the disk. To make searching the
- image file for error sectors easier, the data buffers are filled with '!'
- characters before each read. Large areas of the image file containing
- '!' represent data sectors that never made to memory from the disk
- controller.
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- WIMAGE.EXE
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- This utility performs the reverse of RIMAGE.EXE. It writes the image
- found in 'IMAGE.DUP' (again, in the current directory) to 360k floppy.
- The floppy is formatted, 'painted' with the image, then optionally
- verified.
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- Two command line options are recognized. They are:
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- /Q Quiet mode. Errors cause immediate termination without display
- of error report. Use this switch when running FORM360 from batch
- files. WIMAGE defaults to not quiet and, on error, provides the
- reports that FORM360 does.
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- /V Verify the disk's integrity after writing the image. Defaults to
- no verify.
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- As with all RCT utilities, success or failure may be tested using the dos
- errorlevel value. Example:
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- wimage b: /v /q
- if errorlevel == 1 goto failed
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- .
- .
- :failed
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- Bob Tellefson
- RCT Design
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- PS. These two programs may be freely shared with friends and associates.
- No compensation is expected or requested.
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