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Short: Multiformat disk archiver
Author: apedretti@mbox.est.it (Alessandro Pedretti)
Uploader: apedretti@mbox.est.it (Alessandro Pedretti)
Version: 1.0
Type: util/arc
xFX is a program that has some features of an old and very usable utility
called DMS. Using some emulators (ShapeShifter, AmiMSX, fMSX, Speculator,
etc.), the Author found many disk problems that have been solved with this
utility. In other words, xFX is a tool to create disk images (packed or
unpacked) from whatever storage medium in order to transfer (modem, E-Mail,
etc.) or simply to archive. A little problem is the manipulation of
Macintosh HD floppies. xFX is able to use many device drivers that are
compatible with trackdisk.device (e.g. mfm.device, scsi.device,
fmsdisk.device, ramdrive.device, etc.). This feature is usable to read and
write file-disks, and so, to obtain security-only disk copies. This
performance is very useful to copy the Mac HD disks, because xFX is much
faster then ShapeShifter (with most probability the very slow disk copy
operation is a problem of MacOS and not of the wonderful ShapeShifter). All
file-disks generated with xFX (included packed files) do not make usage of a
proprietary format and thus they can be used with other software without any
limit. This feature allows to unpack a file-disk with any utility that fully
supports XPK format.
Requirements:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- CPU 68000 or better.
- Kickstart 2.0 (V37) or better.
- XPK libraries (optional).
- rexxsyslib.library (optional).
- reqtools.library (optional).
- Any memory storage driver, like:
floppy driver (3.5" DD, 3.5" HD, 5.25"), hard disk, ZIP, JAZ, floptical,
CD-ROM, LS-120, etc.
- Correspondent device drivers.
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
432 195 54.8% 22-Jul-97 14:51:40 +Check_Disk.rexx
1631 1259 22.8% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Check_Disk.rexx.info
600 246 59.0% 22-Jul-97 15:59:48 +DiskCopy.rexx
1631 1262 22.6% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +DiskCopy.rexx.info
417 196 52.9% 22-Jul-97 14:52:14 +PrintGeo.rexx
1631 1260 22.7% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +PrintGeo.rexx.info
328 141 57.0% 22-Jul-97 14:10:22 +Quit.rexx
1631 1259 22.8% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Quit.rexx.info
539 243 54.9% 22-Jul-97 15:05:30 +Read_Disk.rexx
1631 1259 22.8% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Read_Disk.rexx.info
366 170 53.5% 22-Jul-97 14:20:02 +ReqErr.rexx
1631 1261 22.6% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +ReqErr.rexx.info
910 408 55.1% 22-Jul-97 14:18:24 +Test.rexx
1631 1260 22.7% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Test.rexx.info
388 172 55.6% 22-Jul-97 14:23:14 +Version.rexx
1631 1259 22.8% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Version.rexx.info
530 236 55.4% 25-Jul-97 17:25:08 +Write_Disk.rexx
1631 1260 22.7% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +Write_Disk.rexx.info
50176 23082 53.9% 29-Aug-97 11:33:58 +GuiX_Preview
1432 946 33.9% 29-Aug-97 11:36:22 +GuiX_Preview.info
31935 11370 64.3% 29-Aug-97 11:45:44 +xFX-Eng.guide
1392 556 60.0% 29-Aug-97 11:36:22 +xFX-Eng.guide.info
36756 13456 63.3% 29-Aug-97 11:45:24 +xFX-Ita.guide
1392 556 60.0% 29-Aug-97 11:36:22 +xFX-Ita.guide.info
1243 714 42.5% 26-Aug-97 10:46:44 xFX.info
1233 801 35.0% 29-Aug-97 11:36:46 +ARexx.info
1192 770 35.4% 29-Aug-97 11:36:22 +Docs.info
2715 937 65.4% 29-Aug-97 12:03:20 +Install
1670 722 56.7% 26-Aug-97 10:46:36 +Install.info
31280 18044 42.3% 31-Jul-97 09:46:44 +xFX
1668 1145 31.3% 26-Aug-97 10:46:36 +xFX.info
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