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- Setting Up Your CSVS Work Disk
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- This is the Computer Shopper clone validation software. This
- archive contains the clone validation program along with
- some additional programs that you might find useful. The
- clone validation program was discussed in the May 1987 issue
- of the Computer Shopper. It's a test that you can use to
- check the compatibility of the ROM BIOS in an IBM PC clone.
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- CSVS.EXE -------This is the actual Computer Shopper Clone
- Validation Sweep (CSVS). In order to run this program, the
- computer should be booted up from this diskette and without
- any other device drivers or memory resident programs in
- memory. The disk is not shipped with DOS on it, so you must
- do the following to create a working CSVS disk. First format
- a blank disk and use the option, /S, to add DOS to the disk.
- After that's done then copy all of the files from your
- original CSVS disk to the newly formatted one. For example,
- enter the following commands to do this: FORMAT B: /S COPY
- A:*.* B: When finished you will have a CSVS work disk that
- you can use to boot up on a PC clone for testing.
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- BLANK.COM --------This program will blank your screen if you
- do not use your computer for a period of more than three
- minutes. It should be placed on your boot-up diskette (or on
- the hard disk if you have one) and included in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Once loaded, the program remains memory
- resident.
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- Every time you press a key or a program sends a character to
- the screen using ROM BIOS, a counter is reset. If the
- counter is not reset for a period of three minutes, your
- screen will be blanked. In order to restore the screen,
- merely depress any key on your keyboard. I suggest you hit
- either the Alt key or the Shift as these keys will not send
- additional characters to the screen.
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- FIND.EXE -------Helps you to find files on a hard disk. It
- will search a disk drive, beginning at the root, for any and
- all matches you present to it. The DOS wildcard characters
- '*' and '?' are legal. For example, 'FIND *.bat' would
- find all files on the default drive ending with a 'bat'
- prefix. FIND is case insensitive, meaning that '*.bat'
- and '.*.BAT' produce the same results.
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- You could also specify a different drive. For instance, FIND
- C:X.BAT or FIND C:\X.BAT will cause FIND to look for all
- files with the name 'X.BAT' on drive C to be displayed.
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- FIND may also be run beginning under a single directory, in
- which case the program will traverse all subdirectories under
- that one but will not begin at the root. For example, FIND
- \DOS\*.* will locate all files in the DOS directory on the
- default drive as well as all files located within any
- subdirectories under DOS.
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- FIND will also display any hidden files it finds but will
- indicate the hidden status by prefixing the filname and path
- with an asterisk.
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- HDPARK ---------This program will safely park the heads on
- a hard disk. It should be run whenever the disk is going
- to be transported. It is also suggested that you routinely
- park the heads just prior to shutting down the system.