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- Subject: Re: Dearchiving with DMS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.123733.44940@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:37:28 CST
- References: <1992Nov18.104023.14839@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Nov18.104023.14839@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>, mjt@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)
- >
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- From what I can tell, you are out of luck. Since DMS unpacks the "tracks"
- of the .dms file onto a floppy, you can't have the .dms file itself ON
- the same floppy as you are unpacking it onto. Unless you have 2 drives,
- a hard drive, or more ram you aren't going to be able to accomplish this.
- (Unless DMS will buffer it to RAM and allow you to swap floppies, don't
- know if DMS does that though.)
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