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1.9 KiB
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69 lines
1.9 KiB
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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
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software is supplied AS IS. Mark Becker disclaims all warranties, expressed
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or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability
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and of fitness for any purpose. Mark Becker assumes no liability for
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damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this
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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
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drive.
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* MS-DOS version 3.21 or greater.
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* A formatted diskette.
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This program uses well-documented generic low-level DOS and BIOS functions.
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It should run on nearly every PC in existance. PS/2's should be able to run
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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
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information that may have been present. If you wish to re-use a diskette
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that has been written to by RaWrite then that diskette will probably need to
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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
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to swap diskettes as required. Rawrite allocates a large buffer in RAM to
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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
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diskette by reading sectors 18, 15, and 9 in that order. If the inserted
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diskette is not one of the these types, then RaWrite will abort with an error
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message.
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Errors such as write protect, door open, bad disk, bad sector, etc. cause a
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program abort with a short error message.
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