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Title: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: McNorris on February 29, 2004, 12:38:32 AM
What is a .DMS file?

Compression?

How/what do I use to deal with them?
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: KennyR on February 29, 2004, 12:49:26 AM
DMS is a diskmasher file, a compressed disk image. If you want to unpack it on an Amiga, have an empty floppy ready and look at dms11.run on Aminet.
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: McNorris on February 29, 2004, 01:27:38 AM
Thanks K-Dog!

Word to ya mutha.
:)
(Seriously Thanks)
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: KennyR on February 29, 2004, 02:30:24 AM
No problem. ;)

If you need help getting DMS to work just ask, though it should be straightforward enough. Even unpacking the archive is easy - just run it.

Then it's something like:

DMS Yourdmsfile.DMS DF0: WRITE

And its a case of clicky clicky goes the disk, and in a minute or so your DMS is written.

It goes without saying, but don't have any non-writeprotected floppy with contents you want to keep in the drive when you do it. ;)
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: Crusher on February 29, 2004, 02:28:07 PM
If you´re lazy you can use AdfBlitzer (http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/aminet/disk/misc/adfblitzer.lha)  :-P
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: jus on February 29, 2004, 03:39:00 PM
Am I the only one here who has always found the READ/WRITE commands confusing? I just can't seem to remember what is exactly read or written, the disk or the file, if you know what I mean. Or maybe it's just me...


Justin
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: melott on February 29, 2004, 03:53:05 PM
Yes .. I found the text version a little cryptic also.
I use the GUI version.. all it takes is a couple clicks.
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: melott on February 29, 2004, 03:55:42 PM
Yes .. I found the text version a little cryptic also.
I use the GUI version.. all it takes is a couple clicks.
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: pVC on February 29, 2004, 04:10:05 PM
And it hasn't to be floppy where you extract them. RAD: drive or some virtual floppy drive on hd are just fine too. It's much faster to extract dms on them than on disk.. for example when you're installing some multidisk program from dms archives.

Example:
mount rad:
dms write disu.dms to rad:

Nondos disks won't work with other than real floppies though.
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: KennyR on February 29, 2004, 04:29:24 PM
Ah, wimps. You're lucky it isn't

dms -xfjs -t 2 -h DEF_DISK /dev/fd0

or something :-P
Title: Re: What is a .DMS file?
Post by: Vincent on February 29, 2004, 04:44:29 PM
Quote

KennyR wrote:
Ah, wimps. You're lucky it isn't

dms -xfjs -t 2 -h DEF_DISK /dev/fd0

or something :-P

:lol:

Only real lazy/wimpy people use GUI's :-D

Even though I have DOpus's Lha Lister view and all that gubbins, I still find myself using cli and the proper lha command :-)