CP/M serial disk image transfer.

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Dave,

Nice effort!

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Dave Dunfield wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> Having a large quantity of 8" disks that I need to archive/send to
> someone, and neither of us having teledisk working on an compatible
> 8" drive, and not having nearly enough 8" media to spare to send
> physical copies...
>
> I have created another serial link disk imaging program.
>
> This one reads and writes CP/M images to and from physical diskettes
> of a connected CP/M system.
>
> Due to the fact that CP/M does not provide a general means of reading
> and writing the system tracks, system tracks can only be backed up on
> diskettes which have them recorded in a format compatible with the
> BIOS driver. The user accessable portion of the disk can always be
> backed up and restored.
>
> This is a command line program that runs on a PC, and communicates
> with the target system via a small resident "client". The program
> can transfer the client to the CP/M system by "typing it in" through
> DDT.
>
> Still in the testing stages, I have it to the point where I can
> quite reliably backup and restore diskette images. So far I've tested
> it using a NorthStar Horizon (actually my simulator running on another
> PC), and the Orion-V (an STD bus system with 8" disks).
>
> If anyone wants to play with it, please drop me a line, and I can send
> a preliminary version - once I am happy that everything is working
> correctly, I will get it posted to my site.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>

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