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- WELCOME TO CATDISK V4.50
-
- If you received this release on a floppy disk, please make a copy of the
- original, put the original in a safe place and work from the copy.
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- As CATDISK has evolved during its development, it has grown in size and no
- longer fits on a 360K floppy disk in its raw format. The documentation files
- are now provided in a compressed format in the form of a self-extracting LHARC
- file. If you are running on 360K floppy disks, do the following:
-
- 1) Put the CATDISK disk in drive B:
- 2) Put a blank, formatted disk in drive A:
- 3) Log onto Drive A:
- 4) Type "B:CATDOC" <Enter> (without the quotes, of course).
- 5) The documentation files will be uncompressed to the blank disk in A:
-
- All other forms of disk should have enough capacity to accept the all the
- files. Simply execute CATDOC.EXE in its current directory and delete
- CATDOC.EXE when done.
-
- To print the CATDISK manual, issue the command: COPY CATDISK.DOC PRN
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- Please read at least the section on configuring CATDISK in the configuration
- section of the manual.
-
- One important note to consider in the user manual. When ARCHIVE files are
- mentioned, it is in reference to any type of file that contains a collection of
- files, compressed or not. This currently includes ARC, DWC, LBR, LZS, LZH,
- PAK, ZIP, and ZOO files.
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- IF YOU ARE UPGRADING TO THIS RELEASE FROM V3.61 OR LATER
-
- Before copying the new program files to your work disk, you might want to
- rename the executable file from the previous installation (CATDISK.COM or
- CATDISK.EXE) to another name. The new configuration utility, CDISKCFG.EXE
- now has the ability to read the configuration information from the release that
- you were using for easy installation into this release. This can save you some
- time in setting the program up for your preferences, particularly if you've
- customized all the screen colors.
-
- When you run CDISKCFG, hit <F8> and follow the prompts.
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- IF YOU WERE USING A VERSION OF CATDISK PRIOR TO V2.10
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- As there is now more information being stored in the summary file, you will
- have to discard your old catalog files and start from scratch. Any .SUM files
- created with CATDISK versions before V2.10 are NOT compatible with this one.
-
-
- IF YOU WERE USING A VERSION OF CATDISK FROM V2.10 to V3.28
-
- Starting with CATDISK V3.50, file comments were fully supported. You do *NOT*
- have to purge your old catalog files and start over... just run the program
- CDISKCVT.EXE on each catalog file that you have, and it will be converted to
- the new format.
-
- The syntax of this command is:
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- CDISKCVT catalog_name
-
- - where catalog_name is the name of the catalog file to be converted.
- (do NOT include the filename extension of .DTA on the command line)
-
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- If you were using V3.50 or later, you do _NOT_ need to run this conversion
- program - your files will work as they are.
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- IF YOU'VE EXPERIENCED MISALIGNED FIELDS ON PRINTED REPORTS
-
- Some disk labelling programs have an annoying habit of placing null characters
- at the end of a volume label. While this is not a fatal problem, it can have
- a nasty effect on the printed reports that CATDISK produces by causing
- misalignment of some of the fields.
-
- The program CLEANCAT.EXE has been provided to correct this problem in catalog
- files that have been created with V3.50 to 4.10, or those that have been
- converted by the above mentioned CDISKCVT.EXE utility.
-
- If you have noticed your printed reports appearing in this strange manner,
- CLEANCAT can help you. This program will simply change all the null characters
- to spaces, which will appear correctly on your printer.
-
- The syntax for CLEANCAT is:
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- CLEANCAT catalog_name
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- - where catalog_name is the name of the catalog file to be "cleaned up".
- (do NOT include the filename extension of .DTA or .SUM on the command line)
-
- If you created your catalog files with a release after V4.10, the corrective
- procedures have been built right into the program, therefore this procedure
- will not be necessary.
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- *** NOTE TO ALL SINGLE DRIVE FLOPPY DISK USERS ***
-
- Please read the note in the configuration section regarding setting CATDISK up
- to function correctly with your system, particularly the section dealing with
- the disk cache. Failure to do so could result in lost data on your floppy
- diskettes.
-
- If you are running on a hard drive, this note does not apply.