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  6. ü!Pleasedoread--newinformationssinceversionof13.1.1990!Ç
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  8. Hepberg,2/5/1989
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  12. Welcome
  13. to
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  15. üëFastCopyIIIü
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  17. ÉFasterthanLight!
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  19.  
  20. 0.äProgram-InformationÇ
  21.  
  22.      Concept,Design,DocumentationandDevelopment
  23.           üMartinBackschatÇ
  24.  
  25.      Beta-Tester
  26.           üRupertKaiser&"Gogl",ManfredMessnerundStephanEnglhardtÇ
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  28.      Designerofthetitlepicture
  29. ü          RalphSethÇ
  30.  
  31.      êThankstoÇ
  32.           üEverybody,whosupportsthedevelopmentofFastCopyIII,
  33.           Everybody,whocritizescontructively,
  34.           Everybody,whofinanciallysupportstheproject,
  35.           Everybody,whofinanciallysupportedFastCopy2.00,and
  36.           thusindirectlyalsosupportstheIII.rdpart
  37. Ç
  38.  
  39. 1.äInstallationÇ
  40. FastCopyrunsasaprogramandasanaccessory.Tostartitfrom
  41. theDesktop,callit>>FCOPY_3.PRG<<.TomakeTOSrecognizeitas
  42. anaccessorycallit>>FCOPY_3.ACC<<andputitontheboot-disk
  43. (A:fordrivesandC:forharddisks).
  44.  
  45. 2.äHowtouseÇ
  46. YoufindabriefSurveyofallfunctionsFastCopyoffersyou
  47. inmainmenuunder>>Help<<.Buttoexhaustthevarietyofall
  48. functionsyouneedthemanual.For50Deutsch-Mark(30US$
  49. respectively)I'llsendyouanprintedenglishmanualandthe
  50. latestversionofFastCopyondisk.Inadditiontothatyou'llbe
  51. registeredintheupdate-list,thatmeansyou'llalwaysgetanew
  52. versionimmediately.
  53. Thediskalsocontainsademonstrationprogram.Toloadit,
  54. clickonthefile>>fcpydemo.prg<<(runsinanyresolution;I
  55. recommendlow-res!).Afteramomenttheoutstandingtitle
  56. pictureappearsonscreenandagainafterashorttimean
  57. outstandingdigitalsoundwillcomeoutofyourmonitor
  58. (extractsofCarlOrff'sCarminaBurana).Toquitthedemomake
  59. areset.
  60. Ç
  61. 3.äHowtocopyÇ
  62. üA)ÇFastCopyisFreeware.Thatmeanseverbodyisallowedtocopy
  63. anduseitforfree.PD-/Freeware-mailingservicesshould
  64. considerofactingfairagainstmeandofmakingaspecial
  65. donationtothehardworkingauthor.
  66. üB)ÇYouareonlyallowedtocopyFastCopyasapackage.This
  67. packagehastocontainthefollowingfiles:
  68.  
  69.      FCOPY_3.PRG    -    Thecopyprogramitself
  70.           and/or
  71.      FCOPY_3.ACC
  72.  
  73.      FCOPY_3.DOC    -    TextinGerman(Wordplus)
  74.      FCOPY_3.TXT    -    TextinGerman(ASCII)
  75.      FCOPY_3.EDC    -    TextinEnglish(Wordplus)
  76.      FCOPY_3.ETX    -    TextinEnglish(ASCII)
  77.  
  78. 5.äPleasenotice...Ç
  79. ...thatwhenusingthefunction"NewConf."andconvertinga
  80. biggerformatintoasmalleronewhileneedingtwoormore
  81. reading-acts(Insert...)youreallyhavetousetwodiskettesas
  82. sourceanddestination.Thishappensforexampleifyouwantto
  83. converta890KByte-Diskintoa720KByteoneandonlyhaveless
  84. than890KBytefree.
  85. Butwhenusingthefunctionproperly,thatmeansconvertinga
  86. smallerformat(e.g.9sectorspertrack)intoabiggerone(e.g.
  87. 11sectorspertrack),thisproblemdoesn'tappear.
  88.  
  89. 5.äWhattodoincaseof...Ç
  90. Forallnothavingreadthemanual,heresomeusefulhints:
  91.  
  92.      êWhattodoincaseof...Ç
  93.     ê...theformatfunctiondoesn'twork,toomanydamagedtracks?Ç
  94.           Somedrives,especiallyolder5¼-inchones,mayhave
  95.           problemswiththeFast-Format.InthiscaseIrecommend
  96.           toswitchtothesaverregularFormat-mode"Format
  97.           Dest."by<q>.
  98.           Thesameproblemmayappearifyouareusingprocessor-
  99.           speederslikeHyper-Cachea.s.o.Inthiscaseusethe
  100.           regularformatmode,too.
  101.      ê...copyingastrangediskformat(e.g.Spectre-128,Minix)?
  102. Ç          IncaseofformatsuncompatibletoTOS(andMS-DOS)
  103.           alwaysswitchofftheautomaticconfigurations
  104.           recognition("ReadDiskConf.")by<r>.Readthemanual
  105.           oftheemulator(e.g.Spectre,Minix)andinstallthe
  106.           formattheyuseinthefieldtitled"SetDisk
  107.           Configuration".
  108.      ê...copyingonlytheusedsectors(GetSectors:used)doesn't
  109. Ç     êwork?
  110. Ç          Thisproblemcanresultfromseveralreasons:
  111.           a.TheDiskhasastrangeformat
  112.                Inthiscasehavealookonthehintabove...
  113.           b.TheFATofthediskisdamaged
  114. Ç               Thetablecontainingtheinformationwhichsectors
  115.                arefree,usedordamagedisunreadable.Inthis
  116.                caseswitchofftothe"GetSector:all"-modeby
  117.                <g>.InthismodeFastCopyignorestheFAT.
  118.      ê...thesteprateisalwayssetto3ms?
  119. Ç          ThesteprateisinstalledwithhelpofTOS.
  120.           FastCopyonlysupportstheofficialversions1.0,1.2
  121.           (Blitter-TOS),1.4,1.6(STE)andlater.Different
  122.           (inofficial)versionsmaycauseproblems.Inthiscase
  123.           youcan'tsetupthesteprate.Solution:Bootan
  124.           officialTOS.
  125.  
  126.  
  127. ëThefinalNote:Ç
  128.  
  129. Everbody,forwhoFastCopyisaprecioustoolforworkingwith
  130. theST,cansendtheirdonationsand/ortheircontructivecritic
  131. to
  132.  
  133.      üMartinBackschat
  134.      Bergstr.16
  135.      8071HepbergÇ
  136.      üWestGermany
  137. Ç
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