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#1# EZ-Copy Lite by EZX Corporation EZ-Copy Lite was written by MaeDae Enterprises based on FastCopy by Systems, Software, Support of Houston, TX. EZ-Copy Lite turns your computer into a high speed diskette duplicating machine equalling the performance of many dedicated hardware diskette duplicators costing thousands of dollars. Comments or suggestions for improving EZ-Copy Lite will be appreciated. EZ-Copy Lite requires an IBM PC or compatible with 640K of RAM. Display adapters known to work with EZ-Copy Lite are the IBM monochrome (MDA), color (CGA), enhanced graphics (EGA), and video graphics array (VGA) adapters. EZ-Copy Lite supports 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K format 5 1/4 inch disks. #5# You are currently using the EZ-Copy On-Line Manual. Normal commands: ════════════════ Escape -- Escape from the on-line manual. Home -- First page of the on-line manual. End -- Last page of the on-line manual. PgUp -- Previous page (will wrap from first page to last page). PgDn -- Next page (will wrap from last page to first page). Any key -- Proceed thru the manual one page at a time, exit on-line manual after the last page. Possible errors: ════════════════ 1. No manual screen defined for your selected area. 2. Couldn't find EZCLMAN.TXT. Are both the manual (EZCLMAN.TXT) and the index (EZCLMAN.INX) in the subdirectory specified under the installation portion of EZ-Copy? Use the installation portion of EZ-Copy Lite to set up a new default help/manual path. #20# General help for all menus: This menu is broken up into two basic windows. The window at the top of your screen shows several options to choose from. The window at the bottom of the screen expands on what will occur if you choose the highlighted option (the one that has a different background color). Options may be selected in one of two ways. You can either press the first letter of the desired command or move the highlight bar over the desired option and press enter. To move the highlight bar use either the space bar, up arrow, down arrow, left arrow, or right arrow. You can also use home to move to the first top line item on the menu. Using the first letter of a command only works in the ACTIVE window. If you don't have any pulldown then the active window is the top window. Once you pulldown one of the options that becomes the active window. You must use one of the commands in the pulldown once it is active. You can always use Escape to back out of the pulldown and return to the top menu. #21# You are now using the EZ-Copy Lite Main Menu. From here you can access the main functional areas of EZ-Copy. Refer to the On-Line Manual to get a feel for what a fully featured diskette duplicator can do. Please note that an abbreviated directory window will appear in the middle of your screen as soon as a valid source diskette has been loaded. It will show the diskette volume label (if any) and the first four file names. We have tried to design EZ-Copy to let you get your job done quickly and easily. Please feel free to forward any suggestions for improvement to us at EZX Corporation, Attn: EZ-Copy Lite Author. #100# Drive was not ready for read/write. Please ensure you have a floppy in the drive and the drive door is closed. Sometimes on very fast AT compatible computers with 1.2 Mb diskette drives the drive can't respond quickly enough. In this case try the operation again or add a utility to modify the timeout on the drive. Several programs are available to fix this disk drive timeout problem. #200# An error was detected while trying to read your source diskette. Please ensure the diskette is inserted in the specified drive and that the drive door is closed. Also you might try to take the diskette out and re-insert it back into the drive. Sometimes the diskette isn't centered correctly within the disk drive. The source was not loaded so you will not be able to make any copies. Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported. #300# EZ-Copy Lite could not save the diskette in memory to the diskette in the designated drive. Please ensure: 1. The diskette isn't write protected. 2. There really is a diskette in the destination drive. 3. There is no obvious physical damage to the diskette. 4. You aren't trying to save to a 1.2 Mb diskette in a 360 Kb disk drive. 5. You don't have any disk cache software that is trying to buffer writes to your floppy drive. 6. You really do have the specified destination drive. This error may be generated on some hard disk based systems where you boot from the hard disk. Try booting from a floppy containing your DOS. The problem may go away. We have seen this happen with certain versions of DOS, specifically Compaq DOS 3.31 and IBM PC DOS 4.0. We will continue to research the problem and provide an update ASAP! The next help screen will provide a detailed explaination of the error codes. #301# Error codes: Code Description ════ ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ 1 Bad command: invalid request made to diskette controller 2 Bad address mark: sector ID marking invalid or not found 3 Write protect error: attempt to write on protected diskette 4 Bad sector: requested sector not on diskette 8 DMA failure 9 DMA boundary error: attempt to DMA outside 64K area 16 Bad CRC: diskette read found invalid parity check of data 32 Controller failed: diskette controller malfunction 64 Bad seek: move to requested track failed 128 Time out: drive did not respond #400# A map of your diskette is laid out before you. Any cluster with a * contains information. Any cluster with a . doesn't contain information. Information on how the clusters relate to absolute sides, tracks, sectors, etc. can be obtained by using the drive status option under the utility section of EZ-Copy Lite. Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported. If you get an invalid drive type message then the diskette may be formatted in a 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M format. These formats are not supported. #500# This screen shows you a lot of technical information that probably seems very confusing at first. DOS uses all this information and more to keep track of information stored on floppy diskettes. As the IBM PC and DOS has evolved over the last few years so has the formats of the media used in the computer. This has caused a large number of formats for the media. EZ-Copy Lite uses the following drive types to track this. 0 320K Double sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track 1 160K Single sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track 2 360K Double sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track 3 180K Single sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track Other information displayed on this page will need to be looked up in a DOS technical reference manual. You can easily obtain a book containing this information from your local computer store. Only standard 160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported. If you get an invalid drive type message then the diskette may be formatted in a 720K, 1.2M, or 1.44M format. These formats are not supported. #600# You must first load a diskette before you can save it. Use the load disk option to load a diskette. Did you have a disk error on the previous read? Only diskettes which have been read into memory can be written back out. If you are using this option to format diskettes first format a clean master diskette using your DOS. Load that diskette into EZ-Copy Lite. Turn the forced format option on for best results. You can now save as many copies of the diskette as desired. The result is the same as using DOS's format command but is faster. #650# You must first load a diskette before you can do a directory of it. Use the load disk option to load a diskette. The in-memory directory command looks at the diskette image stored in RAM and generates a directory from it instead of re-reading the diskette. This is much faster and more convient for the user. #700# EZ-Copy Lite can't legally format diskettes without violating copyright laws. Copyrighted information is stored on the boot tracks of each diskette. So we are forced to perform the format in two steps using the DOS FORMAT program that came with the DOS for your computer. Step 1: Format a diskette using the DOS FORMAT command. See your DOS manual for details. Step 2: Load and copy the freshly formatted diskette just as you would any other using EZ-Copy Lite. Use the forced format option for best compatibility with other machines. Thats all there is to it. #800# Use of this option is highly recommended for companies producing diskettes which need to be read on the widest range of computers. By forcing the format of a diskette you guarantee that data is laid down cleanly on the new tracks. If you simply write over old data without reformatting the diskette it can cause some problems with 1.2 Mb floppy drives. The 1.2 Mb drives are very picky on the AT. By reformatting the floppy it helps readability. Use of the forced format option will cause the copy operation to take about 50% longer than saving to a formatted floppy without forced format. If you are constantly saving to blank unformatted diskettes it is strongly recommended that you set the default at forced format. Without forced format EZ-Copy Lite first tries to write to the diskette, if that fails it will then set forced format to on for this one copy only. You can save the one or two seconds test time by telling EZ-Copy Lite to just go ahead and format the floppy without testing to see if the diskette is already formatted. #900# This option allows you to define the default path for accessing the on-line manual and context sensitive help. Make sure you include the index files (.INX) along with the help and manual files (.TXT) in the specified directory. #1000# This option alows you to enable/disable the sound or beeps on errors. Some people find programs that beep on errors to be annoying (me for one). This option will allow you to disable ALL warning beeps in EZ-Copy Lite. #1100# This menu allows you to change all the colors used in EZ-Copy Lite. To change a default color - first use the up or down arrow key to select the color, then type in the new color. When you have changed all the colors press Ctrl+D to display these colors in a sample window. As with all installation options, these changes will not be used until you choose the retain option on the main menu. This allows you to experiment with the installation options and then not have to lose your original defaults. Please keep in mind the foreground text colors can be 0-15, the background 0-7. If you choose a text color the same as a background color then the text will disappear. You may notice some of your installed color combinations result in invisible lines on the Ctrl+D popup window. Please be careful not to choose this color for one of your text colors!! Note: For many of the EZ-Copy installable options and user inputs you will see a prompt containing the characters . If you count the number of 's you will find the maximum number of characters that can be entered. Also Escape is used throughout EZ-Copy to signal "I want out". Press Enter, up arrow, down arrow, or whatever is asked for to enter the desired value. Escape will throw away any immediate changes and get you out of the area you are in. #1101# Please note that the background color (0-7) is one digit long and the foreground color (0-15) is two digits long. That is why you will see the input prompt (the s) change it's width as you go between the colors. #1200# This screen shows the possible combinations of colors in EZ-Copy Lite. If you are using a non IBM display adapter you may have to "play" with the colors to get a pleasing combination. EZ-Copy defaults to colors that work well with the IBM Color Graphics Adapter, IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter, and IBM Monochrome Display Adapter. On some monochrome display adapter clones you may need to alter a foreground text color to get the background to change intensity. The default combination of colors will work on any 100% IBM PC compatible display adapter! #1300# EZ-Copy Lite allows the help & manual paths, program colors, etc. to be saved in a configuration file. If no configuration file is specified on the command line (ex. C:>EZCL MyConfg.CNF) when you call up EZ-Copy then EZ-Copy will use the default name of EZCL.CNF. You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to load. You may have several configuration files saved under different names. Example: BW.CNF (for black and white composite monitors attached to a composite color card), etc. Please make sure that the configuration file you are asking EZ-Copy to use is really an EZ-Copy configuration file! Remember you can always press ESC if you got into this area by accident. #1400# EZ-Copy Lite allows the default help/manual paths, program colors, etc to be saved in a configuration file. If no configuration file is specified on the command line (ex. C:>EZCL MyConfg.CNF) when you call up EZ-Copy then EZ-Copy will use the default name of EZCL.CNF. You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to save all the program defaults to. You may have several configuration files saved under different names. Examples: BW.CNF (for black and white composite monitors attached to a composite color card), etc. Please remember you can always press ESC if you got into this area by accident. #END#