Diablo Multiplayer First Aid Version 1.0 beta 1
Greg Legowski, gregleg@telerama.lm.com

This program was written by a Windows developer (namely me) who lost one too 
many Diablo network characters to the great bit bucket in the sky.

Since I wrote this one, I have seen several others that also do the trick.  I 
decided to make mine publicly available anyway for the following reasons:

o  I backup the characters to a single file with all necessary data encoded.  
   You can safely copy and move this file elsewhere, without having to worry 
   about things such as timestamps or file attributes -- my program handles 
   these for you.  The program makes no assumptions about the location or even 
   name of the backup files, so you are free to make backups of this file, 
   rename it, basically do anything you want with it as long as the contents 
   are not modified.

o  It's the smallest such applet out there thus far (as an applet should 
   be ;-), and still has a reasonable Windows interface.

o  It will warn you when you are trying to restore your characters to a machine
   other than they originated on.
 
o  There is no need to restart the computer after performing a restore.  (This 
   may be true of other utilities now as well)

This version does NOT support moving characters to another machine;  that may 
be added to a future release.  This utility is intended ONLY to safeguard your
characters against system failure.  As such, it grabs ALL network characters 
at the time of the backup, so if you create new characters after this backup, 
and then restore from this backup, the "newer" characters will vanish.  
Moral:  Always keep your backups current.

Future possible additions include a command line interface (if you want to 
automate backup in a batch file, for example) and the ability to move 
characters to another computer.

If you were one of the very few people out there who saw version 0.9, please 
note that the file format of the backup has changed -- old backups are NOT 
compatible with this version, and no conversion utility is planned.

Use of this applet falls under "at your own risk".  I can NOT guarantee the 
results of using this applet, although I HAVE tested it (and NEEDED it ;-) 
with my own characters, on Windows 95 and Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (Service 
Pack 1) machines.

This program is public domain.  It may be freely used and distributed so long 
as this text file and the executable are distributed as a package, and remain 
unmodified.  Donations to encourage me to maintain this tool, and write similar
utilities in the future (for StarCraft, for example ;-) are appreciated but not
expected.  If you wish to make such a donation, feel free to send me email.

Thanks,
--Greg Legowski
gregleg@telerama.lm.com
http://www.lm.com/~gregleg