An easy ADF problem for you!!

04 April 2002, 21:12

Right...

I have Transdisk and my adf file. I want to make it back into its original form.

What do I do now??

RetroMan · 04 April 2002, 21:17

TRANSDISK -W NAME_OF_THE_ADF.ADF

writes it back to DF0:

to write an ADF to DF1: you have to add : -D TRACKDISK 1

Nian · 05 April 2002, 01:57

The easy way of doing it is to download the udated DOpus4 at

http://dopus.amiga.pl/

And then configure a couple of buttons to E.g.

[ReadADF DF0]
[ReadADF DF1]

and on the right click of those buttons

[WriteADF DF0]
[WriteADF DF1]

I did that and chrunched through about 500 floppies.

I also did a few other kewl buttons in Dopus4 but can't show anyone as my amiga is in a repair shop, (For a YEAR). So another moral, don't trust anyone when it comes to amigas they are all lazy dodgy bastards.

Oh and speaking of DOpus4 a bit more, does anyone know how
to configure a button to compress and decompress LZX's?
I tried for ages and never got it to work.

Twistin'Ghost · 05 April 2002, 02:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Nian
Oh and speaking of DOpus4 a bit more, does anyone know how
to configure a button to compress and decompress LZX's?
I tried for ages and never got it to work.

I haven't actually set up such a button (although I really should) but I will give it a shot tonight. It's just a command line app, so I would guess you just have it open a shell, issue the command, then close the shell.

jmmijo · 05 April 2002, 11:35

Yeah, that's a neat idea, thanks Nian

Twistin'Ghost · 05 April 2002, 12:13

Hmm...he's right. There's no logical reason why LZX does this, but when you create a button to extract with full path from in DOpus, it returns this error message:

unknown command 'X'

?!?

Nian · 05 April 2002, 15:13

Naturally i'm right, you don't get as configured workbench as mine without knowing how to install and setup the odd app. THe only problem is I havn't learnt how to do arexx scripts so this little problem I have never been able to work out.
Perhaps someone out there could make us an arexx script for dopus4 to lzx up and decompress lzx's with a dopus bar. I dunno, SOurce lzx to destination window or something.

Twistin'Ghost · 05 April 2002, 22:21

What I find more interesting is *WHY* it doesn't work. Logic says that if you pass the command line to the shell, it should do what it does when you type it in the CLI. Every other command I have made a button for up to now has done this. Why does it think the 'X' is not a command, when it is? I'm more interested in why Opus and LZX don't mix.

AmiNet features three different tools for handling LZX archives in DOpus, but (as usual) they are for v5.x (arrgghh!) I couldn't even get anwhere using UnLZX. Does Opus not use a real shell or something?

04 April 2002, 21:12	#1
Pixel Posts: n/a	An easy ADF problem for you!! Right... I have Transdisk and my adf file. I want to make it back into its original form. What do I do now??

05 April 2002, 01:57	#3
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	Easy ADF The easy way of doing it is to download the udated DOpus4 at http://dopus.amiga.pl/ And then configure a couple of buttons to E.g. [ReadADF DF0] [ReadADF DF1] and on the right click of those buttons [WriteADF DF0] [WriteADF DF1] I did that and chrunched through about 500 floppies. I also did a few other kewl buttons in Dopus4 but can't show anyone as my amiga is in a repair shop, (For a YEAR). So another moral, don't trust anyone when it comes to amigas they are all lazy dodgy bastards. Oh and speaking of DOpus4 a bit more, does anyone know how to configure a button to compress and decompress LZX's? I tried for ages and never got it to work.

05 April 2002, 15:13	#7
Nian Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sol / Earth Posts: 45	Ofcourse. Naturally i'm right, you don't get as configured workbench as mine without knowing how to install and setup the odd app. THe only problem is I havn't learnt how to do arexx scripts so this little problem I have never been able to work out. Perhaps someone out there could make us an arexx script for dopus4 to lzx up and decompress lzx's with a dopus bar. I dunno, SOurce lzx to destination window or something.

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04 April 2002, 21:17	#2
RetroMan Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 3,704	TRANSDISK -W NAME_OF_THE_ADF.ADF writes it back to DF0: to write an ADF to DF1: you have to add : -D TRACKDISK 1

05 April 2002, 11:35	#5
jmmijo Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: PDX Age: 62 Posts: 2,395	Yeah, that's a neat idea, thanks Nian

05 April 2002, 12:13	#6
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	Hmm...he's right. There's no logical reason why LZX does this, but when you create a button to extract with full path from in DOpus, it returns this error message: unknown command 'X' ?!?

05 April 2002, 22:21	#8
Twistin'Ghost Give up the ghost Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: U$A Age: 33 Posts: 4,662	What I find more interesting is WHY it doesn't work. Logic says that if you pass the command line to the shell, it should do what it does when you type it in the CLI. Every other command I have made a button for up to now has done this. Why does it think the 'X' is not a command, when it is? I'm more interested in why Opus and LZX don't mix. AmiNet features three different tools for handling LZX archives in DOpus, but (as usual) they are for v5.x (arrgghh!) I couldn't even get anwhere using UnLZX. Does Opus not use a real shell or something?

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