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- VirusZ III 0.93ß
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- - Short Documentation -
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- This documentation only tells you how to use the new filecheck invented with
- VirusZ III 0.93ß. A full documentation for VirusZ III is in the making...
-
- IMPORTANT:
- ----------
- VZ III 0.93ß does not support the following features yet:
- - archive extracting
- - creating reports
- - file check via ARexx
- - file check via Shell template
- - sector check
- Please ignore the related preferences options.
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- BASIC INFORMATION:
- ------------------
- The new filecheck had to be embedded in an asyncronous environment, thus all
- checking 'loops' in the earlier versions had to be replaced by 'open' code
- that returns to the main signal processing loop after every run.
-
- The filecheck now processes so-called 'jobs' that are internally stored in a
- linked list and processed step by step. If you select files from the
- requester opened after a call to 'Project/File Check' menu, the result of
- this request will be sent to the job list and processed if all other jobs
- are done. So you now can already select new files/drawers while the others
- are still checked.
-
- These features will become even more important with file checking via ARexx
- or Shell because these will also just send jobs to the joblist and then wait
- until the jobs are done to return a result.
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- The filecheck window must be opened for all those actions and can stay open
- after a job is finished, the next job will continue printing information
- right after the previous one then.
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- FILE CHECK WINDOW:
- ------------------
- This main window is divided in three parts: the path and file information
- at the top, the log output in the middle and the action buttons at the
- bottom.
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- If one or more jobs have been added to the joblist, VZ will open the window
- and start processing the selected files. The path and file VZ currently
- works on are displayed at the top. In the middle you get information about
- what VZ does to the current file.
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- With the 'Stop' button you can stop checking (what else :-), then you may
- 'Continue' or 'Exit'.
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- Attention: If there are more than one job in the joblist, they will
- currently all be removed without a security request.
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- GENERAL/REPORT PREFS:
- ---------------------
- Here you can select the checking mode:
- - 'Interactive Mode' will ask before every important action (write/delete).
- - 'Auto-Kill Viruses' will auto-kill viruses :-) Be careful with that!
- - 'Test-Only Mode' will report viruses, but ignore them completely.
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- With 'Skip Subdirectories' enabled, VZ will not go any deeper than one step
- in directories.
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- The 'History Size' tells VZ how many lines should be reserved for the log.
- You can then scroll back and have a second look at as many lines as you
- entered here.
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- Report options are currently useless!!
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- DECRUNCH/ARCHIVER PREFS:
- ------------------------
- The 'Decrunch Executables' and 'Decrunch Data Files' options do just what
- they are called :-) They use those external slaves that they are told to
- with the radio buttons at the right side.
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- You can 'Skip Crypted Files' to have a full test-only mode (see above).
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- Extract options are currently useless!!
-
-
- >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> INFORMATION FOR BETA-TESTERS <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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- Just run the new filecheck on your Amiga, try some different settings and
- tell me about possible crashes, enforcer hits etc.
-
- Everything works fine on my Amiga, but one never knows...
-
- If you have some more ideas (except the ones not added yet), please let me
- know.
-
- One problem I found myself is speed: The output via the listview gadget
- provided by gadtools.library is very slow. But I want to have a scrollable
- display to give the user the possibility to go back a bit and review what VZ
- did.
- If anyone has a better idea how to speed up output a bit, please tell me.
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- Thanks in advance,
-
- Georg Hörmann
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- georg.hoermann@gaponline.de
-