ATCopy2.22 (c) Copyright 1991 by Peter Vorwerk ATCopy2.22 ------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixing to version 2.21: In version 2.21 it could sometimes happen, that instead to open the filerequester, the program crashed. This bug have been fixed. This is the last SHAREWARE version. A new comercial version is obtainable by the author or by T r i C o m Andreas Küster Geibelstraße 14 3000 Hannover 1 G E R M A N Y The SHAREWARE will be calculated, if you buy the new version directly from the author. ------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixing to version 2.2: Now the XT-Board and the SideCar are recognized correct. This feature should have worked a long time ago, but it didn't. ------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixing to version 2.1: In version 2.1 the conversion of national chars won't work properly. In fact they wont't work at all. Now this bug has been fixed. New in version 2.2: The options and the PC path now can be changed by gadgets. These gadgets will show the defaults you have specified by CLI. If you click one gadget twice it will turn off. ATTENTION: By a refreshing error the string gadget for the PC path seems to have no cursor after you have clicked it. But it will be active! The options mean exactly the same as in the programs AREAD and AWRITE on the XT/AT board. If you specify an non existing drawer on the XT/AT side it will be generated first. But at least the parent of this must already exist. In this version the program will show an Alert, if you try to write to an write-protect or an full disk. Maybe this will change in a new version. The new patch program will work with both new versions of ATCopy. With the program 'Patch_Option' you can modify the 'default' option. This can be done by Patch_Option ATCopy opt [path] With this program you can modify ATCopy2.2 to work with your own defaults if you don't select any by CLI or WB. The ORGINAL manual for the new requester is included. Please read this manual, especialy for EXTENDET SELECT MODE. This mode is supported. This filerequester ist (c) 1990 by Khalid Aldoseri. Thanks to Oliver Denzler for the new icon. Also thanks to all those sending bugreports, improvements or money. This helped me to update the program. Known Bug: If you call the program from workbench, you will lose 24 Bytes of memory. If you use the CLI, this won't happen. I can't fix this bug. ------------------------------------------------------------- New in version 2.1: Now you will find two versions of the program ATCopy2.1. These two versions differ only in the messages. One will print these in english and the other in german. In the new version 2.1 the length of a file will no longer change if you use the OPT B option. This caused some trouble if you use compressed files. Thangs to Jeff Christensen for reporting this bug. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 disk 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 has 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 ( from 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 directly 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- ing 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. The keywords TO and/or OPT MUST be typed! You can't type '/B' to transfer files binary. Please note also, that you are not able to type files after any option. The PC path is an option too. So if you type: ATCopy file1 TO C: OPT B file2 only 'file1' will be copied to c: binary, but not 'file2'. 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 work. 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 uses the standards ( current directory and full conversion ). INSTALLATION On the disk you will find a subdirectory called PC. This directory contains three programs AT.EXE, XT.EXE and PCCOPY.EXE. At least two of these 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. 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 has paid the SHAREWARE will get updates as quick as possible and even can get the soure if he/she wants it. Please give me a short description of your environment.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 environment. Bugreports or improvements are welcome. I hope that the translation from the Amiga to the XT/AT is easyer using this program. My program uses parts of the ARP.library ( especialy the GADS routine ). Without this help it had been ( nearly ) impossible to write the program. I'm sorry, but the informations on the Janus.library are very rare. Therefore it can be that the program ATCopy doesn'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 have 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 have 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 Filerequester.