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- \__//// USER MANUAL - Release : 12-Nov-92
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- Copyright ©1991-1992 Chris P. Vandierendonck, [AmiSYS].
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- Copyright Notice
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- RIVer is released as FREEWARE, not excluding the copyright and
- all other rights, which remain with the author Chris P.
- Vandierendonck. Permission is granted to freely distribute this
- program and related files for non-commercial purposes only. When
- distributed, all files must be kept together, in their original
- unmodified form.
-
- Prior written permission from the author is required to use
- RIVer in commercial releases, on coverdisks or diskmagazines.
-
- (AmigaDOS is a trademark of Commodore Amiga Inc.)
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- Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- RIVer is provided "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY to its quality,
- performance or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event
- shall the author be liable or responsible to the user or any
- other person, for any kind of damage caused by the use of this
- software.
-
- Suggestions, remarks and bug reports about this program can be
- send to the following address :
-
- Chris Vandierendonck
- Koning Albertstraat 188
- B-8210 VELDEGEM
- BELGIUM
-
- Preface
- ~~~~~~~
- RIVer is a program to read the embedded version ID (hereafter
- referred to as 'EVID') of a program or any other file that
- supports this ID. The principle of an EVID was introduced with
- AmigaDOS release 2. Many systemsoftware supports this EVID,
- along with other software (mostly commercial).
-
- RIVer isn't intentended as a replacement for the AmigaDOS
- command 'Version', but rather an extension. With RIVer you can
- attach the EVID as a filenote (comment) to the scanned program
- or file. RIVer can also show the EVID in the form of a table,
- where each field of the EVID is clearly printed.
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- RIVer is reentrant, so it can be made resident.
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- System Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- RIVer requires AmigaDOS v1.2 or higher.
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- EVID structure
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The standard format (AmigaDOS) of an EVID structure is as
- follows :
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- $VER: <name> <version>.<revision> (<dd>.<mm>.<yy>)
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- Field explanation -> <name> : name of the program or file
- <version> : major version number
- <revision> : minor version number
- <dd> : creation day
- <mm> : creation month (numeric)
- <yy> : creation year
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- After this text sequence, most programs include a comment.
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- All my programs support this EVID code, but the structure has
- been extended. (This has no effect on the correct functioning of
- the AmigaDOS command 'Version'!).
-
- The extended format (AmiSYS format) is as follows :
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- $VER: <name> <version>.<revision> (<dd>.<mm>.<yy>/
- <hh>:<mm>:<ss>/<devcode>) <comment>
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- Field explanation -> <hh> : hour created
- <mm> : minutes of hour created
- <ss> : seconds of hour created
- <devcode> : code used in development of
- program
- <comment> : copyright notice
-
- Program Usage (Shell/CLI only)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- FORMAT : <fileName> [MARK] [TABLE] [VERSION]
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- o RIVer arguments :
-
- ("?" gets the program format.)
-
- <fileName> : the name of the program or file to be scanned for
- an EVID (if it's necessary to find it, also give
- the path).
-
- [MARK] : if an EVID is present, then attach it as a filenote
- to the scanned program or file (if the EVID text is
- longer than 80 characters, then only the first 80
- characters will be used for the filenote).
-
- [TABLE] : show the EVID in the form of a table, where each
- field of the EVID structure is clearly printed.
- (See further for an example output.)
-
- [VERSION] : print the program's copyright and version.
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- o RIVer output :
-
- When the TABLE option isn't used, then RIVer will only print the
- EVID text. If you type 'RIVer river' (if the RIVer program is in
- the current directory, otherwise add the path to find it), you
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- should get: "EVID: RIVer 2.00 (12.11.92/23:54:51/00-015) ©1991-
- 1992 AmiSYS_[cpv]".
-
- The TABLE output should look like this ('RIVer river TABLE'):
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- EMBEDDED VERSION ID
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- FILENAME : RIVer
- VERSION : 2.00
- REL.DATE : 12.11.92
- REL.TIME : 23:54:51
- DEVCODE : 00-015
- COMMENT : ©1991-1992 AmiSYS_[cpv]
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- Program antecedents
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- VERS RELEASED RC COMMENT
- ==== ========= == =============================================
- 1.00 16-Aug-91 PU First program version.
- 1.10 21-Feb-92 PU Made the code more efficient. Also changed
- the output a bit.
- 1.11 29-Mar-92 PU Minor code changes.
- 2.00 12-Nov-92 FW Rewrote the program in order to have more
- efficient and faster code.
- Added the [TABLE] option.
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- RIVer v2.00, Copyright ©1991-1992 Chris P.Vandierendonck [AmiSYS],
- All Rights Reserved.
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