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Old May 29th 15, 03:23 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Billy Ray Ferrell \USA Vice President 2016\[_9_]
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WinImage
Shareware



WinImage is
one of the best known floppy imaging programs.

It creates images of floppies that are identical to the original contents.
The images made with this program work in VMware and Virtual PC as well.

If you download a .IMA or .IMG file,
you will need this program to write it to the floppy.

Download Version: 3.00
http://files.oldos.org/files/win3x/winimage3win31.zip

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Old May 29th 15, 08:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
VanguardLH
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:

WinImage
Shareware

WinImage is
one of the best known floppy imaging programs.

It creates images of floppies that are identical to the original contents.
The images made with this program work in VMware and Virtual PC as well.

If you download a .IMA or .IMG file,
you will need this program to write it to the floppy.

Download Version: 3.00
http://files.oldos.org/files/win3x/winimage3win31.zip


http://winimage.com/winimage.htm
Shareware -- NOT FREEWARE
30-day trial
Cost: $30 USD

Current version is 9.0 (circa 2013), NOT 3.00.

From http://winimage.com/download.htm Win98 is last listed for version
8.10. Not until verison 6.0 was Windows 98 supported.

From the oldos.org site:
Stating the obvious: oldos.org is dead. It's very obvious, but I
wanted to state it for posterity: The website hasn't been updated in
two years, new forum registrations have been disabled due to spam.
Hopefully the information here is still useful to some of you out
there, but don't expect updates or new content."
That message was dated August 23rd, 2010, so that site has not been
updated since 2008.
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Old May 29th 15, 09:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

In message , VanguardLH
writes:
Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:


Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.

WinImage
Shareware

[]
http://winimage.com/winimage.htm
Shareware -- NOT FREEWARE


Yes, that was my thought too ...

30-day trial
Cost: $30 USD


.... and that proved it, for me anyway. Do you think BRF has some
connection to whoever gets that money?

Current version is 9.0 (circa 2013), NOT 3.00.

[]
From the oldos.org site:

[]
That message was dated August 23rd, 2010, so that site has not been
updated since 2008.

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Old May 30th 15, 08:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
VanguardLH
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

J. P. Gilliver wrote:

VanguardLH writes:

Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:


Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.


Reminiscient of another gnome who who posts in Usenet with "Esquire" in
his nym as though that makes him more important. I remove fluff from
nyms in attribution lines usually without notice but not in this case.

Do you think BRF has some connection to whoever gets that money?


Actually I figured BRF, likely a nymshifter, is a noob who discovered
WinImage and feels compelled to publish his diary entry. Later he may
post that he discovered water is wet.

A WinImage spamming rep or "affiliate" would have better and more
accurate info and not point at a dead site not owned by WinImage. Yes,
BRF was spamming an antiquated version of WinImage but why is unclear.
Maybe he uses Windows 98 and grew bored of little traffic here.
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Old May 31st 15, 01:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Computer Nerd Kev[_2_]
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , VanguardLH
writes:
Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:


Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.


I've been with the theory that it's HotText in disguise, in which case
asking "why?" is probably an undue use of brain cells.

WinImage
Shareware

[]
http://winimage.com/winimage.htm
Shareware -- NOT FREEWARE


Yes, that was my thought too ...

30-day trial
Cost: $30 USD


... and that proved it, for me anyway. Do you think BRF has some
connection to whoever gets that money?


I can't imagine that.

For what it's worth, I've got an old version of WinImage on my Win
XP machine, I think I got it off a magazine CD. It throws up a
warning that after 30 days it won't work, and has a count of days
elapsed, but never actually stops working - much like WinZip used
to, only with more forceful terminology.

On Windows, RawWrite serves most of my purposes:
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite

It's Win 98able, free and open source.

What it doesn't do is display image file contents, but I rarely
need to anyway, and I dare say there's a free program out there
to do that as well.

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Old May 31st 15, 10:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

In message , Computer Nerd Kev
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , VanguardLH
writes:
Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:


Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.


I've been with the theory that it's HotText in disguise, in which case
asking "why?" is probably an undue use of brain cells.


I don't think so: it didn't have the very quirky English that I
associate with HotText. (Judging by the extreme quirkiness, I suspect
HotText's native language is one _very_ different from English - I'm
into languages [both parents were language teachers and my brother's
associate editor on the dictionary], and recognise the oddities that
several European-language natives come out with, and HotText's ones are
very different to any of those; therefore I'll say his English is
probably a lot better than my whatever-his-is [which would be zero].) On
the whole, I find HotText tries to be helpful, though I often don't
agree with him - when I can actually understand him, which is IIRR about
half the time.

I say IIRR, as I don't think I've seen him for ages.
[]
... and that proved it, for me anyway. Do you think BRF has some
connection to whoever gets that money?


I can't imagine that.


No, on balance I didn't think so either - I was just a bit puzzled why
the Winimage post appeared, out of the blue as it were. (But we've
discussed that enough.)

For what it's worth, I've got an old version of WinImage on my Win
XP machine, I think I got it off a magazine CD. It throws up a
warning that after 30 days it won't work, and has a count of days
elapsed, but never actually stops working - much like WinZip used
to, only with more forceful terminology.

On Windows, RawWrite serves most of my purposes:
http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite

It's Win 98able, free and open source.


Thanks, noted.

What it doesn't do is display image file contents, but I rarely
need to anyway, and I dare say there's a free program out there
to do that as well.

(Do all these - WinImage, RawWrite, etc. produce interoperable image
files?)
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Old June 1st 15, 03:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Computer Nerd Kev[_2_]
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Default one of the best known floppy imaging programs

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Computer Nerd Kev
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , VanguardLH
writes:
Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:

Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.


I've been with the theory that it's HotText in disguise, in which case
asking "why?" is probably an undue use of brain cells.


I don't think so: it didn't have the very quirky English that I
associate with HotText.


True, but if you look at past posts under that name (eg. the recent
(for this group) "virtual pc 2007 and win98se" discussion) they're
identical to HotText's past, uhh, contributions.

(Judging by the extreme quirkiness, I suspect
HotText's native language is one _very_ different from English - I'm
into languages [both parents were language teachers and my brother's
associate editor on the dictionary], and recognise the oddities that
several European-language natives come out with, and HotText's ones are
very different to any of those; therefore I'll say his English is
probably a lot better than my whatever-his-is [which would be zero].) On
the whole, I find HotText tries to be helpful, though I often don't
agree with him - when I can actually understand him, which is IIRR about
half the time.


Yes, though I've never been able to quite believe how he ends up with what
he writes, even given a language barrier. His text formatting in particular
is a mystery. I suspect he's more active in some other newsgroup/s, but I
don't really care to find out. As you say, he has the right intent, and
there's half a chance he might actually point someone the right way once
in a blue moon.

At least unlike many other rather curious Usenet posters, he's not
endlessly trolling in threads that run into the hundreds of posts. Well,
not here anyway...

[snip]

What it doesn't do is display image file contents, but I rarely
need to anyway, and I dare say there's a free program out there
to do that as well.

(Do all these - WinImage, RawWrite, etc. produce interoperable image
files?)


Yep, or at least they certainly should. Disk images are simply the raw
data that is on a disk dumped into a file. They contain formatting,
file curruption, etc. - effectively what goes along the data lines
between the drive and the computer when reading the disk.

Hence a .img file should be able to be written to/from a disk regardless
of whether the software writing it can begin to fathom what the data
actually means. And there's no reason why a raw dump made with one
program should be any different to that from another.

CD and HDD images are the same principal, and on Linux all three can be
created with the same command (dd, a Windows version is also at that
RawWrite site - be careful with it though, it'll wipe your HDD with a
bad typo). Linux can also access images as if they were written to
physical disks, and I've got a tool to do that for CD images on Windows
XP as well (this is also more or less what WinImage does on floppy
images too, though less transparently).

If a program compresses the disk image, then it won't be as compatible,
but I don't know of any programs that bother to do that by default on
floppy images. Their size hasn't been a worry for a very long time.

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Old June 18th 15, 02:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Billy Ray Ferrell \USA Vice President 2016\[_10_]
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"Computer Nerd Kev" wrote in message
...
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , Computer Nerd Kev
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
In message , VanguardLH


Vanguard L. H. I said Shareware not freeware
You add the link too a $30 Shareware
So is you being pay?

http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage
How to use Link for winimage

writes:
Billy Ray Ferrell sans the ego stroking fluff wrote:
Yes, but why did he? When I see a "new" thread like this, I always
suspect it's selling something, or otherwise not quite what it seems.
I've been with the theory that it's HotText in disguise, in which case
asking "why?" is probably an undue use of brain cells.

I don't think so: it didn't have the very quirky English that I
associate with HotText.


True, but if you look at past posts under that name (eg. the recent
(for this group) "virtual pc 2007 and win98se" discussion) they're
identical to HotText's past, uhh, contributions.


You a 100% Right
It's MyNews

But too call me BRF


http://www.intelius.com/results.php?...X&focusfirst=0

3. Billy Ray Ferrell , age 58

[snip]

http://mynews.from-tx.com/ Under Construction

[snip]
Yes, though I've never been able to quite believe how he ends up with what
he writes, even given a language barrier. His text formatting in
particular
is a mystery.


Key:
Unicode 16 bits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

I suspect he's more active in some other newsgroup/s, but I
don't really care to find out. As you say, he has the right intent, and
there's half a chance he might actually point someone the right way once
in a blue moon.


I try my bests not to misled no one

At least unlike many other rather curious Usenet posters, he's not
endlessly trolling in threads that run into the hundreds of posts. Well,
not here anyway...


? not here

mislead
[ mis'led ] VERB
cause (someone) to have a wrong idea
or impression about someone or something:

"the government misled the public about the road's environmental impact"

Powered by OxfordDictionaries · © Oxford University Press


[snip]

What it doesn't do is display image file contents, but I rarely
need to anyway, and I dare say there's a free program out there
to do that as well.

(Do all these - WinImage, RawWrite, etc. produce interoperable image
files?)


Yep, or at least they certainly should. Disk images are simply the raw
data that is on a disk dumped into a file. They contain formatting,
file curruption, etc. - effectively what goes along the data lines
between the drive and the computer when reading the disk.

Hence a .img file should be able to be written to/from a disk regardless
of whether the software writing it can begin to fathom what the data
actually means. And there's no reason why a raw dump made with one
program should be any different to that from another.


http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-features.htm


CD and HDD images are the same principal, and on Linux all three can be
created with the same command (dd, a Windows version is also at that
RawWrite site - be careful with it though, it'll wipe your HDD with a
bad typo). Linux can also access images as if they were written to
physical disks, and I've got a tool to do that for CD images on Windows
XP as well (this is also more or less what WinImage does on floppy
images too, though less transparently).


http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/disk1.htm
FLOPPY DISK UTILITIES
Look for:



If a program compresses the disk image, then it won't be as compatible,
but I don't know of any programs that bother to do that by default on
floppy images. Their size hasn't been a worry for a very long time.


IMG — Create / restore floppy image, add-extract files to / from image.

unrated

[added 1999-01-23]

Writes a floppy disk to an image file on your hard disk allowing you to
restore it to a floppy at a later time.
IMG is unique because individual files within an image can be extracted (you
don't have to restore to floppy first).
IMG also has the ability to add files to an existing image file, or create a
brand new image file using a list of individual files.
"Supports disk images created by HD-Copy and VGA-Copy (uncompressed) or
other programs which create raw disk image files in any way.
" Included is FDRW which images floppy disks to a file and also writes the
image back to floppies.

Author: Falk Huth, Germany (1996).Downloads
In English img2_0e.zip
(50K)
Auf Deutsch img2_0d.zip
(52K)



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