Please see the LICENSE file for copyright information.


RAWRITE2 is a floppy image file writer/creator. It is written in pascal and
compiles with Turbo Pascal 6 or later. A port to free pascal is planned
in the near future.

This program was born to help installation of "one floppy" linux systems,
like muLinux (http://sunsite.auc.dk/mulinux), tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net),
etc.

It is intended to allow the user to create raw images from a floppy or dump
such images to floppy, supporting not only standard formats (360KB, 720KB or
1.44 MB) but a lot more: all fdformat and 2m formats, and any other giving
number of tracks and sectors.
It runs actually under DOS 3.2 or later, Win9x and WinNT (since WinNT only
supports standard formats you only will be able to use such formats under
this inoperating system).
To use 2m formats you will need to install the 2m tsr before using
rawrite2, but DOS 6.2 and later directly supports all fdformat formats.

Since it writes raw images, you always have to supply the floppy format on
a command line option. If the floppy is DOS (FAT) formatted, the program
can be instructed to read the floppy size from the boot sector. If no size
option is given, then a standard 1.44 MB floppy will be supposed.
Run rawrite2 with no parameters to get a help screen.


LATEST VERSION

Try at http://www.navegalia.com/personal/maacruz


CONTACT

Please feed donations, suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to:
	Miguel Angel Alvarez
	<maacruz@navegalia.com>


RELATED

2m is a great package which allows using up to 2 MB on a standard 1.44 MB
floppy, written by Ciriaco Garcia de Celis.
You can find it at ftp://luna.gui.uva.es/pub/pc/2m

fdformat is a well known DOS floppy format package, written by
Christoph H. Hochsttter. You can find it at many ftp sites.



GREETINGS

Ciriaco Garcia de Celis, for 2m
Christoph H. Hochsttter, for fdformat. I took some ideas from here.


CHANGELOG

1.1: 8/5/2000
Added a lot more of /Fxxx
Added some more checking to detect hard disks and subst/network units
Added /N switch to use dos int 25 & 26 instead BIOS int 13
Now it can have several (max 10) input files if dumping image to floppy (works
like unix command "cat file1 file2 ..fileN")
The help screen have been expanded a bit.

1.0: 23/4/2000
First release published.
