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- Help for TurboCopy - by John Reed (format rountine by Nick Evans)
- version 0.926 (30-Sep-1993)
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- • This program is Public Domain and may be distributed freely as long as it
- had not been altered in any way. No profits should be made through its
- distribution. TurboCopy remains © John Reed at all times.
-
- • If however, you are an organisation (such as a PD library/Club/Magazine/-
- etc) and use !TurboCopy regularly I would be grateful for a small
- donation of anysize - although of course, as this is PD, you do not have
- to if you do not wish to. Any comments about this program should be sent
- to the address at the bottom of this file.
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- NB: This program requires 2Mb to work
-
- What does it do?
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-
- TurboCopy, as the name suggests, is simply a disk copier designed for use by
- small organisations and home users. It allows the user to copy and format
- disks using the ADFS E format. A major feature of the program is that of
- keeping a log file, this file can contain the names of all the disks read
- in, and/or the quantity of disks written.
-
- The program is very user friendly, and you can choose how complicated the
- program is. You may wish, for example, to stick to the operations window
- which will allow you to read, write and format disks. Other users may wish
- to alter the way the program runs or keep a log file, all this is done
- through the options window.
-
- The 'Operations' window
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-
- This is the current window when the 'Operations' icon at the bottom of the
- window is selected. This window contains the disk name (or <Unknown> if no
- disk is in memory). Below this a several options as to how the disks a
- read/written.
-
- • TO READ A DISK : Select the read disk icon and Click on 'OK'
- • TO WRITE and/or FORMAT A DISK : Select 'Default'. The 'Format' and 'Write
- Disk' icons will now be selectable. Select either or both of those icons and click on OK.
- • TO WRITE AND FORMAT A DISK IN 'TURBO' MODE : This option is currently
- unavailable but when
- implemented in a later
- version which give faster
- disk duplication - all
- completely legally.
-
- While the Operations window is open, clicking save will allow you to save a
- disk and cancel will close the window.
-
- The 'Options' window
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-
- This is the current window when the 'Options' icon at the bottom of the
- window is selected. This window contains all the user configureable
- options.
-
- The 'drive' option is the drive which the disk is to be read from/written
- to.
- The 'Format' option allows you to specify whether a disk is veryified when
- formatted or not. This feature is not yet implemented.
- The 'User Display' option allows you to specify whether you are asked to
- confirm operations or not and whether the program will bring up a small
- window containing information on what is currently going on while disk
- operations are taking place or not.
- The 'Log file' option allows you to specify whether a log file of disks read
- in and/or disks written is created and when. The first two icons tell the
- application where to send the file, you can either type in the file pathname
- or let the application send it to any program the loads in text files. The
- program will send the file to !Edit if no wordprocessor is loaded.
- The next two icons tell the application whether to report the the log file
- everytime a disk is written or only on request (by clicking on the small
- 'OK' icon on the right of the request icon).
- You can include in the log either all the disks read in and/or the quantity
- of disks written.
-
- While the Options window is open, clicking on Save will save the current
- configuration, which will be loaded in as default when the program is
- loaded and Cancel will close the window.
-
- !! THE 'OK' ICON MUST BE CLICKED FOR ANY OPTION CHANGES TO BE EFFECTIVE !!
-
- The iconbar menu
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-
- Apart from the usual Info and Quit options, you can save the currently
- loaded disk (if any) from this menu.
-
- Any comments...
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-
- Please send any comments about this program to:
-
- John Reed,
- 42 Wimborne Gardens,
- Ealing, London,
- W13 8BZ,
- England.