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S L I M F i l e C o m p r e s s i o n S y s t e m
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U s e r M a n u a l
Version 1.10A
Copyright (C) Dominic Herity 1988,1991
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S L I M U s e r M a n u a l Pg 1
Copyright (C) Dominic Herity 1988,1991
All rights reserved
This software and manual are supplied "as is" and without
warranties as to performance or merchantability. This software is
supplied without any expressed or implied warranties whatsoever.
No warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. Any
liability of seller or manufacturer will be limited exclusively
to product replacement or refund of the purchase price. Dominic
Herity further reserves the right to alter the specifications of
the software and contents of the manual without obligation to
notify any person or organization of such alterations.
SLIM is a "shareware program", and is provided at no charge to
the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends,
but please do no give it away altered or as part of another
system. If you find SLIM useful, and that you continue to use it
after a reasonable trial period, you must make a registration
payment to the author. All registered users will receive a copy
of the latest version of SLIM, along with the other benefits of
registration. See Section 10 of this manual for more information.
Commercial users of SLIM must register and pay for their copies
of SLIM within 30 days of first use, or their license is
withdrawn. Site license arrangements may be made by contacting
Dominic Herity.
Anyone distributing SLIM for any kind of remuneration must have
authorization from Dominic Herity at the address below.
Authorization will be automatically granted to associate members
of the Association of Shareware Professionals. Authorized
distributors will receive prompt upgrades.
Dominic Herity, PO Box 3038, Dublin 4, Ireland.
CompuServe: 100016,3477 Internet: 100016.3477@compuserve.com
This program is produced by a member of the Association of
Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the
shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does
not provide technical support for members' products. Please write
to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send
a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536
S L I M U s e r M a n u a l Pg 2
A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
Thanks to LJF Berenson, Adrian Bivar, John Cockings, Kam Ho,
Panos Milonas, Alan Pink, Sam Smale, Charles Stross, Peter
Tetley, Bertold Tromm and Charles P White, for bug reports and/or
suggestions for improvement of SLIM. I was encouraged by their
enthusiasm and constructive criticism.
Many thanks to Brian Doody, Kevin McGoldrick, Imelda Herity,
Michael Feehily, Tony McGinty and Kieran Boyce, each of whom
contributed helpful suggestions and observations to this product.
All thanks to my wife, Teresa, for all her help, support,
encouragement and faith when I spent evenings and weekends stuck
in front of a computer with no visible results.
S L I M U s e r M a n u a l Pg 3
C O N T E N T S
Section Subject Page
1.0 Introduction 4
2.0 Getting Started 5
3.0 Compressing Files 8
4.0 Accessing Compressed Files 11
5.0 De-compressing Files 15
6.0 Technical Information 16
7.0 Error and other Messages 17
8.0 Technical Support 19
9.0 Version History 20
10.0 Registration 21
S L I M U s e r M a n u a l Pg 4
1.0 I N T R O D U C T I O N
SLIM is a powerful file compressor with RAM resident transparent
expander, which gives painless access to compressed files. This
is done by intercepting DOS calls, allowing applications to read
compressed files just as before. So there is no need to worry
about technicalities like archives. Just put a command to load
SLIM into the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and forget it.
A proprietary algorithm significantly compresses almost all the
files found on PCs and gives big savings on disk space. More
than half of SLIM Ver 1.00 and 1.01 users who responded to a
questionnaire said that SLIM allowed them to postpone or cancel a
hard disk upgrade.
A report facility shows which of a group of files are compressed,
by how much and with what total savings.
SLIM's compact size (less than 24KB) makes it practical for
floppy as