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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
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