Using downloaded software

[BGary335]

The problem is not with the floppy disk, or the floppy drive. I think its another one of those things where I'm just doing something wrong somewhere between the time I compress the adf file into an LHa archive on the PC to the time I try to adf2disk it onto floppy on the Amiga. In fact, everything is just fine until the adf2disk part, because its after that that I get the error and that nothing appears on the floppy.

[BGary335]

Not sure what happened, but I just now turned my A500 on and put the disk in after Workbench loaded, and now the disk works just fine. Perhaps a restart is required after the adf2disk operation?

[BGary335]

I don't know for sure, but I don't think that will work.

[BGary335]

Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf. When I try to run adf2disk on these files, it gives me an error that says something about not having enough commands. I assume that because of all the dashes and spaces, adf2disk thinks these are commands, not the name of the file. Is there a way I can change the name of the file so that adf2disk will recognize it?

[BGary335]

Nevermind. Think I found the problem. :-D

[BGary335]

Another question:I have been using Winace to compress my adf files into lha archives. I've just about finished compressing all of my adf files, but there are a handful that Winace was not able to compress enough to fit them onto a 720k floppy. In fact, it did not compress them at all-they were 880kb before and 880kb after compression. Is there another program for the PC that might be able to compress these files into lha archives small enough so that they can fit on floppy?

[BGary335]

@Tomas
I started out by trying to move WinAce files from PC to Amiga, but the problem with that was that Unace wasn't recognizing them. But that was probably because I'm using the latest version of Winace. I will locate an older version and give that a try.

@ptek

I seem to have a problem with everyhting I try to do, so as opposed to switching to yet anotehr program I've never used,I think I'll stay with the one's I'm familiar with. Believe me, you'll thank me for it. :-D

I've actually attempted the parallel cable method, but, as always, I had some sort of problem and gave up on it.  :-D

[BGary335]

@Tomas

That was exactly the problem. I've archived a few files using Winace 1.2 and Unace seems to be able to open them without a problem. Thanks for your help! 8-)

@ptek

You REALLY don't want me to try using a program I'm not familiar with. Believe me. :-D

[BGary335]

I will definitley ask if I decide to use Chunker and have any questions.

Honestly, I don't expect to find many 2MB files on Aminet, as there weren't many Amiga programs that were that large, and if they were they were split up into multiple disks. And even if there are lha files of that size, I can take the adf's it contains and recompress them into seperate lha's or ace's.

[BGary335]

One more question: Is there a way to use regular 1.44MB floppies with the Amiga? I once heard thatall you have to do is cover the window on the upper left corner of the disk, but I don't know whether there's any truth to that. Thanks in advance for your help!

[BGary335]

It just so happens that I will be formatting them on the Amiga, so it'll be much easier than I thought it would be! Thanks for your help Tomas! 8-)