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- DDI.TXT - readme file for
- DDI SHELL ver 2.0 : DiskDupe Image shell
-
- What you can find in this documant:
-
- 1. What is DDI SHELL?
- 2. DDI command line parameters
- 3. History version
- 4. Requirements
-
-
- 1. What is DDI SHELL?
- This program emulates drive A: contains information
- from DiskDupe image file (*.DDI) by loading disk image
- to XMS and catching int 13h, then running program you
- specified.
-
- 2. DDI command line parameters
-
- DDI [/b] ddi_file [ command_to_run [command parameters...] ]
-
- where:
-
- /b option to use drive B:
- Now you can run two DDI images : one on drive
- A: and other on drive B:, transferring data
- between them.
-
- ddi_file is DiskDupe image file
-
- command_to_run optional parameter, specifies program name
- to execute while emulating drive A: contains
- files from ddi_file disk image. Used COMMAND.COM
- (or some other value of COMSPEC= environment
- variable) if not specified. You may set
- COMSPEC= to point to another program in order
- not to type program name each time you run DDI
-
- parameters parameters passed to program mentioned above
-
- example:
-
- DDI ai40#1
- DDI /b ai40#2
- copy a:readme b:
-
- this will copy file README from disk ai40#1 to disk ai40#2.
- You will be prompted if you want to save disk contents
- to file on exit.
-
- 3. Version history
-
- New in ver 1.1
- - fixed incompatibility with cache software (at least with
- NCACHE 6.0, Norton SPEEDRV 4.07, SMARTDRV v??)
- - added support for 360k diskettes
-
- New in ver 1.2
- - added support for 720k diskettes
-
- New in ver 2.0
- - /b option to use drive B: (*)
- - save disk image to file support
- (*) idea by Andrew Mubarakshin
-
- 4. Requirements
-
- - XMS memory manager ver 2.0+ (such as HIMEM.SYS)
- plus enoung free XMS to store disk image
-
- - ??? ( pls report if some other found )
-
- 4. Contacts
-
- On any questions, suggestions and bugs found,
- please call 948-2448 voice, and you'll get new
- version free.
-
- Alex Bokov
- 18 apr 1994
-
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