Conference hydra::amiga_v1

1431.0. "DOSKWIK...anyone interested?" by VTHRAX::KIP (Explain the Universe and give 3 examples.) Fri May 20 1988 16:20

    For those of us not fortunate enough to have a hard disk (yet! :-),
    there's a pair of programs to make booting up your Amiga a little
    faster.  They are "ReadKwik" and "RiteKwik", packaged as "DOSKWIK.ARC".
    What they'll do is copy or restore of all the files on a device
    (recursively including all of the subdirectories and their files) to
    drive 0 or 1 without using AmigaDOS disk format; this makes it a much
    faster copy. 
    
    Here's how I've been using them:
    
    First, built a set of files and subdirectories in RAM: for all stuff
    normally called in "startup-sequence".  Created a modified version of
    startup-sequence in RAM:s. Then did a "ritekwik ram: 1" which copied
    all of ram: to df1: (note, can't use this diskette for anything else,
    non-DOS format).  Then, in original startup-sequence, use "readkwik 1
    ram:" (restores files from df1: to RAM:) and call the startup-sequence
    in RAM:.
    
    If you invoke ReadKwik and you don't have the right diskette
    inserted, you get a cancel requestor.  After cancelling, you can
    check to see if one of your files is in RAM: (e.g. if EXISTS
    RAM:myfile) in your original on-disk startup-sequence, and continue
    with your normal startup if ReadKwik didn't work. 
    
    This uses up a disk but if you have a long startup-sequence it can
    really save a lot of time.
    
    If anyone's interested, I'll upload. 

Yes  I am interested.

Can you upload I would appreciate it

...gss...8-)

    Ditto .1
    
    Thanks

    Uploaded.  Here's where it is:
    
    	VTHRAX::AMIGA$PUBLIC:DOSKWIK.ARC
    
    The arc file contains "Readkwik" and "Ritekwik".  There are no docs
    (at least I haven't seen them), but both programs will output
    directions if you invoke either of them with no arguments.

    A Tousand Tank Yous, oh kind one!

    I can't seem to access VTHRAX.  Anyone still have DOSKWIK online?
    
    - steve

    
    	Re. .5
    
    		You can find DOSKWIK.ARC in
    PUERTO::DISK$PUBLIC:[ALVAREZ.PUBLIC].
    
    Miguel A. Alvarez 

    The protection seems to be set on
        puerto::disk$public:[alvarez.public]doskwik.arc.

    thanks in advance,
    
    - steve mcafee

    Got it.  Thanks.