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Re: Floppy disk "image" software available?

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From: Humberto Humbertoldi
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:15
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In article <1992Nov13.214219.23677@iplmail.orl.mmc.com> steveg@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Steve Gabrilowitz) writes:
In article <1992Nov12.165343.28056@news.yale.edu>, eric@suncis.ycc.yale.edu (Eric Bird) writes:
|> I'm looking for software which will allow me to make "images" of floppy
|> disks--i.e., copy all the contents of one disk into a single file, and then
|> reproduce the disk, sector for sector, later on.
|> 
|> Shareware or Commercial is fine.  Compression is not important.
|> 
|> It needs to be extremely easy to use--menu driven, not command line.  I have
|> looked at all the utilities at Simtel, and found a lot of acceptable but not
|> great stuff.  The one package I did like, Teledisk by SYDEX, is a problem in
|> that when I called SYDEX they were extremely rude and told me that "it's no
|> longer shareware" and is only available for $150.  Teledisk isn't THAT good.

I do what you're looking for using DR-DOS 6.0.  It's diskcopy command
does exactly this (as well as using any available XMS, EMS, or HD
space to avoid the swapping necassary for that other MicroSludge DOS).
It's not menu-driven as you mention, but it's so simple that I can't
imagine what a menu would do in this case.  All I need to do is type:
	"diskcopy x: path\filename" (where "x" is actually "a" or "b")
Lots of other good reasons to use this DOS as well.
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