FAQ

[Shaun Oliver]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Ann:
> 
> Regarding rawrite, it's best to use it in as pure a DOS environment as
> possible.  Also, if you uuse speech, kill it off as much as is practical
> during the write operation. It seems to cause problems with some rawrite
> operations.  Remember that the bios code that has to read these rawritten
> disks is far less tollerant of imperfections than standard disk i/o code.
> 
> As far as downloading goes, it is strongly recommended that windows users
> use an FTP client rather than internet explorer.  A number of people up
> here got bad images and it turned out that they'd all used IE to get them.
> I know it should be fine, but it often is not.
yes that's true but, if you enter the ftp address using the ftp://
prefix, then the problem of bad images isn't an issue.
> 
> In a standard FTP client, it will be possible somewhere to select ASCII or
> binary mode.  This of course will vary from client to client.  It is of
> course essential that one uses binary mode for downloading disk images.
> 
I agree with this statement as well. Having said this however, I think
that as an ftp client, the 2 I've found most userfriendly under the
windows platform are cute ftp and ftp explorer.
Shaun..
> Geoff.
 > 
> 
> 
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