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- echo off
- CLS
- echo This is a quick demo of the operation of SLIM.
- echo SLIM compresses files - all sorts of files -
- echo to give you more free space on your disk.
- echo And it automatically expands these files when accessed,
- echo allowing you to use your files just as before.
- echo.
- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo Checking out drive A: before proceeding with demo.
- COPY %0.BAT A:EXAMPLE.SLM
- A:
- IF EXIST SLIM.EXE GOTO PROCEED
- echo The file SLIM.EXE should be on drive A: for this demo.
- GOTO DEMOEND
- :PROCEED
- DEL EXAMPLE.SL1
- COPY EXAMPLE.SLM EXAMPLE.SL1
- IF EXIST EXAMPLE.SL1 GOTO PROCEED1
- echo There is not enough free space on A:, or the disk is write protected.
- GOTO DEMOEND
- :PROCEED1
- DEL EXAMPLE.SL1
- echo.
- echo O.K. Can proceed with demo.
- PAUSE
- CLS
- SLIM ON
- IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO DEMOEND
- echo.
- echo SLIM is now RAM resident. This is needed to compress files
- echo and to use them later. To compress a file is simple:
- DIR *.SLM
- echo.
- echo SLIM will compress EXAMPLE.SLM as an example.
- PAUSE
- SLIM EXAMPLE.SLM
- IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO DEMOEND
- echo.
- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo To use the compressed file is even simpler.
- echo If SLIM is RAM resident and active (SLIM ON),
- echo and enough disk space is free to hold the un-compressed file,
- echo SLIM automatically expands the file when accessed,
- echo allowing it to be used just as before. You could TYPE the
- echo file, for instance.
- PAUSE
- TYPE EXAMPLE.SLM
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- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo For backup, copying, etc., SLIM may be turned OFF. This allows
- echo a compressed file to be accessed without automatic expansion.
- echo Type SLIM OFF to do this and you can then copy or display compressed
- echo files, or manipulate them in any other way. For example:
- echo.
- echo SLIM OFF
- SLIM OFF
- echo.
- echo.
- echo COPY EXAMPLE.SLM EXAMPLE.SL1
- COPY EXAMPLE.SLM EXAMPLE.SL1
- echo.
- echo DIR EXAMPLE.SL?
- DIR EXAMPLE.SL?
- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo Do not try to use a compressed file when SLIM is OFF,
- echo or before SLIM is loaded by the first SLIM ON command.
- echo The file will not then make sense - but look something
- echo like this...
- echo.
- TYPE EXAMPLE.SLM
- echo.
- echo.
- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo To see which files are compressed by SLIM and by how much,
- echo use the SLIM R command, eg SLIM R EXAMPLE.*
- SLIM R EXAMPLE.*
- echo.
- PAUSE
- CLS
- echo Compressed files may be de-compressed by the SLIM X command.
- echo eg SLIM X EXAMPLE.SLM
- echo.
- SLIM X EXAMPLE.SLM
- echo.
- echo.
- DIR EXAMPLE.SLM
- PAUSE
- DEL EXAMPLE.SLM
- DEL EXAMPLE.SL1
- CLS
- echo For a quick reference to SLIM commands, just type SLIM.
- PAUSE
- echo.
- SLIM
- echo.
- :DEMOEND
- echo This concludes the demonstration.