Re: Unidos Questions

[Lyrical Nanoha <LyricalNanoha@dosius.net>]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Ed Eastman wrote:

> I was thinking about transferring my old 5.25 DOS3.3 stuff to 3.5" disk using 
> Unidos.  It looks like there is only FID on the disk, and it seems like some 
> of the commands may be modified.

Only patch to the FID I have was to disable drive range checking to allow 
use of drives 3 and 4.

> 1. Is there a manual to explain what patches were made to the DOS to make 
> Unidos work?

I don't know of any.  I'd like to remove the "Sectors Free" in the catalog 
as it plays havoc with Key-Cat.

> 2. Was there some clever person out there who make copy II+ work for flipping 
> files?

*__* I'd like that too.

> 3.  Is there some other user friendly utility to copy files by selecting the 
> name?

Best I've done was to use copy "=" with prompting.

> 4. Anyone out there tried Unidos and found it useful?  I'd love to hear your 
> experiences.

I certainly find it useful, even if the Dapple Megadisk is half-wasted, 
because 800K per disk is still more than 140K.

-uso.