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- Documentation for CLEANIT Copyright 1988, P. R. Fletcher
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- INTRODUCTION
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- CLEANIT is a very simple program, which was designed to make it easier
- to use the special cleaning diskettes which are available from many
- sources to clean the head(s) of your disk drives. These diskettes come
- with instructions which generally read, in part (e.g.): "Engage heads
- approximately 30 seconds". Without a program such as CLEANIT, this is
- much easier said than done, because any attempt to use a DOS command
- to "engage heads" on the cleaning disk results in an immediate abort
- when DOS determines that it has no valid data on it. CLEANIT uses INT
- 13 to repeatedly attempt reads from the disk, while stepping from
- track to track, thus effectively cleaning the heads but avoiding
- localized wear on the disk.
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- CLEANIT is Copyright by Peter R. Fletcher, 1988. All rights reserved.
- The program was written in C, compiled by the Microsoft C compiler
- (Version 5.10) using its "small" memory model, and linked with code
- from the distributed Microsoft C object libraries using the Microsoft
- LINK program (Version 3.65). Portions of the distributed program are
- consequently Copyright by Microsoft Corp., 1985-1988. All rights
- reserved. These portions are used under the terms of a license from
- Microsoft Corp. This program and its documentation may be freely
- copied for non-commercial use, provided that neither is modified in
- any way. Commercial use of the program without the author's prior
- written permission is strictly prohibited - such use may also require
- the payment of a fee.
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- Documentation for CLEANIT Copyright 1988, P. R. Fletcher
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- USING THE PROGRAM
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- 1) Follow the instructions that came with your cleaning diskette to
- prepare it for use. Note for how long the diskette manufacturer
- suggests the drive heads should "engage" the diskette (this time is
- usually between 20 and 60 seconds). Insert the diskette in the drive
- to be cleaned.
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- 2) With CLEANIT.EXE either in your default directory or in your PATH,
- give the command "CLEANIT [dev:] [time]", where "dev" is the single-
- letter device name of the drive whose heads you wish to clean, and
- "time" is the (decimal) number of seconds for which the heads are to
- be "engaged". The two parameters may appear in either order, and
- either or both may be omitted. In the latter case, the program will
- use its defaults, which are drive A: and 30 seconds, respectively. The
- maximum allowed value for time is 120 seconds - if a longer time is
- specified, 120 seconds will be used.
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- 3) Wait for the program to time out and return you to the DOS prompt,
- then remove the cleaning diskette and put it away.
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- CLEANIT can only be used on drives which can be accessed via the
- normal BIOS INT 13 route - drives which require special drivers to
- be loaded in CONFIG.SYS may not respond correctly (or at all) to the
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- program.
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- Comments, suggestions, etc. may be addressed to the author at:
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- 1515 West Montgomery Avenue
- Rosemont
- PA 19010
- U.S.A.
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