ATCopy2.0 (c) Copyright 1990 by Peter Vorwerk ATCopy2.0 The program ATCopy2.0 is an update for the version 1.0. But this new version is SHAREWARE instead of PD. If you find this program useful and use it regular, please send $10 ( or DM 10 ) to the follow address. Peter Vorwerk Jägerstr. 3-5 (W) 3000 Hannover 1 Germany The program may be distributed for non-profit only ( a price of more than $7 per diskette is surely no more a self cost price ! ) and this manual is also copied. ( You are allowed to copy only the program without the manual to your harddisk or your workdisk, but you are not permitted to distribute the software in this form! ) If you want to include this software in an other library, than in the one of Fred Fish, please contact me frist. Surely everyone, who have an Amiga with an XT/AT Board ( the older SideCar works well too ), knows it is principle pos- sible to copy files between the two computers. But the way to do this is not very comfortable. In the new version of the Janus.library ( 2.63 respectively 33.1 ) you can use wild- cards, but only in one direction ( form the XT/AT to the Amiga ). Let's say you want to copy several files from the Amiga to the XT/AT, you have to copy each file seperatly. The first relase of ATCopy produced a scriptfile with the sepe- rate commands. Now we skip this step and translate the files direct through the socalled Dual-Ported-RAM. The program has an icon and can be startet from the workbench. If you start the program without any parameters, the files will be asked for interactiv by the well known ARP-Filerequester. From the CLI you are able to specify beside the filenames two other parameters. USAGE: ATCopy Files...,TO/K,OPT/K Files... means a list of filenames, the keyword TO specify the PC-path ( for example means that all files are send to the floppy A: . If you don't specify the keyword TO, the files will be send to the current PC-path. ) and after the keyword OPT you can specify one ( and only one ) of the follow options. B Translate the files binary ( no conversion of characters and CR's will not be translated in CRLF's. ) CR Translate the files with conversion of characters, but also CR's will not be translated in CRLF'. NC Translate the files binary and CR's will be translated in CRLF's. If you don't specify the keyword OPT the files will be trans- lated by full conversion. This means both conversion of char- acters and CR's will be translated in CRLF's. This is the way the new programs AREAD and AWRITE works. These files are distributed by Commodore with the XT/AT Board. If you use the program ATCopy from the workbench you can't ( at this time ? ) use the keywords TO and OPT. The program use the standards ( current directory and full conversion ). INSTALLATION On the diskette you will find a subdirectory called PC. This directory contain three programs AT.EXE, XT.EXE and PCCOPY.EXE. At least two of this programs you must copy by AREAD DF0:ATCopy/PC/name.EXE A:name.EXE /B to the XT/AT. In each case you will need the program PCCOPY.EXE and it depends on your board the file XT.EXE or AT.EXE ( who had thought this ? ). The program PCCOPY.EXE is memoryresident and need start only once, for example in the AUTOEXEC.BAT ( this is the Startup-Sequence of the XT/AT ). The programs XT.EXE and AT.EXE are called by the Amiga program ATCopy. Therefore it is necessary that at this time no program is running. You are in the CLI of the XT/AT and you are able to start a new program. This limitation is not very well, but I don't know how to start a PC-Interrupt from my own Amiga-program or how to start a program at the XT/AT by a hotkey let's say ALT-2. If someone knows details on one of these questions, please write me a short note. I think it could be an other way of pay the SHAREWARE. The usage from the Amiga is already descripted above and so it's not necessary to repeat it again. NOTE: The program needs the ARP.library ( at least version 39. ). Please notice that on an XT/AT you can't use all the characters in filenames that are available for the Amiga. In fact the space, nationalcharacters or the sqare braces are not supported. Please notice that also there are strict limitations in the lenght of the filename and the extension. Only one extension with 3 characters and 8 characters before the dot "." are allowed. You can't use filenames starting with a dot. so ".info" is no legal filename and the two names "DemoDatei.info" and "DEMODATE.INF" specify the same file on an XT/AT ! Everyone who had paid the SHAREWARE will get updates as quick as possible and even can get the soure if he/she want it. Please give me a short description of your enviroment. I need this because if the program wont work in a special enviroment it is easyer for me to send the new version first to these people who have this special enviroment. Bugreports or improvements are welcome. I hope that the translation from the Amiga to the XT/AT is easyer using this program. My program use parts of the ARP.library ( especialy the Filerequester and the routine GADS ). Without this help it had been ( nearly ) inpossible to write the program. I'm sorry, but the informations by the Janus.library are very rarely. Therefore it can be that the program ATCopy don't work in all parts on all configurations. ( I have tested it on my own Amiga 2000 with AT Board and on an Amiga 1000 with SideCar. I don't had access to an XT Board. ) P.S. There is one more limitation by starting the program from the workbench. You can't specify more than one TOOL by "SHIFT Left Mouse". The first TOOL will work with all the PROJECTS you had specified and the reminder TOOLS will be skiped. Solution: Don't specify any files by "SHIFT Left Mouse". The program will ask you for each file by the ARP-Filerequester. Please excuse my bad english, but my schooltime is long ago.