Uncrunching ".WRP" files
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Thanks for your reply. WARP and UNWARP didn't work. The file I was trying
to uncrunch was CMA13.wrp from Lib. 4. "UNWARP BBS:CMA13/CMA13.wrp" printed
the prompt to put the destination isk in DF0 and <Return>. Doing so
resulted in a requester to insert vol. BBS, which already was. Selecting
"retry" was to no avail. Repeating the process killed the mouse & keyboard.
Rebooting (again and again, I spent hours trying more possibilities), I
tried "UNWARP DF0:CMA13/CMA13.wrp" and got a message like "not a DOS disk."
I tried "WARP write BBS:CMA13/CMA13.wrp" and uncrunching started but failed
on track 22 with a CRC error. The download of CMA13.wrp was without any
errors noted by Dr.Term, not even any retries on any blocks. Same with
WARP.zoo. So all this is an F.Y.I. to you of my opinion that UNWARP
definitely and WARP [write] maybe got bugs. Couple of months ago you were
going to mention my suggestion to Jim Butterfield to write a book on
machine language for the Amiga patterned after his book for the C-64. I
realize it would be a big job considering the Amiga's complicated O.S. If
you ever got a reply I'd like to hear. Thanks for your interest.
Ross
Ross,
I talked with Jim about that book at DevCon this week. I think Jim might
like to do it, but most of the publishers don't seem interested in any kind
of Amiga books right now. He has not pushed the idea, but has mentioned it
to one or two.
Jim has been writing some things on assembly for the Amiga – started a
series on it in the Transactor before it died. He had several more
installments ready at that time, too. Maybe, if the Amiga begins to sell
better and there is more demand, he will get to write that book. I don't
mind giving him a nudge now and then. 🙂
I'm sorry for all your trouble with warp. Do you have two drives? If so,
the proper way to do it is to put a blank disk into df0: and the BBS: disk
in df1:, then give the command:
WARP WRITE BBS:FILENAME
I assume that you quoted the path correctly in your message, so it would be
WARP WRITE BBS:CAM13/CMA13.WRP
(actually, the .wrp is not required in the command, but must be present on
the filename.)
……Betty