FLOPPIES          COPYRIGHT horio shoichi 1995           FLOPPIES



NAME
     floppies.exe - relocates dos floppy disk driver requests

SYNOPSIS
     floppies [ delete ]

     device=floppies.exe

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.  For lines in config.sys, operands are
          converted to lower case.

     -    Alphabetic part of an option can be abbreviated down to
          one  character.   For example the delete option has the
          syntax d[e[l[e[t[e]]]]]].

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

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.

     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, thus allows floppy opera-
     tions work concurrently with IDE type hard disks.  It  works
     only   when   concache.exe  requests  floppy  operations  to
     floppies.exe.

     Floppies.exe accepts only read, write, and write and  verify
     device driver functions to free dos block device driver from
     most of lengthy floppy operations.

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

SEE ALSO
     concache.txt, ccdisk.txt, cctame.txt, eqanda.txt, intro.txt.





Concache 1.00      Last Update:  18 March 1995                  1
FLOPPIES          COPYRIGHT horio shoichi 1995           FLOPPIES



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

     Since media check functions are not treated by this program,
     true parallelism with IDE is spoiled to serialize DOS device
     driver calls.
















































Concache 1.00      Last Update:  18 March 1995                  2