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- FLOPPIES.EXE COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi FLOPPIES.EXE
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- NAME
- floppies.exe - relocates dos floppy disk driver requests
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- SYNOPSIS
- floppies [load_umb] [delete]
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- device=floppies.exe [load_umb]
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- floppies VECTOR [interrupt-number interrupt-id]
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- COMMAND LINE RULES
- Command line has following rules
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- - Operands consist of options and terminating ';' (semi-
- colon). Except for ';' , the order is unimportant.
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- - The character ';' (semicolon) terminates command line.
- Operands after the character are ignored.
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- - All operands are case sensitive, and generally must be
- in lower case. In this version VECTOR is the only
- upper case operand. On config.sys line, operands are
- converted to lower case and then interpreted.
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- - The character '/' can be placed anywhere ' ' (the white
- space) can be placed.
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- - Alphabetic part of an option can be abbreviated down to
- one character, if there is no ambiguities. For example
- the delete option has the syntax [d[e[l[e[t[e]]]]]].
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- DESCRIPTION
- It is possible to load floppies.exe into UMB (upper memory
- block) by appropriate load command, such as devicehigh=
- instead of device= or using loadhigh command.
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- Alternatively, using load_umb option when loading under dos
- command line finds the smallest space on upper memory block
- that fits and loads itself there.
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- The delete option is the option to tell resident (loaded as
- TSR) floppies to be deleted from memory.
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- Floppies.exe is a character mode device driver or a TSR
- (Terminate and Stay Resident) program to relocate most of
- floppy device driver requests from dos block device driver
- and use int40 instead of int13. Since floppies and IDE
- disks cannot run concurrently due to the organization of DOS
- device drivers, floppies.exe, under control of concache.exe,
- replaces most of data transfer requests for floppies against
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- Concache 1.10 Last Update: 20 June 1996 1
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- FLOPPIES.EXE COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi FLOPPIES.EXE
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- DOS device driver to floppies.exe. This allows IDE disk
- operations without interference from floppy disks'. Flop-
- pies.exe accepts only read, write, and write and verify
- device driver functions to free dos block device driver from
- most of lengthy floppy operations. It works only when con-
- cache.exe requests floppy operations to floppies.exe.
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- For VECTOR argument, see the corresponding subsection in
- concache.txt.
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- SEE ALSO
- concache.txt, eqanda.txt, overview.txt.
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- FEATURES
- Due to interrupt overlay order, delete option may not always
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