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- FIT Version 2.0 (C)1990-1993 Turgut Kalfaoglu, <TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET>
-
- Shareware Evaluation Copy
- -------------------------
-
- FIT 2.0 is a shareware product. This means that the author allows you up
- to 15 days to evaluate and decide if this product is useful to you. At
- the end of this period, if you are satistified with FIT, you must
- register it by sending your $10 donation to the address shown below:
-
- Turgut Kalfaoglu
- 1378 Sok. 8/10
- Alsancak, Izmir 35210
- Turkey
-
- Source code is available to registered users: Enclose diskette and $10
- to cover shipping charges. Personal checks (U.S. banks) and Eurochecks
- must be made out to "Turgut Kalfaoglu".
-
- Synopsis
- --------
-
- FIT allows you to copy all the files matching to your specifications to
- any number of diskettes. FIT will arrange the files so that there will
- be very little free space left at each diskette. When a diskette gets
- full, it will prompt you for another. It will resume as soon as the new
- diskette is introduced.
-
- Diskettes "fed" to FIT need not be totally empty: They can contain other
- files - FIT will simply use up whatever remaining space is available on
- that diskette.
-
- Normally FIT does not stop the diskette drive between diskette changes
- to save time. Using the /P option, you can tell it to pause each time a
- new diskette is needed. If /P is omitted, it will sense the new diskette
- as soon as it is introduced.
-
- FIT is a true 32-bit application that benefits from the multitasking
- abilities of OS/2. It uses a separate thread to do the "writing",
- freeing the reading thread to read ahead of time. This allows fastest
- copying times, especially for systems where multiple I/O paths are
- available.
-
- The two active threads can be seen in action while FIT runs. While one
- thread reads ahead, the second thread writes the information to
- diskette. This is accomplished by the use of double-buffers. In other
- words, each time new data is read, one of the two buffers is chosen to
- read the data into, while the other buffer is being used by the writing
- thread. With this scheme, the writing thread never has to wait for more
- data to arrive, since read thread always has one buffer-full of data
- already loaded.
-
- Usage
- -----
-
- FIT is similar to OS/2's COPY command, except the last parameter must be
- a drive letter. Since FIT is intended to be used with diskette drives,
- no path specification is permitted for the target parameter.
-
- FIT [options] source_filenames destination_drive
-
- Options are:
- /P Pause between diskettes. This option stops drive motor
- between diskettes.
- /M Move file. After each successful file copied, FIT erases
- the file from its origin.
- These options can also be made default by assigning an environmental
- variable to them, such as:
- SET FITCMD=/P
- in your CONFIG.SYS, would make the pausing between diskettes the
- default.
-
- Usage Examples:
- FIT *.EXE A:
- FIT *.EXE *.DOC C:\OS2\*.* A:
- FIT /M /P \*.* B:
-
- Release History:
- ----------------
-
- 1991 - Initial release of FIT 1.0 for DOS
- 1992 - FIT 1.1 for DOS and OS/2
-
-