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Written by Sergei Kostigoff
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
General | Purpose: Development has been started because it was a time when 5.25" diskettes become to be replaced by 3.5" ones, and it was inconvenient to run some stupid Setup programs which required disk A: only to start.
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| | Due to the fact that a lot of PCs at that time had two floppy drives (5.25" and 3.5" as A: and B:) you either need to switch floppy as A: or B: because of above requirement or invent something. This is a story how DDS.EXE has been developed. | | | The purpose of it is quite simple - it is a tool to copy 3.5" diskette to 5.25" diskette and vise versa. As a side effect you can use it to store floppy disk image on other media (like hard disk, tape, CD) and recover it when you need exact copy of your floppy disk. |  | The code has been developed in 1991.
| | | Please note that the software is NOT guaranteed to work under non-DOS environment (and may not work under any environment). All addresses (include electronic ones) and telephone numbers given inside the files are NOT VALID anymore. The software has been developed in 1991 (more than 12 years ago). You may download it at your own risk!
It is not shareware as declared in outdated source - use it according to GPL v.2 or later.
| | During the development it become necessary to support non-standard diskette formats to create 1.44 MByte on 5.25" diskette. Brilliant open source software FDFormat (written by Christoph H. Hochstätter) has been used as a built-in formatting tool.
| | | There is at least one known problem - after copying 5.25" 360 kB diskette to 3.5" diskette PC will work with 3.5" only at 360 kB format until reboot. |
Download
| You may download the Pascal (Turbo Pascal 6.0 and assembler) source code and executable files here in ZIP format. Source code is commented and there is a built-in help in the application. | |  dds101.zip
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Your Comments
| It could be really great if you find time to submit your bug reports and comments to
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However I can not promise that bugs will be fixed. |
Regards,
Sergei |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 14 April 2008 )
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