DiskImager 1.1 - FREEWARE/Distribute Freely Copyright (C) 1999 by Port Jackson Computing ReadMe 1999-07-19 Index ========================== 1.0 Introduction/Purpose 1.1 What it do... 1.2 What it don't do... 1.3 How to use it/Installation 1.4 Contact us 1.0 Introduction/Purpose ========================== Have you ever been frustrated over all thoose disks beeing all over your drawer? Don't you just wish there was an easy way to burn 'em down to your harddrive freeing them up, so that you may use them for something else? Or, do you wish that creating a bootable floppy with the tools you want was easier? This is the tool for you! 1.1 What it do... ========================== Theese are the features - Create Imagefiles of your 1.44MB floppy disks. - Create SelF-eXtracting (EXE) Imagefiles of your 1.44MB floppy disk. - Restore Imagefiles to your 1.44MB floppy drive. - Use SFX Imagefiles (EXE) to restore the imagefile to your floppy drive. Requirements - 286 or better. - A fragment of your memory. 1.2 What it don't do... ========================== Theese are the features that are not supported (but will probably be supported on request) - 1.44MB floppy is the only format supported. - Compression. - Automatically formating disk. 1.3 How to use it/Installation ========================== The installation is quick and simple, just extract the files from the archive to a directory in your path, e.g. C:\WINDOWS, C:\WINNT, C:\DOS etc... And then you'll be able to use it from anywhere in the console. If you just at the COMMAND prompt write DI, an help text will be displayed. Theese are the most common options that you need to know using DiskImager, To Create a Imagefile from a 1.44MB floppy disk: DI A: MYIMAGE.IMG To Restore this Imagefile to a formatted 1.44MB floppy disk: DI /R A: MYIMAGE.IMG To Create a SFX from a 1.44MB floppy disk: DI /S A: MYIMAGE.EXE To Restore this SFX to a formatted 1.44MB floppy disk. MYIMAGE.EXE A: Please note that the extensions are optional, defaults will be added if no extension is given. Further note that in SFX mode, DiskImager will ask the end-user for drive to restore image to, if no parameter is given to the SFX. 1.4 Contact us ========================== If you have suggestions, problems, or just thoughts, post an email to the adress below. Kind Regards, Enjoy! Fredrik Johansson Port Jackson Computing