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- CVT (tm) - QUICK START March 31, 1990
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-
- You can get a quick feel to see if CVT (tm) is really what it is
- claimed to be. Don't bother with the documentation right now. Just
- follow this simple set of instructions, and see how easy it will be
- for you to check for viruses and/or convert the format of your
- archived files from now on:
-
-
-
- 1) Install an ANSI device driver (the CVT (tm) program files
- use various ANSI ESCape codes). If you have a color
- monitor, you probably already have such a device driver
- installed. Monochrome users MUST ALSO INSTALL such a
- device driver through a line in your CONFIG.SYS file in
- order for CVT (tm) program files to work properly.
-
- Example: device=c:\dos\ansi.sys
-
- Any ANSI device driver such as ANSI.SYS, FANSI.SYS,
- NANSI.SYS, ZANSI.SYS, etc. will work just fine.
-
- 2) Copy the program file called "CVT.COM" into any
- subdirectory that is designated as part of your PATH
- statement.
-
- Example: copy cvt.com c:\dostools
-
- 3) Make sure that all of your archival compression programs
- are in any other subdirectory, or the even same one.
-
- Example: copy pkzip.exe c:\archives
-
- NOTE: You must have pkzip.exe and pkunzip.exe
- ----- in order to operate the .ZIP file comment
- .LOG writing function and the comment
- stripping function.
-
- 4) To scan for viruses, you will need to copy the McAfee
- Associates virus scan program called "SCAN.EXE" into the
- same subdirectory as the archival compression programs.
-
- Example: copy scan.exe c:\archives
-
- 5) Copy the following files in that same subdirectory:
-
- CVT!.COM, CVT!.DAT and CVT!!.BAT
-
- Example: copy cvt!.com c:\archives
- copy cvt!.dat c:\archives
- copy cvt!!.bat c:\archives
- copy cvt!!!.com c:\archives
-
- 6) Upon execution, CVT.COM will prompt you to enter the name
- and drive designation for the subdirectory mentioned above.
- This is one of many error handling features. In actual
- operation, you will want to set it yourself by using the
- DOS SET command as part of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
-
- Example: At the CVT.COM prompt enter:
-
- C:\ARCHIVES
-
- -or-
-
- Example: set WHERECVT=C:\ARCHIVES
-
- It would probably be a good idea to enter it manually now,
- just to make sure that you have enough environment space.
-
- 7) If you've followed all of the instructions carefully, you
- will soon see why CVT (tm) is the best archive file virus
- checking and/or format conversion utility.
-
- 8) Read the following "NOTE" and enter CVT to be prompted by
- the reminder menu.
-
-
- NOTE: If you do not have PKPAK.EXE by PKWare, don't try
- ----- to convert TO the .ARC format during this quick
- test. The program documentation will show you how
- you can substitute another program in the
- "CVT!.DAT" file later.
-
- As a precaution, just do a few archives, and make
- sure that you have backup copies of them.
-
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