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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: DGB on January 09, 2004, 06:58:33 PM
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Hi All,
I recently downloaded software that I believe to be a driver utility for a Zorro slot IDE controller I acquired with an A-2000 I bought on eBay. A memebr here on this forum pointed me toward the place to dload this file. It has a file suffix that I do not recognize. I am curious to know how to install this. The file is TandomCD.dms. I am not familiar with the ".dms" suffix. Is this some kind of compression format and if so what do I use to open it? Can anybody here help me with this?
Dave
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I seem to remember this was the suffix used by the disk masher program - I think its shareware, you could always try aminet??
It used to be used by a lot of the old Amiga magazines to compress thier cover disks but be warned it normally requires a free floppy to extract to (or used to on the version I used).
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Yes... DiskMasher, or just DMS, create/extract .dms files and those files are compressed floppys so need a free floppy to extract them. And yes DiskMasher can be found on AmiNet (http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/util/arc/dms111.run).
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If I recall correctly the XAD library should be able to unpack DMS archives. No floppys needed! :-)
Just download XAD library and the very nice frontend Vodoo-X from Aminet. And you have an unpacker similar to WinZip on PC.
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Yes, xadmaster can extract DOS disks (some NDOS disks too which are supported) and DMS archives.
Voodoo-X is a great frontend, as it also checks for virii when extracting files if you have xvs.library. But if you have OS3.9, then xadmaster.library is installed by default and there is a tool called "UnArc" in SYS:Tools/ which is like Voodoo-X, but not that powerfull enough, just a simple frontend :)