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to: mark lewis
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 2004-04-16 00:47:06
subject: .IMG extension

-=> Quoting mark lewis to Gerald Miller <=-

 GM> I have to presume that the example "DISKCOPY TEST.IMG A:" was
 GM> provided because _most_ operating systems have a diskcopy
 GM> command.  The bottom line would be: use whatever command that
 GM> works for you to create the System disk(s)....

 ml> FWIW: i'm unaware of diskcopy being able to read disk image files and
 ml> translating them to a read disk(ette)... only RAWRITE and a few others
 ml> can do this, TTBOMK... 

DR-DOS (at least the later versions) had that capability because one of
the ways it was distributed was as a set of disk images you could grab
off the net. You also downloaded a ZIP file that had diskcopy and a
batch file or some such. So you'run the batch file and it'd prompt you
to insert floppies until you had all 6 or 7 disks needed for a full
install.

Boot off disk 1, and away you went.

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