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FIT Version 2.0 (C)1990-1993 Turgut Kalfaoglu, <TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET>
Shareware Evaluation Copy
-------------------------
FIT 2.0 is a shareware product. This means that the author allows you up
to 15 days to evaluate and decide if this product is useful to you. At
the end of this period, if you are satistified with FIT, you must
register it by sending your $10 donation to the address shown below:
Turgut Kalfaoglu
1378 Sok. 8/10
Alsancak, Izmir 35210
Turkey
Source code is available to registered users: Enclose diskette and $10
to cover shipping charges. Personal checks (U.S. banks) and Eurochecks
must be made out to "Turgut Kalfaoglu".
Synopsis
--------
FIT allows you to copy all the files matching to your specifications to
any number of diskettes. FIT will arrange the files so that there will
be very little free space left at each diskette. When a diskette gets
full, it will prompt you for another. It will resume as soon as the new
diskette is introduced.
Diskettes "fed" to FIT need not be totally empty: They can contain other
files - FIT will simply use up whatever remaining space is available on
that diskette.
Normally FIT does not stop the diskette drive between diskette changes
to save time. Using the /P option, you can tell it to pause each time a
new diskette is needed. If /P is omitted, it will sense the new diskette
as soon as it is introduced.
FIT is a true 32-bit application that benefits from the multitasking
abilities of OS/2. It uses a separate thread to do the "writing",
freeing the reading thread to read ahead of time. This allows fastest
copying times, especially for systems where multiple I/O paths are
available.
The two active threads can be seen in action while FIT runs. While one
thread reads ahead, the second thread writes the information to
diskette. This is accomplished by the use of double-buffers. In other
words, each time new data is read, one of the two buffers is chosen to
read the data into, while the other buffer is being used by the writing
thread. With this scheme, the writing thread never has to wait for more
data to arrive, since read thread always has one buffer-full of data
already loaded.
Usage
-----
FIT is similar to OS/2's COPY command, except the last parameter must be
a drive letter. Since FIT is intended to be used with diskette drives,
no path specification is permitted for the target parameter.
FIT [options] source_filenames destination_drive
Options are:
/P Pause between diskettes. This option stops drive motor
between diskettes.
/M Move file. After each successful file copied, FIT erases
the file from its origin.
These options can also be made default by assigning an environmental
variable to them, such as:
SET FITCMD=/P
in your CONFIG.SYS, would make the pausing between diskettes the
default.
Usage Examples:
FIT *.EXE A:
FIT *.EXE *.DOC C:\OS2\*.* A:
FIT /M /P \*.* B:
Release History:
----------------
1991 - Initial release of FIT 1.0 for DOS
1992 - FIT 1.1 for DOS and OS/2