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Copying Files from VDisks to Win 95

We have supplied the utility command DISTILL, which has the following parameters:

[optional]
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DISTILL [T]

Where SourceName is the filename of the file to be distilled under FLEX, DiskName is the name of the Virtual Disk file under the Host OS, and DestName is the filename of the file to be created in the Host filesystem. The optional "T" parameter deals with text translation, as described above for the INJECT command.

Note: FLEX compresses text files in a special way; the TAB character (0x09) is used as a signal that the next byte in the file is a count of compressed spaces. So, 0x09,0x04 means four spaces - not the ASCII sequence, "TAB", "EOT". DISTILL will automatically decompress files with a .TXT extension. The only time this could cause problems is if a binary file had a .TXT extension, which you should of course avoid. This would also cause problems within FLEX. Text files also can contain NULL characters at the end; the decompressor in DISTILL will automatically remove these if you use the T option. Otherwise, you have to deal with the space compression and the final nulls.


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