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(Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles (Users)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 22.03.2025, 21:45

I just wanted to tell you about DCOPY. It's one of those floppy disk imaging tools for DOS, but I never heard before. Did anyone of you?

DCOPY can read a floppy to an image file or write an image files to a floppy. Image files are LZ (?) compressed and start with 'DELL_LZ_IMAGE' as an identifier.
I couldn't make DCOPY work under a virtualized Windows XP with a virtualized FDD, but it worked fine on a Pentium 1 MS-DOS laptop with a real FDD.

DCOPY is contained in LXVIDDR.EXE (C & T 65545 Chipset, v. 1.0, A01 | Driver Details | Dell US).

DCOPY v2.01 by John Miles          Copyright (C) 1990 Dell Computer Corporation

USAGE
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   DCOPY <drv_letter:> <output_pathname> [/options]
    Copies contents of removable medium at <drv_letter:>
    to DOS file <output_pathname>

   DCOPY <output_pathname> <drv_letter:> [/options]
    Copies DOS file <output_pathname> to removable medium
    at <drv_letter:>

OPTIONS
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   /B: Batch mode (no interactive prompts)   /U: Write uncompressed image file

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• (Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles - rr, 22.03.2025, 21:45 (Users)
  • (Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles - rr, 23.03.2025, 19:58