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ARestaure
v1.00 - Documentation
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ARestaure is placed in Public Domain, it can be freely
distributed, you can spread it in the way you want, but the program
MUST be distributed WITH its documentation in all languages (for
instance French, German and English) without ANY modification.
ARestaure is ©1992 by Jehan-Yves PROUX, the commercial use is
STRICLY FORBIDDEN without author written agreement.
I made a lot of tests, but I declines any responsability
about the use of ARestaure. YOU ARE USING THIS TOOLS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
The author is not responsible of any damage, as result of the use
of his program.
Contents.
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1. Introduction.
2. How does it works?
3. Usage
4. Languages supported
5. Thanks
6. Conclusion
1. Introduction.
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Have you ever delete accidentally a file or see after a
"delete #?" that you were not in the rigth directory ?
Yes? I too... It's why I have written this utility ARestaure,
which as it name says (with french spelling), permits you to restore
files that you have destroyed...
2. How does it works?
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When you delete a file two main actions occurs on your current
volume:
- your file is disconnected from the directory tree of
your volume.
- sectors that your file owned, are declared free in
the BitMap block(s) of your volume. These
sectors are never zeroed during this operation
: the datas are still on your disk.
ARestaure will scan your volume, searching for deleted files
and permit you to undelete them.
3. Usage.
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To start ARestaure, click on its icon on the Workbench or type
"ARestaure" under the Shell.
ARestaure will start to search in your system all the volumes
that it can manage, and it will show you only these ones : Also if
you have a Mac, Unix, Atari, C=64, Sinclair QL, Apple-II, or why not
an MS-DOS partition, you won't see it on your screen.
In fact, ARestaure know only how to manage Amiga partitions or
volumes: OFS (the Old Filing System) and FFS (the Fast Filing System),
that it means about 98% of disks connected with our well-known
machine.
You will notice that ARestaure cannot restore a file deleted
on RAM:, this volume is purely memory, and space used by your file is
freed when your file is deleted, it's why RAM: is not shown on your
screen. But ARestaure can restore files lost in RAD:.
You have on your screen the following buttons:
DF0: .. DF3: one button per drive connected (empty or not)
DH0: .. DHx:
.. ..
.. ..
.. ..
.. .. and as many buttons as you have drivers
Français
Deutsch to change the current language
English
SaveCfg to save the chosen language
Quit to quit ARestaure.
If you select a drive, the program will begin the search
immediatly on this drive. A flashing LED on the drive button indicates
that the program continue to search.
NOTA: You can stop the scan by pressing the left mouse
button (called SELECT in Amiga docs).
If ARestaure cannot find any files, it will signal it to you
in the message box; if it can, it will open a file requester where you
can select the files you want to restaure, then type <Cancel> or
<ARestaure>. After that you will be back in the starting menu to
select another drive or to quit.
Where to find your files? It is impossible to restore your
files in the places they were before the deletion because it is
impossible to find where they were linked in the directory tree of
your volume. Also I had decided to restore them in T:, the temporary
directory of the Amiga. Usually, T: is assigned to RAM: (see your
Startup-Sequence). After the restoration, you only have to move the
restored files from T: to where you want.
NOTA: You should have to enough room in T: for the files you
want to restore.
4. Languages Supported.
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ARestaure is now almost ready for the Amiga Workbench 2.1,
which will support up to 8 languages (according to C=Amiga austria in
Amiga Magazin [german magazine] on 9/92): ARestaure supports the three
languages I understand: French (my native langage), german and
english.
You can select the language you want on the main screen. But,
it's impossible to change the current language, when you have the file
requester opened : I didn't want to manage this, I suppose in fact
that a normal user needn't to change the current language all the
time.
I think that in the Amiga Workbench 2.1, there will be a
variable like $LANG, on Unix machines, which indicates the user
language. But with no more information from C=Amiga, I offer you these
three language buttons.
To finish with languages, if you want to get a translation
for the docs of your software (that YOU have created for Public
Domain only), from german or english to french, please write to me.
P.S: I'm searching for someone who can correct my german
docs, which certainly contains some mistakes.
5. Thanks
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I want to thanks here the following persons and firms:
- Muriel PROUX, my wife for her patience and help in building
my user interface.
- Denis GOUNELLE, for his ideas and tests of béta-versions, he
makes on his machine.
- Henric GOMES, who made me discover the wonderfull Amiga.
- Commodore-Amiga for the machine... What a pity that C= sells
MS-DOS machines too...
- Free Software Fundation for the best editor I know:
GNUEmacs, I used GNUEmacs on Unix machine and on the
Amiga.
- David GAY (Switzerland) for his GNUEmacs' Amiga port, a
very good job, David ! Continue to work for the Amiga.
6. Conclusion
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I'm waiting for your suggestions and beta-tests (there may be
some problems, which escaped from source inspection !) and donation
(in ready cash preferably), if I save you long hours of work.
You can write me in french, in german or in english [in order
of my preferences, the French language is my motherlanguage].
My address is the following:
Jehan-Yves PROUX
46bis, Bd Robespierre
F-78300 Poissy
FRANCE - EUROPE
C U soon !!