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- CatchDisk: User Guide
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- CatchDisk version 1.00 16-Oct-1993
- Copyright © 1993 By Alessandro Sala
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- Requires AmigaOS v2.04 ( Kickstart v37 ) or later
- and WBStart-Handler v1.4 or later (by Stefan Becker)
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- Contents
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- - Legal info
- - The distribution archive
- - Introduction
- What is CatchDisk ?
- Installation
- - Configuration and usage
- - Terminating CatchDisk
- - Contact Addresses
- - Revision history
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- Legal info
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- Disclaimer
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- This program is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranty
- of fitness for a particular purpose. Though every care has been taken to
- make this program system-friendly and bugs-free, the entire risk as to the
- results, reliability and performance of this program is assumed by you.
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- Copyright notice
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- This program is "FreeWare": it can be freely copied and distributed for
- non-commercial purposes, provided that no file is added to or removed from the
- distribution archive and no charge, beside a nominal fee, is requested.
- Nevertheless the program remains COPYRIGHT of the Author: you cannot
- patch, reverse engineer or otherwise modify the program, the documentation and
- every other file found in the distribution archive except where explicitly
- allowed.
- Compressing in executable form is allowed for personal use but not
- for distribution: LHARC'ing in an archival form is explicitly allowed for
- distribution convenience.
- Furthermore you cannot embed the program in any other software without
- the written permission of the author.
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- The distribution archive
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- Contents of the distribution archive
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- CatchDisk : The main program
- CatchDisk.info : Related '.info' file with pre-set tooltypes
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- Italiano
- Leggimi : General information in italian language
- Documentazione
- CatchDisk.doc : Italian documentation in ASCII format
- CatchDisk.guide : Italian documentation in AmigaGuide format
- Installazione
- Installa : Installation program in italian language (see Leggimi)
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- English
- Readme : General information in english language
- Documentation
- CatchDisk.doc : English documentation in ASCII format
- CatchDisk.guide : English documentation in AmigaGuide format
- Installation
- Install : Installation program in english language (see Readme)
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- Catalogs
- CatchDisk.ct : Empty translation file
- italiano
- CatchDisk.catalog : Italian language support file
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- Various '.info' files
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- Introduction
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- What is CatchDisk ?
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- CatchDisk is a simple commodity: its purpouse is to detect when a new disk
- is inserted in any drive and check if it is properly formatted: if not,
- CatchDisk executes the Format program with the drive, in which the disk was
- inserted, already selected. The user has only to choose the format options and
- start or abort the operation.
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- IMPORTANT
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- To use CatchDisk you must have the WBStart-Handler in you L: directory. You
- need VERSION 1.4 OR LATER of the handler. WBStart-Handler is a freely
- distributable software by Stefan Becker: you can find it as 'WBStart1_4.lha'
- in many FTP sites or from PD distributors. Please note that the version
- required is at least v1.4, because previous versions had problems when dealing
- with null locks.
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- Installation
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- To install CatchDisk, if you have the 'Installer' utility from Commodore (see
- Readme), you can simply double-click the 'Install' icon found in the 'English'
- drawer.
- Differently, you can simply copy CatchDisk in some drawer, typically
- your SYS:WBStartup drawer. If you have OS 2.1 or later and you want to
- take advantage of localization, you must also copy the 'catalogs' drawer, found
- in the CatchDisk distribution archive, into the same drawer as CatchDisk, or
- you can copy the 'CatchDisk.catalog' file ( found in the 'catalogs/<language>/'
- drawer ) into your 'LOCALE:catalogs/<language>/' drawer.
- If your language is not currently available, you can fill in the empty
- translation file found in the catalogs drawer ( catalogs/CatchDisk.ct ) and
- send it to me by E-Mail ( see the Contact Addresses section ). I will
- create a new '<your-language>/CatchDisk.catalog' file and E-Mail it to you as
- soon as possible, and the next version of CatchDisk will support one more
- language. You can also translate the documentation files and send them to me
- for inclusion in the distribution of CatchDisk.
- You must also have WBStart-Handler in you L: directory for CatchDisk to work
- (see 'What is CatchDisk'.)
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- Configuration and usage
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- To start CatchDisk simply double-click its icon or type 'run CatchDisk' from
- a CLI. To have it activated on every bootstrap, place it in your SYS:WBStartup
- drawer with the 'DONOTWAIT' tooltype, or insert 'run CatchDisk' in your
- S:user-startup file.
- CatchDisk recognizes the following ToolTypes or CLI arguments:
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- CX_PRIORITY=<pri> : The priority of CatchDisk in the commodities
- network.
- Default value = 0. Range = -128 to 127
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- DEVICE<n>=<drive> : It describes a group of alternative drives
- for a single physical drive.
- The number <n> identifies the group of
- alternative drives, and can range from 0
- to 9.
- The <drive> parameter is the name of a
- drive followed by ':', and you can list
- any number of drives, without in-between
- spaces.
- Example:
- 'DEVICE0=DF0:PC0:'
- tells CatchDisk that for a disk to be
- considered properly formatted, it must be
- readable accessing the drive as 'DF0:' or
- as 'PC0:'.
- If neither can read the disk, it will be
- formatted as 'DF0:' (the first drive in the
- list).
- If you specify instead:
- 'DEVICE0=PC0:DF0:'
- if the disk in unreadable it will be
- formatted as'PC0:'.
- If one or more of the specified drives is not
- mounted, it will be simply ignored.
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- BREAK_WARN : When CatchDisk terminates because of a
- ^C signal, it displays a requester
- informing you of the event only if BREAK_WARN
- is set.
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- Once CatchDisk is active you can use the Commodities Exchange program to
- control its activities.
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- Terminating CatchDisk
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- As a commodity, CatchDisk can be terminated in three ways:
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- a) Run CatchDisk a second time.
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- b) Use the Commodities Exchange program.
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- c) Send CatchDisk a 'control-C' signal (see also BREAK_WARN):
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- c.1) If you started CatchDisk from workbench (or WBStartup drawer) use a
- task control utility such as TaskX by Steve Tibbet.
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- c.2) If you started CatchDisk from a CLI (or user-startup) do the following:
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- 1) Open a CLI
- 2) Issue the 'STATUS' command and note the process number of CatchDisk
- 3) Issue 'BREAK <n> C' where <n> is the process number noted above
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- Contact Addresses
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- Criticism and suggestions
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- I hope you will find CatchDisk useful, and if you have any criticism,
- suggestions, bug report, ideas for enhancements in possible future versions,
- you can write ( in Italian or English ) at the following address:
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- Alessandro Sala
- Via A. Grandi, 16
- 20014 Nerviano (MI)
- Italy
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- If you have E-Mail capability you can also contact me at the following
- Internet address (at least until the end of January 1994):
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- tser1506@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it
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- Revision history
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- History
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- Version 1.00
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- First release.
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