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- DiskInfo v5.0 Copyright © 1990 by Stan Ziel, all rights reserved.
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- Note: If you've used an earlier version of DiskInfo, you should be
- aware that the command-line options have been changed. Please read the
- section entitled "Options" before using this new version.
-
-
- This archive is freely distributable as long as the files within are
- unmodified. No fee may be charged for the distribution of this archive
- other than the standard connect-time charges for computer services or
- media, postage and handling fees for disk libraries.
-
- This archive includes the following files:
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- ReadMe.1st - this file
- FFS.ml - sample MountList entries for FFS floppy drives
- DiskInfo.doc - Documentation for DiskInfo and FFS-floppies
- DiskInfo - the executable (size = 6984 bytes)
-
- In addition to these files, you will need the following (not included
- in the archive):
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- FastFileSystem - Provided with WorkBench 1.3, and should be in your
- L: directory. You only need this if you wish to use
- FFS-floppies.
- arp.library - Part of the ARP package. This should be version 39
- or higher (provided with ARP Release 3), and should
- be in your LIBS: directory. DiskInfo will NOT work
- without it.
- WorkBench - Obviously. You will need 1.3 or 1.32. DiskInfo may
- have problems under WB 2.0. (At the very least, it
- will not be as useful.) You will need the Format
- command if you want to create FFS-floppies. The
- KickStart version does not matter; DiskInfo will
- work with either 1.2 or 1.3.
-
- DiskInfo is very easy to use. You could probably use it without
- reading the documentation or by just glancing at it. However, if you use
- FFS-floppies, it is very important that you read DiskInfo.doc. Since
- FFS-floppies are not fully supported yet, you should be aware of any
- problems you might face. The documentation explains this in more detail.
- However, the problems using FFS-floppies are very minimal. The main
- advantage of using them (the increase in disk-space) more than makes up
- for these. Also, by using FFS-floppies, you will be getting a jump on
- WorkBench 2.0! I think you'll find that with DiskInfo, using FFS-floppies
- becomes almost second nature.
-
- As usual, the author claims no responsability for any problems this
- program might cause. But no problems are expected; DiskInfo works well
- and I use it all the time.
-
- Let me end this with why I wrote DiskInfo. First of all, I needed it.
- Secondly, I hoped to cause a kind of "Murphy's law" to take affect. That
- is: "The more effort you put into something that will be useless under
- the next OS version, the sooner that version will appear." :-)
-
- - Stan Ziel
- April 13, 1990
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