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#1# Super DiskCopy by Super Software Super DiskCopy was written by MaeDae Enterprises based on FastCopy by Systems, Software, Support of Houston, TX. Super DiskCopy turns your computer into a high speed diskette duplicating machine equalling the performance of many dedicated hardware diskette duplicators costing thousands of dollars. Comments or suggestions for improving Super DiskCopy will be appreciated. Super DiskCopy requires an IBM PC or compatible with 256K of RAM. Display adapters known to work with Super DiskCopy are the IBM monochrome (MDA), color (CGA), enhanced graphics (EGA), and video graphics array (VGA) adapters. Super DiskCopy supports all common 5¼" and 3½" formats. #20# General help for all menus: This menu is broken up into two basic windows. The window at the top of your screen shows several options to choose from. The window at the bottom of the screen expands on what will occur if you choose the highlighted option (the one that has a different background color). Options may be selected in one of two ways. You can either press the first letter of the desired command or move the highlight bar over the desired option and press enter. To move the highlight bar use either the space bar, up arrow, down arrow, left arrow, or right arrow. You can also use home to move to the first top line item on the menu. Using the first letter of a command only works in the ACTIVE window. If you don't have any pulldown then the active window is the top window. Once you pulldown one of the options that becomes the active window. You must use one of the commands in the pulldown once it is active. You can always use Escape to back out of the pulldown and return to the top menu. #21# You are now using the Super DiskCopy Main Menu. From here you can access the main functional areas of Super DiskCopy. Refer to the On-Line Manual to get a feel for what a fully featured diskette duplicator can do. An additional status window is displayed near the bottom of your screen. It shows you the status for load, copy, compare, and format. A time in seconds is displayed after each type of operation. This shows you the time it took for the previous load, copy, etc. If 0 seconds is displayed, then you haven't performed an operation to allow Super DiskCopy to time that function. Super DiskCopy uses a "smart" form of counting where the copy and compare counters are reset to zero when you load a disk. That way they always provide you information relative to the disk you are working with. Please note that an abbreviated directory window will appear in the middle right of your screen as soon as a valid source diskette has been loaded. It will show the diskette volume label (if any) and first four file names. We have tried to design Super DiskCopy to let you get your job done quickly and easily. Please feel free to forward any suggestions for improvement to us at Super Software, Attn: Super DiskCopy Author. #90# Super DiskCopy couldn't locate your path. Are you sure you entered the correct path to get to your file. Computers are dumb, you have to tell them everything. #100# Drive was not ready for read/write. Please ensure you have a floppy in the drive and the drive door is closed. Sometimes on very fast AT compatible computers with 1.2 Mb diskette drives the drive can't respond quickly enough. In this case try the operation again or add a utility to modify the timeout on the drive. Several programs are available to fix this disk drive timeout problem. #200# Help for Directory Screen: To use the file use the up or down arrows on the numeric keypad to highlight a file name and then press enter. All files in the directory listing are sorted. Super DiskCopy can handle a directory containing up to 500 files. If you have more files than that in a SINGLE directory then please break the directory into smaller ones before running Super DiskCopy. Cursor key movements: Up Arrow - Move up one file. Down Arrow - Move down one file. PgUp - Move up one page of files. PgDn - Move down one page of files. Ctrl+Home - Move to the first file in the directory. Ctrl+End - Move to the last file in the directory. Use Enter to select the highlighted FDF file and start operations. #201# General note: The file sizes are shown in K bytes to conserve screen space. This abbreviated display method allows additional information to be shown on the directory screen. Each K is actually 1024 bytes. If you use a DOS directory listing to show the size of a file, it will show a 100K file as 102,400 bytes (100 times 1024). #250# An error was detected while trying to read your source diskette. Please ensure the diskette is inserted in the specified drive and that the drive door is closed. Also you might try to take the diskette out and re-insert it back into the drive. Sometimes the diskette isn't centered correctly within the disk drive. The source was not loaded so you will not be able to make any copies. All standard 160K, 180K, 320K, 360K and 1.2M 5¼" and 720K/1.44M 3½" diskette formats are supported. #300# Super DiskCopy could not perform the requested operation. This screen gives help related to the format and copy diskette operations. An error occured during the requested operation. Listed below are some helpful hints with a detailed error listing provided on the next screen. Please ensure: 1. The diskette isn't write protected. 2. There really is a diskette in the destination drive. 3. There is no obvious physical damage to the diskette. 4. You aren't trying to save to a 1.2 Mb diskette in a 360 Kb disk drive or a 1.44M diskette as a 720K disk. 5. You don't have any disk cache software that is trying to buffer writes to your floppy drive. 6. You really do have the specified destination drive. This error may be generated on some hard disk based systems where you boot from the hard disk. Try booting from a floppy containing your DOS. The problem may go away. We have seen this happen with certain versions of DOS, specifically Compaq DOS 3.31 and IBM PC DOS 4.0. We will continue to research the problem and provide an update ASAP! The next help screen will provide a detailed explanation of the error codes. #301# Error codes: Code Description ════ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ 0 Unable to bring the diskette in drive up to speed for operation 1 Bad command: invalid request made to diskette controller 2 Bad address mark: sector ID marking invalid or not found 3 Write protect error: attempt to write on protected diskette 4 Bad sector: requested sector not on diskette 8 DMA failure 9 DMA boundary error: attempt to DMA outside 64K area 16 Bad CRC: diskette read found invalid parity check of data 32 Controller failed: diskette controller malfunction 64 Bad seek: move to requested track failed 128 Time out: drive did not respond Note: The description of these error codes were obtained from several sources for the IBM PC. The descriptions are very generic because there can be a wide variety of problems return the same error code. We don't mean to be cryptic but there is really no way to return a specific error code for every possible error condition. #400# This screen shows you a lot of technical information that probably seems very confusing at first. DOS uses all this information and more to keep track of information stored on floppy diskettes. As the IBM PC and DOS has evolved over the last few years so has the formats of the media used in the computer. This has caused a large number of formats for the media. Super DiskCopy uses the following drive types: 0 160K Single sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track 1 180K Single sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track 2 320K Double sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track 3 360K Double sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track 4 720K Double sided, 80 track, 9 sectors per track 5 1.2M Double sided, 80 track, 15 sectors per track 6 1.44M Double sided, 80 track, 18 sectors per track Other information displayed on this page will need to be looked up in a DOS technical reference manual. You can easily obtain a book containing this information from your local computer store. #401# A map of your diskette is also laid out before you. Any cluster with a * contains information. Any cluster with a . doesn't contain information. Information on how the clusters relate to absolute sides, tracks, sectors, etc. can be obtained using the info/drive status option under the utility section of Super DiskCopy. #500# Super DiskCopy uses a 16 bit CRC to determine when damage has occured on a Floppy Disk File (FDF). Our extensive built-in testing has determined that this diskette (stored as file) is damaged. Super DiskCopy will not allow you to use a damaged floppy disk file! We check check all FDFs using a 16 bit CRC. This will catch modifications to the data for about 99.996% of the cases. Using a 16 bit CRC check is much more reliable than a faster checksum while adding only one to two percent speed overhead! Our high speed assembly language CRC allows us to completely protect your data without slowing you down. Also, we have added ultra high speed assembly language data compression for your FDF files. The data compression/expansion is so fast that it will almost always load and save faster than an uncompressed .FDF file. Because of this, we no longer support the older non-compressed formats. We hope you appreciate the extra measure of safety we have added here. #700# You must first load a diskette before you can perform operations using it. Use the load disk option to load a diskette. Did you have a disk error on the previous read? Only diskettes which have been read into memory can be written back out. If you are using this option to format diskettes first format a clean master diskette using your DOS. Load that diskette into Super DiskCopy. Turn the forced format option on for best results. You can now save as many copies of the diskette as desired. The result is the same as using DOS's format command but is faster. #750# You must first load a diskette before you can do a directory of it. Use the load disk option to load a diskette. The in-memory directory command looks at the diskette image stored in RAM and generates a directory from it instead of re-reading the diskette. This is much faster and more convient for the user. #760# The in-memory directory command allows you to do a directory of the source disk you have loaded in memory. This allows you to quickly check the contents of the in-memory diskette to ensure you have the correct diskette loaded for copies or compares. The in-memory directory displays a file number to keep track of the file you are on, the filename, file extension, and file size in bytes. This directory is obtained by checking the file allocation table (FAT) which is located in the image of the diskette stored in memory. This technique doesn't use DOS. SDC tries to obtain the filenames from the information stored in memory. There is no other way without asking DOS to read the diskette directory from the floppy diskette. Our technique works on all versions of DOS up to DOS 4.01. Since this is the latest version available at this time, we feel the technique works under all known conditions. However, future versions of DOS may change the format of the FAT stored on floppy diskettes. If this occurs, contact us to upgrade to the latest version of SDC that supports your new DOS version. #800# Use of this option is highly recommended for companies producing diskettes which need to be read on the widest range of computers. By forcing the format of a diskette you guarantee that data is laid down cleanly on the new tracks. If you simply write over old data without reformatting the diskette it can cause some problems with 1.2 Mb floppy drives. The 1.2 Mb drives are very picky on the AT. By reformatting the floppy it helps readability. Use of the forced format option will cause the copy operation to take about 50% longer than saving to a formatted floppy without forced format. If you are constantly saving to blank unformatted diskettes it is strongly recommended that you set the default at forced format. Without forced format Super DiskCopy first tries to write to the diskette, if that fails it will then set forced format to on for this one copy only. You can save the one or two seconds test time by telling Super DiskCopy to just go ahead and format the floppy without testing to see if the diskette is already formatted. Note: If you are always working with unformatted diskettes, using this this option will save you about 1/2 second per copy. Super DiskCopy, like DOS, first tries to write to the floppy before resorting to formatting. You are saving the time it takes to determine the floppy isn't formatted. #900# This option allows you to define the default path for accessing the on-line manual and context sensitive help. Make sure you include the index file (.INX) along with the help/manual file (.TXT) in the specified directory. #1000# This option allows you to enable/disable the sound or beeps on errors. Some people find programs that beep on errors to be annoying (me for one). This option will allow you to disable ALL warning beeps in Super DiskCopy. #1100# This menu allows you to change all the colors used in Super DiskCopy. To change a default color - first use the up or down arrow key to select the color, then type in the new color. When you have changed all the colors press Ctrl+D to display these colors in a sample window. As with all installation options, these changes will not be used until you choose the retain option on the main menu. This allows you to experiment with the installation options and then not have to lose your original defaults. Please keep in mind the foreground text colors can be 0-15, the background 0-7. If you choose a text color the same as a background color then the text will disappear. You may notice some of your installed color combinations result in invisible lines on the Ctrl+D popup window. Please be careful not to choose this color for one of your text colors!! Note: For many of the Super DiskCopy installable options and user inputs you will see a prompt containing the characters . If you count the number of 's you will find the maximum number of characters that can be entered. Escape is used throughout Super DiskCopy to signal "I want out". Press Enter, up arrow, down arrow, or whatever is asked for to enter the desired value. Escape will throw away any immediate changes and get you out of the area you are in. #1101# Please note that the background color (0-7) is one digit long and the foreground color (0-15) is two digits long. That is why you will see the input prompt (the s) change it's width as you go between the colors. #1200# This screen shows the possible combinations of colors in Super DiskCopy. If you are using a non IBM display adapter you may have to "play" with the colors to get a pleasing combination. Super DiskCopy defaults to colors that work well with the IBM Color Graphics Adapter, IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter, and IBM Monochrome Display Adapter. On some monochrome display adapter clones you may need to alter a foreground text color to get the background to change intensity. The default combination of colors will work on any 100% IBM PC compatible display adapter! #1300# Super DiskCopy allows the help & manual paths, program colors, etc. to be saved in a configuration file. If no configuration file is specified on the command line (ex. C:>SDC C:\SDC\MyConfg.CNF) when you call up Super DiskCopy then Super DiskCopy will use the default name of SDC.CNF. You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to load. You may have several configuration files saved under different names. Example: BW.CNF (for black and white composite monitors attached to a composite color card), etc. Please make sure that the configuration file you are asking Super DiskCopy to use is really an Super DiskCopy configuration file! Remember you can always press ESC if you got into this area by accident. #1400# Super DiskCopy allows the default help/manual paths, program colors, etc to be saved in a configuration file. If no configuration file is specified on the command line (ex. C:>SDC C:\SDC\MyConfg.CNF) when you call up Super DiskCopy then Super DiskCopy will use the default name of SDC.CNF. You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to save all the program defaults to. You may have several configuration files saved under different names. Examples: BW.CNF (for black and white composite monitors attached to a composite color card), etc. Please remember you can always press ESC if you got into this area by accident. #1500# The diskettes you are trying to compare are not the same type. Diskettes come in several different capacities. You are trying to compare one format with another. This can't be performed. Use the utilities section of Super DiskCopy to determine the diskette type. #1510# The compare of the two diskettes failed. The diskette stored in memory is not the same as the diskette you asked Super DiskCopy to compare it to. #1520# The diskette in memory is the same as the diskette you compared it to. Both the format and the contents are the same. A complete byte for byte comparison was performed. The comparison was performed on the in-memory disk and the specified diskette one byte at a time. If any byte wasn't the same, you would have been shown a different window saying that the diskettes were not the same. #1600# This screen allows you to select the default format capacity for your disk drives. You specify the format for each drive by typing the drive letter, an equal sign, and then the desired format capacity. Do not use any spaces within the specification. For example: A=360 is ok, but A= 360 or A=3 60 are not! You can change the format capacity of any drive or all drives by simply editing the displayed values. Also, make sure the drive you specify is a DOS compatible drive. Only those drives normally addressable through DOS via INT13 (a DOS standard access method) are supported. Editing keys: Keypad Home, End, left arrow, right arrow, insert, delete, and much more. Each of your floppy drives support a high end format capacity but may also be able to support older and smaller disk formats. For example: The first IBM PC back in 1981, only supported the 5¼" 160K format. With the improvements in disk drive technology and DOS revisions the capacity grew in steps up to the current 360K for the standard double sided double density 5¼" drive. We provide support for the older formats, allowing compatibility with the older machines and users of older versions of DOS. #1625# Super DiskCopy could not understand the format you specified. One of two possibilities exist. Either you specified the information in an invalid format or the capacity you specified for one of the drives is not valid. Assume drive A: is a 720K drive and B: is a 360K drive. Valid commands: A=720 B=360 or A=720 B=160 or A=720 B=180 Invalid commands: A=360 B=720 or A=720 B=3 60 or A =720 B=360 Do not use any spaces in the drive=capacity statement. Ensure the capacity you specify is valid and that the drive is a DOS compatible drive. An arrow is probably shown on your screen under a section of the format specification. This shows where we were in working with your desired formats when the error was encountered. Usually the arrow will appear immediately after the end of the statement that caused the error. For example: A=160 B=360 As the formats are looked at, the arrow would be pointing to the space after 160 (it had just finished getting the desired format capacity). A check would be performed to see if drive A could support a 160K format (a 720K drive can't). You would then be given the error message. #1650# This screen allows you to define the different drives on your computer and their maximum capacity. You specify the capacity for each drive by typing the drive letter, an equal sign, and then the drive capacity. Do not use any spaces within the specification. For example: A=360 is ok, but A= 360 or A=3 60 are not! You can change the maximum capacity of any drive or all drives by simply editing the displayed values. Also, make sure the drive you specify is a DOS compatible drive. Only those drives normally addressable through DOS via INT13 (a DOS standard access method) are supported. Editing keys: Keypad Home, End, left arrow, right arrow, insert, delete, and much more. Many of the older computers don't directly support the newer drives using the BIOS calls. Because of this, we allow you to override the information we obtain from BIOS calls. Some of the older computers may report that a drive may not exist or be the wrong size when we inquire thru BIOS calls. If your configuration differs from the one shown, add additional drives and correct capacities. After you save the configuration, Super Diskcopy will use your information and ignore the initial drive information provided by BIOS calls. #1675# The only valid capacities in K are 360, 720, 1200, or 1440! Super DiskCopy could not understand the capacity you specified. One of two possibilities exist. Either you specified the information in an invalid format or the capacity you specified for one of the drives is not valid. Assume drive A: is a 720K drive and B: is a 360K drive. Valid command: A=720 B=360 Invalid commands: A=360 B=720 or A=720 B=3 60 or A=720 B=320 Do not use any spaces in the drive=capacity statement. Ensure the capacity you specify is the maximum capacity supported by the drive and that the drive is a DOS compatible drive. An arrow is probably shown on your screen under a section of the capacity specification. This shows where we were in working with your desired formats when the error was encountered. Usually the arrow will appear immediately after the end of the statement that caused the error. For example: A=160 B=360 As the capacities are looked at, the arrow would be pointing to the space after 160 (it had just finished getting the actual maximum drive capacity). 160 is an invalid maximum capacity! #1700# Super DiskCopy "spools" your diskette to a specified drive when you run out of normal RAM in your computer's main memory. When working with 3½" disks, your computer can't store the entire diskette in memory. We send the portion that can't be stored in main memory to a disk file. This option allows you to specify which drive will contain the temporary file. A file by the name of SDCDISK.$$$ is created in the root of the specified spool drive and used for the temporary storage of the portion of the diskette that won't fit into memory. This file is created for spooling and then erased after you finish using Super DiskCopy. Please ensure there is about one megabyte of free disk space available on the specified drive. Not all of this will be used but it is the suggested minimum to prevent any possible problems. For higher performance, specify a large RAM disk as the spool drive. This will allow Super DiskCopy to spool to a high speed device, making the copying of larger diskettes very fast. Specify your extended or expanded memory as a RAM disk and install Super DiskCopy to spool to this drive for much faster operation. Drives A-Z are allowed for spooling. Do NOT spool to the same drive that you are copying! Using floppy drives for spooling is not recommended. #1800# This option allows you to address any floppy drive attached to your computer as long as it is supported in your computer's Basic Input Output System (BIOS). Press the letter corresponding to the drive you want to access (example: G for diskette drive G:). Special checks are performed to ensure that you don't use a hard disk or similar type drive for this operation. Most of us don't appreciate it when a program accidentally reformats our hard disk. Most computers support drives A: and B: as floppy drives (removable media drives). Hard disks normally start at C: and run thru Z: (and aren't normally removable). Some computers are a little different, maybe even a little strange. They may even have a floppy drive addressed as G:. We have built in support for floppies addressed as A: thru Z: as long as your computer fully supports them in its BIOS. We also work with most drives that use a device driver (in the CONFIG.SYS file) to extend the ROM BIOS. #1810# The floppy drive you have selected is not recognized by your system as a normal floppy drive. We ask your computer using INT13 in your computer's Basic Input Output System (BIOS) what drives you have. It reported that the drive you selected is not a floppy drive. Some add-on floppy drives may provide you with some software that "tricks" your computer into thinking it has additional drives. This kind of thing normally works around the BIOS and isn't compatible with normal BIOS calls. We can't guarantee proper operation with your diskette drives in these cases. #2000# Super DiskCopy ran out of memory while trying to perform the requested operation. Generally this will only happen if you have limited free system memory (RAM) and try to perform an operation that requires a lot of memory. Possible corrective measures: 1. Limit the number of memory resident programs you load. 2. Upgrade your system RAM if you have less than 640K. 3. Provide additional free disk space on the drive you specified for the spooling of large floppies. 4. Allocate more space to your RAM disk if you have chosen one for higher performance overflow spooling (virtual memory). #20050# Quick startup info: Super DiskCopy is a diskette duplication program which lets you, the user, mass produce diskettes quickly and easily. It allows you to read a diskette once and then make as many copies as you want. Super DiskCopy supports 5¼" 160K, 180K, 320K, 360K, and 1.2M; also 3½" 720K and 1.44M. To copy a diskette use the Load pulldown off the main menu. Insert the diskette you would like to copy. Next tell Super DiskCopy where you put the diskette by selecting the Load pulldown and pressing A for drive A: or B for drive B:. Your diskette will be loaded into memory. Take out your master source diskette and place the diskette you would like to make the copy on into a drive, it doesn't matter which drive. Now it is time to tell Super DiskCopy to make the copy. Select the Copy pulldown and press A to make the copy in drive A: or B for drive B:. Super DiskCopy will automatically format your floppy if it isn't already formatted. Repeat this step to make as many copies as you want. Isn't it nice not to have to reload your source diskette each time? Refer to other sections of the On-Line Manual for additional information. F1 is available to call up help while you are using Super DiskCopy. #20051# ┌──────────────────────────┐ │ Commonly Asked Questions │ └──────────────────────────┘ 1. Will Super DiskCopy (SDC) duplicate copy protected diskettes? No. SDC will only duplicate unprotected diskettes with no bad sectors. 2. How does SDC manage to copy even 1.44M floppies in only a single pass? SDC holds as much of the diskette in memory as possible. The rest of the diskette is spooled to a file on another drive. Use a RAM drive to provide maximum performance (lightning fast). 3. Will SDC allow me to save diskettes on my hard disk for later recall? Yes! SDC will write any diskette to a compressed data file using data validity checks (CRCs) to allow ultra high speed recall later. #20100# Super DiskCopy allows you to read an entire diskette into memory and then make as many copies as you want without reading the master diskette again. To do this it must retain an image of the master diskette in memory. This image can take up to 720K of storage space. The portion of the diskette that won't fit into memory is spooled to another drive. Super DiskCopy out performs DOS's diskcopy both in speed and in safety of the operation. Super DiskCopy speeds up the access times of your disk drive allowing quicker reads and writes. It also verifys the copy by checking the CRC written to the diskette during the copy process. When making a copy, Super DiskCopy (unless told otherwise) will check the diskette to see if it is already formatted and then proceed either with the copy or the format and copy. Just feed it diskettes, you don't need to worry about the destination diskette. Nothing could be easier! System requirements: An IBM PC or totally compatible clone, 256K of RAM, and IBM PC DOS version 3.0 or later. Super DiskCopy should work with any version of MS DOS 3.0 or later but has not been tested with all the possible MS DOS versions. #20200# ╒═══════╦═══════════════════════════╦═══════════════════════════╕ │ PCDOS ║ 360K 5¼" Diskette ║ 1.44M 3½" Diskette │ │ ───── ╟──────┬──────┬──────┬──────╫──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┤ │ SDC ║ Load │ Save │FmtSav│Format║ Load │ Save │FmtSav│Format│ ╞═══════╬══════╪══════╪══════╪══════╬══════╪══════╪══════╪══════╡ │ DOS ║24 sec│41 sec│83 sec│44 sec║60 sec│92 sec│178sec│95 sec│ ├───────╫──────┼──────┼──────┼──────╫──────┼──────┼──────┼──────┤ │ SDC ║18 sec│30 sec│50 sec│40 sec║54 sec│81 sec│115sec│80 sec│ ╘═══════╩══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╩══════╧══════╧══════╧══════╛ Notes: Times may change as we continue to improve Super DiskCopy. Please note that the faster your computer, the more Super DiskCopy out performs IBM PC DOS. The virtual drive we used was a RAM disk. We used freshly formatted diskettes that were approximately 75% full. Less full diskettes will result in far higher performance for SDC! Super DiskCopy can make multiple copies/compares per read, PC DOS can't. Super DiskCopy is faster than PC DOS (2-3x) for multiple operations because it doesn't reload the source and makes copies of even 1.44M diskettes in a single pass! We assumed 10 seconds for several manual swaps of 1.44M 3½" diskettes for loads/saves. #20201# All benchmarks are based on version 3.1 of Super DiskCopy running on an IBM PS/2 model 70. Run your own timing tests using your hardware, don't take our word that we are faster. The only true test of how quickly Super DiskCopy will perform diskette operations on your hardware is to actually time them. We invite you to put Super DiskCopy to the test. The above times are affected by the DOS version, both by its revision and its source (IBM, Compaq, etc). Any small change in your hardware may throw off the timing of Super DiskCopy. Memory resident programs slow down Super DiskCopy and may drastically (up to 50%) slow the disk operations. Even such a small thing as displaying the track number while copying took many hours of work to speed up to where it didn't slow down operations. All tests were run with IBM PC DOS with no memory resident programs. If your timing tests show results radically different from the above figures please write us with figures. If you did better, we will praise Super DiskCopy, if you did worse we will try to find something to blame it on. Please note that we far out perform DOS on 1.44M 3½" media because of our ability to work with the diskette in a single pass without requiring you to swap diskettes. We also use "smart" loading/saving. If your diskettes aren't almost full, our performance will be even higher! #20300# HISTORY OF REVISIONS: ═════════════════════ Super DiskCopy v3.00 Nov 1990 This is the initial Shareware release of Super DiskCopy. It provides all the functions of custom hardware disk duplicators costing thousands of dollars. All this power with a very user friendly user interface. Super DiskCopy v3.10 Feb 1991 Super DiskCopy now compresses the floppy disk files (.FDFs) using very high speed assembly language compression routines. Now uses "smart" data loading and saving where only data areas are used. Rewrote the CRC routines in asm to save time when you are reading or writing .FDFs. Added directory navigation routines. #20500# GENERAL: ════════ 1. Super DiskCopy was developed by Dave Black of MaeDae Enterprises. 2. Super DiskCopy was written in C with the core disk routines and several other speed critical routines in high speed assembly language. The source for Super DiskCopy consists of about 8,000 lines of code. #20900# Unable to run SSINFO.EXE - The latest information on our products! Please ensure SSINFO.EXE is in your current working directory. Are you out of free RAM (see the bottom line of this screen)? If it shows less than about 80K, try running SSINFO.EXE directly from DOS. If SSINFO.EXE has been lost, call: Voice 1-713-488-0210 FAX 1-713-280-0525 #20950# Unable to run SSUPPORT.EXE - The latest information for technical support! Please ensure SSUPPORT.EXE is in your current working directory. Are you out of free RAM (see the bottom line of this screen)? If it shows less than about 80K, try running SSUPPORT.EXE directly from DOS. If SSUPPORT.EXE has been lost, call: Voice 1-713-488-0210 FAX 1-713-280-0525 #END#