Re: Floppy disc images

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Typo: should have read 'ARDI.'


  Jordan

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On Tue, 11/13/18, J R FOX  wrote:

 Subject: Re: Floppy disc images
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 1:32 PM

 I was fairly confident that Kari would have a
 better handle on this than I did, as proved to be
 the case.  I was also fairly
 confident that there was some affirmative answer to your
 query.  A less convenient or advantageous
 possibility had occurred to me: there was a utility program

 that went through a couple name changes
 along the way -- the last one I'm aware of being "ARD*,
 from a French developer.  (I have
 the program, or bookmarks, if the site still exists.) 
 It could either make diskette images from diskettes, or
 convert them back in the other direction, to new disks. 
 However, this was a back in the day
 sort of thing: in order to make use of it today one would need
 the floppy disk drive and diskette
 media.  I expect there must have been other ways to
 finesse this task.


   Jordan

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 On Mon, 11/12/18, Kari Eveli 
 wrote:

 Subject: Re: Floppy disc images
 To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Date: Monday, November 12, 2018, 11:01
 PM

 Hello Myron,

 Normally, vDosXy and vDosPlus XyWrite
 need a ready installation of the program in a
 folder. Installing it from disk images is not supported,
 but there are virtual environments that support
 floppy disk image files. MS Virtual PC
 2004-2007 is the traditional way for
 doing this (I have blank floppies for Virtual PC on my
 site:

 http://www.lexitec.fi/xywrite/blanks.zip,
 and you can copy the contents of the
 original floppies via a shared folder
 to these blank floppy

 images, and save them and
 "insert" them into the virtual machine
 as needed). MS Virtual PC 2004-2007
 cannot be installed on all modern
 systems, and can be
 quite a chore to set up if you have
 not done it before.

 Perhaps an easier way to
 accomplish this is by installing Win31DOSBox by
 Edward Mendelson: http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eem36/win31dosbox.html
 It supports virtual and real floppies
 (virtual in drive A: as files in
 the A-DRIVE folder,
 real in drive B:). The system has a separate DOS
 prompt what you can use bypassing the
 Windows 3.1x part after it has
 been installed.

 But I would recommend using a
 ready installed copy of XyWrite, and
 using the vDosPlus installer to make it
 usable in Windows.

 Best regards,

 Kari Eveli
 LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
 lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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 Myron Gochnauer wrote:
 >
 Since we’re on the subject of
 running XyWrite on a Mac or
 in a Windows or DOS emulator, perhaps
 someone can help me
 with this:
 >
 > If I
 have a set of DOS-disk images for a
 program I want to
 install, but I don’t have an
 installed copy of the
 program, how should I proceed?  
 I can extract the
 installer program and run it, but
 typically it soon say
 something like ’Insert Disc #2". Is
 there a way of
 tricking the installer into accepting
 a disk image or a
 directory as ’Disc #2’?
 >
 > Myron
 >  
 >