> I don't know if your Trump Card has the "format ram1_,mdv1_" command -
> part of the Tony Tebby toolkits on interfaces.
Minor typo, no comma in it, between ram1_ and mdv1_ and the underscore
after
the 'mdv1' is optional.
If you still have your Trump Card manual, look for further details of this
under 'Microdrive Imaging'.
> 'ram1_' part can be any valid drive.
RAM drive, of course.
I should have said as well, just to clarify:
You can check if your QL has ramdisk simply by entering the command:
DIR RAM1_
It should show a result like:
RAM1
100/100 sectors
the title in the first line and the numbers in the second line may vary a
little, depending on exactly what system you have. The numbers refer to the
number of 512 byte sectors in the ramdisk - free sectors/total sectors.
The command to make an image of a microdrive cartridge which has been placed
in microdrive drive 1 and to be copied to ramdisk RAM1_ is:
FORMAT 'ram1_mdv1'
What this does is to make a sector by sector copy of the microdrive
cartridge, which it puts in the drive called RAM1_. If you've never used
ramdisks before, they're just like microdrives or floppy disks but exist
only in the memory of the computer. As Tony said, if any part of a file
copied with the FORMAT 'ram1_mdv1' command is faulty, the filename will show
up with a '*' character alongside it when you list the files with DIR RAM1_
As ramdisks are only 'temporary' media in memory, as soon as you have been
able to copy the cartridges into RAM disks, you can then use WCOPY RAM1_ TO
FLP1_ for example to copy the files to floppy disks.
I assume you still have the manual for your Trump Card and Gold Card, if
not, you can get copies from my website at
http://www.dilwyn.me.uk/docs/manuals/index.html (scroll down to the Miracle
Systems section).
Dilwyn Jones
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