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PROX - Disk Protection Manager, V1.0
(C) Copyright Denis Zibarev, 1996. All rights reserved.
This program is FreeWare.
1. What is it for?
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PROX Disk Locker is a special program, that allows you to protect a part
of your hard drive. This may be useful, for example, when there were many
users works on a single computer, to protect the bootable partition onto
hard disk. You can, of course, invent your own way to use this program.
2. How does it works?
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A driver file, PROX.COM, must be started. It becomes resident in memory
and intercepts all calls to disk.If the area to write in a protected part
of disk, PROX returns a 'Write Protected' error code.Otherwise, it allows
program to write to disk.
3. Is it safe?
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Well, it depends of the way you installed it. This will be safe when
you installs it as described below.
4. How to install it?
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WARNING: If you are not an experienced computer user, please do not
experiment with this software. IT MAY BE DANGER! Please, call your system
administrator to install this software.
PART (i): Programs you need to install it successfully.
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1. DOS System disk with any text editor on it.
2. PROX.COM, PROXMAN.EXE
3. DiskEdit from Symantec or any low-level disk editor.
PART (ii): Preparing PROX.COM for Installation.
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1. Start DiskEdit or any appropriate software you choosed to know, where
your system partition ends.
2. Copy PROX.COM in a directory you choosed, and PROXMAN.EXE on your
floppy disk.
3. Then, execute PROXMAN.EXE with parameter 'D' (Note: 'D' must be
capital). For example: C:\PROX>A:PROXMAN D
4. Enter the cylinder number from step 1 as a last cylinder of protected
partition.
5. Add the line executes PROX.COM in autoexec.bat.
PART (iii): Managing PROX in memory.
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You can also disable write protection on your protected partition, using
PROXMAN.EXE with the capital 'M' as a parameter: PROXMAN M
You must press the capital 'Y' key to disable protection.
(Note: Driver does not releases memory. Why? I don't know...May be later)
Reactivation is not available yet.
PROX and other operating systems
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PROX will only works on a DOS-like operating systems, such as MS-DOS,
PC-DOS. Tests on a Novell DOS, DR-DOS, PTS-DOS where not perfomed, but, I
think,there is no reason that this operating systems is incompatible with
PROX. Systems like OS/2, Windows95 not supported (yet). About Windows 3.1
Windows works fine with PROX, if the swap device is not a protected
partition.
Tips:
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1. This version of PROX does not supports any partition starts from not
a cylinder 0.
2. Careful when use some programs: Make shure that their's temp files
will be not on a protected partition.
3. Remove PROXMAN from hard disk for prevent users to gain access to
protected area.
4. If you use my HDDPRT.COM HDD Protect Daemon, you can disable it.PROX
works like this program.
If there will be a problems:
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Contact me via e-mail: den@re.tsu.tomsk.su
Info:
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This program is protected by Turbo-Bugger, V1.0 (C) Written by Denis
therefore please avoid program starts under Windows, OS/2.
Program is FreeWare. Not for commercial use.
PROX.COM, PROXMAN.EXE, HDDPRT.COM, Turbo-Bugger (TBUG.EXE), Turbo-Bugger
Runtime Modular Loader (TBUGDE.RML) are (C) Copyright Denis Zibarev, 1996
All rights reserved.