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| The widespread use of Personal Computers has lead to an ever-increasing problem with transferring data between machines. The most obvious and convenient candidate for such transfers is via Floppy disks. Unfortunately, | The widespread use of Personal Computers has lead to an ever-increasing problem with transferring data between machines. The most obvious and convenient candidate for such transfers is via Floppy disks. Unfortunately, | ||
| - | The DiscOVER software was developed to help address this problem for uses of the QL. Compatible machines such as the various models of Thor are also supported, and all references to the QL apply equally to such machines. | + | The DiscOVER software was developed to help address this problem for users of the QL. Compatible machines such as the various models of Thor are also supported, and all references to the QL apply equally to such machines. |
| DiscOVER is designed to allow floppy disks in the formats of other machines to be read and written on the QL. There are two versions of the software, the standard version which handles MSDOS and PCDOS formats, and an enhanced version known as MULTI-DiscOVER which also handles CPM, BBC DFS, BBC ADFS and Unix CPIO formats. This manual covers both versions as they have exactly the same User Interface. | DiscOVER is designed to allow floppy disks in the formats of other machines to be read and written on the QL. There are two versions of the software, the standard version which handles MSDOS and PCDOS formats, and an enhanced version known as MULTI-DiscOVER which also handles CPM, BBC DFS, BBC ADFS and Unix CPIO formats. This manual covers both versions as they have exactly the same User Interface. | ||
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| * Files that are on Floppy disks in a wide variety of formats can be read and copied onto QDOS format media. | * Files that are on Floppy disks in a wide variety of formats can be read and copied onto QDOS format media. | ||
| - | * Files that are on QDOS format media can be copied and written to a the same variety of formats. | + | * Files that are on QDOS format media can be copied and written to the same variety of formats. |
| * The program will automatically detect whether it is running on 40 track or 80 track drives, and adjust itself accordingly. 40 track discs can be read (and normally written as well) on 80 track drives with no problems. | * The program will automatically detect whether it is running on 40 track or 80 track drives, and adjust itself accordingly. 40 track discs can be read (and normally written as well) on 80 track drives with no problems. | ||
| * The use of Directories is supported whenever the format in use supports them. | * The use of Directories is supported whenever the format in use supports them. | ||