During compaction a percentage hourglass will appear to give an indication
of progress. The percentage given is NOT the time taken, as there is no way
of predicting how long a compaction will take, but shows the number of times
the disc has been compacted out of the specified repeat number. Therefore
the first few percent will take longer than the rest, and the percentage may
never get above 10% due to the intelligent compaction.
OPTIONS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The right-hand side of the window contains various options. Click on an
option button to alter its state.
1) Confirm: This asks you to confirm every compaction, so that you can't
compact a disc by mistake. This is not included as a safety measure
because no harm can be done by compacting most discs, but because it
is annoying having to wait for a disc to compact that you didn't want
compacting!
2) Repeat: Sometimes a disc doesn't compact fully on the first attempt, so I have included a repeat option. When it is switched on it will
compact the disc the number of times shown in the white box next to
'Repeat'. To alter the number, click on the box and enter the new
number.
3) Show free: This option is used to display disc information when
compaction is complete. When selected, it brings up a new window.
This is described later.
To close the main window, click on the close icon. All options are
remembered when the window is closed, and can be saved by clicking on
'Save options'. Once saved, the options will be set automatically whenever
you run DiscComp. All settings in the main window are saved, including the
information in the writable icons.
OTHER BUTTONS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the right of the main window, underneath the options, are three buttons.
They are:
1) Show free... : Analyses the currently selected disc and displays
the Disc Information window which is described
above. This function is included so that the exact
space on a disc can be worked out.
2) Save options : Saves the current options to disc, as described
above.
3) Compact : Compacts the currently selected disc as described
above.
DISC INFORMATION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- If 'Show free space on disc' is selected then a disc information window
will open once compaction is complete. This shows the disc name, the size
of the disc, the amount of free and used space and how full the disc is (as
a percentage).
HISTORY
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.00 (10 Aug 1994) : • First version - fully working.
