25 Feb
2023
25 Feb
'23
4:29 p.m.
Since, allowing for snail mail, it will probably be a week, i have a question. Can you run
the qrst.exe program at all? Was thinking that it might be possible to extract the image
to hard disk then use an image burning prog to write to the floppy eith needing 16 bit
drivers.
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On Feb 25, 2023, at 16:24, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Btw… here’s the link to the Qrst info…
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Quick_Release_Sector_Transfer
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On Feb 25, 2023, at 16:23, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Yep. I can probably burn a floppy for you if you put the programs and data software
somewhere i can get to it. I’ll try and then you can tell me where to send the floppies.
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On Feb 25, 2023, at 16:17, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I read that Qrst was just a file format. To quote The QRST disc image format was used by
Compaq to distribute disk images of diagnostic software. The file QRST.EXE or QRST5.EXE
would be supplied with the disc images to write them to a floppy drive.
-So do you have the QRST programs available?
Yes. However the QRST program is a 16 bit app that requires physical access to a real
floppy controller. Thus it cannot work on a Windows 10 system with DOSBOX as the floppy is
USB and I don't think DOSBOX emulates a true floppy interface at the BIOS level.
Modern archive tools like 7zip do not appear to have support for QRST format. It's
compressed in some odd way, so it can't just be dd'ed to a floppy sector by
sector.
Never dull.
CZ