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- From: tblanchot@vnet.ibm.com (Thierry BLANCHOT)
- Message-ID: <19921118.043123.734@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 13:28:54 FWT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: Re: Dearchiving with DMS
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- In <1992Nov18.104023.14839@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Malc Treby writes:
- > Hi,
- > Ok, thanks to those who tried to help when I sent this out earlier
- > but I still haven't got anywhere, so time to try again. For those of you who
- > didn't see my first posting here is my basic problem:
- > How exactly do I use the DMS program to unpack the Lemmings 2 file
- > (lemm2-d.dms)? I have unpacked the DMS111.sfx file, put it onto a disk(Out:),
- > along with the lemm2-d.dms file, load the Shell from Workbench2.0, and type:
- > DMS Write lemm2-d.dms
- > The system then asks me to insert the volume Out: and takes absolutely no
- > notice of the fact that the disc is already there, no matter how many times
- > I click on retry. I then have to abort. This occurs with all DMS files but I
- > can usually get around it by loading the .dms file into RAM:, unfortunately
- > the lemm2-d.dms file is too big to fit on my ram disk.
- > I'm running all of this on an A600, single floppy, 1Mb.
- > Thanks,
- > Malc(mjt@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
- >
- You have two solutions:
- 1) Buy a 2nd disk drive. This saves much time and disk swapping|..
- 2) use "dms write lemm-2.dms to df0:" . DMS will load and prompt you
- to insert the disk to be written in df0:....
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