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INTRO COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi INTRO
NAME
intro.txt - Informations About This Package
Shareware
This program package is a shareware, written by and copy-
righted by horio shoichi.
You can evaluate this package for one month. Beyond that,
you must either terminate using or must pay the registration
fee. See reginfo.txt for more details.
Package Organization
This package consists of following files.
Filename Content
------------------------------------------------------------
ccdisk.txt ccdisk.exe manual
concache.txt concache.exe manual
eqanda.txt expected questions and answers
floppies.txt floppies.exe manual
intro.txt this file
message.txt explains screen printouts
overview.txt general introduction to this program package
pause.txt pause.exe manual
reginfo.txt registration informations
ccreg11.txt ccreg11.exe manual
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ccdisk.exe reentrant SCSI disk driver
ccreg11.exe a program to compute registration fee
concache.exe dos concurrent disk cache program
floppies.exe floppy minidriver
pause.exe a config.sys aid
Each of "*.txt" file is formatted in plain ascii, 80 columns
by 60 lines.
All "*.exe" files are self contained and fully operational;
this package is not a "demo" version.
Programs
Ccdisk.exe
A reentrant SCSI disk driver under DOS. It works
closely with concache.exe. There is no command line
change from v1.00.
Concache.exe
The disk cache program to drive disks concurrently
under DOS. The command line description has changes
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INTRO COPYRIGHT 1995-1996 horio shoichi INTRO
from v1.00. See concache.txt, intro.txt, and
eqanda.txt.
Floppies.exe
The minidriver to relocate floppy accesses from DOS.
An option to load itself into upper memory block is
added to command line from v1.00.
Pause.exe
The program to read DOS startup screen easily. There
is no command line change from v1.00.
There is a "*.txt" file for each of "*.exe" file which fully
explains the program. These obvious files are not enumer-
ated below section.
Text Files
Overview.txt
Describes a brief overview, installation, and known
incompatibilities.
Eqanda.txt
In depth discussions about user interface and interface
problems. Read this if the other manual is felt too
terse, or if you get just curious.
Message.txt
Explains help messages and the other startup messages.
Reginfo.txt
The registration informations for prices, terms and
conditions, and registration procedures are described.
Must be read if you continue to use this package.
Trademarks
Product names in this and other files in this package are
(registered) trademarks of respective publisher's or of man-
ufacturer's.
Development Environment
The primary development environment contains the following
indispensable softwares to the author.
Borland C/C++ 4.0 Borland International
MKS Toolkit 4.1b Mortice Kern Systems Inc.
Periscope 5.40 Periscope Company Inc.
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Of course, any programming problem in this package, if it
exists, is not the consequences of these environments.
References
Of numerous books I referenced, following are particularly
important in writing this software.
IBM Corp. "Technical Reference Personal Computer AT"
Adaptec "Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI)"
Andrew Shulman, et al. "Undocumented DOS" eds 1, 2
Frank van Gilluwe "The Undocumented PC"
Ralf Brown, Jim Kyle "PC Interrupts" eds 1, 2
Joeff Chappel "DOS Internals"
Microsoft "MS-DOS Programmer's Reference" V5, 6
History
v1.10
This package is for concache.exe internal reorganiza-
tions. The results are less bugs, faster executions,
more stable startup and more compatibilities. Preread
is now functional, some options were made built-in. A
few command line parameters for concache.exe were
changed. The previous version, v1.00, was, as seen
from this version, at best an experiment. Finally, the
core algorithm is now patent pending.
also v1.00
This package corrects the omissions and inconsistencies
of documents found in the initial release. No *.exe
changes. However, the whole repackaging is done.
v1.00
This package is the first public release of con-
cache.exe.
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