DOS ain't dead - (Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles

Berlin, Germany,
22.03.2025, 21:45

(Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles (Users)

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

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Berlin, Germany,
23.03.2025, 19:58

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(Dell) DCOPY 2.01 by John Miles

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Believe it or not, John Miles, creator of the IBM Audio Interface Library (AIL) and the Miles Sound System (MSS), confirmed to me by e-mail today, to be the author of DCOPY.

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