Re: Floppy disc images

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

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
 > 
 >