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- Appendix A - How to register
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- HardBack is Shareware, which means that if you like it, use it
- regularly or want the extra features of the registered version, you
- send a sum of £10 to the author. In return you will receive:
-
- • A version of HardBack with new features
- • A printed manual
- • Access to technical support
- • The ability to obtain new versions by sending a blank disc
- and 50p to the author
-
- The registered version of HardBack will have many more new
- features than this demo. At the present time (Release 1.04) the new
- features possessed by release 2.01 include:
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- • Compression available for all backups, with various options
- to control it. Typically, the backup is about 50-60% of the
- size of the original files, on a typical mix of program, data
- and graphic files, which means you need less discs than you
- would using the demo version.
- • Ability to read ClicBack options files.
- • Removal of the banners urging you to register.
- • Speeded up selected items in Restore and selected/ignored
- windows in Backup, which each use less memory.
- • Filer-style sort by name, type, and size for restore selected
- items, and sort by name and type for selected/ignored
- windows.
- • Ability to select files in a selected items window using a drag
- box, as the Filer does.
- • Count, file info, pause, don’t show status window options for
- Restore.
- • Option not to rename discs used for the backup – this means
- you can use HardBack to backup to a second hard drive,
- Syquest or optical disc.
- • Option to store a Cyclic Redundancy Check with the data –
- this basically means that when the data is restored, Restore
- will check it against this, and you will be warned if the data
- has become corrupted.
- • General speed-ups throughout Backup and Restore.
- • Improvements taking advantage of Risc OS 3.5 (everything
- is still possible under earlier operating systems)
- • Option to save script files on each backup disc – this allows
- you to identify discs more easily.
- • Improved handling of hard discs, Syquests, etc as destination
- – the destination does not have to be a FileCore filing
- system.
- • Multitasking count operations – useful for large backups
- • Fast mode – speeds up backup greatly.
- • Skeleton mode, which stores directory and file details in a
- compact form without storing file contents.
- • Other smaller improvements, such as the datestamping of
- directories.
-
- More features will be added over time. There will be no more
- versions of the demo, except possibly to fix any bugs which may
- arise, as I shall now spend my time on improving the registered
- version.
-
- To register send £10 to:
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- Theo Markettos
- 5 Willow Close
- Liphook
- Hampshire
- GU30 7HX
- UK
-
- Cheques must be in pounds sterling and drawn on a UK bank.
-
- I can also be contacted as user 152 on Arcade BBS, and by e-mail
- as TheoMark@arcade.demon.co.uk. I only read mail once or twice
- a week, so don’t expect an immediate reply.
-