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RaWrite 1.2
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Purpose
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Write a disk image file to a 360K floppy disk.
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Equipment/Software Requirements
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PC/XT/AT with a floppy disk drive capable of reading and writing a 360K
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diskette.
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This program uses generic low-level BIOS diskette read/write functions. It
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should be portable to nearly every PC in existance. PS/2's should be able
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to run RawWrite 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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under MS-DOS thats been written to by RawWrite then the disk will need to be
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reformatted; all MS-DOS specific information will have been erased.
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How to Compile
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TCC rawrite.c
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The source code is specific to Borland International's Turbo C 2.01 and has
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been tested in all memory models.
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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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A sample run is shown below. The disk file being written, in this example,
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is named DEMODISK and the destination - where the image is being written -
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is the B: drive.
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This program may be aborted at any time by typing ^C.
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Sample Run
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C> RAWRITE
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RaWrite 1.2 - Write disk file to raw floppy diskette
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Enter source file name: DEMODISK
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Enter destination drive: B
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Please insert a formatted 360K diskette into drive B: and press -ENTER- :
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Writing image to drive B:
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Errors
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RaWrite attempts to determine if the diskette is a 360K, 720K, 1.2M, or
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1.44M diskette by reading specific sectors. If the inserted diskette is not
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one of the mentioned types, then RaWrite will abort with a short 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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History
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1.0 - Initial release
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1.1 - Beta test (fixing bugs) 4/5/91
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Some BIOS's don't like full-track writes.
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1.101 - Last beta release. 4/8/91
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Fixed BIOS full-track write by only only
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writing 3 sectors at a time.
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1.2 - Final code and documentation clean-ups. 4/9/91
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