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- Drivefree
- A utility to let you know when your drive is filling up.
- By Brad Gibson
- Copyright (C) 1990 by Secret Software
- A division of InfoMatrix
- InfoMatrix
- 1515 Hogansville Rd #83
- Lagrange, GA 30240
- InfoMatrix BBS:404-845-1714
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- Drivefre is Copyrighted (C) 1990 by Secret Software, a division of
- InfoMatrix, it is not in the public domain and it is not free.
- This is a shareware product, registration is $5.00 and should be
- mailed to the address above if you find the program useful. It is
- not crippled in any way, but if you use it and want shareware to
- continue, then send the registration. We will offer technical
- support and guidance to all users who call us with a registration
- number.
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- INFOMATRIX WILL NOT ACCEPT LIABILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO
- HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE AS A RESULT OF OR INCIDENTAL TO THE USE OF
- OR INABILITY TO USE THIS PROGRAM.
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- Drivefre will show you how much space is left on your drive (Hard
- or floppy) by percentage, and will sound alerts at 87%, 90%, and
- 95% to let you know the drive is getting full. At levels below
- 87% it will simply display the percentage of drive space used and
- terminate, at levels above 90% it will display a message in a
- window, sound tones, and you must press a key to continue.
- This program is especially useful for system managers and
- technicians who have computer users who aren't too concerned about
- the drive filling up. This will let them know they are pushing
- the limits. To use Drivefre, it makes the most sense to make it
- part of the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, or run it from a menu or something
- like that, although it may also be run simply by typing DRIVEFRE.
- It will give you information on the default drive. You must
- switch to the drive in question to use the program. What I mean
- by this is that while c:DRIVEFRE will look for the program on C
- drive and tell you information about the drive you are on,
- DRIVEFRE C: is NOT a prper usage, and will tell you nothing in
- particular. (actually it will still tell you about the drive you
- are currently on, whichever that may be.) So the best way to use
- it would be as follows: let's say you want to check the status of
- D: from an autoexec.bat file on C:, this is how you would do that:
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- @echo off (turns off the echo)
- D: (switch to D drive)
- C:drivefre
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- That's it. Note that drivefre must be called from the
- subdirectory where it's is located, or that subdirectory
- must be in the path. Having it in the path is always a much
- easier way to use it, then you can call it from anywhere and it
- will run.
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- This program has one restriction, and one related command line
- parameter. For drives larger than 100 MB the program will return
- incorrect information, because DOS returns incorrect information
- regrding the size of the drive. The remedy for this is to start
- the program with a parameter indicating the total size of the
- drive in megabytes. For example: if the drive is a 140 MB drive
- you start Drivefre with "DRIVEFRE 140". The only potential
- problem here is if you have a large drive like this which has next
- to nothing on it (say under 30%) then the program will return some
- nonsense number. In my humble opinion, people who have hard
- drives that large, that empty, don't have much of a need for this
- program, and the program would be doing nothing but simple
- division if I had included the ability to enter the MB free as
- well as total MB.
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- Drivefree
- A utility to let you know when your drive is filling up.
- By Brad Gibson
- Copyright (C) 1990 by Secret Software
- A division of InfoMatrix
- InfoMatrix
- 1515 Hogansville Rd #83
- Lagrange, GA 30240
- InfoMatrix BBS:404-845-1714
-
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