COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Dcat DiskCopy software and documentation are © COPYRIGHT 1995 -1996 by David Tucker. All RIGHTS reserved.

DISCLAIMER
While every effort has been made to ensure the integrity of the software, the USER assumes ALL risk and responsibility related to its use. The author cannot be held responsible for any loss of data, damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use or misuse of this program. The author reserves the right to make changes to the software and / or documentation without notice.

DISTRIBUTION
This program is FREEWARE. It may be freely distributed provided that no charge is made for the program. This excludes reasonable costs of media, copying and or shipping and For BBS/Network systems no charges other than normal download charges. The  Dcat DiskCopy package must be distributed as a whole. No additional restrictions may be added to the distribution of the package. No files may be modified except for archiving.
Commercial distribution by magazine cover disks is permitted  provided that they obey the above rules and send me a copy of the magazine including its coverdisk / cd.

CONTACT
You can contact me by
Email: daviddcat@subdimension.com
Email: daviddcat@hotpop.com
Web : http://www.crosswinds.net/~daviddcat/
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CREDITS
DiskCopy was written using BLITZ BASIC 2 VERSION 2.10

COMPATIBILITY
Dcat DiskCopy was tested on
A500 - WB 1.3 - 1 meg Chip
A2000 - WB 2.04 - 1 meg chip - 2 meg fast
A1200 - WB 3.0 - 2 meg chip

HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION
From WORKBENCH just drag the DRAWER across to where you want it.

HISTORY
V1.20 Oct 1996
° The screen font (which is what the window title is displayed in) is now taken into account when setting the GUI.

V1.17 June 1996
° Almost a complete rewrite on Disk Copy's code

° Can copy to multiple drives

° Verify copy is a bit faster

° Verify now works on single disk copy

° Now has a confirm copy requester (can be turned off) V1.06 May 1996

° The display was written on a WB3.0 system looked good on WB 2.0 and Higher not so good on WB1.3. This has been corrected. The display now looks the same regardless of version of Workbench.

° Minor code improvements

V1.05 May 1995

V1.00 March 1994

THE PROGRAM
DiskCopy aims to make the copying of disks easy by providing  a simple to use program. DiskCopy can only copy Amiga Dos Disks.
A disk can not be copied unless the source drive is write  protected and the target disk is write enabled.
To exit a copy once started click on the ABORT gadget ( which is where the QUIT gadget is )
Disk Copy can copy disks to multiple drives including the drive that the source disk is in. Click on the drive gadgets to select the drives that you want to copy to. You may select the source drive as well. If you have selected the source and target as the same drive the disk copy will allocate the biggest buffer it can Depending on the amount of memory available disk copy may be able to read the source disk in one pass this means that you could make up to four copies at the same time. Coping to more than one drive will increase the copy time as will selecting verify copy

Verify copy just checks that the data written to the target disk is the same as the source disk.

The quickest and to use the least amount of memory is to copy a disk using two drives with the source and target drives being different.

MEMORY CONCERNS
Disk copy will not copy a disk using single drive copy if you  have less than 85000 bytes of memory available. Coping on two drives requires at least 40000 bytes. It is possible to get an out of memory error even if you have more than enough memory available. If you get this error it may be due to memory fragmentation. This is more likely if you are copying to the same source / target drive and have been using other applications before/during running disk copy.

DISKCOPY IS COPYING
A busy pointer is use to show that you no longer have access to  disk copy. If you are copying a disk(s) you may use other applications. You do not have to wait for disk copy to finish copying a disk before you do other things.

PULL DOWN MENUS
Two items available from the pull down menus are Confirm  Selection which just puts up a requesters asking you to confirm the copy and Abort at 1st Error which if there is a error when copying it will abort the copy at the first error.

DISKCOPY'S ICON
You may set the following tool types in disk copies icon
WINDX=?? - X postion of window ( 0 - 290 )
WINDY=?? - Y postion of window ( 0 - 110 )
CONFIRM=? - 1 on 0 off refer pull down menus
ABORTERROR=? - 1 on 0 off refer pull down menus

DISK INFORMATION
Returns bytes used etc. The first time select in gets the information about the source drive.

Till next time
Catcha !

DCAT