Short: Yet Another Disk Imager (v2.0) Author: adlroc@usa.net (Andre R. de la Rocha) Uploader: adlroc@usa.net (Andre R. de la Rocha) Type: disk/misc Requires: OS1.3+ YADI ia a small cli-only program to transfer disk images to and from Amiga devices. A disk image is a file that contains the raw data as stored in an AmigaDOS device. YADI is useful to store NDOS disks as files, make backups of devices, transfer Amiga disks to Amiga emulators, transfer Amiga disk images used in the emulators (ADF/ADZ files) back to Amiga disks, etc. Why another disk imager ? Because the others suck. YADI features: -------------- A single program handles creation of disk images and also writes them to devices. Supports any AmigaDOS device, of any size, that supports trackdisk compatible commands, using any filesystem. This includes standard DF0: to DF3: (low or high density), Cross-DOS devices like PC0:, Cross-Mac devices, diskspare devices, RAD: , hard disk partitions, ZIPs, etc. You supply the AmigaDOS device name, i.e., DF1:, not trackdisk.device unit 1; RAD:, not ramdrive.device. It is safe. It won't let you write a disk image over a device of a different size. So you can't write by accident a 880kb disk image over your hard disk partition. Works in any Amiga with kickstart 1.3 (and maybe even 1.2) or newer. But uses 2.0+ functions if available. Is public domain. New features in version 2.0: ---------------------------- Supports internal compression and decompression of disk images using gzip compatible algorithm (uses zlib by Jean-loup Gailly). Now you can decompress directly the so called ADZ files and also generate them. Supports decompression of DMS files, calling the xDMS utility (also written by me). xDMS is available in Aminet in the directory util/arc. Supports enhanced control in the case of read/write errors. Supports batch reading/writing of several disk images. Can show informations about the device geometry, needed if you want to mount the disk image as a hardfile. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1192 551 53.7% 01-Nov-98 01:07:34 YADI20.info 60616 34632 42.8% 31-Oct-98 23:15:12 +yadi 9816 3800 61.2% 01-Nov-98 01:06:26 +yadi.doc 1432 855 40.2% 01-Nov-98 01:07:24 +yadi.doc.info 1418 1004 29.1% 01-Nov-98 01:07:24 +yadi.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 74474 40842 45.1% 03-Nov-98 13:35:20 5 files