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- RaWrite 1.3
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-
- Disclaimer of Warrenty
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-
- Users of this software must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "This
- software is supplied AS IS. Mark Becker disclaims all warranties, expressed
- or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability
- and of fitness for any purpose. Mark Becker assumes no liability for
- damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this
- software."
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-
- Purpose
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- Write a disk image file to a floppy disk.
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- Equipment/Software Requirements
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-
- * PC/XT/AT or 100% compatible with at least 256K of RAM and a floppy disk
- drive.
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- * MS-DOS version 3.21 or greater.
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- * A formatted diskette.
-
- This program uses well-documented generic low-level DOS and BIOS functions.
- It should run on nearly every PC in existance. PS/2's should be able to run
- RaWrite but this has not been tested.
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-
- CAVEAT
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-
- This program will write ANY disk file to a floppy, overwriting any previous
- information that may have been present. If you wish to re-use a diskette
- that has been written to by RaWrite then that diskette will probably need to
- be reformatted; all MS-DOS specific information will have been erased.
-
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- Usage
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-
- C> RAWRITE
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- And follow the prompts. All arguments are case-insensitive.
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- If the source and destination drives are the same, RaWrite will ask the user
- to swap diskettes as required. Rawrite allocates a large buffer in RAM to
- reduce the number of disk swaps.
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- RaWrite may be aborted at any time by typing ^C or CTRL-Break.
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- Errors
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- RaWrite attempts to determine if the diskette is a 1.44M, 1.2M, 720K, or 360K
- diskette by reading sectors 18, 15, and 9 in that order. If the inserted
- diskette is not one of the these types, then RaWrite will abort with an error
- message.
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- Errors such as write protect, door open, bad disk, bad sector, etc. cause a
- program abort with a short error message.
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