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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
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- Subject: Re: Trouble writing to MSDOS disk with MessyDos.
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 22:22:35 GMT
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- ajmex@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
- >I am have been using Messydos quite successfully for a while now to read
- >files from a MSDOS disk, but I have had trouble writing to a MSDOS disk.
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- make certain you are writing to the drive name you have mounted as
- the msdos disk. Not to df1: I mount mine as B:, and read and write
- to it. Both ClickDOS and Directory Opus allow you to name devices
- other than df?: and dh?:
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- >I can delete files, create/delete directories, and copy text files
- >to a MSDOS format disk, but when I try to copy a binary file to a MSDOS
- >disk, I get an error along the lines of "Error writing to disk".
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- I copy both text and binary files with no problem.
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- >Does anyone have any idea why this is?
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- Don't use messyfmt to format a disk. Use an I*M machine. Messyfmt
- doesn't seem to work. The 386s here at work run DOS 5.0 and don't
- acknowledge any floppy I have tried that I had formated with messyfmt.
-
- >I am running Workbench 1.3.
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- So do I. On an A500 with 512 Kb. If you have under one meg availble,
- you might try not loading WB, that will free up more ram.
-
- >I dont know what version of Messydos I am running, but I downloaded it
- >about a year ago. Is there a newer version out?
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- Use MSH v1.30, the v1.50 is older and buggy.
-
- >Thanks in advance, Alister Miller.
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- You're welcome. DJ.
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