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  1.                       File Magic V2.0 By Danny Shepherd
  2.                       Copyright ©1998 By Danny Shepherd
  3.  
  4.                          This Program Is Shareware
  5.                                                                                
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  8. Shareware
  9.  
  10. File Magic Is Shareware. This Means That If You Use This Utility You Must
  11. Pay The Shareware Fee. A Few Options Have Been Removed In The Demo Version.
  12. These Will Be Reinstated When The Registration Key Is Found And Verified By
  13. FileMagic. You Won't Be Bothered By That Registration Program Either.
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  16. Copyright
  17.  
  18. All Versions Of File Magic And Any Data Files Included Within The File 
  19. Magic Archive Are Subject To Copyright ©1998 By Danny Shepherd. File 
  20. Magic Is NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN AND MAY NOT BE SOLD BY PD LIBRARIES FOR MORE
  21. THAN £1.50 Excluding Postage And Packing. No Distributers Or "Middle Men"
  22. May Make Profits From File Magic. For Cheapest Prices Always Order 
  23. Directly From Me. I, Danny Shepherd Am The Only Official Distributer 
  24. Of The Registered Version Of FileMagic. 
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  27. Disclaimer. 
  28.  
  29. File Magic Has No Warranty And Is Supplied On An 'AS IS' Basis. This Means
  30. That You Can't Come Running To Me If Your Hard Drive Blows Up While Using
  31. File Magic Or Any Other Programs Contained In The Archive.
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  34. Distribution.
  35.  
  36. I Hereby Give Consent For The File Magic DEMO To Be Distributed By Any PD
  37. Library, On The Aminet, On Aminet CDs, On Amiga Magazine Cover Mounted 
  38. Disks And Cds. Basically Anybody May Distribute This Archive So Long 
  39. As ALL Files Are Included, The Archive May NOT Be Changed In Any Manner 
  40. (It Must Stay As The Lha Unless With Wriiten Permission From Danny 
  41. Shepherd), None Of The Files May Be Changed, Decomplied Or Disassembled.
  42.                                                      
  43. The Source Code And Copyrights To File Magic Are Available From Danny          
  44. Shepherd E-Mail dannys@pemail.net                                                                    
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  46. Introduction.
  47.  
  48. Have You Ever Been Poking Around Your Hard Drive And Finding Those Odd 
  49. Files That You Just Don't Know Which Format Their In Or Which Program 
  50. Made Them? Maybe You Would Like To Play That Mod But Just Can't Be 
  51. Bothered To Search Through The Many Levels Of Your HardDrive Looking 
  52. For That Mod Player. Or Maybe You Just Want To Encrypt A File To Hide 
  53. From Prying Eyes. Or You Could Want To Start An Editor Quickly And 
  54. Easily. If Any Of The Above Apply To You Then File Magic Is Most Definatly
  55. The Utility For You Because It Can Quickly And Easily Cope With All 
  56. Of The Above Problems.                                                                                
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  58. Features
  59.  
  60. Here Are Just Some Of The Many Features Packed Into FileMagic!
  61.  
  62.  
  63. P.F.E          - Professional File Encrypter - Can Safely Encrypt Any File
  64.                  With Either A Typed Cipher Or Using Another File As One! 
  65.  
  66. MultiFile      - A Util That Can Identify Over 60 Differant File Types And
  67.                  Run The Specified Executable - Perfect For Those Unknown 
  68.                  Files!                                                   
  69.  
  70. Sample Player  - A Small Util Who's Only Job Is Play Samples. And It Does 
  71.                  That Job Well With Ability To Play Large Samples Straight
  72.                  From Disk!                                               
  73.  
  74. Picture Viewer - This Function Identifies The Picture Type Given And Then 
  75.                  Selects An Appropriate Viewer!                           
  76.  
  77. MOD Player     - Give This Util A Mod File And It Will Be Played   
  78.                  Back For Your Enjoyment - No More Hunting For That Mod   
  79.                  Player.                                                  
  80.  
  81. File Deleter   - A Simple Front End For The Delete Command.               
  82.  
  83. Disk Copier    - A New Front End For The DiskCopy Command.                
  84.  
  85. Disk Relabeler - A Simple Front End For The Relabel Command.              
  86.  
  87. Disk Formater  - A New Front End For The Format Command.                  
  88.  
  89. Preferances    - The Preferances Is Global Util Storing The Names Of All  
  90.                  The Executables Called For By The Utils Above.           
  91.  
  92. Sleep Function - When You Need To Do Some CPU Intensive Stuff, Send File  
  93.                  Magic To Sleep To Be Sure It Does Not Take Up Your       
  94.                  Valuable CPU Time!                                       
  95. Instalation.                                                                   
  96.                                                                                
  97. Installation Is Simple Via The Dedicated Installing Program Included. Just 
  98. Let The Installer Do The Work For You!
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  101. System Requirements.                                                           
  102.  
  103. reqtools.library
  104. asl.library
  105. diskfont.library
  106. X-Fonts (Supplied With MagicWB2.1p)
  107.  
  108. File Magic Is Fully OS2.0+ Compliant. No Hacks And Patches Were Used. File Magic Cannot Take Over Your Machine. It Tells The OS What It Wants To Do. There Will Not Be A Pre OS2.0 Version Of This Or Any Other Of My Products. 
  109.  
  110. FileMagic Was Tested With
  111.  
  112. 1) 
  113.  
  114. A1200 WB3.1
  115. 1.2GB Hard Drive
  116. Classic Squirrel SCSI Interface
  117. 2x Power Computing CDROM
  118. Magnum-Apollo 1230 MK-II 030 With 4MB Fast RAM (33Mhz)
  119.  
  120. 2)
  121. Standard A1200
  122.  
  123. 3)
  124. A600 2MB
  125.  
  126. 4)
  127. Standard A600
  128.  
  129. It Works Well With And Without My 030 Accelerator And VMM etc.
  130.  
  131. It Works Fine With And Without Hard Drives.
  132.  
  133. It Works In A Very OS Friendly Manner, So You Shouldn't Get Any Odd Errors
  134. Or Gurus. 
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  137. Registration                                                                   
  138.                                                                                
  139. Registration Is Made Very Easy For You Via The Registration Program Built 
  140. Into File Magic. Simply Fill Out The Form, Print It And Send It To Me. 
  141. Here Is An Over View Anyway.
  142.                                                                         
  143. Cash                       - Between Two Thick Sheets Of Paper - The     
  144.                              Quickest And Easiest Way To Register.       
  145.                                                                          
  146. Postal Order               - For Those Who Don't Trust The Postman! Make 
  147.                              Them Payable To DANNY SHEPHERD              
  148.                                                                          
  149. Bank Draft                 - UK Residents Only - Make Them Payable To    
  150.                              DANNY SHEPHERD                              
  151.                                                                          
  152. EuroCheque                 - NOT A PERSONAL CHEQUE - European Residents  
  153.                              Only. Make Payable To DANNY SHEPHERD        
  154.                                                                          
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  157. You Can Contact Me Via 
  158.  
  159. Danny Shepherd
  160. 20 Skiddaw Court
  161. Annfield Plain
  162. Stanley
  163. Co. Durham
  164. DH9 8UB
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  167. Credits Go To
  168.  
  169. Me, Myself And Of Course I 
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  171. Bugs
  172.  
  173. I Haven't had any bugs reported but you never know.                      
  174. If You Find A Bug Then Fill Out This Form                                
  175.                                                                          
  176. -------------------------------------SNIP HERE-------------------------  
  177.                                                                          
  178.                             BUG REPORT FORM - FILE MAGIC                 
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  180.                                                                          
  181. NAME: _____________________________                                      
  182.                                                                          
  183. ADDRESS: __________________________                                      
  184. :__________________________________                                      
  185. :__________________________________                                      
  186. :__________________________________                                      
  187. :__________________________________                                      
  188.                                                                          
  189.                                                                          
  190. DESCRIBE THE BUG IN DETAIL:____________________________________________  
  191. _______________________________________________________________________  
  192. _______________________________________________________________________  
  193. _______________________________________________________________________  
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  197.                                                                          
  198. ABOUT YOUR SETUP                                                         
  199.                                                                          
  200. Kickstart VERSION []2.0  []2.1  []3.0  []3.1 [] ______                   
  201.                                                                          
  202. OS []Workbench []Scalos []Mbench []pOS [] ______                         
  203.                                                                          
  204. Memory CHIP ______MB FAST ______MB                                       
  205.                                                                          
  206. HardDrive []YES []NO                                                     
  207.                                                                          
  208. If Yes,                                                                  
  209.     - Make __________________                                            
  210.                                                                          
  211.     - Size ______ []MB []GB                                              
  212.                                                                          
  213.     - BlockSize []512 []1024 []2048 []4096 [] ______                     
  214.                                                                          
  215.                                                                          
  216. CPU []68000 []68020 []68EC30 []68030 []68040 []68060 [] ______           
  217.                                                                          
  218. SPEED ______ MHz                                                         
  219.                                                                          
  220. FPU []NONE []68881 []68882 []IN CPU                                      
  221.                                                                          
  222. MMU []NONE []68851 []IN CPU                                              
  223.                                                                          
  224.                                                                          
  225. PLEASE PRINT THIS FORM. IF YOU CANNOT THEN COPY IT EXACTLY               
  226.                                                                          
  227.                                                                          
  228. -------------------------------------SNIP HERE-------------------------  
  229.