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POLYCOPY (tm)
Copyright (C)1989,1990 Joseph M. Albanese
All rights reserved.
I N T R O D U C T I O N
QUESTION: What is POLYCOPY?
ANSWER: In short, POLYCOPY is an exceptionally easy to use program for making
one or more copies of a diskette (or diskettes) with a single pass of the
original, regardless of disk density. This feat is accomplished by using
available RAM, XMS memory and/or HARD DISK space to store a complete
"disk image."
POLYCOPY is a highly advanced disk duplicating program which offers many
significant advantages over the DOS "DISKCOPY" utility. Some of the more
important features are listed below:
o Original disk is inserted only once, even for multiple copies.
o Automatic configuration.
o Low RAM requirement.
o Automatic format.
o Uses available hard disk (& XMS memory) space to supplement RAM.
o Easy to use. Only one mandatory parameter -- drive letter.
o Supports 360K, 1.2M, 720K and 1.44M floppies.
o Will copy bootable disks (a la DISKCOPY).
T R A D E M A R K N O T I C E
Throughout this manual are commercial names of products made by other
manufacturers or developers. Many of these product names are either registered
or unregistered trademarks of their respective manufacturers or developers.
The owners of these trademarks have never expressed any approval or disapproval
of NEOCOM products, nor are they associated with POLYCOPY, NEOCOM
Microspecialists, Inc., or Joseph M. Albanese in any way.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp. MS-DOS
is a trademark of Microsoft Corp.
C O P Y R I G H T N O T I C E (Shareware Release)
Copyright (C) 1989, 1990 Joseph M. Albanese. All rights reserved.
POLYCOPY is a trademark of Joseph M. Albanese.
L I C E N S E A G R E E M E N T (Shareware Release)
The "Shareware Release" of POLYCOPY is fully copyrighted and may not be sold.
However, as with all shareware, it may be copied freely for evaluation
purposes. As a POLYCOPY evaluee, you are granted a 14 day trial period in
which to determine its suitability. At the end of the trial period, if you
wish to continue using POLYCOPY, you must register the software. Refer to the
section on REGISTRATION at the end of this documentation, or to the file called
"ORDER.FRM" for more information.
G E T T I N G S T A R T E D
REQUIREMENTS
o IBM or 100% compatible PC
o MS-DOS 3.xx or 4.xx (or equivalent)
o About 200K of free RAM at the DOS prompt
o *Hard disk
* A RAM disk may be used as a substitute for a hard drive as long as it
is sufficiently large to hold (potentially) an entire disk image.
I N S T A L L A T I O N
As a practical matter, there is no "INSTALLATION"; however, it is usually a
good idea to put a copy of the program "POLYCOPY.EXE" in a pathed directory.
O P E R A T I O N
USAGE: C>polycopy [source drive<:>] [<target drive<:>>] [</f>]
Note: "< >" delimited parameters are optional.
Parms: "/F" = Format Mode. This will force POLYCOPY to format all diskettes
prior to copying data.
You won't find many disk copy utilities as powerful and easy to use as this
one. There are usually only two steps you need to follow:
1. First, make the hard drive (or RAM disk) the default drive. For
example, if drive "C:" is your hard drive, this can be accomplished by
typing "C:" and pressing [ENTER].
NOTE: A temporary file called "DSKIMAGE.}-{" is created on the default drive
during copying. It contains data that could not fit entirely into RAM.
Under normal circumstances, this file is automatically deleted.
2. Type "POLYCOPY", a space, and then the drive letter of the floppy
drive that will be doing the copying. For example:
C>polycopy b: /f
or
C>polycopy a b
or
C>polycopy a:
NOTE: Example 2 includes the "FORMAT" parameter. Also, when "source" and
"target" drives are the same, then the "target" parameter is optional.
O P E R A T I O N (CONT'D)
Once POLYCOPY is off and running it is simply a matter of answering a couple
of "Y" or "N" prompts. Either you continue making copies of the original, or
you copy a different diskette.
YOU CAN MAKE AS MANY COPIES OF THE ORIGINAL DISK AS YOU LIKE, WITHOUT
EVER HAVING TO RE-INSERT THAT DISK.
Think of the time, money and frustration you will save. Especially, when you
are considered whether to register!
I would like to say a few things about the "/f" parameter. When "/f" is NOT
specified, POLYCOPY attempts to determine if it should format the TARGET
diskette prior to copying. Most of the time that's all you have to worry
about. But, occasionally, under certain circumstances POLYCOPY cannot
properly determine whether a disk should be formatted. Hence, there are two
circumstances where you might use the "/f" parameter:
1. When POLYCOPY has previously been unable to determine if formatting
should be performed.
2. When you want to be sure that all disks are freshly formatted.
A FINAL NOTE ABOUT FORMATTING
When it is necessary to format a diskette, POLYCOPY shells into the DOS format
utility "FORMAT.COM" so it is important that you have it pathed. For
example: "PATH=C:\DOS" in you AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
S O F T W A R E R E G I S T R A T I O N
WHAT DO I GET BY REGISTERING?
For one thing, a clear conscience. People like me work very hard on programs
like this. We do so under the assumption that if people like our programs
they will (should, and hopefully will) register.
In addition to the wonderful feeling you will enjoy, knowing that you are
helping to perpetuate the shareware concept, as a registered user of POLYCOPY
you will also gain the following:
o Latest version of POLYCOPY
o Printed documentation
o Notification of new releases
o Low cost upgrades
o FREE BONUS: A complimentary copy of VOLSER(tm), the volume
serial number utility. VOLSER is a companion program to
POLYCOPY which allows you to "add", "view" and/or "change" DOS
4.00 serial numbers. Uses for VOLSER include: serializing floppy
diskettes, serial number coding hard drives (theft protection). You
can even view and enter disk serial numbers in DECIMAL as well as
HEXIDECIMAL format. For serializing large quantities of disks,
VOLSER has automatic increment, decrement and duplicating of
seri