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Short: Multiformat disk archiver
Author: apedretti@mbox.est.it (Alessandro Pedretti)
Uploader: apedretti@mbox.est.it (Alessandro Pedretti)
Version: 1.1
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.
For the Graphic User Interface:
- Kickstart 3.0 (V39) or better.
- Magic User Interface (MUI) V3.3 or better.
- asl.library
New in this release:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- GuiX: The Graphic User Interface of xFX.
- Localization (english, italiano, dansk).
- Cursor blanking to accelerate the text output.
- Progress bar under CLI.
- ".xfx" extension is added automatically to file name.
- VERBOSE and FORCEEXT switches.
- Read routine more fast (async track reading).
- More optimized code for size and speed.
- XPK compression more efficient.
============================= 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
16297 3747 77.0% 09-Oct-97 10:30:22 +GuiX.cd
9100 2601 71.4% 09-Oct-97 10:37:30 +GuiX.ct
8515 2846 66.5% 21-Oct-97 19:10:08 +xFX.cd
5503 2179 60.4% 21-Oct-97 19:14:58 +xFX.ct
87946 19485 77.8% 21-Oct-97 19:11:08 +xFX-Eng.guide
1392 557 59.9% 10-Sep-97 15:32:18 +xFX-Eng.guide.info
93826 22164 76.3% 17-Oct-97 12:13:38 +xFX-Ita.guide
1392 560 59.7% 10-Sep-97 15:32:18 +xFX-Ita.guide.info
56152 22241 60.3% 22-Oct-97 11:08:30 +GuiX
3962 1189 69.9% 12-Oct-97 13:02:30 +GuiX.info
5654 2450 56.6% 05-Oct-97 11:06:56 +GuiX.catalog
4376 2064 52.8% 08-Oct-97 19:55:10 +xFX.catalog
5006 2122 57.6% 09-Oct-97 10:49:26 +GuiX.catalog
4864 2205 54.6% 21-Oct-97 19:15:08 +xFX.catalog
1243 715 42.4% 25-Sep-97 17:09:10 xFX.info
1233 803 34.8% 25-Sep-97 17:09:08 +ARexx.info
1192 773 35.1% 25-Sep-97 17:09:08 +Docs.info
4110 1250 69.5% 16-Oct-97 12:04:48 +Install
1675 731 56.3% 25-Sep-97 17:09:08 +Install.info
32804 19109 41.7% 21-Oct-97 19:21:32 +xFX
1668 1151 30.9% 25-Sep-97 17:09:08 +xFX.info
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367099 124288 66.1% 22-Oct-97 11:08:44 39 files