jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu (Joe Sharp) (05/26/91)
I was wondering if anyone knows of shareware program out there that will take a floppy disk and make a file out of the disk image. The program should also be able to restore the floppy from the file. I need to transfer a non-dos format floppy via a DOS file. The disk is not readeable under DOS DIR command but I can do a diskcopy, so I assume the format is the same. So if I can just find a program that will take a track by track image of this floppy, and put it into a file, then I can e-mail this file and presumably restore it to floppy at the other end. Anyone know of such a program? TIA Joe jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu
donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) (05/27/91)
The program you are looking for is TeleDisk by Sydex. Give them a call or
write them - see below. Registration is nominal $15-25, I've forgotten
exactly.
Sydex
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- San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.comrusty@anasaz.UUCP (Rusty Carruth) (06/01/91)
In article <1991May26.050649.12905@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu (Joe Sharp) writes: > >I need to transfer a non-dos format floppy via a DOS file. The disk is >not readeable under DOS DIR command but I can do a diskcopy, so I assume >the format is the same. So if I can just find a program that will take a >track by track image of this floppy, and put it into a file, then I can >e-mail this file and presumably restore it to floppy at the other end. > >Anyone know of such a program? TIA > >Joe >jsharp@isis.cs.du.edu Well, depending upon how crazy you want to get about it, if "DD" is available on ms-dos you could "simply" use something like "dd if=a: of=c:\junkfile" and make an image that way. I *do* know that some of the PC-based tar programs (like pax) can *write* a floppy without having the ms-dos filesystem on that floppy (i.e. it writes a "raw" cpio or tar file on the floppy), but I do not know if pax can act like "dd". If it can, then you could use it to create an image, compress it (since I bet that you would get a moderate amount of compression here). (I just checked picnix, DD was not there - maybe the other vendor with unix-like tools for Dos (sorry, I've spaced their name!) has it). Well, sorry I was not more help. I don't normally read this group (shucks, I rarely manage to keep up in the groups I'm REQUIRED to read for my job!), so if anyone wishes to correspond with me they will have the best luck doing it via email :-) (However, email can be finicky. Best bet is to include a ".uucp" after "anasaz", as in "anasaz.uucp!rusty@asuvax") Rusty {ames!ncar!noao!asuvax,mcdphx}!anasaz!rusty anasaz!rusty\ 73 de Rusty Carruth, N7IKQ (602) 870-3330 anasaz.UUCP!rusty>@asuvax P.O. Box 27001, Tempe, AZ 85285 rusty%anasaz.UUCP/ \.eas.asu.edu