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- Setting Up Your CSVS Work Disk
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- Thanks for buying our clone validation software. This disk 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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