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Instructions for The Ultimate RAMdisk Copy Program
July 27, 1986
File name ULTCPY.PRG or ULTICOPY.PRG
Program and documentation copyright (c) 1986 by David
Duberman
If you find this program useful and/or would like to receive
the source code, if for no other reason than to remove the
two annoying requests for a keypress, send a blank formatted
3.5" diskette and a check for $5 to:
David Duberman
1645 West Selby Lane
Redwood City, CA 94061
How to use The Ultimate RAMdisk Copy Program
It's finally here! The program every RAMdisk user in the ST
universe has been breathlessly awaiting! This program does
no less than to copy automatically every file and every
folder (except the AUTO folder) from any floppy to a ramdisk
(or to any other disk).
You don't have to use the program from an AUTO folder, but
it's the easiest way. Simply copy the program into the AUTO
folder on your boot disk after copying in a ramdisk program.
Of course, you should use a .PRG type ramdisk program rather
than an .ACC type, which won't run out of the AUTO folder.
The best ramdisk available today is in the public domain, and
comes in two forms, usually called RAMDISK.PRG and
RAMDSK1M.PRG, plus a RAMDISK.DOC instructions file. Its main
advantage is that its contents survive a press of the Reset
button. You can download it from the Atari Base BBS at Atari
headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The number is (408)
745-5308.
The recommended ramdisk program uses drive D: for the
ramdisk; others use C:, and some let you specify which drive.
You can tell ULTICOPY which drives to use for both input and
output in one of three ways. The easiest way is to create a
two-character ASCII file named COPY.INF in the main directory
of your boot disk. One way to do this is to use the Personal
Pascal editor or any other text editor. You can also use 1st
Word in non-WP mode, or print to disk from ST Writer. Or if
you're using ColorWriter, the great new word processor from
Shanner International Corp., just rename the standard output
.DOC file. In any case, the first two characters in the file
are what's important ; the program ignores any characters
beyond these. They should be the letter specifiers for the
input drive and the output drive, in that order. For
instance, to copy all files and folders from floppy drive A
to ramdisk D, the file should be:
AD
Any lower case letters are converted to upper case. Another
legal file to copy everything from drive B to drive C would
be:
bc
If the program doesn't find the COPY.INF file, it prompts you
for the two letters. You're prompted for each separately;
enter each in upper or lower case. If you don't enter two
letters between A and Z, you're prompted again. If you press
Return at either prompt, the program uses a default of A, and
for the output drive the default is D.
Then the program goes to work and copies all files and
folders (except the AUTO folder) from the specified floppy to
the specified ramdisk. The program uses recursion to handle
nested directories several levels deep. Count on about six
levels of subdirectories deep with full (11-character) folder
names; more with shorter folder names. All files from all
folders are copied into the correct folder on the ramdisk.
Warning: if your directories are nested too deeply, the
program may crash!
That's it! Crude but effective, and the price is right! The
program is no slouch speed-wise, either. Pass this program
and instructions file to your friends if you like, but please
don't sell it for profit! Thank you.