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- Reference Manual
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- Windows based diskette duplicator featuring single pass operation,
- format conversion, background operation, and much more.
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- Context sensitive help and on-line manual make it easy! WinDupe
- for Windows is user supported software (Shareware). If you use it
- past the initial 15 day evaluation period, you are required to
- register it. No exceptions!
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- WinDupe for Windows
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- "Diskette duplication -- Fast, Safe, and Easy to Use"
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- MaeDae Enterprises
- 5430 Murr Road
- Peyton, CO 80831-7402 U.S.A.
- (719) 683-3860
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- Published and printed in the United States of America.
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- Copyright 1992-1994, MaeDae Enterprises as a licensed,
- unpublished, proprietary work. Portions copyrighted by
- CJ Enterprises. All international rights reserved.
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- The registered printed Reference Manual and associated registered
- software may not be copied, resold, reproduced, disclosed,
- archived, transmitted, or transferred in any form, electronic or
- otherwise, without the express written permission of MaeDae
- Enterprises. You may freely distribute the Shareware version.
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- REGISTERED USERS: (those who purchased WinDupe with manual)
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- MaeDae Enterprises hereby grants a "book" license to the original
- individual (even if purchased by a company) user of this copy of
- WinDupe. You may use the program on your computer and make
- one backup for storage as long as there is no possibility of use
- or residence on more than one machine at any time. Just like two
- people cannot read the same book in different locations at the
- same time. Every registered copy of WinDupe has a unique,
- embedded serial number for traceabililty. You may not sell or
- give copies of the registered program or printed documentation to
- anyone. No exceptions.
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- Pricing, specifications, and conditions are subject to change
- without notice.
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- Send all registrations and inquiries for site (multiple CPU or
- network) licensing to MaeDae Enterprises at the address on the
- previous page.
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- Disclaimer:
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- MaeDae Enterprises makes NO claims AND offers NO warranties of
- any sort with WinDupe. MaeDae Enterprises assumes NO
- responsibility for any damage resulting from the apparent or
- actual use of WinDupe (mental or physical). The program provided
- is not guaranteed as to merchantability or fitness for its
- ultimate use. The user accepts all responsibility for use and
- may not resell the program.
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- IBM PC/XT/AT are registered trademarks of the International
- Business Machines Corporation.
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- WinDupe is a trademark of MaeDae Enterprises. Other trademarks
- belong to their respective owners.
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- PREFACE
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- ABOUT THIS MANUAL
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- You will notice that this manual is concise. This is intentional
- as we strived to make WinDupe the easiest program of its type to
- use. We opted to provide an extensive built-in user help system.
- Feel free to use this reference manual to install and get
- acquainted with the program.
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- For many of you, this may be your first exposure to Shareware.
- To help eliminate possible confusion, we have included a short
- description of the Shareware marketing concept, explaining what
- it is and why it relies on YOU for its survival.
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- What is Shareware? Shareware is not a kind of software. It is a
- revolutionary method of marketing Commercial software. Our
- software is Commercial software that we are allowing you to
- examine for 15 days before you make the purchase decision. With
- traditional marketing methods, you have to purchase Commercial
- software from a computer store or through mail order businesses,
- then try it out, and hope it does what you want. Shareware
- allows you to "try before you buy!"
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- We rely upon you, the customer, to examine our software. If you
- find it useful, please register. Your support is needed for us
- to continue to improve our products.
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- Enough of this verbage. The real fun and learning begin when you
- use the program. So, enjoy!
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- With warmest regards,
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- MaeDae Enterprises.
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- Table of Contents
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- Page Description
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- 5. What is WinDupe? An overview of its features.
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- 6. Hardware Requirements
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- 7. Installation - the "README.DOC" file.
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- 7. Installation Notes
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- 8. Getting Started
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- 9. Tutorial
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- 10. Additional Features
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- 11. Troubleshooting
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- WHAT IS WINDUPE?
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- WinDupe is a powerful diskette duplicator for Windows 3.x that
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- 1. Load any size diskette into memory in a single pass.
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- 2. Copy, compare, or write the diskette to a disk file.
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- 3. Format diskettes providing several options like quick format.
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- 4. Work with diskettes in the background allowing several things
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- 5. Automatically convert diskettes from a lower capacity to a
- higher capacity during the copy and compare operations. For
- example, load a 360K diskette and copy it to a 1.44M diskette.
- Try that with DOS!
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
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- 1. IBM PC/XT/AT, IBM PS/2, or fully compatible computer capable
- of running Windows 3.1 or later.
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- 2. At least one 5.25" or 3.5" floppy disk drive. Two floppy disk
- drives or one floppy and a hard disk (300K free space minimum for
- the full system) are strongly recommended.
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- 3. Enough free memory (real or virtual) to hold an entire diskette
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- INSTALLATION - README.DOC
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- For all installation information see the README.DOC on the main
- distribution diskette. You can view the information on-line or
- print it out on your printer. README.DOC is constantly updated
- to contain the latest information.
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- P.S. The Shareware version of WinDupe is complete. However, it
- is a 15 day trial version. Also, additional product information
- screens are added.
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- Feel free to share ONLY the Shareware version with friends and
- potential users of WinDupe for 15 day trial/evaluation purposes
- only. You may not use the Shareware version on other machines in
- order to avoid purchasing additional copies of the full program.
- You may not give away any copies or make more than one copy of
- the fully operational program for other than archival purposes.
- The full version of WinDupe has a unique serial number embedded
- in each copy for traceability.
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- IMPORTANT INSTALLATION NOTES:
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- 1. Diskette #1 contains many files in addition to WinDupe.EXE.
- Please make sure these files are all installed in the same
- directory when running the program.
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- 2. If WinDupe does not run properly:
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- A. Your machine may not be 100% IBM PC operating system
- compatible or Windows may be installed incorrectly. This is
- not always disastrous and a quick call to our phone support
- staff may solve your problem.
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- B. You may have a slightly incompatible Windows video
- driver. Usually, updating your driver or re-installing
- Windows solves the problem.
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- C. If you have any memory resident programs or system
- drivers, try running without them loaded on your computer.
- On some computers, ANSI.SYS is suspect.
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- 3. This manual is designed to give you a general overview and
- familiarity with the program. More complete, up-to-date
- information is available to you through the extensive built-in
- user help (F1) system and the help button on the dialog boxes.
- When using the more advanced features of the program, the help
- screens will guide you through the toughest questions with ease.
- As WinDupe continues to add more features, you can be sure that
- the built-in help will give you the guidance needed. This way
- everybody wins. We don't spend money continually revising
- manuals and charging you higher prices. You get what you want
- and deserve: accurate up-to-date information. So fire up the
- computer, dig in, and welcome to WinDupe!
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- GETTING STARTED
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- After you run WinDupe.EXE using the file manager, the MAIN MENU
- will appear on your screen.
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- The Main Menu options with descriptions are below.
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- ** File: This menu option provides the basic exit from WinDupe.
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- ** Load: Load a source diskette into memory. The diskette may
- be a previously stored diskette image (a WinDupe Disk File with a
- WDF file extension).
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- A diskette must be placed into memory before you can do a copy or
- compare with it. Only good source diskettes without any bad
- sectors may be used. If you have some old source diskettes with
- bad sectors on them, format a new error free diskette and copy
- the files to it either from DOS or the File Manager. This will
- allow you to create a new error free diskette.
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- ** Copy: Once you have a diskette in memory, the copy option
- will become enabled (menu option is no longer grayed) and you can
- make duplicates of the in-memory diskette. You can even write
- the diskette to a compressed disk image.
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- Like the load option, you must have error free diskettes. If a
- diskette write error occurs during the copy operation, you will
- need to start the copy over with a new diskette. With todays
- diskettes there is really no good reason to work with
- questionable diskettes.
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- Some very hard work went into this area allowing you to copy a
- lower capacity in-memory diskette to a higher capacity diskette.
- This means that you can load a 360K diskette into memory and then
- diskcopy it to a 1.44M diskette. There will be a little over 1MB
- free space on the 1.44M diskette (1.44M-360K) when you finish.
- This is a very advanced feature that we hope you take a little
- time to admire.
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- ** Compare: Compare will allow you to compare the diskette in
- memory against a diskette you insert into one of the drives.
- Like the format command, compare also provides format conversion
- allowing you to compare lower capacity diskettes against higher
- capacity diskettes.
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- ** Format: Numerous options are provided for the format command.
- You can do a quick format, full format, full format with system,
- etc. A diskette must format error free or you will be given an
- error message saying it is bad.
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- ** Help: This area provides general help for WinDupe and
- provides an easy way to print the ORDER.DOC invoice form.
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- You may choose any of the displayed options by holding down the
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- Alt key, then pressing the letter which is underlined on the menu
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- TUTORIAL (DUPLICATING A DISKETTE)
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- Now let's do something simple to demonstrate how WinDupe works.
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- Choose the Load menu option. Then pick the Diskette to Memory...
- option. A Load Options dialog box will appear allowing you to
- select the source drive and whether to read only the data areas
- or the entire diskette. Insert a diskette into either drive A:
- or B: and select that drive from the source list box. Click on
- OK when ready. The diskette should be read into memory. Did you
- notice that the Copy and Compare main menu options are now
- enabled? Also, the status area will be updated to show that the
- diskette was successfully loaded.
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- Pick the main menu Copy Option. A dialog box will appear
- asking you for the destination drive. Remove your source
- diskette and place a target diskette into the same drive. Click
- on OK. The in-memory diskette will now be copied to the new
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- Did you notice that the status area was updated to reflect the
- status of the last operation.
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- You have just completed your first operation with WinDupe. The
- same type of steps will work with compare and format.
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- ADDITIONAL FEATURES
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- BACKGROUND OPERATION
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- WinDupe has been designed to support background use. For example,
- you can start loading a diskette and switch to another Windows
- program. WinDupe will continue to work in the background loading
- the diskette. The WinDupe status area will be updated when the
- operation is completed. If there are any errors during the read,
- WinDupe will bring up an error message box thru your current
- application informing you of the error.
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- DISKETTE COMPRESSION
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- WinDupe automatically compresses diskettes both in-memory and in
- disk files. This ensures the smallest possible memory impact for
- working with diskettes.
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- SMART LOADING
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- WinDupe calculates the last data area on your diskette and only
- loads the diskette to that point. This results in much faster
- operation. This feature can be disabled at your option.
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- AUTOMATIC FORMAT CONVERSION
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- Automatic diskette format conversion from lower capacity to higher
- capacity formats is supported. For example, you can load a 360K
- diskette and diskcopy it to a 1.44M diskette. You will have
- roughly 1MB of free space on the 1.44M diskette after the
- operation.
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- SINGLE PASS OPERATION
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- WinDupe pulls the entire source diskette into memory at one time.
- You no longer have to swap diskettes in order to make copies.
- This saves time on diskette operations and saves you the hassle
- of swapping diskettes.
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- STATUS AREA
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- As you use WinDupe, the status area of the main window is updated
- to keep you informed of the status of what is in memory and
- whether the last operation was successful. To the greatest
- extent possible, all successful operations will simply update the
- status area. If the operation is unsuccessful, you will be
- notified via an error message box and the status area will be
- updated to reflect the error.
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
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- If WinDupe will not run, you may have insufficient memory or
- too many memory resident programs. Try running WinDupe with
- no memory resident programs or allocate a larger swapfile under
- Windows. See your Windows User's Guide for help with the
- Swapfile program.
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- If WinDupe just stops running and you get an "Unrecoverable
- Application Error," you may have incompatible hardware/software.
- Try running WinDupe in the 386 Enhanced mode (if you have a
- 386 computer) to see if that corrects the problem.
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- Occasionally, certain memory resident TSR or "pop-up" programs
- conflict with WinDupe. In general, there is no problem, but
- there are many new programs being written without regard to the
- system requirements of other programs that may be running at the
- same time. Remove them from memory, and try again. If that
- fails, try getting rid of device drivers in your CONFIG.SYS file.
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- USE WITH STACKER
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- Stacker (tm of Stac Electronics, Carlsbad, CA) works beautifully
- in doubling the storage capacity of drives. However, in very
- rare and demanding situations we have noticed a couple of
- apparent incompatibilities. The following sequences generate an
- apparent incompatibility between Stacker 3.0 (r) and DOS:
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- 1. (Assume both diskettes are already inserted into appropriate
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- a. Load a 360K diskette from an unmounted drive.
- b. Copy to a 720K diskette in an automounted drive.
- c. Load the 720K diskette without removing the diskette from
- the automounted drive.
- d. Remove the 720K diskette, insert a 1.44Mb diskette to the
- same automounted drive and copy to the 1.44Mb diskette.
- e. Select Directory from the main menu and select the
- automounted drive. The target diskette may show no
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- 2. Insert the 360K diskette into the unmounted drive and do not
- yet insert the 720K diskette into the automounted drive.
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- a. Load a 360K diskette from the unmounted drive.
- b. Copy to a 720K diskette in the automounted drive.
- c. Select Directory from the main menu and select the
- automounted drive. The directory listing may show
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- If either of these cases occur, it may be that there is in fact
- no problem with the way WinDupe functions. Simply open the drive
- door of the automounted drive and close it again. If WinDupe
- copied correctly, the Directory will display correctly at this
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- point. Alternatively, select Directory on the unmounted drive
- and then retry the automounted drive. Again, if Windupe copied
- correctly, the directory listing will display correctly at this
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- MISCELLANEOUS
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- WinDupe works closely with your computer's hardware to gain
- much of its speed. However, it never directly addresses the
- hardware without using standard DOS calls. If you have any
- memory resident software that modifies the way DOS works, then
- WinDupe may not function properly. We strongly recommend that
- you remove all memory resident software before running
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