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ARestaure
v2.01 - Documentation
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This manual describes the version 2.01 of ARestaure. This
tools is ©1992 by Jehan-Yves PROUX, the commercial use is STRICLY
FORBIDDEN without author written agreement.
This program 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.
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.
This program is ShareWare. It means that if you like it,
you're invited to send a donation of 50FF at the address shown at the
end of this file. You will become a registrated user. You can pay by
these ways:
- cheque of a european bank (for french francs),
- ready cash (european money or dollar).
Contents
~~~~~~~~
1. Introduction
2. How does it works?
3. Usage
3.1 Restoration Mode
3.2 Cleaning Mode
4. Languages supported
5. Additional Notes
6. Thanks
7. Historic
8. Conclusion
1. Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
~~~~~~~~
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 drives
Français
Deutsch to change the current language
English
SaveCfg to save the chosen language
Quit to quit ARestaure.
3.1 Restoration Mode
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It is the default mode of ARestaure, you can see it by
viewing the "Mode" Menu.
In this mode, 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.
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 <Restore>. 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.
NOTA: If several files with the same name are to
restore, ARestaure will add a count at the end of the filename
(like ".03").
3.2 Cleaning Mode
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After some uses of ARestaure in Restoration Mode, you
will see that ARestaure shows you a lot of files which aren't
interessant for you. The goal of the Cleaning is to zero all
free sectors, this forbid to see the files destroyed before
this operation. This Cleaning has two advantages:
- You will see only files removed after the cleaning
operation.
- If you give a disk to someone, you are sure to give
only the files you want (and not removed files
that the person can restore using ARestaure).
To use this mode, select "Cleaning" in the "Mode"
menu. Then select the drive you want. After a confirmation
requester, the work begins.
NOTA: The drive must be not protected against
writing !
4. Languages Supported
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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. Additional Notes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you look at the percentage of scanned disk (between
Languages buttons and the SaveCfg button), you will see that the
scanning speed varies: this is due to the fact that ARestaure only
read (or write) free sectors. So it will scan faster allocated
sectors.
You can stop the search for deleted files or the cleaning by
pressing the <Esc> key.
6. Thanks
~~~~~~~~~
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
during my job and on the Amiga.
- David GAY (Switzerland) for his GNUEmacs' Amiga port, a
very good job, David ! Continue to work for the Amiga.
7. Historic
~~~~~~~~~~~
v1.00 13-Oct-92
o First spread version.
v1.XX 11-Nov-92
o Preversion of the v2.00, restricted spreading for
validation.
o Cleaning Mode added
o some I/O are better tested
o evolution of percentage is smoother
o in restoration mode, if several file have the same
name, ".XX" is added at the end of the filenames.
v2.00 28-Nov-92
o Date of files are added in FileRequester of deleted
files.
o GadgetBorder are changed.
v2.01 06-Dec-92
o Now I use RemoveGList() during the search or the
cleaning, this permit me to forbid user to disturb
the display.
o The user must now use the Esc key (and no more the
SELECT mouse key) to stop the searching or cleaning
operation, this avoid to stop accidentally an
operation on a 60Mb harddisk.
8. Conclusion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm waiting for your suggestions and beta-tests (there may be
some problems, which escaped from source inspection !) and
donation, 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
E-Mail: jyp@ritd.co.uk
C U soon !!