#dms
6 messages in this thread
Brad,
I haven't used DMS for quite some time, but when I was using it, it required me
to have a blank disk in DF0: and would only uncompress to that drive. Have you
tried it that way?
—Betty
Betty:
PMFJI, but you can get DMS to uncompress to other drives by using the CLI
version. I can't remember the exact syntax, but its something like:
DMS write <from file>.DMS drive <whatever>
For example, I uncompress to RAM:. The program still says "Put blank disk
in RAM: and press return." Just press return, and off you go.
Nick
So you can see how long it's been since I needed to use DMS. Thanks for he
help.
—Betty
Thanks for the response, but the problem I seem to be having is involving the
dms program no matter where I try to put it or if I try to copy it to a blank
disk in df0: first, I'm decompressing fromm CD-ROM. I get the same error
message "disk in df0 is non dos disk" or it I decompress from ram: to df0: it
will immediately say "Disk has non dos boot block" then it will decompress the
file to df0 but will then say "fatal error" afterwhich the disk will be
corupted, it will then be a non dos disk. Almost every interesting program on
my AMinet CD-ROM dis is compressed with dms so its a bit frustrating.
Don't attempt to decompress to HD floppies unless you are using DMS v2.x and
then, read the DMS doc for what switch to use to tell the program it is a high
density disk.
-sja
I use DMS quite often, too (I have a CD-ROM as well), and this happens quite
often (almost every time). This is because it is probably a Euro Demo of some
sort that does not have a standard boot code. When you use the disk, it should
be fine (It always works fine for me, anyways). Do you format the floppies
before DMS-ing to them?
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