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WinCat/PRO - Windows Disk/CD Catalog & Disk Manager
===================================================
Version 3.2.0, June 1993
Created by Mart Heubel, Heerlen, The Netherlands
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
* General Information
* WinCat Features
* System Requirements
* Installing WinCat
* Using WinCat
* Volume List Window
- Cataloging disks
- Cataloging archive contents
- Cataloging CD-ROM'S
* File List Window
- Defining Associations
- Restoring Files
* File Menu
* Options Menu
* Utilities Menu
* Help Menu
* Hints and Tips
* WinCat 3.2.0 Summary of Changes
* WinCat 3.0 Summary of Changes
* Things to Come
* Registering WinCat
* IMPORTANT NOTICE
* Where to get WinCat
* Your Comments Please
* Distribution
* Small Print
GENERAL INFORMATION
-------------------
WinCat is a tool that helps you organize your floppydisks and CD-Rom's,
and enables you to quickly find and restore the files they hide.
Although there are various disk catalog programs around, none of them
really suited my needs or taste. Therefore I decided to write my own
(always a guarantee for quality software !), and the result of a few weeks
fooling around with Visual Basic and Turbo Pascal was WinCat 1.0.
In little then a year this initial release evolved into a rather useful
tool (WinCat 2.5), but it also became clear that -due to the Visual Basic
programming language- further improvements like CD-ROM support were almost
impossible to realise without slowing down the program to a snail's speed.
That's why I wrote an entirely new version of WinCat using Borland's
Turbo Pascal for Windows. This new WinCat/PRO is the successor to
WinCat 2.5, but although it looks a lot like the old WinCat 2.5, there's
one big difference : it's very, VERY fast !
Because of all it's features and it's speed I humbly consider WinCat/PRO
to be the best floppydisk/CD-Rom manager available for Windows today (with
WinCat 2.5 being a good second best...).
So here's the 'bad' news :
WinCat/PRO is distributed as AidWare and is NOT free (but at $15 still a
give-away...).
'AidWare' means that I'll donate all received registration-fees to an
organisation that supports developmentprograms in 3rd-world countries.
I hope many of you support this AidWare concept by registering WinCat.
Please read the IMPORTANT NOTICE in the 'Registering WinCat' section
(see below), file AIDWARE.DOC and file ORDERFRM.DOC for more details !
FEATURES OF WINCAT/PRO 3.x :
----------------------------
- It's easy to use
- It's FAST !
- Ability to restore files or extract files from archives
WinCat interfaces to all DOS and Windows unarchive utilities
(like ARJ, LHA, PKUNZIP, WUNA, WINZIP etc.) and other programs
using user-defined associations
- Kingsize comment fields on both file- and volume-entries
- Supports sub-directories up to 4 levels deep
- Supports various disktypes (floppydisk, CD-ROM, harddisk, networkdisk)
- Extensive file search & sort capabilities
- ClipBoard interface for easy editing file-descriptions
- Includes an import/conversion tool that extracts file-descriptions from
BBS Allfiles-listings or listings from other disk catalog programs
- Automaticly copies file-descriptions from (4DOS) descript.ion files
to it's catalog
- Reports : Volume Summary, Volume Contents, Files sorted by Filename
and Duplicate Files
- Allows you to create easy-to-work-with groups of volumes
- Expensive looking '3D metallic' windows
- Ability to catalog the contents of ARJ, ZIP, LZH, ZOO, PAK and ARC archives
- Ability to export the catalog to a dBase compatible databasefile.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-------------------
In order to run properly, WinCat/PRO requires
- MicroSoft Windows 3.1
- VGA display mode
- at least 2 MB memory
- at least 1 MB space on your harddisk
- at least 1 diskdrive, harddisk or CD-ROM drive
INSTALLING WINCAT
-----------------
If you're currently using WinCat 2.x, and want to install the new WinCat
3.2, please read file CONVERT.DOC instead of the following instructions.
To install WinCat, create directory C:\WINDOWS\WINCAT on your harddisk
and extract WINCAT32.ARJ into that directory.
The following files will be created :
WINCAT.EXE - The WinCat program
WINCAT.INI - Default settings & associations
WINCAT.DOC - WinCat user guide
WINCAT.WNT - Overview of WinCat's features
WINCATAR.DLL - WinCat's Archive Scan routines
WINCATRS.PIF - PIF that WinCat uses to launch WINCATRS.BAT.
WINCATRS.BAT - BAT that WinCat uses to execute DOS unarchive
utilities (like ARJ, LHA, PKUNZIP etc.)
SAMPLE.CAT - A sample catalog
CONVERT.EXE - Catalog conversion program
CONVERT.DOC - Explains how to use CONVERT.EXE
AIDWARE.DOC - Explains the AidWare concept (read this !)
ORDERFRM.DOC - How to order your WinCat/PRO license (read this too !)
ORDERFRM.WRI - The orderform in Windows Write format
README.DOC - For turbo-installers who never read DOC files
QUEST.DOC - WinCat Questionaire
QUEST.WRI - Questionaire in Windows Write format
BUGSFIXD.DOC - Summary of bugs that have been eliminated
(*)BWCC.DLL - Runtime library needed by Turbo Pascal programs
(*) BWCC.DLL is copyrighted by Borland International, but may be freely
distributed.
You'll have to move 2 of these files (WINCAT.INI and BWCC.DLL) to another
directory :
File WINCAT.INI is a default set of settings and associations used
by WinCat. Move it to the C:\WINDOWS directory.
File BWCC.DLL is a runtime library that's needed by all programs
that were developed using Borland's Turbo Pascal for Windows
compiler.
This file must be moved to the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
However, it's possible that there is already a BWCC.DLL present in
this directory (put there by other programs that use it).
If this is the case, replace that copy of BWCC.DLL ONLY if the one
supplied with WinCat is from a more recent date.
Files CONVERT.EXE and CONVERT.DOC are used only when converting
an already existing WinCat 2.x catalog to the new format required
by WinCat/PRO.
So, if you didn't use a previous version of WinCat you can delete
these files.
If you want to let WinCat catalog the contents of archive files you
must also create subdirectory C:\WINDOWS\WINCAT\ARCHIVES\
(See also 'Cataloging Archive Contents').
Edit WINCATRS.BAT and change the 'CD\SHEZ' statement to your directory
that contains the DOS un-archivers you use, like ARJ.EXE, LHA.EXE and
PKUNZIP.EXE .
If these files are accessable through your default PATH, or if you
prefer to include the path on the 'association' definitions, simply
delete this statement.
You can let WinCat's 'restore file' function call WUNA (a shareware
Windows UnArchive tool by James N. Hughes that handles ZIP and ARJ files)
or WINZIP (a shareware Windows unarchive tool by Nico Mak that handles
ARJ,ZIP,LZH and ARC files).
As a default, WinCat doesn't specify a path when calling WUNA.EXE or
WINZIP.EXE, so if you want to use WUNA and/or WINZIP make sure these files
are in your \WINDOWS directory, or specify their location in WINCAT.INI.
You can download WUNA and WINZIP from any WINNET BBS.
Now, all that's left to do is to add WINCAT.EXE to a Windows program
group.
Make sure you specify C:\WINDOWS\WINCAT as the 'working directory' !
Else WinCat can't find the WINCATRS.PIF, WINCATAR.DLL etc. files.
Now start WinCat by clicking it's icon.
Click the FILE menu on WinCat's primary window, and then select
'Open Catalog...'.
The 'Open' dialog will show 1 catalog file, SAMPLE.CAT.
Select file SAMPLE.CAT and click OK. After WinCat has read this file
you can have a first look at WinCat/PRO 3.2 !
Once you've tried WinCat you can delete the SAMPLE.CAT, and create your
own catalog : click the FILE menu, select 'Open Catalog...' and, on the
'Open Catalog' dia