DMS and DOpus 4.17

[AmigaPete]

You need to edit your configuration to either add a button or buttons or set up click-move-click type functionality. I use buttons to create, test and write DMSs.

To create:

1. Go into DOpus config.
2. Click on buttons.
3. Pick an empty button.
4. Pick a name, like 'Make DMS'.
5. In the command line field make sure you have AmigaDOS selected and enter "DMS read (d)(RsEnter DMS filename) from DF1:"
6. Make sure that "Output window" is checked in the list of options at the bottom.
7. The command line assumes that you have DMS executable in your C: directory (or somewhere in the command path).

To write:

Do 1 - 3 as above.
4. Pick a name. like "Write DMS".
5. In the command line field make sure you have AmigaDOS selected and enter "DMS write (f) to DF1:".
6. Make sure that you have checked CD Source, Output window, and Run asychronously in the list of options.
7. Again, this script assumes that you have DMS executable in C: (or somewhere in the command path).

Both of these scripts are set to use DF1: and you could use DF0: or put the option in to choose which drive you want to use at the time of execution (assuming you have more than one floppy drive).

Basically, what you are doing is letting DOpus run the AmigaDOS commands using the information you supply from DOpus - DMS file name, output drive, etc.

If you want I could send you my config file. PM with your email if so.

Peter

[AmigaPete]

@A4000_Mad,
This problem does seem to ring a bell but I'll get back to you later - having some problems with WinUAE at the moment. As far as using a file compressor on Amiga goes it may be best to always use LHA. So once you get the ZIPs unZIPped then LHA them.

What you need to do first is see if you can successfully perform the ZIP operations in a shell. Open a shell and type "ZIP" and hit Return to get a list of possible parameters. Try some tests - unzip then zip some files. That will determine if the problem is with ZIP or DOpus. If the ZIPping and unZIPping goes fine in the shell then there is something wrong in the DOpus "script". What you want to do is mimic what you typed in the shell in the command line in the DOpus button editor. Make sure that the type of command is AmigaDOS, then type in the command while substituting the DOpus "functions" - (f) = first selected entry with path, (d) = destination directory name, etc.

My configuration for zipping files is (including quotes);

ZIP "(d)(RsEnter ZIP archive name).ZIP" {O}

with the following checked;
CD source
Do All Files
Output Window
Recursive directories
Rescan destination

Hope this helps,
Pete  :-)

[AmigaPete]

My unzip command is set up under filetypes - doesn't use a button. Under these settings the parameters for double-click are;

C:unzip -l {f}

The -l parameter only does a listing of files. Not sure if that will make a difference - probably not. My unzip executable is 85900 bytes - if that helps.

Pete  :-)