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- UNGAME - The Games Cleaner - Version 1.1
-
- Copyright (c) 1994-95 DVD Software, Ltd. All rights reserved.
-
-
- Table of Contents:
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- Introduction ...................................... 1.0
- Installation ...................................... 2.0
- Running UNGAME ................................... 3.0
- Search ........................................ 3.1
- Search and Clean .............................. 3.2
- Search and Log ................................ 3.3
- Set Log File ............................... 3.4
- Select Search Path ............................ 3.5
- Exit .......................................... 3.6
- The Information Window ............................ 4.0
- Help .......................................... 4.1
- During the search ............................. 4.2
- When a game is found .......................... 4.3
- In the end of the search ...................... 4.4
- The UNGAME Command Line ........................... 5.0
- Using UNGAME on Local Drives....................... 6.0
- Technical Support ................................. 7.0
- Unrecognized Games ................................ 8.0
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- 1.0 Introduction
-
- Have you ever considered how many employee working hours are wasted playing PC
- games? What about network performance degradation and wasted disk space? You
- could achieve substantial savings if you could remove games from your network.
- UNGAME can search, detect and optionally delete games from your network
- server's disk or from individual disks (local C: drives). UNGAME searches
- through the files in the specified directories for a special "signature".
- These signatures are held in the UNGAME database, which already includes
- thousands of the most popular games. The file signatures are not based on the
- filename, so, simply renaming a game will not prevent its detection.
-
- Release 1.1 can detect 2280 different games. The shareware version can detect
- 100 different games only.
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- 2.0 Installation
-
- Note that you can run UNGAME from your floppy disk, but it's faster to run it
- from your hard disk or network drive.
-
-
- 2.1 Installing from a distribution diskette
-
- Create a directory on your drive (network or hard disk) and copy all the
- UNGAME files from the distribution diskette to this directory. For example -
- in order to install UNGAME on drive C: in a directory called ungame, from a
- distribution diskette inserted in drive A, type the following from the DOS
- prompt:
- c:
- md c:\ungame
- copy a:*.* c:\ungame
-
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- 2.2 Installing from a downloaded ZIP file
-
- Create a directory on your drive (network or hard disk) and copy the ZIP file
- to this directory. Use PKUNZIP to expand the compressed files. The original
- compressed file name is UNGAM11S.ZIP (shareware version) or UNGAM11R.ZIP
- (registered version).
-
-
- Note:
- =====
- If your are using a DOS version below 3.1 you must set the UNGAME environment
- variable to point to your ungame directory by inserting the following line in
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
- set ungame=c:\ungame
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- 3.0 Running UNGAME
-
- Before you run UNGAME, it is strongly recommended that you take a backup of
- your data. Although the game "signature" recognition process is accurate,
- there is always a very low chance (although remote), that a non game file will
- be deleted.
-
- To run UNGAME, type UNGAME from the ungame directory (or from any other
- directory if a path exists) and press <ENTER>. Upon entering UNGAME you are
- presented with the main menu. The menu has six options. You can select
- different options by:
- a. Using the UP and DOWN arrows on your keyboard and pressing ENTER
- on the highlighted option
- b. Typing the highlighted option letter
-
-
- The following options are available:
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- 3.1 Search
-
- This option scans the selected drive for games. If a game is found, you have
- the option to clean the game (delete it from the disk) or continue without
- cleaning.
-
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- 3.2 Search and Clean
-
- This option scans the selected drive for games. If a game is found, the game
- files are cleaned (deleted) and the scan continues.
- USE THIS OPTION WITH CAUTION! It will delete all known games in the selected
- drive/path.
-
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- 3.3 Search and Log
-
- This option scans the selected drive for games. If a game is found the log
- file is updated and the scan continues. We recommend that you use this option
- before you use the Search and Clean options so you can review the log file for
- a list of the games to be deleted.
-
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- 3.4 Set Log File
-
- This options allows you to change the log file name from the default:
- UNGAME.LOG. A log file is created by the UNGAME program when using any one of
- the above options.
- This file contains the following information:
- - Name of the games found
- - Disk statistics - how much disk space can be saved by deleting the
- game files located on the disk
-
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- 3.5 Select Search Path
-
- The default search path is the root directory of the current disk. Use this
- option to select a different search path. UNGAME will search through the
- selected directory and its sub-directories. Note that you can also set the
- search path from the command line. See details below.
-
-
- 3.6 Exit
-
- Use this option to EXIT from UNGAME. You can also exit the program at any time
- (even during a search) by pressing the ESC key.
-
-
-
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- 4.0 The Information Window
-
- An information window is located on the right side of the menu. It displays
- operating instructions or other information according to the program phase.
- The different phases and their associated screens are detailed below.
-
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- 4.1 Help
-
- A help screen is available while selecting options from the main menu. This
- screen includes context sensitive information on the highlighted option.
-
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- 4.2 During the search
-
- The information window displays the number of games found, the number of games
- deleted, the disk space that is saved and the selected search path.
-
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- 4.3 When a game is found
-
- The information window displays the name of the game that was found, a short
- description of the game, the size of the main EXE file, the total number of
- the files that the game includes and the total game size.
-
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- 4.4 When the search terminates
-
- The information window displays the total search statistics. The number of
- files searched, the number of games found, the total disk space that the games
- occupy, the number of files deleted and the total size of the files that were
- deleted.
-
-
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- 5.0 The UNGAME Command Line
-
- You can use the following command line options to bypass the main menu and
- select an operation directly from the DOS command line.
-
- UNGAME [search path] [-S] [-C] [-L] [-B] [-Y] [-Flogfile] [-Xexclude]
- search path Path/Disk to begin the search.
- -S Search mode.
- -C Search and clean mode.
- -L Search and log mode.
- -B Batch mode: Does not display the GUI. Exit the program on completion.
- This mode should be executed with the /C or /L only.
- -Y Automatic "yes" answer to all safety prompts issued by UNGAME. Should
- be used with caution!
- -F Set the log file name.
- -H Display this help.
- -X The filename of a file which contains the names of games and files to
- exclude from the search (so they will not be deleted.)
-
- Note: All command line options can be specified in either upper case or lower
- case.
-
-
-
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- 6.0 Using UNGAME on Local Drives (C Drives).
-
- Games can be found not just on servers but also on local drives (C drives). It
- is possible to use UNGAME to clean games from local drives as well. Following
- is an example of how it can be done:
-
- Insert the following command to the AUTOEXEC.BAT or to the user login script:
-
- UNGAME C:\ /B /C /Y /FF:\UNGAME\%userid.LOG >NUL
-
- UNGAME will search the local drive (C) for games, will clean them, log all its
- activities in the file F:\UNGAME\%userid.LOG and then will exit without any
- prompt.
-
- Alternatively, you can build a BAT file that will activate UNGAME in the user
- login script once a week (or once a month).
-
-
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- 7.0 Technical Support
-
- For technical support, please contact DVD Software, Inc. at:
-
- BBS.................... 714-757-1829, 1200-14.4K baud, USR V.32
- Fax.................... 714-757-1832
- Compuserve............. 76131,1450
- America Online......... UnagmeSup
- Internet.............. UngameSup@AOL.COM
- Mail.................. DVD Software, Inc.
- P.O. Box 16112, Irvine, CA 92713-6112
- 2 Ravenna, Irvine, CA 92714
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- 8.0 Unrecognized Games
-
- The UNGAME database contains 2280 games. New games are added continuously. If
- you find a game which is not recognized by UNGAME, we would appreciate if you
- could inform DVD technical support of the following details:
- Name of game
- Release
- Vendor
- Name and size of main EXE (or COM) file.
-
- DVD will do its utmost to include the game in the next update of UNGAME.
-
- A planned feature of UNGAME is the ability of users to add games to the UNGAME
- database. Watch for it in one of the coming releases.
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