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- Disk Commando 1.10 Release Notes -- 04 May 1987
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- Overview:
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- Disk Commando is a set of utilities incorporating the following
- functions:
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- (1) Disk Optimizer
- (2) File Unerase
- (3) Disk Sort
- (4) Disk Bad Sector Repair
- (5) File/Disk Hex Editor
- (6) Disk/File Map
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- The Disk Optimizing feature allows you to select between five
- different optimization options, rather than one.
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- Documentation:
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- Documentation is only available in printed format to registered
- users. We have provided some instructions to get you started.
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- Availability & Pricing:
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- Disk Commando is available for $40.00 with printed documentation.
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- Your copy of Disk Commando may be registered by sending a check or
- money order to:
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- Sandi & Shane Stump
- Box 13719
- College Station, Tx 77841
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- or by calling 1-(409)-776-1911 for Visa, MC, and COD orders.
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- If you have not registered your copy, please do not call us for
- support.
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- When registering, if in the continental United States, please
- provide a street address, rather than post office box, if possible.
- We normally ship orders via UPS.
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- If you are a Texas resident, please add 6.25% sales tax ($2.50) per
- Disk Commando ordered.
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- For orders outside North America, please add $10 for shipping per
- order.
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- We do have a version for the Texas Instruments computer.
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- Registration is on a single user basis. What this means is that the
- $40 fee does not register an entire user group, business, company,
- corporation, government office, school district or any other
- multiple-user/computer organization. In these cases, we have
- quantity pricing as follows:
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- Number of machines/users Price per unit
- 2 - 10 $35
- 11 - 25 $30
- 26 - 50 $25
- 51 - $20
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- Site licensing is available for larger companies. Please call for
- more information.
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- Conditions for Use:
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- All new users are entitled to try this program out for a period of
- two weeks. After this period of time, to continue using this
- program legally, please send the required registration fee or
- remove all copies of the software from your machine(s).
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- This program may be distributed by anyone, as long as our copyright
- is not violated and the users agree to our conditions of use as
- described above. A distribution fee of no more than $10 may be
- charged for this program. It is up to the distributor to inform the
- user that this fee does not entitle him/her to any privileges of
- registration.
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- Benefits of Registration:
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- When you register as a user of our software, you will receive the
- latest version of the program along with printed documentation,
- phone support, and notification of new programs and versions. You
- will be given a discount on subsequent purchases of our other
- programs. Later updates will be reasonable, based primarily on
- their cost.
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- Getting Started:
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- To execute the program, type Disk at the DOS prompt. If you cannot
- read the screen clearly at this point, press ESCAPE to exit. In
- this case, try again by typing: Disk -c
- at the DOS prompt. This turns off color support.
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- An important note: Before using these or any utilities such as
- these, we recommend that you take normal precautions. The most
- important one is to make certain that you have backed up all
- material that you can't afford to lose recently.
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- If you intend to use the disk optimization feature, you must
- uninstall all copy-protected software on the disk. This is due to
- the varying methods used by various companies in protecting their
- software. PLEASE back-up your disk before running the optimizer.
- This program has been tested on many different machines and
- configurations with no problems whatsoever.
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- Another hint: When unerasing a file, if at first you don't succeed,
- delete the file and try to put it together again by hand (if it was
- a text file). If you are attempting to unerase a file on a floppy
- disk, it probably would also be smart to use the DOS DISKCOPY
- command to make an exact copy of the disk where the lost file was
- located before trying to resurrect it, so if you make a mistake you
- have another copy to try again with.
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- When unerasing the file, an important step in the process is SAVING
- the sector that you have recovered. If you use the automatic file
- recovery procedure, you must press W-Write to save the recovered
- file sectors to disk. If, instead, you are recovering the file
- sector by sector, you must press A-Add to add the sector to the file
- being recreated, then press W-Write when you have recovered all the
- sectors of the file.
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- When your disk has been used a lot, it becomes fragmented, which
- means the contents of your files is strewn out all over the disk.
- This makes unerasing a file very difficult. If you optimize your
- disk regularly, this process unfragments your files and makes it
- much easier to recover them if something happens. DO NOT optimize
- your disk before recovering a deleted file. The optimization
- process removes all deleted files from the directory, so once a
- disk has been optimized, all deleted files are gone and cannot be
- unerased.
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- The Patch editor will modify either a file or the disk unit. This
- can be a very dangerous utility if you do not know what you are
- doing. Probably the best advice that I could give you is to not use
- any function that you do not clearly and completely understand. If
- you do not know what you are doing, you can lose data, corrupt a
- file, mess up a directory, or render a disk unbootable.
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- Disclaimer:
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- Sandi & Shane Stump make no warranty to the use of this program;
- that is, this program is distributed (sold) as is, and the user
- accepts all responsibility for consequences of use.
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- Happy Computing,
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- Sandi & Shane Stump