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- // CodeAmorce v2.00 - Documentation //
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-
- This manual describes the version 2.00 of CodeAmorce. This
- tools is ©1991 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, Portugues
- and English) without ANY modification.
-
- I made a lot of tests, but I declines any responsability about
- the use of CodeAmorce. 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 Public Domain.
-
- Contents
- ~~~~~~~~
-
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How does it works?
- 3. Usage
- 4. Additional Notes
- 5. Thanks
- 6. Historic
- 7. Conclusion
-
-
-
- 1. Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- If you have sensible informations which must be kept
- confidential, this tool can help you: It makes a normal
- AmigaDos disk an unreadable disk, and this in less than 2
- seconds. Of course, you can recover the entire disk by
- decoding it.
-
- CodeAmorce can encrypt or decrypt files too.
-
- NOTA: "CodeAmorce" can be translated in english by
- "BootBlockCrypt".
-
- 2. How does CodeAmorce work ?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- To be so fast, CodeAmorce encodes only the BootBlock
- with the password you have chosen. So there are only 2
- sectors to encode. During the BootBlock coding, the program
- replaces in sector 0 the word 'DOS' by 'BAD'. By this way,
- Workbench users will see a disk named "BAD" (on WB 1.3) or
- "????" (WB 2.0 or higher) as if it was a bad disk.
-
-
- 3. Usage.
- ~~~~~~~~~
-
- Tu run CodeAmorce, simply click on its icon or enter
- "CodeAmorce" in its directory in a shell window.
-
- NOTEZ BIEN: You must enter a password before encoding or
- decoding any file or disk (see after).
-
- A window, which seems like the following will be opened:
-
-
- __________________________________
- |_|____________________________|_|_|
- | |
- | Manual Mode ø |
- | File Automatic Mode o |
- | |
- | DF0: DF1: DF2: DF3: |
- |__________________________________|
-
- The following functions exists:
-
- File Permit you to encode or decode a file,
- that you specify using an ASL file
- requester.
-
- DF0 to DF3 Permit you to encode or decode a disk.
- Non-existing drives are "ghosted", and
- so unreacheable.
-
- Manual Mode In this mode, you will click on the
- buttons corresponding to the drive
- where you want CodeAmorce to work.
-
- Automatic Mode In this mode, CodeAmorce will each
- inserted disk. This mode is very
- useful when you have to encode (or
- decode) abour 30 disks: you only have
- to insert a disk, let CodeAmorce do
- its job, and enter the following disk.
-
- The following menus exists too:
-
- PassWord... You can specify a password, it's
- necessary to encode or decode disks or
- files.
-
- Save Password Will save the current password in
- s:CodeAmorce.Cfg.
-
- About.. Displays some informations about the
- program and its author.
-
- Quit To simply quit this wonderful tool.
-
- 4. Additional Notes
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This program works with all disks with the word 'DOS'
- on the BootBlock, even if the CheckSum is wrong. I speak
- of the old Amiga Filing System AND the new one (FFS). On
- other disks (for example Game Data Disks), the result is
- certain: Nothing will be done : CodeAmorce shows a label full
- of "?", describing an unkown format.
-
- Please decode your disks with the password you use to code
- them, if you don't, I only can pray for you !
-
- There are some errors you can't do with CodeAmorce:
- -it's impossible to code twice the same disk without
- decoding it between the 2 codings.
- -it's impossible to decode a non-coded disk.
- -During the coding or decoding, you will be warned if
- there is no disk in drive or if the disk is
- write-protected !
-
-
- 5. Thanks
- ~~~~~~~~~
- I want to thank:
-
- - Muriel PROUX for her neverending moral support.
-
- - Denis GOUNELLE for his notes and help.
-
- - Elsa Maria and Ricardo Lopes for their translation
- in portugues.
-
- - Christian Behrens, for his translation in german.
-
- - Krönenbourg, the famous french beer, who helps me
- during CodeAmorce programming.
-
- 6. Historic
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- v1.00 30-Juin-90
- o first version, CodeAmorce opens its own screen for
- WB1.3.
-
- v2.00 27-June-93
- o CodeAmorce opens only a little font-adaptive window
- on a public screen, it's only work under OS 2.0 or
- higher.
- o This version manages file encoding too (not only
- disks encoding).
-
- 7. Conclusion
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- I'm waiting for your suggestions and beta-tests (there may be
- some problems, which escaped from source inspection !).
- 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
- 1, allée Auguste Rodin
- F-78955 Carrières-sous-Poissy
- FRANCE - EUROPE
-
- E-Mail: jyp@doro.co.uk
-
-