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- Short: Packs DFx, DHx etc., XPK support, V1.8
- Author: Christian Wasner
- Uploader: Crisi@dame.de
- Type: util/arc
-
- With this program you can read or write data directly from/to a disk. The
- blocks of the disk are read and stored into a file. All types of disks can
- be read (i.e. DHx: RAD: DFx: etc., but not CD Roms). When handling DOS
- disks, only the used blocks are read/written if not specified otherwise.
- All blocks are handled if the disk has no known filesystem (e.g. PeeCee or
- Mac disks or demo disks with trackloaders). The data can also be packed
- with any bugfree XPK packer. The program currently only has a shell
- interface, but a GUI is in progress.
-
- All this sounds like "Oh no, another DMS clone", but DMS can only handle
- floppy disks or devices with the size of floppy disks. Even Non-DOS disks
- can be handled (then all blocks are read, of course). Another advantage of
- PackDev is that is doesn't use stolen code like the authors of DMS do.
- PackDev supports the xpk packer system thus it's much more flexible than
- DMS. You can use any xpk packer you like, e.g. a disk with pictures or
- sounds or anything else can be packed with an xpk packer customized for
- that type of data. When comparing size, you see that DevPack is only 24 KB
- long !
-
-
- Aug-14 1994 V1.0 - Initial release, never released I think...
-
- Aug-18 1994 V1.1 - Minor bugs fixed
-
- Apr-16 1995 V1.2 - Problems with OFS disks fixed (PackDev didn't know the
- number of free/used blocks)
- - ALL, NOVERBOSE, QUIET and NOCONFIRM keyword added
- - Doc file corrected and improved
- - Filesystem type is now read from block 0 instead of
- reading it from the DOS node, because the latter always
- contains DOS\0 for Amiga floppies
- - Minor bugfixes
-
- Apr-30 1995 V1.3 - If the partition with LIBS: on it is to be handled,
- PackDev could not open XPK (sub-)libraries, fixed
- - Minimum XPK buffer size corrected
- - TESTFILE parameter added
- - Checksums installed, in case an xpk packer doesn't keep
- them
- - Argument handling changed (you got me, Christian...)
- - BLOCKLIST parameter added
- - PASSWORD parameter added
-
- Jul-02 1995 V1.4 - OS 2.0 workaround: Filesystems cannot be inhibited if
- the DosList is locked. Now it is unlocked before
- inhibiting (Thanks, Golly).
- - Bugfix: DosList was locked with LDF_READ|LDF_DEVICES,
- but unlocked with LDF_READ|LDF_VOLUMES.
- - Minor docfile editing
-
- Aug-17 1995 V1.5 - Read/write error output/user interaction was only done
- if QUIET or NOCONFIRM were set. This must be vice versa,
- of course (Thanks Dirk)
- - Documentation is now in Amigaguide format (Thanks to
- Edd Dumbill, the author of Heddley, a great Amigaguide
- editor)
-
- Sep-03 1995 V1.6 - Added new parameters: TDFLABEL, NOVERIFY, TRUENAME
- - TDFORMAT does no longer write label buffers, use TDFLABEL
- for this in future
- - XPK timing docs revised
- - Guide file improved
- - The guide became longer than the executable :-)
-
- Sep-17 1995 V1.7 - Filename handling bug when reading fixed
- - On an 68000 packdev crashed when writing to a disk
- (casted a char * to long *; reading a longword
- from an uneven address crashes 68000/68010 systems)
- - Stupid bug with format options fixed (any specification
- if disk formatting was rejected)
- - FORCE keyword added
- - Minor guide file editing
- - Thanks to Bosch and Dirk for reporting the bugs
-
- Apr-15 1996 V1.8 - FORCE keyword wasn't set as /S/O, fixed.
- - Version ID of archives wasn't 1.6 in V1.7, fixed.
- - If the DosList (list of devices, assigns and volumes)
- or the device is in use, now 10 seconds will be waited
- respectively.
- - A "0" was printed when calling PackDev. This was debugging
- info. Removed.
- - Minor guide file editing
- - Thanks to Dirk for reporting the bugs
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 410 237 42.1% 15-Apr-96 11:50:56 FILE_ID.DIZ
- 23676 11541 51.2% 15-Apr-96 11:26:02 PackDev
- 32619 12007 63.1% 15-Apr-96 11:49:20 PackDev.guide
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- 56705 23785 58.0% 16-Apr-96 00:50:14 3 files
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