| From: | Matthias Bethke |
| Date: | 19 Mar 2001 at 23:29:26 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: ArcHandlerEX |
On 19-mar-01 Andreas wrote:
> I never liked DMS. It looks very hacky to me. It was nice (since it was
> the only widley accepted way of creating compressed disk-images) but I
> recall the times when i had to fiddle around with my modem- settings to
> eliminate CRC errors on transmitted DMS archives back in my BBS times.
I don't think it can possibly have been DMS' fault, but it was hacky
anyway.
> Of course, there are not that many utilities for ADF for AmigaOS
> than for DMS, but most are just GUI frontends anyway.
I wonder why people keep writing ADF support stuff for AmigaOS and nobody
noticed the good old fmsdisk.device can create and mount ADFs :) An ADF is
a byte-by-byte copy of an entire floppy disk, and that's exactly what
fmsdisk writes in its "Unit" files.
kind regards
Matthias