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- CDROM Update v0.2alpha
- ======================
-
- (C) 1994 Graham Leggett
- All Rights Reserved
- Made in South Africa
-
-
- What This Program Does:
- =======================
-
- This program is the answer to the prayers of RemoteAccess sysops who
- have more CDROMs online than they have CDROM drives.
-
- This program will search for each defined CDROM, marking those files on
- missing CDs as either missing or unavailable. In addition, the path to
- each area on the CD will be updated to reflect the correct drive path.
-
- In short, put any CD in any drive, this program will do the rest.
-
-
-
- How To Configure The Program:
- =============================
-
- When CDROM.EXE is executed, it looks for the configuration file CDROM.CFG
- in the same directory the program was executed from. If the configuration
- file cannot be found, the program will terminate with an error message.
-
- This is a sample configuration file:
-
- ;
- ; CDROM Update Configuration File
- ; (C) 1994 Graham Leggett All Rights Reserved
-
- If you have a registration key, enter it in place of the 12345678. If
- there is no key present, or if the key has been entered incorrectly,
- the program will ask you to press a key before continuing.
-
- ;
- ; Registration Key:
- ; Place your registration key here.
-
- ;12345678
-
-
- In order for the program to identify which CDs are in which drives, a
- signature file and a RemoteAccess group number must be defined for each
- CD. In addition, each CDROM area must be flagged with the CDROM flag in
- the RemoteAccess filebase. Insert a line containing the group number
- the CD belongs to, followed by the signature file itself for each CD
- you wish to include.
-
- ;
- ; CDROM definition:
- ; Insert the CD's group number, followed by that CD's signature file.
-
- 2 windows\xboard.zip ; Cream of the Crop III
- 3 001a\winlite1.zip ; Night Owl 11
- 4 ra_cream.exe ; Cream of the Crop II
- 5 allfiles.z ; Gemini Atari CDROM
- 6 001a\4edit20.zip ; Night Owl 12
-
- Note:
-
- 1) The signature file itself can be any file on the CD, however it must be
- unique. In the example above, the Cream of the Crop II signature file
- is a bad choice as the file "RA_CREAM.EXE" can also be found in the root
- directory of Cream of the Crop III. In this case Cream of the Crop II
- would be marked as available and in the same drive as Cream of the
- Crop III.
-
- 2) If the CD and group are NOT defined in the configuration file, the
- CDROM program will completely ignore that CD.
-
- 3) Do not include any path to the CD or any backslashes before the
- signature file, or the program will not be able to find the CD, and as
- a result will mark all the files on that CD as offline/missing.
-
-
- The next item that needs to be configured are the paths to your CDROM
- drives.
-
- ;
- ; CDROM Drive definition:
- ; Insert the path names of each CDROM drive.
-
- L:\ ; I only have one CDROM drive :-(
-
- The path may consist of just a drive letter as above, or it could
- include a directory with it (eg "J:\CDROM1\"). The trailing backslash
- must be present for the CDs to be detected properly.
-
- Note:
-
- 1) When the program has detected a CD in the drive, it will replace
- the first part of the pathname in each RemoteAccess file area with
- the path to the drive the CD is in. This will only happen if the first
- part of the existing filename is one of the defined paths above. This
- is a safety feature designed to stop you wrecking your paths by changing
- them to "L:\K:\J:\001A".
-
-
-
- The Everpresent Disclaimer:
- ===========================
-
- This software is guaranteed to take up disk space, nothing else. I've
- tried to make it as bug free and forgiving as I can, however this
- program is used at your own risk.
-
- This program writes to the FILES.RA and the FDBxxx.HDR files in the
- RemoteAccess filebase. Making a quick backup of these files is
- suggested before you use this software.
-
-
-
- Shareware:
- ==========
-
- This program has been released as shareware. You're licensed to try the
- software out for 21 days, after which you must buy a license for it, or
- stop using it.
-
- The shareware cost is R20 (that's 20 South African Rands, about $5.60 at
- current rates).
-
- Please send the money to:
- Graham Leggett
- 15 Okkerneut Street
- Weltevreden Park
- 1709 South Africa
-
- Please include some means for me to send your key to you. If you have
- an internet address, please include it and I will send it to you that
- way. You may also fetch your key by polling me at 5:7107/13.
-
- If you would like to me to mail your key to you, add R3 to the shareware
- price, and if you would like me to crash the key to you, add R5 to the
- shareware price.
-
-
-
- How To Reach Me:
- ================
-
- Please report any bugs or problems you may encounter.
-
- I may be reached at the following places:
-
- The Green Dragon BBS - Fidonet 5:7107/13
- Internet - 090graha@uwcc.cc.wits.ac.za
-
-
-
- Revision History:
- =================
-
- v0.2alpha:
-
- ■ Fixed a bug where a missing backslash behind the RA environment
- variable caused the program not to find CONFIG.RA or FILES.RA.
-
- v0.1alpha:
-
- ■ Seems to work ok... :-]
-
-