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- Non-Professional IBM-Type and IBM-Copy SHAREWARE Version 0.1
- ============================================================
-
- THE PROGRAMS INCLUDED IN THIS FOLDER ARE SHAREWARE, THAT IS THEY MAY BE COPIED
- PROVIDED NEITHER THE DOCUMENTATION NOR THE PROGRAMS ARE CHANGED IN ANY WAY AND
- ARE KEPT TOGETHER IN THIS FOLDER. THEY ARE DEDICATED TO NON-PROFESSIONAL TIME-
- TO-TIME USERS ONLY. A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL VERSION, INCLUDING A WRITTEN
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAMS, IS AVAILABLE AT THE ADDRESS BELOW. PLEASE DIRECT
- COMPLAINTS AND PROPOSALS FOR EXPANSION TO THIS VERY ADDRESS, TOO.
-
- Goal:
-
- The programs included can either list files of the MS DOS-format on standard-
- AMIGAs or copy them to AMIGA-DOS. They can only be run from the CLI.
-
- Description:
-
- The programs work on Disks in Standard-MS DOS and ATARI ST-format with an
- ID-Block in position 0. This block is written by TOS and MS DOS from version
- 3.2 onward.
-
- When started, you are prompted for an MS DOS or ATARI ST Disk. Please enter
- the number of the Drive (0 for DF0:,1 for DF1: and so on). Before pressing
- <RETURN>, please make sure that the lights of the Drive have faded. The Disk
- should not be removed until the program has finished.
-
- Afterwards, the computer tries to read the BootBlock. Now is the chance for
- you to find out whether the disk in Drive contains a BootBlock: If it
- doesn't, the lights will go out (all of them).
-
- Next, the contents of the main directory are displayed. Select the file to be
- processed by its number, if it is a subdirectory, its contents are displayed
- as well and you will be prompted again. .. will return to the parent directory,
- as usual in MS DOS.
-
- If you selected the COPY-program, the source file will be copied to RAM:MS DOS.
- FILE.
-
- ATTENTION: The present version processes correctly formatted and readable
- disks only, on ReadErrors: See above.
-
- REMARK: We tested the programs on 3½-Inch disks only, but 5¾ should not cause
- real trouble. Also, we must confess that we only had ATARI- and AT-
- formatted MS DOS disks at hand, but they worked properly.
-
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-
- Professional Version:
-
- The professional version is safe and allows working with the IBM-Files
- directly with standard-programs and device DOS: (like most file-requesters
- and editors) that only open files for reading.
- (May be applicable to the more recent
- Kickstart-Versions only, testing still in process. We had to find out that
- DOSLIB does not support standard library functions, nor do the standard
- programs like "dir","cd" and so on use the DOSLIB. Not to mention that all
- of the Offsets of DOSLIB as mentioned in the RKM are all wrong. DAMN TO
- HIM WHO IS RESPONSIBLE! YOU OWE ME ONE TERRIBLE WEEK OF MY LIFE!).
-
- The licensed version, as mentioned above, can be received from:
-
- Frank Wübbeling Softwarevertrieb
- Stadtlohnweg 33/W30
- D-44 Münster
-
- Tel. 0251/866261
-
- The current price is 50,- DM, excluding the costs for foreign mail.
-
- == Latest News: ==
-
- We're planning a new version, supporting the standard-CLI commands (or replacing
- these with updates). Probably there will also be a COPY-Prog to FastCopy a
- MS DOS-Disk to AMIGA-DOS. We hope that we will also (at last!!) be able to
- write to a DOS-Disk (although there are strange Hardware-Problems).
-
- Note that we will find out the need for an update by measuring the acceptance
- of the old one. The update version will be distributed at a low price for owners
- of V1.2. If you already hold one of these: DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL ON YOU!!
-