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- EQUIFIX -- companion program for EQUICOPY, 5 1/4" <-> 3 1/2" disk copier
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- EQUIFIX.EXE is a small TSR which allows machines with BIOS versions which
- normally have trouble with unusual diskette formats to function properly.
-
- Syntax:
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- EQUIFIX at the command line, or
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- device=equifix.exe in your CONFIG.SYS file.
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- If you are having trouble reading or writing disks generated by EQUICOPY,
- then try loading EQUIFIX. EQUIFIX will detect whether or not it has
- already been installed, so there's no need to worry about loading it
- multiple times.
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- If it does the trick, try loading it as a device driver. It saves a little
- RAM, and detection of the device driver is more reliable. (In some
- circumstances, it may be possible to load EQUIFIX twice by loading
- EQUIFIX as a TSR, loading disk caching software or other drivers, and
- then loading EQUIFIX as a TSR again. This causes no real problems, but
- why waste RAM? Loading it first as a device driver eliminates this
- possibility.)
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- EQUIFIX will work fine if loaded high, but the overhead required to load
- it high is usually larger than the amount of space EQUIFIX would have
- taken in the first place!
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- EQUIFIX is distributed as a companion program for EQUICOPY. Please see
- the EQUICOPY documentation for licensing information.
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- EQUIFIX will work in place of several BIOS-patching utilities for use with
- alternative-format floppy formatting software. Chances are, if you're using
- their patches, you don't need EQUIFIX. However, when I looked at the code
- of an older utility, I found that it hard-coded the BIOS to read diskettes
- formatted only with it, which caused unreliable operations with normal
- floppies. EQUIFIX should do no such thing; however, it and all the programs
- in this package are for use strictly at your own risk.
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