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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
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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