What is a .DMS file?

[McNorris]

What is a .DMS file?

Compression?

How/what do I use to deal with them?

[KennyR]

DMS is a diskmasher file, a compressed disk image. If you want to unpack it on an Amiga, have an empty floppy ready and look at dms11.run on Aminet.

[McNorris]

Thanks K-Dog!

Word to ya mutha.
:)
(Seriously Thanks)

[KennyR]

No problem. ;)

If you need help getting DMS to work just ask, though it should be straightforward enough. Even unpacking the archive is easy - just run it.

Then it's something like:

DMS Yourdmsfile.DMS DF0: WRITE

And its a case of clicky clicky goes the disk, and in a minute or so your DMS is written.

It goes without saying, but don't have any non-writeprotected floppy with contents you want to keep in the drive when you do it. ;)

[Crusher]

If you´re lazy you can use AdfBlitzer (http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/aminet/disk/misc/adfblitzer.lha) :-P

[jus]

Am I the only one here who has always found the READ/WRITE commands confusing? I just can't seem to remember what is exactly read or written, the disk or the file, if you know what I mean. Or maybe it's just me...


Justin

[melott]

Yes .. I found the text version a little cryptic also.
I use the GUI version.. all it takes is a couple clicks.

[melott]

Yes .. I found the text version a little cryptic also.
I use the GUI version.. all it takes is a couple clicks.

[pVC]

And it hasn't to be floppy where you extract them. RAD: drive or some virtual floppy drive on hd are just fine too. It's much faster to extract dms on them than on disk.. for example when you're installing some multidisk program from dms archives.

Example:
mount rad:
dms write disu.dms to rad:

Nondos disks won't work with other than real floppies though.

[KennyR]

Ah, wimps. You're lucky it isn't

dms -xfjs -t 2 -h DEF_DISK /dev/fd0

or something :-P

[Vincent]

KennyR wrote:
Ah, wimps. You're lucky it isn't

dms -xfjs -t 2 -h DEF_DISK /dev/fd0

or something :-P
:lol:

Only real lazy/wimpy people use GUI's :-D

Even though I have DOpus's Lha Lister view and all that gubbins, I still find myself using cli and the proper lha command :-)