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Program - Disk Cover (DISKOVER) This program is using a modified version of the share ware concept for getting the program into the hands of people who need good software and who are willing to pay for it. These people should also be able to share in the fruits of their sowing. If you sow you should also reap. I am asking that if you use this program you should be willing to pay for the use. When you do that you notify me that you want to become a registered owner. When I receive your payment of $20, I will notify you of the receipt of it and I will provide you with a new serial # to be placed into your program. When you have received the new serial # and have installed it into the program (using the instructions I then provide), you should share it with your friends. You also need to become a salesperson, because when they register they provide me with the serial number on the version that they received. I register them give them a new serial number and I will send $5.00 to the person who is the registered owner of the old serial number. If you give away the program without registering it you are giving the $5.00 to who ever is the registered person on that copy. If you register and them put the program on your favorite bulletin board you will be lucky enough to get the program into the hands of many people that you don't know, and they are possible registers. Register, and give copies to all your friends. Take it to your computer club, share it around the office (If it is used in the office the company must register also; on each machine!); Remember IBM must have sold millions of the PC's, other millions of clones have been sold. You should be able to find lots of people who have a need to know whats on their diskettes without putting them into a drive of the machine. But you can't share in the rewards if you don't sow first. The following is the required information to send to me when you register; Business who want or need the source code must pay a fee of $35.00. This does not give them the right to distribute the source code nor does it give them the right to sell this product separately or as part of any product they sell. They have the use of it on the machine that they purchased it for. For unlimited distribution in their company (Compiled program only) contact the author for Site Agreement Amounts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caleb Computing Center RD 1, Box 531 Ringoes NJ. 08551 (201) 788-1846 Include with your $20.00 Old Serial Number _____________________ Old Version Number ______________ Your Name ____________________________________________ Your Address____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ Your Phone number if you want me to call you with the new serial number ____________________________________________ The best time to call for me is after 11:00 PM Eastern time when the rates are lower. The best time to find you at this number ___________ AM or PM. Printer this program will be used with ___________________________________ Remember to ReArc the file you give away. Always include the three files: DISKVR43.COM, DISKOVER.DOC and README.1ST. Don't give away the one you received. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is this thing I want you to buy? This program was written to replace the Public Domain program COVER. This was a good program however it has a bug in it under Dos 3.1. The free space routine did not work. It gave you improper values. The program COVER also went into the wild blue and hung my machine when it read a quad density (808K) diskette with 4 sub directories. This program also allows you to dump the data to a disk file so that you can print it later with PRINT. This also allows you to free up your machine faster. The program DISKVR41, when first runs, goes into an install section, and asks you for the colors that you want and for the printer that the program should be installed for. I have put in the codes for seven brands of printers EPSON, OKIDATA, HP Laser AT&T TOSHIBA C.ITOH and IBM If you have a different printer and it uses the codes from these above printers you are OK. If not the program asks for the codes for CONDENSED PRINT, TOP OF FORM, RESET PRINTER, 1/8TH LINE SPACING. You should have your manual ready when you first run this program for these codes. If your printer does not have an option to reset then you can set it back to 1/6 line spacing and turn off the condensed print. Note: If your printer is not listed please sent the author a xerox of your printer codes so that the master program can be updated. I will send you a new version of the program if you will do that for me. Send this with your registration. Note: I have included an option for the HPLaser Jet printer. The program has special coding for the Laser Jet because it does not print across perforations. The program will not print in condenced mode unless you have the cartridge that has condensed print. I can't do something your printer doesn't support. If you have another brand of Laser printer and your printer supports condensed; please furnish me a copy of the control codes that this program needs and I will include them in the program and make the required special coding changes for your printer. Note: I found a different condition when installing the TOSHIBA printer. The other printers when asking for line spacing want you to give it the codes for the number of lines in binary numbers (i.e. 6/48 lines is binary 06). The TOSHIBA printer wants the number of lines in ASCII codes (i.e. 6/48 lines is binary 30, binary 36 meaning ASCII 06). I don't know if other printers demand the same requirements but if you install a printer and it doesn't seem to go, you might try ASCII values. The install option also sets up the colors that are used in the program. After the program has been installed for the first time, you should always run program DISKOVER.COM because when the program gets finished with installing the printer and color options it CLONES itself into the program DISKOVER.COM. That program will always have the new colors and printer options installed. If by chance when you are running this program, you decide to go to a different printer or want different colors then hit ESC at the first prompt and you will be placed back into the install section. The program is set up to allow up to 55 directories and 600 files. Not many people have that on floppies, but it will read a hard disk also and create a mini type list. The program also reads *.ARC files and *.LBR files and prints the file names, sizes, and dates on the cover. I have tried to distinguish between files with an .LBR extension and valid archived *.LBR files. The first position of a library file is binary 00 followed by 11 spaces or eight (*) and 'DIR'. Any *.LBR file that does not match those rules is bypassed in the directory explode routines. The program does not allow you to create a file DIR.DIR on the disk that you are reading. It assumes that the device has a removable recording media and that if you are creating multiple labels then when the program would go to read the next diskette the file DIR.DIR would be gone. You can create a copy if you are running on a Hard Disk and you have told the program that you are a hard disk. If you are running on an Omega Device 10M floppy, just tell the program that you are a Hard Disk. You can also tell the program that your floppy is a hard disk but I cannot be responsible if your directories get clobbered because you remove the flopppy while the program is running. The program uses the Volume-ID on the diskette or hard-disk and it gives you an option to create a volume-id if one is not on the disk. The program reads the VOLUME-ID of the disk and will print it on then DISKOVER label. There are certain rules as to what are valid charcters in a volume-id. Some programs may let you put out any characters. I have found that this program has abended when it finds some invalid characters in a VOLUME-ID. Please try to follow the rules for labels, they are documented in the IBM DOS manual. When entering the Volume ID and Diskette Title message a mini editor is available for allowing the entry of data. Ctrl A or Home is beginning of line Ctrl F or End is end of line Ctrl S or Left arrow is left one character (except at beginning of line) Ctrl D or Right arrow is right one character (except at end of line) Ctrl G or Del is delete character forward Ctrl H or Backspace is delete character backward Ctrl Y is delete to end of line * Note Ctrl A and Ctrl Y delete the whole line of data. * You are always in an insert mode and anything typed at the cursor causes the following characters to be moved to the right. These codes are similar to those in WordStar and Turbo. When entering the DisKover label information by typing "F3" (Dos return previous) the previous information for the previous floppy will be returned. The program will print the children sub directories as part of the files. These directories are sorted to print in front of any file names in the parent directory. I print from left of the dirs down and then work to the right. ie. I will print Main Dir with the Main Dir sub dirs of A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, ------------------------- I, J (This will only be their names | | | | | Not the files in those dirs). A B C D E F G H I J I then will print sub A, followed 1 2 3 4 5 by sub 1, followed by a, followed a b by b, followed by 2, followed by B, followed by 3, followed by C, then 4, then 5, then D, then E etc. This is known as an inverted Tree Sequence. I will let you define the number of blank spaces you want as a left margin. If you are printing the names for a hard disk you may want room for a three ring binder holes. I print how much space is being used in a directory and it prints on the line with the directory name. A sub directory is noted on the DisKover by "SubDir" where file size should be followed by an *. Following is a sample of a disk cover (DISKOVER), except it will be printed condenced and I have made the line only 80 positions and the real cover is 88 positions wide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Test of the Program Diskover for the Doc File Free: 81920 4-Mar-1986 Volume-ID: DISKOVERTST 8:55:17 pm Directory \ Directory Size = 61174 BASIC 03-04-86 20:49 SubDir* CONFIG.SYS 02-17-86 11:40 256 SYS 03-04-86 20:47 SubDir* IBMBIO.COM 03-07-85 13:43 9564 shr AUTOEXEC.BAT 02-27-86 23:24 384 IBMDOS.COM 03-07-85 13:43 27760 shr COMMAND.COM 03-07-85 13:43 23210 Directory \BASIC Directory Size = 42684 BASICA.COM 03-07-85 13:43 27520 LOVE.BAS 05-18-85 23:01 1920 BASICA.PIF 03-07-85 13:43 369 LOVE.EXE 05-18-85 23:02 2816 ELEPHANT.ARC 05-03-85 12:03 10059 Arc File \BASIC\ELEPHANT.ARC ELEPH.DAT 05-03-85 12:03 8960 ELEPHANT.BAS 05-03-85 12:03 3712 ELEPH.EXE 05-03-85 12:03 18048 Directory \SYS Directory Size = 166972 ARC.DOC 02-06-86 00:17 60432 FINDDUPE.COM 03-01-86 20:32 32898 ARC.EXE 02-05-86 22:26 32429 LINK.EXE 03-07-85 13:43 38144 ARC.TXT 01-31-86 13:38 2045 WHEREIS.COM 04-12-85 10:59 1024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The program makes use of three function keys. "F2", F3" and F9, F2 is used to preview the floppy prior to printing it on paper. When the program asks you for the description that you want to print on the diskover, you will probably ask your self, "Self, What are the files on the floppy?", you can get that answer by just pressing the F2 key. the screen will show you what the diskover would look like so you can figure out what description to use. After you see it on the screen, you must answer the questions again because you may decide that you don't want a floppy cover after all. F3 is used to pick up the previous description for the beginning of the description of the current floppy. You can edit the description with the edit keys as stated above. F9 is used to toggle off or on the request for the placement of a volume-id on a floppy. This program has been written and copyright by Karson W. Morrison 1985, 1986 Marty Morrison Numbers 13:30 Caleb Computing Center King James Bible Rd1 Box 531 Ringoes NJ. 08551 201-788-1846 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please leave this Doc file with the program DISKVR42 when you give it to your friends. Changes Made to Version 4.2 Removed the coding to have an orbiting window on invalid *.ARC and *.LBR files. This option caused the most beautiful snowstorm that has ever been seen on the screens of some computers. I made a change to show an error message on the screen if an *.ARC or *.LBR file is marked as read-only. It turns out that the language that I am using will not allow me to open an read-only file. (Sorry about that!) The net result is that *.ARC and *.LBR files will not be exploded on the cover, if they are read-only. Changes made to Version 4.3 Minor change to working storage.