mADFloppy 0.5

Short:        Comfortable disk restoration utility
Author:       megacz@usa.com
Uploader:     megacz&usa.com
Type:         util/cli
Version:      0.5
Requires:     see notes
Architecture: generic; m68k-amigaos


mADFloppy-0.5
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megacz: Ahoy there Sailor with teh A500 on the board and lots of fancy 
        disk images on your other Miggy =D ! Weather is going to wash the 
        boat so lets play some oldies in yer cabin.
   you: Hell yeah!

'mADFloppy' allows to xfer Amiga disk images(ADF, ADZ or DMS) back to the 
floppies without messing with the options, so salts like you can have good
time playing old Amiga games(assuming you have two Amigas).

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NEWS:
     [06-Mar-2010]   0.05   Major rewrite, removed 'FIFO:' dependency.
                     0.04   Removed 'transadf' support completly and added 
                            'gzip' in place.
                     0.03   First mod. of former 'madf' proggy.
                     0.02   Dont remember what were the changes.              
                     0.01   Initial.

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NOTES:

[*]
Requires 68020(no FPU)+, OS 2.04+, 1+ MiB of free memory, RexxMast, rx,
list, delete, multiview, break, status, diskchange, stderr, mymirror,
gzip, xdms(last 4 are included)

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Dont forget to customise this script by editing certain variables in it,
you should especially set new logfile path, so you can have track on what
has already been xferred.

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Close gadget in the aux console(s) is deaf, so use 'C' button in the 'UI'
to close.

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This version of 'mADFloppy' uses 'mymirror', so if file you pass is of at
least track length it will be written. 

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If your disk images are greater than 901120 bytes then you should use
other than 'trackdisk.device' device to restore them, but i dont know
if that works though.

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There is no need to copy the contents of 'C/' directory to your 'C:' as
long as you use 'mADFloppy' from under its directory.

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USAGE:

 *** template: mADFloppy <file/a> [unit/k/n] [depth/k/n] [pubscreen/k]

                 <file/a>  -  input file or path, if you pass a path
                              then 'AmigaGuide' listing will be gen.
               [unit/k/n]  -  physical device unit(0 by default).
              [depth/k/n]  -  new path depth when recursing into subs
                              (2 by default).
            [pubscreen/k]  -  public screen on which listing or aux
                              consoles should appear.

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EXAMPLES:

   ; transfer a file to 'trackdisk.device' on unit 0
   cd madfloppy-0.5/
   madfloppy myfavgame.adf

   ; generate listing of current directory
   madfloppy ""

   ; generate listing of 'RAM:' with higher path depth
   ; and open the viewer on some other screen
   madfloppy RAM: depth 6 pubscreen MyPubscreen

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THANKS TO:

AmigaUFO, Wayne and  K0rky_ - for beta testing.
Ivan 'Ivo' Kosak - for excellent icons of floppies!
FSF (gzip).
Andre' Rodrigues de la Rocha (xdms).
Ralph Babel (stderr)
Jörg Höhle (fifo-handler)
Karl J. Ots (transadf)
AmigaGuide coders.
Space Farm - for nice old school rock tracks!

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megacz@usa.com