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- ATCopy2.0 (c) Copyright 1990 by Peter Vorwerk ATCopy2.0
-
- The program ATCopy2.0 is an update for the version 1.0. But
- this new version is SHAREWARE instead of PD. If you find this
- program useful and use it regular, please send $10 ( or
- DM 10 ) to the follow address.
-
- Peter Vorwerk
- Jägerstr. 3-5
-
- (W) 3000 Hannover 1
- Germany
-
- The program may be distributed for non-profit only ( a price
- of more than $7 per diskette is surely no more a self cost
- price ! ) and this manual is also copied. ( You are allowed
- to copy only the program without the manual to your harddisk
- or your workdisk, but you are not permitted to distribute the
- software in this form! ) If you want to include this software
- in an other library, than in the one of Fred Fish, please
- contact me frist.
-
- Surely everyone, who have an Amiga with an XT/AT Board ( the
- older SideCar works well too ), knows it is principle pos-
- sible to copy files between the two computers. But the way to
- do this is not very comfortable. In the new version of the
- Janus.library ( 2.63 respectively 33.1 ) you can use wild-
- cards, but only in one direction ( form the XT/AT to the
- Amiga ). Let's say you want to copy several files from the
- Amiga to the XT/AT, you have to copy each file seperatly. The
- first relase of ATCopy produced a scriptfile with the sepe-
- rate commands. Now we skip this step and translate the files
- direct through the socalled Dual-Ported-RAM. The program has
- an icon and can be startet from the workbench. If you start
- the program without any parameters, the files will be asked
- for interactiv by the well known ARP-Filerequester. From the
- CLI you are able to specify beside the filenames two other
- parameters.
-
- USAGE: ATCopy Files...,TO/K,OPT/K
-
- Files... means a list of filenames, the keyword
-
- TO specify the PC-path ( for example <TO A:> means
- that all files are send to the floppy A: . If you
- don't specify the keyword TO, the files will be
- send to the current PC-path. ) and after the
- keyword
-
- OPT you can specify one ( and only one ) of the follow
- options.
-
- B Translate the files binary ( no conversion of
- characters and CR's will not be translated in
- CRLF's. )
-
- CR Translate the files with conversion of characters,
- but also CR's will not be translated in CRLF'.
-
- NC Translate the files binary and CR's will be
- translated in CRLF's.
-
- If you don't specify the keyword OPT the files will be trans-
- lated by full conversion. This means both conversion of char-
- acters and CR's will be translated in CRLF's. This is the way
- the new programs AREAD and AWRITE works. These files are
- distributed by Commodore with the XT/AT Board. If you use the
- program ATCopy from the workbench you can't ( at this
- time ? ) use the keywords TO and OPT. The program use the
- standards ( current directory and full conversion ).
-
- INSTALLATION
-
- On the diskette you will find a subdirectory called PC. This
- directory contain three programs AT.EXE, XT.EXE and
- PCCOPY.EXE. At least two of this programs you must copy by
-
- AREAD DF0:ATCopy/PC/name.EXE A:name.EXE /B
-
- to the XT/AT. In each case you will need the program
- PCCOPY.EXE and it depends on your board the file XT.EXE or
- AT.EXE ( who had thought this ? ). The program PCCOPY.EXE is
- memoryresident and need start only once, for example in the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT ( this is the Startup-Sequence of the XT/AT ).
- The programs XT.EXE and AT.EXE are called by the Amiga
- program ATCopy. Therefore it is necessary that at this time
- no program is running. You are in the CLI of the XT/AT and
- you are able to start a new program. This limitation is not
- very well, but I don't know how to start a PC-Interrupt from
- my own Amiga-program or how to start a program at the XT/AT
- by a hotkey let's say ALT-2. If someone knows details on one
- of these questions, please write me a short note. I think it
- could be an other way of pay the SHAREWARE.
-
- The usage from the Amiga is already descripted above and so
- it's not necessary to repeat it again.
-
- NOTE: The program needs the ARP.library ( at least
- version 39. ).
-
- Please notice that on an XT/AT you can't use all the
- characters in filenames that are available for the Amiga. In
- fact the space, nationalcharacters or the sqare braces are
- not supported. Please notice that also there are strict
- limitations in the lenght of the filename and the extension.
- Only one extension with 3 characters and 8 characters before
- the dot "." are allowed. You can't use filenames starting
- with a dot. so ".info" is no legal filename and the two names
- "DemoDatei.info" and "DEMODATE.INF" specify the same file on
- an XT/AT !
-
- Everyone who had paid the SHAREWARE will get updates as quick
- as possible and even can get the soure if he/she want it.
- Please give me a short description of your enviroment. I need
- this because if the program wont work in a special enviroment
- it is easyer for me to send the new version first to these
- people who have this special enviroment.
-
- Bugreports or improvements are welcome.
-
- I hope that the translation from the Amiga to the XT/AT is
- easyer using this program.
-
- My program use parts of the ARP.library ( especialy the
- Filerequester and the routine GADS ). Without this help it
- had been ( nearly ) inpossible to write the program. I'm
- sorry, but the informations by the Janus.library are very
- rarely. Therefore it can be that the program ATCopy don't
- work in all parts on all configurations. ( I have tested it
- on my own Amiga 2000 with AT Board and on an Amiga 1000 with
- SideCar. I don't had access to an XT Board. )
-
- P.S. There is one more limitation by starting the program
- from the workbench. You can't specify more than one TOOL
- by "SHIFT Left Mouse". The first TOOL will work with all
- the PROJECTS you had specified and the reminder TOOLS
- will be skiped.
-
- Solution: Don't specify any files by "SHIFT Left Mouse".
- The program will ask you for each file by the
- ARP-Filerequester.
-
- Please excuse my bad english, but my schooltime is long ago.
-