Sanity-Copy (Tool) by Sanity

About

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                         Sanity  DiskCoder/DiskCopy

                         written by Chaos of Sanity

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With  this  program you can code and copy your disks.  The main advantages
are:

- it's 7 seconds faster than XCopy Prof.

                           backup    backup+verify
         SanityCopy        67s       99s   
         CoderCopy         69s       100s
         TetraCopy         68s       105s
         XCopy Prof.       69s       106s
  (all times taken several times with the same clock (no build in clock!))

- it supports max. 10 ramdisks (if you have enough memory)

- you can use coded and uncoded disks  together under DOS (if you got the
  password), unlike CoderBoard.

- the DiskCoder is much harder to crack than CoderBoard

- realy BIG gadgets, I hate these little buttons you find in most copys

- colors adjusted for colorblind people (Yeeaah! Who thought of that ?)

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Normal Copy Operation:

You  can  use  the  program like any normal copy.  The ramdisks work as if
they  would  be  normal  diskdrives.   You  can  select  them as source or
destination, they will never be cleared, only overwritten.

When  you click INFO you will get some information about the disk (ramdisk
or real-disk).  This is very usefull if you work with several ramdisks and
you want to know what's on them.

The copy is started with the START-gadget.  The COPY-Gadget toggles normal
operation/coding disks (see below).

You  can  check  disks by clicking CHECK and then the disk, or by starting
the copy with no destination selected.

The  Tracks  are selected by clicking directly into the trackdisplay.  ALL
resets  it,  DAMAGED  selects  only the damaged tracks.  BOTH/SIDE toggles
whether you change both sides or only one.

The right mouse-button fixes the mousepointer.  Pressing it again releases
it.  Pressing it during copying aborts the copy.

If  you click FORMAT all destination drives will get formated.  The verify
will be performed if selected.

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Coding Disks:

The  most important part of this program is the diskcoder.  First you must
enter  your password by clicking PASSWORD.  Then you must enable the coder
by toggling the CODE/COPY gadget.  Now in every copy-process the data will
be EORed with a pattern generated from your password.  That means a normal
disk  will  be  coded  and  a  coded  disk  will be decoded.  I.e., if you
code-copy  an uncoded disk to ram, the ram-contents is coded.  If you copy
the coded ramdisk to a real disk, the destinaton will be decoded.  You can
check allways with INFO, whether a disk is coded or not.

If you want to use the coded disk under DOS, you must install the decoder-
bootblock  on  any disk and execute it.  To install it, use the BOOTBLOCK-
gadget.   If  you  execute it, it will prompt you for your password IF YOU
PRESS  THE  RIGHT  MOUSEBUTTON  !!!  If you don't, it will behave like any
ordinary  bootblock.   After  pressing  return,  the decoder-software gets
installed  and  a  reset is caused.  The software is resident, even on 1MB
chipmem   Amigas.    Now   AmigaDos   and   any  program  which  uses  the
Trackdisk-Device can use coded and normal disks at the same time.

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Single-Disk Usage:

This  program  is designed for double-disk operation, but if you have only
one  drive,  you may use the ram disk.  To simplify the operation, you may
click  your  disk-drive  as  source  and  destination.  After starting the
copy-process,  you are asked to insert the source disk, then the disk will
be  copied to ram, if you enable coding, the data will be coded now.  When
this is finished, you will be asked to insert the destination disk.  While
writing  from  ram  to  disk,  the  coding  gadget  will never be enabled,
preventing  the  program  from decoding the data he has just coded (if you
enabled  coding  before  pressing start).  If you have two drives, you may
click  df0  as  source  and both df0 and df1 as destination.  You will get
three  copys,  one in the first pass and two in the second.  Remember that
all copy-processes which have source AND destination enabled use the first
ram-disk.   It's  old  contents is lost, after the copy the copied data is
available (as always) if you need some more copies.

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Limitations:

There are some things about this programm which must be said:
- of course it won't work on TurboAmigas (DBF...)
- if you have neither two drives nor at least 1 MB you can't use it
- many nasty 'are you shure' and 'ok?' requesters to get on your nerves, I
  like it this way...

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Credits:

- Chaos/Sanity      Coding
- Shadow/Sanity     (very extensive) Testing 
- Cruiser/Sanity    Gfx
- Jeff & Shadow     Idea
- Kalli/no group    Coloradjustment for colorblind people
- Monty Pyton       Samples (Bing and blblblblblb from "meaning of live")
                    (the samples make the program sooooo long ...)

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Good luck using the Sanity DiskCoder/Copy and fuck the police.

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Hope you understand all in this little informtion file and get no problems
by  using  your  production,  `cos  it`s well tested.  But if you have any
questions and problems with SANITY-COPY, feel free to contact us!
Look out for the number of "TRIP TO THE MOON"!
Your member - Shadow - is the cosysop of this board.

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