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K-Free(tm) Copyright 1990 by Dragons Eye Software. All rights reserved. Current version 3.0 Document Updated 10/3/90 Compuserve is a registered trademark of HR Block. K-Free and Dragons Eye Software are trademarks of Dragons Eye Software. Disclaimer of Warranty Dragons Eye Software hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Dragons Eye Software will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if Dragons Eye Software or an agent of Dragons Eye Software has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Dragons Eye Software's liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to use the software, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software. Product Support Primary product support is provided through the Compuserve Information Service. The Dragons Eye Software EPLEX mailbox on Compuserve is checked twice each day and all messages directed to ID number [76057,101] will receive a reply the same day. If you require faster service you may dial 817-265-5619 from 8 am to 10 pm Central Time 7 days a week and leave a message in the Dragons Eye Software mailbox. Your call will be returned on the same day. Please leave your full name and phone number (with area code) and a short description detailing the type of help you require. Use and Registration You are hereby granted permission to use K-Free for a trial period no longer than 21 days. If, after the trial period expires, you continue to use K-Free, you MUST register the program. Registration entitles you to one free upgrade of the program with printed documentation (contains screen shots that the online manual does not) and will disable the registration screen. You will also be notified when new products from Dragons Eye Software are available. Please see the file: ORDER.DOC for registration and volume discount information. Shipping Fee Notice When ordering from Dragons Eye Software please be sure to include the amount specified for shipping. Updates will not be sent on any orders that do not contain the required shipping fees. The only exception is for those who specify a Compuserve ID number on the order form. If you inlcude your Compuserve ID then your free update will be sent directly to your EasyPlex (Eplex) mailbox. Program Registration [registration dialog] If you have not yet registered K-Free, the dialog box shown above will be displayed each time you run the program. From this dialog you can either register the program (if you have a registration number) or you can skip the registration and go straight to K-Free. If you choose to register K-Free, you should click on Register to bring up the following dialog. Type your registration number in the Registration # field and your name in the Name field. The registration number that you enter should exactly match the one given to you by Dragons Eye Software. When you press Ok K-Free will verify and save your registration information, and the registration dialog will never again appear. If you press Cancel, the registration information will not be saved. The registration dialog will continue to appear when K-Free is run. The following dialog will appear if the registration number is valid and the registration process has been completed without any errors. K-Free Help [help dialog] The above dialog will appear when Alt-H is pressed from the main window or Help is selected from the Options dialog. K-Free help contains a short description of all the commands available within K-Free, along with instructions concerning each of the commands. The scroll bar is used to bring additional help text into view by clicking on either the up or down arrows. K-Free does not use the Windows help system because the amount of text used within Help is small, and the additional overhead required by the Windows help system would offset the benefits of including an online help facility within K-Free. K-Free Main Window The K-Free main window is composed of several elements, all of which may or may not be displayed depending on the options chosen from the Options dialog. All of the possible elements are outlined below. The first element is the Windows Info section which is composed of several items. Windows Info will display the mode that Windows is currently running in (Protected or Real). If Windows is running in Protected mode, K-Free will show that Windows is in either Standard or 386 Enhanced mode. K-Free will also display your machine's CPU type (the one shown here is a 80286) and whether or not you have a math coprocessor installed in your machine. The next element is Memory. In this section K-Free displays the amount of memory free under Windows. If you have Expanded Memory (EMS) installed in your system or set up through the use of an EMS driver, K-Free will display the amount of EMS memory free and the EMS driver version. The third element is the Largest Block of free memory available from Windows. This allows you to see how much contiguous memory is available from Windows to the programs currently running. Often this number is a more accurate indicator of free memory as the Windows Memory number includes all free memory, some of which may not be readily available to applications. The fourth element is Drive information for all the drives selected in the Options dialog. Each selected drive will be on its own line with the amount of free space shown on the right side as either Kilobytes or Megabytes (K or M). K-Free will display information for up to 10 drives. The final element is the Help line that is displayed at the top of the window. This line is intended to help beginning users and may be turned off from the Options dialog. All the elements of the main window may be turned on and off at will by the user from the Options dialog. K-Free Commands To open the Options menu: With the mouse: Double click with the left mouse button while the mouse cursor is inside the K-Free window. With the keyboard: While the K-Free window has the focus (is on top of all other windows on the screen) press ALT-O. To move the K-Free window: With the mouse: place the cursor within the help bar and hold down the left mouse button. The cursor will change to a four-pointed cursor, and you may move the K-Free window anywhere on the screen while holding down the left mouse button. With the keyboard: While the K-Free window has the focus press ALT-F7. The cursor will change to a four-pointed cursor, and you may move the K-Free window anywhere on the screen using the cursor keys. Press the return key when you have moved it to its new position. To close K-Free: With the mouse: Double click with the right mouse button while the mouse cursor is anywhere within the K-Free window. With the keyboard: While the K-Free window has the focus press ALT-F4. K-Free Options [options dialog] 1. Memory When Memory is selected, K-Free displays the total amount of memory available. If you have EMS memory in your system, the amount of available EMS memory will also be displayed, along with the EMS driver version. The amount of total RAM shown does not reflect the difference in the amount of RAM available as opposed to the size of your disk swap area (if you are using Windows in 386 Enhance mode). In other words, if you have a 4 Meg swap file and you have 4 Meg of RAM on your system, K-Free may display 8 Meg as the amount of memory available. 2. Drive Selecting Drive causes K-Free to display the number of bytes free on the selected drive(s) in either kilobytes or megabytes depending on the actual amount free. If you have less than 10 Meg free on the selected drive, K-Free will display the number as Kilobytes; otherwise, you will see the amount represented in Megabytes. You select the drive or drives to monitor from the Options menu by selecting Drive mode and clicking on one or more drives in the listbox. K-Free will display the space free for up to 10 drives at one time. 3. Stay on Top Selecting the Stay on Top option causes K-Free to remain above all the other windows that are currently visible on the windows desktop, regardless of which window has the input focus. 4. Largest Block When this option is selected K-Free will display the Largest Block of memory that is available to Windows applications. This value is often a more accurate indicator of available memory than the number that is available through the Program Manager as it represents the largest contiguous block of memory that may be requested by applications running under Windows. 5. Win Info Selecting Win Info will display the mode that Windows is currently running in (Protected or Real). If Windows is running in Protected mode, K-Free will show that Windows is in either Standard or 386 Enhanced mode. K-Free will also display your machine's CPU type and whether or not you have a math coprocessor installed in your machine. 6. Hide Help This option, when selected, will cause K-Free to hide the main window line that reads: "Press Alt-H for help" so that experienced users will only see the information that they need. Hide Help is de-selected by default. 7. Iconic Selecting Iconic causes the main K-Free display to appear in its' smallest form. The main window will only take up as much space as is needed to display the information that you have selected. For example, the window shown above is what would appear if you had selected the options as shown in the Options dialog above. If you have selected Win Info then the Windows information will not appear when Iconic is selected, as there would not be enough room to display all the Windows information text. 8. Save Settings Selecting Save Settings causes K-Free to save the current Options dialog settings when K-Free is closed. Save Settings is off by default. 9. Change Colors Clicking on Change Colors will bring up the Colors dialog box, where you may change the colors that are used in the main window. 10. About K-Free [about dialog] Clicking on About K-Free will cause the About box for K-Free to appear. The K-Free about box displays the registration number and name of the registered individual if a registered version of K-Free is being executed. 11. Drives listbox The Drives listbox should be used to select the drives that you want to monitor with K-Free. Only the first 10 will be used. Any drives past the tenth will be ignored by K-Free. Color Dialog [color dialog] The Color dialog is used to change the text and background colors of the main window. You may select an object and click on Set Color to change its color. A representation of the main window is continuously visible at the bottom of the dialog box. In order to change a particular color, you should select one of the radio buttons in the upper left of the dialog. By using the scroll bars you can create any color that is available under Windows. To accept the color you have created into the main window object you should click on Set Color. When you have finished changing the colors, press Ok to accept the changes or Cancel to abort. Saving the current settings Selecting Save Settings from the Options dialog will cause K-Free to save the current settings to the KFREE.INI file when K-Free is exited. This option should be used when you move K-Free to another part of the screen or you change one of the display options, so that K-Free will display these settings when you next execute K-Free. Please note that when you run K-Free the Save Settings option is de-selected, and you must re-select it in order for your current session settings to be saved when you close K-Free or exit Windows. Command Line Parameters The command line syntax for K-Free is as follows: KFREE [drive...] where [drive...] is one or more optional drive letters followed by colons. These drives will be monitored by K- Free upon startup. For example, choosing "Run" from the Program Manager and typing in the following line: KFREE C: D: E: will cause K-Free to monitor drives: C, D and E and display the bytes free for each drive. If no parameters are put on the K-Free command line, K-Free will begin by displaying current settings as saved in the KFREE.INI file. ***************************** NOTE ***************************** If you try to enter the above example on either the "RUN=" or "LOAD=" lines in the WIN.INI file you will get error messages from Windows. These messages occur because Windows expects program names only on these lines. If you want K-Free to run when you start Windows, you should use "Run" from Dragons Eye Software. Run allows you to execute one or more programs at the same time and give each program its own command line. KFREE.INI Options There are several options which may be set within the KFREE.INI file. These options and their usage are outlined below. CommandLine= should be set to the options that you want K-Free to use when K-Free is started with a blank command line. Any option that is valid for the normal K-Free command line may be used here. All commands should be enclosed in quotes. CommandLine= by default, is set to "C:" in the distributed INI file. Xloc= is the X location of the upper left corner of the K-Free window. Generally you should not alter this line; although, you can safely set it to "0" as it is by default. Yloc= is the Y location of the upper left corner of the K-Free window. Generally you should not alter this line; although, you can safely set it to "0" as it is by default. Memory= should be set to 1 if you want K-Free do display available memory upon startup or 0 if you do not want memory information displayed. Drive= should be set to 1 to display drive information or set to 0 to turn the drive option off. LBlock= should be set to 1 to display the largest block information or set to 0 to turn Largest Block off. Winfo= should be set to 1 to display Windows information or set to 0 to turn Windows information off. OnTop= should be set to 1 for K-Free to appear on top of the other windows on the screen. ShowHelp= should be set to 1 to enable the display of the help line at the top of the K-Free window or set to 0 to disable the help line. The other settings in the K-Free INI file are automatically set by K-Free and should not be altered manually. *** When you exit from K-Free the current settings will be saved to the INI file only if you have selected "Save Settings" in the Options dialog box during the current K-Free session. If you have any suggestions or comments please send a message to: Dragons Eye Software P.O. Box 200262 Arlington, TX 76006-0262 or send an EasyPlex message to CIS [76057,101] For product support, upgrade information or ordering please call: (817) 265-5619 from 8 am to 10 pm Central time 7 days a week.