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FormatMaster 5.5
A Floppy Disk Formatting Utility
Copyright 1987,93 by New-Ware
All Rights Reserved
Contents
1 PROLOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3 VERSION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 REGISTERING FORMATMASTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5 WHAT IS FORMATMASTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6 RUNNING FM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7 THE FM MAIN DISPLAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1 FLOPPY DRIVE LIST BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.2 ACCESSING DIALOG CONTROLS . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.3 RADIO BUTTONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.4 CHECK BOXES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.5 VOLUME LABEL LINE INPUT EDITOR . . . . . . . . . 7
7.6 SERIAL NUMBER INPUT EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.7 COMMAND PUSH BUTTONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8 THE FM ON-LINE HELP SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9 HOW FM FORMATS A DISK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
10 BOOTABLE DISKETTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11 SETTING SCREEN COLORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
12 FILES MAINTAINED BY FM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
13 THE FM.INI FILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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1 PROLOG
DISCLAIMER
New-Ware hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this product,
whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. New-
Ware cannot and will not be liable for any special, incidental,
consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any
other reason, even if New-Ware or an authorized New-Ware agent has been
advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the
liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to
use software, regardless of the form and/or extent of the claim. The
user of this program bears all risk as to the quality and performance of
the software.
LICENSE
FormatMaster is a Shareware product. As such, it is made available
to the general computing public for evaluation. Users are licensed to
operate FormatMaster on their personal computers for the purpose of test
and evaluation on a trial basis for a limited trial period. It is not
possible to reasonably define any definitive limits of a fair and
equitable time period for evaluation, therefore it is left to the user's
judgment and sense of fair play as to the time required to make a
decision as to its usefulness. If the user decides the program is not
of sufficient merit to warrant purchase through registration with New-
Ware, the program should be removed from their personal computer.
Otherwise, if the program is deemed useful and is in regular use on the
user's personal computer system, registration with New-Ware is required.
Registered users are those users that elect to pay for FormatMaster
and register that payment with New-Ware. By virtue of registration and
payment for the program, registered users are granted a license to
continue to utilize the program on their personal computer for as long
as they choose. This license authorizes the user to use the program on
any personal computer system he or she may own so long as the program is
operated on only one computer system at a time.
2 REGISTRATION
FormatMaster is sole property of New-Ware Shareware products. The
Shareware version, and ONLY that version, may be freely copied and
transferred to individual parties for evaluation purposes. The
Shareware version, and ONLY that version, may be posted on Bulletin
Board systems (BBS) for electronic access as long as NO FEE is charged
for its distribution except for private BBS operations that charge a
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regular user subscription fee. Computer information services such as
Compuserve(CIS), Genie, etc., are authorized to post this product for
subscriber access. The Shareware version of FormatMaster may NOT be
distributed on diskette by any disk distributor/vendor that charges more
than $7.00 for the diskette upon which the program and attendant files
are recorded without written consent from New-Ware. This does NOT apply
if the Shareware version of FM is distributed on a CD-ROM disk.
FormatMaster is a fully functional Shareware product. Shareware is
a computer program distribution/marketing method that permits potential
buyers to thoroughly try the program prior to purchase. It is NOT free
and it is not in the Public Domain. If, after evaluating the program,
you find it to be useful enough to use it on a regular basis, you are
expected to pay for it by registering with New-Ware. The registration
fee is $20.00 and the registered version, which is NOT distributed as
Shareware, will not contain the opening Shareware screen nor the closing
messages. A special TSR version that occupies only 6K of normal RAM
that can be called from any application is available for an additional
$10.00.
You may register FormatMaster in one of the following ways:
1) By mail with check or money order to:
New-Ware
8050 Camino Kiosco
San Diego, CA 92122-1820
2) By telephone with Visa/Mastercard to:
New-Ware
(619) 455-6225
Business hours ONLY please!
Monday thru Friday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time
Saturday
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pacific Time
3) Electronically through the New-Ware BBS:
New-Ware BBS
(619) 455-5226
24 Hours per day
7 Days per week
4) Users in Japan:
Call P. & A. Ltd. at 0425-46-9141.
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The New-Ware BBS operates 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Node
#1 is dedicated to registered users only. Nodes #2 is open to all
callers. Users registering via the BBS receive access to the latest
registered version within 1 day after leaving their credit card data.
Users who register by mail or phone may also access the registered
version by BBS, but you MUST log on and leave a comment to the sysop to
the effect that you are a registered user and desire access. The author
can also be reached on CIS via PPN 71535,665 (please use EMAIL).
The Shareware version of FormatMaster may be freely copied and
passed on to other individual users for their evaluation. Disk vendors
and/or distributors that desire to distribute FormatMaster must adhere
to the guidelines specified in the file named VENDOR.DOC.
3 VERSION HISTORY
Version 5.0
- Complete design overhaul and rewrite.
Version 5.1
- Fixed bug in the volume label history list handler that
could cause the program