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- Until recently, the various versions of HDTEST and DIREDIT were
- distributed in "archived" form, using (and, in the case of the
- Registered versions, together with) Phil Katz's excellent PKARC
- program. Unfortunately, SEAware, the distributors of the original ARC
- programs, chose to sue Phil for Copyright and Trademark infringement,
- and obtained an undertaking from him to cease using or supporting
- SEAware's allegedly proprietary file formats. Many people, myself
- included, felt that SEAware's action was part of an undisguised
- attempt to create a monopoly over a technology which had become almost
- essential for the distribution of Shareware and Public Domain
- software. If this interpretation of SEAware's intentions is correct,
- it can be assumed that their legal action against Mr. Katz was only a
- prelude, designed to "clear the decks" for a future attempt to claim
- royalties from anyone who used "their" file formats (or, at least,
- from anyone who used them in a way that could remotely be described as
- commercial). Although it is likely that such an attempt would
- ultimately be found to be in violation of Federal anti-trust
- legislation, few, if any, Shareware or PD authors have the resources
- which would be needed to mount a fight against it. Under the
- circumstances, I decided to cease using any program or file which uses
- the .ARC format for the distribution of any version of my programs.
- Phil Katz has now developed a completely new (ZIP) format for
- compressing and archiving files and has placed it in the public domain
- (though he does, of course, expect people to Register his PROGRAMS,
- which create and modify the new files). Under the terms of a License
- from Phil Katz, I am now distributing the Shareware versions of my
- programs as self-extracting .EXE files - to unpack one of the
- "package" files, just copy it to a disk with a reasonable amount of
- free space (at least three times the size of the "package" file) and
- run it as if it were a normal program.
-
- This disk (or subdirectory) contains the following files:
-
- CLEANISH.EXE CLEANIT distribution package
- DIREDISH.EXE Shareware DIREDIT distribution package
- HDTESTSH.EXE Shareware HDTEST distribution package
- PUSHDISH.EXE PUSHDIR distribution package
- README.TXT This file
- SCRSAVSH.EXE SCRSAVE distribution package
-