China DOS Union

Thanks to brother johnsonlam (Hong Kong) of China DOS Union, brother fastslz and other enthusiastic netizens, Mr. Li Zhi, the author of ddcopy, and foreigner Lucho for their help and support!

Updated version 3
1 Improved two parameters:
Increased the default of V to 2047MB
Added global switch -i is equivalent to -ir|ignorereaderror and -iw|ignorewriteerror
2 Perfectly added English help and Chinese documentation, and incorporated English help into the program

[ Last edited by GOTOmsdos on 2007-9-15 at 04:53 PM ]

Found a word error:

Environment for execution : MS-DOS / Win9x_MS-DOS_VM
(This VM should be called BOX correctly)

VM (Virtual Machine) is a mistake! Because the Win9x MS-DOS window is originally a serious DOS that can directly access hardware, not a virtual machine (only for 2K/XP).

Hurry up and correct it, recompile...
Updated..

Originally posted by GOTOmsdos at 2007-1-15 12:04 PM:
Found a wording error:

Environment for execution : MS-DOS / Win9x_MS-DOS_VM
(This VM should be called BOX correctly)

VM (Virtual Machine) is a mistake...

I am rushing to update the content of README, and the update should be almost done.

Brother GOTOmsdos, there is a simplified Chinese filename in the file, and my foreign friends can't see it. I'm afraid there will be problems in English WinXP. Can it be changed to READ-GB.TXT?


[ Last edited by johnsonlam on 2007-1-16 at 02:41 AM ]

Originally posted by johnsonlam at 2007-1-16 02:36 AM:



I am urgently updating the content of the README. The update should be almost done.

Dear Brother GOTOmsdos, there is a simplified Chinese file name in the file, which my foreign friends and I can't see, ...

Brother johnsonlam:
If you need to, just go ahead and make the changes, no problem.
=========
There is also an issue with the running display that I want to change:
Originally: After completing a task, scroll one line; after completing a volume, do not scroll (only update the volume name)
Intend to change to: After completing a task, scroll two lines; after completing a volume, scroll one line (naturally also update the volume name)
In this way, the running result display is clearer, and we can also see all the volume names of the completed tasks.
Now I'm starting to do it...

Please download the ZIP file and check the contents. I have unified some file names and created English and Big5 NEW.B5 to make it easier for users to view.

Feel free to make changes, and I will add them later.

http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/todisk-13a.zip


[ Last edited by johnsonlam on 2007-1-18 at 01:14 PM ]

Just now, I made a few minor changes to the document and the program, and updated the program package.

The document changes are as follows: (For you to update in read-b5.txt <I don't have a traditional Chinese input method here, so I have to trouble you...>, and the other three update instruction files, there's no need to change them, right?)

1
Hard disk/partition/sector free backup/restorer ==TOdisk== (sector mode)
Changed to:
Hard disk/partition/sector =freE= (free) backup/restorer ==TOdisk== (sector mode)

TOdisk is just the name of the program and doesn't contain the characteristics of the program. So, just now I thought of giving the program a name. Previously, it was "Quan Zhen", and you used "True Sector Clone", which is very appropriate. However, there are also some other hard disk tools that are also full-clone. In fact, the biggest characteristic of this program is that "free" is more appropriate. So, tentatively, the full name is:
HardDisk/Partition/Sector =freE= Backup/Restorer. What do you think?
The second E is in uppercase, which looks a bit strange. I want to express the meaning of freedom not bound by rules, and it's also quite eye-catching. The = signs on both sides, on the one hand, catch the eye, and on the other hand, it means the symbols used in the program file string parameters <different from the parameters of general DOS programs>
(The help in the program is also added...)

2
<View mode>

-Dn displays information about hard disk n

Changed to:

<View mode>

Warning!!!
The DOS drive letters in the partition summary table displayed by the program are inferred according to the DOS drive letter allocation rules, and may not be accurate, especially when additionally mounting drives such as U disks, mobile hard disks, virtual disks, etc., for reference only. But the partition numbers displayed in the table are correct.

-Dn displays information about hard disk n

[ Last edited by GOTOmsdos on 2007-1-19 at 11:38 AM ]

Can you make a floppy disk image of Lucho'bootdisk? (I use GRUB to boot it)
I don't want to install a new floppy drive. I haven't booted with Lucho'bootdisk yet.

Just now I found a small BUG in your website: (DOS page)
When entering a sub - page (such as QHIMEM, the same for others), then clicking Back to Top, the exact same content as the left DOS general list area will be displayed repeatedly;
Hehe...

Originally posted by GOTOmsdos at 2007-1-19 11:38 PM:
Just now I found a small bug in your website: (DOS page)
When entering a sub-page (such as QHIMEM, the same for others), then clicking Back to Top, it will repeatedly display exactly the same ... as the left DOS general list area...

That is a historical issue, heh heh!

In the past, some foreign links only linked to that html (such as qhimem.html), without linking the frame together, so forced to add Return to Top to make them return to the main directory. I believe that normally, users will use the left options and will not press that small text.

Bad news! When executing toDISK v1.3a under 4DOS, it is normal without adding commands, but adding anything will crash (with JEMM or UMBPCI) or reset (without any drive)...

Got to test if there is a problem with normal MS-DOS...

toDISK v1.3a crashes under 4DOS? How about previous versions? No problem under MS-DOS 7.1 currently.

Originally posted by GOTOmsdos at 2007-1-20 11:07 AM:
toDISK v1.3a crashes under 4DOS?
How about previous versions?

No problem currently under MS-DOS7.1.

After v1.2, the test environment changed... Changed to an IBM Netvista with P4, running at 1.4GHz.
Tested on another Iwill machine with no problem... Maybe it's really that IBM machines are incompatible with Borland C?

Also asked Brother Jack (author of QHIMEM/QCACHE/QCDROM) to test, and the result is he also has problems:

-----
Johnson,

Last night, after trying TODisk and writing to you, I went
to bed. This morning, upon answering my E-Mails from you
and Lucho, I found that my D: partition that was copied to
could NOT be accessed by Windows/NT! Thus, I regret that
TODisk may yet have some sort of "odd" PROBLEM!
-----

He is still using Windows NT 4.0, no RAID.

Originally posted by johnsonlam at 2007-1-21 02:55 AM:



IBM computer not compatible...

This is not very familiar...