Short: Packs DFx, DHx etc., XPK support, V1.6 Author: Christian Wasner Uploader: wasner@ifmsun1.ifm.uni-hamburg.de Type: util/arc With this program you can read or write data directly from/to a disk. The blocks of the disk are read and stored into a file. All types of disks can be read (i.e. DHx: RAD: DFx: etc., but not CD Roms). When handling DOS disks, only the used blocks are read/written if not specified otherwise. All blocks are handled if the disk has no known filesystem (e.g. PeeCee disks or demo disks with trackloaders). The data can also be packed with any bugfree XPK packer. The program currently only has a shell interface. All this sounds like "Oh no, another DMS clone", but DMS can only handle floppy disks or devices with the size of floppy disks. Even Non-DOS disks can be handled (then all blocks are read, of course). Another advantage of PackDev is that is doesn't use stolen code like the authors of DMS do. PackDev supports the xpk packer system thus it's much more flexible than DMS. You can use any xpk packer you like, e.g. a disk with pictures or sounds or anything else can be packed with an xpk packer customized for that type of data. When comparing size, you see that DevPack is only 23 KB long ! Aug-14 1994 V1.0 - Initial release, never released I think... Aug-18 1994 V1.1 - Minor bugs fixed Apr-16 1995 V1.2 - Problems with OFS disks fixed (PackDev didn't know the number of free/used blocks) - ALL, NOVERBOSE, QUIET and NOCONFIRM keyword added - Doc file corrected and improved - Filesystem type is now read from block 0 instead of reading it from the DOS node, because the latter always contains DOS\0 for Amiga floppies - Minor bugfixes Apr-30 1995 V1.3 - If the partition with LIBS: on it is to be handled, PackDev could not open XPK (sub-)libraries, fixed - Minimum XPK buffer size corrected - TESTFILE parameter added - Checksums installed, in case an xpk packer doesn't keep them - Argument handling changed (you got me, Christian...) - BLOCKLIST parameter added - PASSWORD parameter added Jul-02 1995 V1.4 - OS 2.0 workaround: Filesystems cannot be inhibited if the DosList is locked. Now it is unlocked before inhibiting (Thanks, Golly). - Bugfix: DosList was locked with LDF_READ|LDF_DEVICES, but unlocked with LDF_READ|LDF_VOLUMES. - Minor docfile editing Aug-17 1995 V1.5 - Read/write error output/user interaction was only done if QUIET or NOCONFIRM were set. This must be vice versa, of course (Thanks Dirk) - Documentation is now in Amigaguide format (Thanks to Edd Dumbill, the author of Heddley, a great Amigaguide editor) Sep-03 1995 V1.6 - Added new parameters: TDFLABEL, NOVERIFY, TRUENAME - TDFORMAT does no longer write label buffers, use TDFLABEL for this in future - XPK timing docs revised - Guide file improved - The guide became longer than the executable :-) -------- ANOTHER FINE PHANTASM TOOL -------- ____________ ________ _________ ____ _____ ____ / / /__ ____ _\ ._ __ / __/___ _/ _/ __/ / / / /// / /__ / / / / ___//__/__/_/__/__/__/__/_/__/___ /_/_/_/LNF ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 23928 11396 52.3% 03-Sep-95 21:35:22 PackDev 30779 11440 62.8% 03-Sep-95 21:35:30 PackDev.guide 504 286 43.2% 03-Sep-95 21:35:34 PackDev.guide.info 403 226 43.9% 03-Sep-95 21:36:02 FILE_ID.DIZ -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 55614 23348 58.0% 04-Sep-95 10:40:44 4 files