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- AMOS started as an idea. An idea of being able to salvage data that would
- otherwise be lost. I thought this was a great idea, and contacted IBM for
- some technical doc on HPFS. "The doc for HPFS is classified", I was told.
- I was unable to breach this barrier (Does it have something to do with
- Microsoft's rights on HPFS?), so AMOS is all my own work.
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- Without documentation, it is pretty hard to write a program for accessing and
- even writing HPFS-drives. And very easy indeed to trash drives, making them
- unreadable, OS/2 unbootable, and the like. Which is why AMOS has been such
- a long time underway, and which is also why nobody but my beta-testers have
- seen AMOS until this final v1.0 release.
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- I am pretty sure that no disastrous bugs remain, but nevertheless: Try AMOS
- on your own machine, on a partition that contains data of which you have a
- backup. Then, when you've seen that it works, use it on your 700MB data-
- partition - but bear in mind that I have no responsibility whatsoever for
- your loss of data. If anything goes wrong, pplease fill out the problem
- sheet at the end of this text and send it to me - and I'll try to fix the
- problem as soon as possible...
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- To make AMOS, hundreds of hours of work have been used. Most of the time has
- been used in a sector-editor, trying to figure out the cryptic ways of HPFS.
- Enjoy!
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- Release history
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- v1.01 Released 2. dec. 1992.
- Fixes minor bugs, mostly of cosmetical nature.
- Added support for FREEspace mapping of FAT-drives.
- This is an intermediate release, released instead of v1.1. v1.1
- will include a FAT to HPFS file format converter, but I am having
- problems with making it work in every case, so this is all you
- get for now :-)
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- v1.0 Released 11. nov. 1993. First public release.
- Features both HPFS read and write, but has no error correcting
- facilities.
- All basic FAT and HPFS manipulation routines are present.
- Only registered versions have access to HPFS write routines.
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