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- Showdisk, Copyright (C) 1993 EQU
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- Preface
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- As the name may indicate this utility is used
- to display the ASCII (>31, <127) contains of your disk on
- your default output.
- Currently only disks with 80 Tracks (512 bytes blocksize)
- are supported, maybe I will add a routine so that
- it works with any size of disks if I see reason to.
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- Requirements
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- Any model of the Amiga Homecomputer with an OS 2.0 or above.
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- Usage
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- Showdisk should be used from CLI/Shell with the following
- argument:
- Showdisk <drive>
- where <drive> is a number from 0 to 4.
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- Sofar Showdisk can't be ran from Workbench,
- maybe I will implement this one day.
- If you specify an drive with no disk in it,
- Showdisk will show an IoError message but won't guru.
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- Showdisk is pure code meaning you can make it resident for
- the best/fastest access possible.
- Just type 'Resident <path>Showdisk' to make Showdisk resident
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- Distribution
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- This utility is whatsoever software, so you can do anything you want with it.
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- Last Words
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- Until now I used to scan my disks with DiskX 2.2a from Steve Tibbett ('89?),
- but I now run OS 3.0 so it is fairly understandable that it
- doesn't perform to my standards.
- If I have some spare time I may make a GUI for this one and add a few nice
- options but we will see...
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- I take no responsability of the consequences created from the
- use of the program, use it on your own risk.
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- Changes
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- Showdisk 0.1 (1993-08-16)
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- Initial release. Final size 1216 bytes (Unpacked format)
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- Showdisk 0.2 (1993-09-03)
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- I had made an enourmous mistake in version 0.1 .
- When allocating memory for the scan buffer, I
- had specified MEMF_FAST flag which means
- that if one didn't have fast memory installed,
- the utility refused to work. Sorry for this one
- but I'm only human...
- More bugs to come: There was a memory loss of
- 4 bytes, fixed (Thanks to mungwall and Spock for
- giving it to me).
- I rewrote the program. The most meaningfull
- change is that the scan rutine/loop which
- scans for ASCII matches will be totally
- placed in your cache if you have one,
- speeds up scanning by a huge factor.
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- Bug fixed and rewritten. Final size 940 bytes (Unpacked format)
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