E0X.ENG

   documentation for E0X
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   liability,warranty
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   If you use this program, i am not responsible for the damages
   you cause. I have tryed to make my programs error-free...
   E0X can used free of charge.


   description
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   ■ this program emulates floppy disks in floppy drives.

   ■ it can load and save several formats from/to files.

   ■ i have developed this program to do easy installation of
     programms from harddisk, CD or other storage media.

   ■ it is a shell - not a tsr - you can unload E0X by simply
     exit the executed program.

   ■ you can use E0X as a fast storage.
     ( similar to Ramdisk/VDisk/Ramdrive)

   ■ a diskchange is possible : whith F11/F12 keys you can
     switch to the next/previos disk image.

   ■ to be fast E0X loads the entire disk image in XMS memory.

   ■ the emulation works on interrupt $13/$40
     ( see tested programs chapter "Getestete Programme" in e0x.deu )


   installation
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   1. copy all files in an subdiretory of your harddisk.

      e.g.: C:\EXTRA\E0X\

   2. run E0X_EIN


   usage
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   E0X (drive) (image file) (write back) (XMS) (programm [parameter] )

   drive:       A or B ( or try A!, B! if problems exist )
   ──────

   image file:  uncompressed (!) image of an floppy disk created by
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      ■ HD-Copy 2.0a / O.Fromme
      ■ VGA-Copy 6.X / T. Mönkemeier
      ■ FastCopy / Central Point
      ■ FastPacket / O. Weindl 1.2,1.4
      ■ DiskCopy / Novell Dos 7, DR-Dos
      ■ SaveDskF/Loaddsk [ with parameter /N ]
      ■ Rawrite
      ■ VMDisk ( OS/2 )
      ■ Disk Copy Fast 5.1
      ■ DiskDupe Trial 4,5.1
      ■ Disk eXPress 2.3 ( /a /n )
      ■ WIMAGE / Christoph Hochstätter
      ■ UCOPY / Pierre van Wyngaard
      ■ PMFloppy / Greg Bryant
      ■ EZ-DiskCopy Pro
      ■ CopyQM 3.24 / Sydex
      ■ DISK-EMU / Carlos Fernández Sanz [with/without CRC,RAW]
      ■ EZ-Copy PRO/Plus / EZX Corp
      ■ EZ-DisKlone Plus / EZX Publishing
      ■ SCopy ( DOS and OS/2, do not use /C )
      ■ AST Diskfile
      ■ PC-MAG 2DISK/2FILE
      ■ EMTCOPY / IBM
      ■ Disk eXpress / Albert J. Shan
      ■ Floppy-Copy
      ■ 1PASS
      ■ CISCOPY
      ■ Blitzcopy
      ■ DDUMP.EXE
      ■ DIM 1.4.A
      ■ Disk-Factory
      ■ ...


      if you select for then disk image file the name INST_0°1_07.IMG
      INST_01_07.IMG would be the first image ,
      INST_02_07.IMG the second and so on ...


   write back:
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     0: E0X emulates the disk write protected.

     1: E0X emulates the disk not write proteced but saves the changes
        not back to the image file on exit.

     2: E0X emulates the disk not write proteced and saves the changes
        back to the image file on exit.

	warning:
	E0X saves uncompressed or in its own format.
	(acording to source file) !

	E0X saves not in format from DiskDupe, MakeDskf, VMDisk, ...
	old images will be overwritten !


   XMS: how many KB XMS memory E0X schould allocate at lest ?
   ────

     E0X tryes automaticly to allocate more memory if needed
     for standard usage simply use 0

   programm: the program executed by E0X with its parameters
   ─────────

     give full name for this program or choose the walue of %COMSPEC%.
     if you exit this program e0x will unload itself.
     Wenn Sie (Programm) beenden, kehren Sie zu E0X zurück.
     please remove before all loaded resident programs.



   example:   E0X A ANCIENT.IMG 2 0 C:\DOS\DISKOPT.EXE A: /O /Sa /M2
              ─┬─ ┬ ──┬──────── ┬ ─ ───────┬────────── ───────┬─────
	       │  │   │         │          │                  │
     load E0X ─┘  └─────────┐   │          │                  │
                      │     │   │          │                  │
     with ANCIENT.IMG ┘     │   │          │                  │
                            │   │          │                  │
     for drive A: ──────────┘   │          │                  │
                                │          │                  │
     let DISKOPT work ──────────│──────────┴──────────────────┘
			        │
     and write the result back to disk if finished.



   restrictions
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     This program fails if the executed program directliy program the
     floppy controller.
     But this should only be extra fast disk copy programms.

     in an PC-configuration without an second floppy drive E0X is unable
     to use drive B:. You can register an second floppy drive in your
     BIOS setup.

     E0X ist not limited to fat-formated images but the batch files E0A.BAT
     and E0B.BAt checks the disk to avoid errors with corrupt images.

     In this case or if E0X.COM can not determine the correct type of the
     image use PACKUNG.EXE to produce the an extended disk image.
     (* linux Ext FS 2 , ... *)


   tested programs ... see "Getestete Programme" in e0x.deu.
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   border colors
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   produced by E0X.COM to indicate what corrently happens.


                                           solve
   yellow  (14) = read
   red     (12) = read error               give correct name of image
   green   ( 2) = write back
   brown   ( 6) = write back error         file attributes, more disk space
   blue    ( 1) = XMS-error                configure more memory
   cyan    (11) = access to wrong sectors  uses Packung.EXE
   withe   (15) = reset disk cache



   E0A.BAT  E0B.BAT  NC!.BAT  OPT.BAT  OPT!.BAT
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   for lazy users !

   ■ E0A/E0B

     e0a (image file)
       or in worst case:
     e0a (image file) (write back)

     E0A.BAT / E0B.BAT run E0X.COM for drive A:/B: and let run
     your command processor NC!.BAT.

     NC!.BAT chacnges to drive  A:/B: and runs NC.EXE

     the F10 key will end end NC and E0X.

   ■ OPT

     to test the disk integrity, virus scan and cluster defragment.


   E0X_EIN creates all these batch files for you !



   0360.ARJ ······ 2880.ARJ
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   these archive files contain empty disk images.

   the disk images can direcly used with E0X, HD-COPY, VGA-COPY,
   Rawrite, 2mcopy ...


   DISKCOPY.ARJ
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   In this archive i have stored support files for use with
   Diskcopy from Novell.

   usage: COPY /B (source image) + (size of source in KB).DIS (target file)

   The produced file then used with DiskCopy and DiskComp.


   VMDISK.ARJ
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   In this archive i have stored support files for use with
   the disk emulator in OS/2 ( VMDISK ) .

   usage: COPY /B (size of source).VMD + (source image) (target file)


   E0X_EIN.EXE
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   this program creates the batch files  E0A.BAT, E0B.BAT und NC!.BAT
   in an directory of your choice.


   Packung.EXE
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   this program converts normal disk images to extended images with
   extra informations.
   uses this program if E0X.COM can not determine the size of an
   disk image with an virus infected bootsector or if you have
   installation disks with some hidden extra secors.
   in other cases you will not need this program.


   changes: see "Veränderungen" in e0x.deu.

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