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NAME
     floppies.exe - relocates dos floppy disk driver requests

SYNOPSIS
     floppies [load_umb] [delete]

     device=floppies.exe [load_umb]

     floppies VECTOR [interrupt-number interrupt-id]

COMMAND LINE RULES
     Command line has following rules

     -    Operands  consist of options and terminating ';' (semi-
          colon).  Except for ';' , the order is unimportant.

     -    The character ';' (semicolon) terminates command  line.
          Operands after the character are ignored.

     -    All  operands are case sensitive, and generally must be
          in lower case.  In this  version  VECTOR  is  the  only
          upper  case  operand.  On config.sys line, operands are
          converted to lower case and then interpreted.

     -    The character '/' can be placed anywhere ' ' (the white
          space) can be placed.

     -    Alphabetic part of an option can be abbreviated down to
          one character, if there is no ambiguities.  For example
          the delete option has the syntax [d[e[l[e[t[e]]]]]].

DESCRIPTION
     It  is  possible to load floppies.exe into UMB (upper memory
     block) by appropriate  load  command,  such  as  devicehigh=
     instead of device= or using loadhigh command.

     Alternatively,  using load_umb option when loading under dos
     command line finds the smallest space on upper memory  block
     that fits and loads itself there.

     The  delete option is the option to tell resident (loaded as
     TSR) floppies to be deleted from memory.

     Floppies.exe is a character mode  device  driver  or  a  TSR
     (Terminate  and  Stay  Resident) program to relocate most of
     floppy device driver requests from dos block  device  driver
     and  use  int40  instead  of  int13.  Since floppies and IDE
     disks cannot run concurrently due to the organization of DOS
     device drivers, floppies.exe, under control of concache.exe,
     replaces most of data transfer requests for floppies against

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     DOS  device  driver  to  floppies.exe.  This allows IDE disk
     operations without interference from floppy  disks'.   Flop-
     pies.exe  accepts  only  read,  write,  and write and verify
     device driver functions to free dos block device driver from
     most  of lengthy floppy operations.  It works only when con-
     cache.exe requests floppy operations to floppies.exe.

     For VECTOR argument, see  the  corresponding  subsection  in
     concache.txt.

SEE ALSO
     concache.txt, eqanda.txt, overview.txt.

FEATURES
     Due to interrupt overlay order, delete option may not always
     work.



































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