home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!nic.umass.edu!titan.ucc.umass.edu!quilty
- From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
- Subject: Re: Floppy disk "image" software available?
- Message-ID: <BxspEC.Er@nic.umass.edu>
- Sender: usenet@nic.umass.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- References: <1992Nov12.165343.28056@news.yale.edu> <1992Nov13.214219.23677@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:15:47 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- In article <1992Nov13.214219.23677@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz) writes:
- In article <1992Nov12.165343.28056@news.yale.edu>, eric@suncis.ycc.yale.edu (Eric Bird) writes:
- |> I'm looking for software which will allow me to make "images" of floppy
- |> disks--i.e., copy all the contents of one disk into a single file, and then
- |> reproduce the disk, sector for sector, later on.
- |>
- |> Shareware or Commercial is fine. Compression is not important.
- |>
- |> It needs to be extremely easy to use--menu driven, not command line. I have
- |> looked at all the utilities at Simtel, and found a lot of acceptable but not
- |> great stuff. The one package I did like, Teledisk by SYDEX, is a problem in
- |> that when I called SYDEX they were extremely rude and told me that "it's no
- |> longer shareware" and is only available for $150. Teledisk isn't THAT good.
-
- I do what you're looking for using DR-DOS 6.0. It's diskcopy command
- does exactly this (as well as using any available XMS, EMS, or HD
- space to avoid the swapping necassary for that other MicroSludge DOS).
- It's not menu-driven as you mention, but it's so simple that I can't
- imagine what a menu would do in this case. All I need to do is type:
- "diskcopy x: path\filename" (where "x" is actually "a" or "b")
- Lots of other good reasons to use this DOS as well.
- --
- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ THIS MESSAGE WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY: _/_/_/_/_/_/
- _/_/ Postmodern Enterprises _/_/
- _/_/ MAKERS OF CHAOS.... _/_/
- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ LOOK FOR IT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
-