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EQUIFIX -- companion program for EQUICOPY, 5 1/4" <-> 3 1/2" disk copier
EQUIFIX.EXE is a small TSR which allows machines with BIOS versions which
normally have trouble with unusual diskette formats to function properly.
Syntax:
EQUIFIX at the command line, or
device=equifix.exe in your CONFIG.SYS file.
If you are having trouble reading or writing disks generated by EQUICOPY,
then try loading EQUIFIX. EQUIFIX will detect whether or not it has
already been installed, so there's no need to worry about loading it
multiple times.
If it does the trick, try loading it as a device driver. It saves a little
RAM, and detection of the device driver is more reliable. (In some
circumstances, it may be possible to load EQUIFIX twice by loading
EQUIFIX as a TSR, loading disk caching software or other drivers, and
then loading EQUIFIX as a TSR again. This causes no real problems, but
why waste RAM? Loading it first as a device driver eliminates this
possibility.)
EQUIFIX will work fine if loaded high, but the overhead required to load
it high is usually larger than the amount of space EQUIFIX would have
taken in the first place!
EQUIFIX is distributed as a companion program for EQUICOPY. Please see
the EQUICOPY documentation for licensing information.
EQUIFIX will work in place of several BIOS-patching utilities for use with
alternative-format floppy formatting software. Chances are, if you're using
their patches, you don't need EQUIFIX. However, when I looked at the code
of an older utility, I found that it hard-coded the BIOS to read diskettes
formatted only with it, which caused unreliable operations with normal
floppies. EQUIFIX should do no such thing; however, it and all the programs
in this package are for use strictly at your own risk.