Monster Media 1994 #1/monster.zip/monster/BBS_UTIL/ROMD311.ZIP/ROMD300.INF

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-:NEW FEATURES:-

This is an abridged list of advanced new features, which you need to do
extra work to use them.  A complete list of all the features will be
available soon.  Play around and you should be able figure out most of
them.

1) If you don't change your CD-ROM disks often then turn the option
   "Check CD-ROM" to "NO" located in the "Edit Main Parameters",
   "Edit Extra Features" menu.  This is useful for sysops with Pioneer
   disk changers.  No longer will RomDoor scan the disks each and
   everytime it loads, instead, RomDoor will scan the disks only if the
   file PREVON.DAT doesn't exist.  So if you want RomDoor to rescan
   there are three ways you can have it do this:

   a) Delete the file PREVON.DAT.  (RomDoor will rescan next time it
      loads.)

   b) Run the program GETON.EXE.  It will scan the disks and save the
      online disks to PREVON.DAT.  It will also tell you what drive
      letter the disks are in.

   c) When you are in RomDoor, press F5 when it is waiting for user
      input.  That will cause RomDoor to scan the disks as well.

2) If you want to speed up the scanning disk process and want to
   eliminate certain drive letters from being scanned then:

   a) Load up MAKEROM.EXE.
   b) Select "Edit Main Parameters"
   c) Select "Edit Drive Assignments"
   d) Select "Edit Node 1's CD-ROM drives"
   e) You should be presented with a screen which lists out the drive
      letters C: - Z:.  As well as unit numbers (discussed in #3).
      To clear a line press CRTL-Y, then type in the drive letter you
      want it to scan.  For example if you wanted RomDoor only to scan
      drives I: and J: then you would have:

      1) Path: I:            Unit #: 0
      2) Path: J:            Unit #: 0

   f) Note that you can use this feature to have RomDoor look for a disk
      in a subdirectory.  (If you have the hard drive space it will
      work).  For example lets say you copied the entire disk and
      subdirectories to D:\CDROM1.  Then you would have:

      1) Path: D:\CDROM1     Unit #: 0

3) As mentioned above there are now unit numbers, these are mainly for
   sysops with Pioneer disk changers.  When these are set then RomDoor
   will "lock" the units and will only let one node copy a file from a
   unit at once.  So if you have two Pioneers where drives E: - J: are
   on the first CD-ROM player and drives K: - P: are on the second
   player then you will have the following setup:

    1) Path: E:            Unit #: 1
    2) Path: F:            Unit #: 1
   ...
    6) Path: J:            Unit #: 1
    7) Path: K:            Unit #: 2
    8) Path: L:            Unit #: 2
   ...
   12) Path: P:            Unit #: 2

  Note that RomDoor will never lock a unit number with a value of 0.

4) RomEdit's update feature has been greatly improved and shouldn't take
   much longer than a minute or two for a single disk.  The purpose of
   the feature is to compare the disk to RomDoor's database.

   a) Load up ROMEDIT.
   b) Press ALT-U.
   c) Enter in the path to the CD, for example if the CD was your I:
      drive then press enter I:.
   d) For the "Freshen Action" you have the option to freshen the size
      and/or date.
   e) For the "Not Found Action" you have the option to "Flag" or
      "Delete" the files that are in the database but not on the CD-ROM
      disk.  "Flagging" the files means that when RomEdit encounters a
      file it can't locate on the disk then it sets a flag in the
      database.  It also adds the file to the third key so you can get a
      list in RomEdit of only the deleted files.

   Once the entire disk has been compared to the database RomEdit sets a
   flag in the CDRECS.DAT file which tells RomDoor that the CD-ROM has
   been checked by RomEdit.  So now when a user tries to mark a file on
   the disk it first looks to see if the not found flag is set and if it
   isn't it automatically assumes the file exists and marks the file
   without checking the CD-ROM disk.  This improves preformence on a
   Pioneer 6-Pack dramaticly and your users will be greatful.

5) v3.00 now allows you to create a text file database of your RomDoor
   database.  The main reason for doing this is that since the text file
   is sequential then RomDoor can read the file in large blocks and so
   that less disk access is needed.  Doing this improves the text search
   by nearly 15 times.  The only downfall is that it will take up more
   space on your hard drive.  To use the "QuickSearch" databases simple
   run QUICKEXP.  The parameters for it are the CD-ROM disks that you
   want to create "QuickSearch" databases for.  So if you wanted to
   create a "QuickSearch" database for CDs 2,4,5 and 6.  You could type:

   QUICKEXP 2,4-6

   Currently QUICKEXP is very unattractive but that really doesn't
   matter since it does what it needs to do.  After QUICKEXP has run it
   will have created a file called ROMSRCH.DAT in your ROMxx
   directories.  That is the "QuickSearch" database.  If you decide that
   you are running low on hard drive space and want to delete it, feel
   free to since when RomDoor starts a text search it checks for the
   existence of the file, if RomDoor doesn't find the file then RomDoor
   won't use it.  The typical size of the ROMSRCH.DAT is about half the
   size of the ROMFILES.DAT in that ROMxx directory.