#PAR errors
If you run PARDRV -p and you do a DIR of the PAR drive, the files should (has
to) be *.ANI and *.STL. Use -v (verbose) to see what the settings are.
For information sake, the files within the PAR are always in PAR
format. That is, they are always *.ANI and *.STL. When you set the
driver to Targa mode (using the -t option), the driver just responds
to queries telling DOS the files are *.TGA. They only get converted
when you read them out. That means, when you copy a file out of the
PAR to a local disk, the driver will do the conversion in memory
(that's the reason for that huge buffer) and give you a Targa file
instead.
So, if the driver is set to Targa mode and I do a dir, I get:
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[C:\]>dir e:
Volume in drive E is DPS_PAR-S0
Directory of e:\*.*
CACTUS TGA 1082898 10-11-94 3:13a
PAIN0000 TGA 1082898 12:00a
CHEVY TGA 1082898 10-13-94 11:13a
SPMTE1 TGA 1082898 10-17-94 12:36a
TEST TGA 1082898 10-17-94 12:38a
5,414,490 bytes in 5 file(s) 5,570,560 bytes allocated
456,720,384 bytes free
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now I type:
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[C:\]>pardrv -p -v
Digital Processing Systems
Personal Animation Recorder Driver V 1.6 (486) – NTSC System
Program Produced for DPS by Pyros Partnership, Inc
(c) Copyright 1993, 1994 Gus J Grubba – All Rights Reserved
– Animation mode engaged
– Chroma filtering disabled
– Noise filtering enabled
– Output mode is PAR format <*********** this is what I just set
– Blah, Blah, Blah…
Resident driver updated.
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Now I do a dir again:
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[C:\]>dir e:
Volume in drive E is DPS_PAR-S0
Directory of e:\*.*
CACTUS ANI 205824 10-11-94 3:13a
PAIN0000 ANI 35950592 12:00a
CHEVY ANI 518656 10-13-94 11:13a
SPMTE1 ANI 503296 10-17-94 12:36a
TEST ANI 1005568 10-17-94 12:38a
38,183,936 bytes in 5 file(s) 38,273,024 bytes allocated
456,720,384 bytes free