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>>>file/ibm_pc_b 159 cbip@cs.ulowell.edu(25920)19May92 19:02
TITLE: v18i085: trackpic.zoo, Trackpic, display picture on non-bootable disks (part 01/01)
+Message-ID : <1992May19.190246.6697@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
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+Organization : University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
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Submitted-by: opheys@peschl.fmi.uni-passau.de (Thomas "Sledge" Opheys)
Posting-number: Volume 18, Issue 085
Archive-name: trackpic/part01
I mail my program Trackpic to you: It's a short utility that replaces the
boot sector on disks that are not meant to boot. Normally, you get the message
'insert system disk. Then press any key' if you try to boot a disk without
system files IO.SYS/MSDOS.SYS. Trackpic can be installed on every disk that
you don't want to boot (without erasing or affecting the disk's contents).
If you (incidentally) try to boot such a disk, when having such a disk in
your A: drive when turning on or resetting your computer, you get a VGA
320x200x256 picture displayed instead of the 'insert...' text message.
This picture you can choose yourself. It is stored on tracks 80+ that aren't
used by MS-DOS, so in effect one can say: Trackpic does not change the data
on the disk, does not reduce the disk space, has no effect when you work
with the disk, but displays a nice VGA screen when you try to boot this disk.
Tell me if you consider this utility to post in CBIP. Try it out.
Thomas (opheys@eva.fmi.uni-passau.de)
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Checksums obtained with the 4.3BSD "sum" or System V "sum -r" command.
checksum size (bytes) file (between BEGIN--cut and END--cut lines)
64695 24057 part01
checksum size (bytes) file
35595 17439 trackpic.zoo
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