This screen allows you to view the files that matched your file specification.
Each line contains the attribute (whether it is read only [r], a system file [s], or a hidden file [h]; the archive bit is not displayed), the file name, the directory, and the time and date the file was created. In order to fully describe each file on one line, large subdirectories may be shortened.
The last line of this screen provides the number of files and their size. If this is not visible, there is more than one page of information available. You may use your cursor keys, <PgUp>, <PgDn> or the scroll bar to page down on this screen.
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Active Drive Help}
The active drives are disk drives where ComeBack stores the files that are protected or overwritten. ComeBack will create it's special }H_DD_N{ directory on this drive. If the drive is not the C: drive, you may specify the parent directory off which this directory will be created.
You may specify up to 10 active drives.
Each drive can be entered in any order separated by a comma. If you do not specify a drive that previously existed, you will be issued a warning.
All active drives must be present and active during this configuration or the drive cannot be configured as active.
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File Recovery All Directory Option Help>
Using COMEBACK's file recovery option allows you to select which directories you want to recover the files from. Selecting this option will cause COMEBACK to display all of the files available for recovery.
Select this option to recover files from all current directories.
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Backup Help&
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Configure ComeBack Config HelpT
Selecting this option will allow you to:
Configure ComeBack
Change the active drives for ComeBack
Change the passive drives for ComeBack
Change the number of protected files
Change the amount of disk space ComeBack is allowed
Change the programs ComeBack is turned off for
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Configure CmdSave Help
Selecting this option will allow you to:
Change the key repeat rate for your keyboard
This sets how fast characters are typed when you hold a key down
Change the key repeat delay time for your keyboard
This sets how long the keyboard should wait until a key repeats
Change the Cursor size
This is useful on laptops to prevent squinting
Change the Alias file specification
This allows you to specify a set of alias commands for DOS
Change the default Insert/Overstrike mode for the DOS command line
Change the programs that CmdSave works for
CmdSave normally only works at the DOS level. This allows you
to change this.
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CmdSave Alias Help
CmdSave allows you to specify a file which contains simplified abbreviations (or alias') for complicated DOS command line commands. This option allows you to specify the location of this alias file. This alias file may be created with any editor or word processor that creates an ASCII or DOS file format.
To create an alias command file, open a new file, assigning a file name of your choice. Then enter the alias command, one per line, into the file.
Type the alias name, a space and then the DOS commands you want to perform with your particular alias. For example:
DSS DIR | SORT /+13 | MORE
Here, the alias DSS means "display a directory that has been sorted according to file size." DSS first executes the DOS command that lists the files in the current directory and then pipes the output of the directory command, DIR, to the SORT command. The vertical bar is the DOS pipe symbol.
The SORT command uses the /+13 switch to sort the list according to the characters starting in column 13, which is the first column of the file size information.
Finally, the output of the SORT is piped to the MORE command to allow for a controlled display.
The name of this alias file is what needs to be specified here.
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CmdSave Exit with Change Help
Selecting this option will cause you to return to the previous menu after saving the changes you have made to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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CmdSave Cursor Size Help
This option allows you to select a large cursor for use on older laptop computers. This option will enable you to more easily find the cursor on such machines.
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CmdSave Key Delay Help
On newer version AT and later machines, you can set the key repeat delay time. This option allows you to select from one of four delays that affects how soon after you type a key, that the key repeat will kick in. The longer the delay, the less likely you are to accidentally get extra characters when you type. On the other hand, a longer delay makes it harder to quickly move the cursor around with the arrow keys.
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CmdSave Insert/Overwrite Mode Help;
When you edit the DOS command line (using the arrow keys or the <Home> key), this option determines whether or not the character will overwrite the existing character or insert the character into the command line. This default can be toggled with the {Ins} key on every line.
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CmdSave Exit without Change Help
Selecting this option will cause you to return to the previous menu without saving the changes you have made to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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CmdSave Operational Programs Help
Normally, CmdSave only works with at the DOS command line. However, with this option, you can make it work with a limited number of other programs (most notably EDLIN and DEBUG).
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CmdSave Repeat Key Rate Help
On newer version AT and later machines, you can set the key repeat rate. This option allows you to select 32 different key repeat rates. This determines how fast a character is repeated when you hold a key down.
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ComeBack Switch Help
ComeBack has four basic options for displaying the files available for recovery:
You can recover files that were deleted and overwritten from your current directory. This is the most useful option if you want to recover a file (or files) from your current directory.
You can recover files that were deleted and overwritten from all directories.
You can recover files that were deleted as a result of the last KeyPlay session.
In addition, you can specify what files you want using full DOS wildcard notation (* and ?). See your DOS manual for a full description of the DOS wildcard notation.
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Configure ComeBack Help
Selecting this option will allow you to:
Change the active drives for ComeBack
Up to 10 active drives may be enabled for ComeBack protection
Change the passive drives for ComeBack
Up to 8 passive drives may be enabled for ComeBack protection
Change the number of protected files
From 1-1000 files can be protected on each active drive
Change the amount of disk space ComeBack is allowed
You can limit the amount of disk space ComeBack uses from 1-2047 meg
Change the programs ComeBack is turned off for
ComeBack protection can be turned off for certain programs
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Exclude Help5
Selecting this option will allow you to specify a list of files that will not be protected by ComeBack. All other files will be protected. Generally, most users specify what files they want excluded from ComeBack's protection. This is the default mode of operation.
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Include Help
Selecting this option will allow you to specify a list of files that will be protected by ComeBack. Only these files will be protected. Generally, most users specify what files they want excluded from ComeBack's protection.
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Keep Changes Help
This option allows you to keep all of the changes you have made. This stores the changes in the running TSR so that you will be able to utilize these changes immediately without re-booting.
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Lose Changes Help
This option abandons all of your changes. No changes will be made to the running TSR. Make sure that you really want to lose all of your changes.
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File Recovery Current Directory Option Help
Using COMEBACK's file recovery option allows you to select which directories you want to recover the files from. Selecting this option will cause COMEBACK to display just the files available for recovery from the current directory. This option makes it easier to find the file you are recovering if you know where it came from.
Select this option to recover files from the current directory.
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Hidden Directory Help
Generally, ComeBack keeps all of it's special files in a directory called }H_DD_N{ that is a subdirectory of the root directory. In special cases, (like on network drives), this is not desirable. This option allows you to specify on all drives except the C drive, where this special directory will go.
This directory must exist on the target drive or you will get a warning message. The full parent directory must be specified. The default parent directory is the root directory.
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Set the Amount of Disk Space Used By ComeBack Help
There are times when you want to limit the amount of disk space that ComeBack uses in keeping "back" versions of files. This may be limited with this option.
If ComeBack is using more disk space than allowed, it will delete the oldest files on it's protected list to free up the necessary space even if the maximum number of files is not exceeded.
This option allows a range from 1.0 to 2047.0
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Display Configuration Help#
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DOS Shell Help
Selecting this option causes you to go to the DOS prompt for you to perform any DOS operations. You must return to BB by typing "EXIT".
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Main Menu Exit Help`
Selecting this option will cause ComeBack Config to exit.
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Exit to Main Menu HelpS
Select this option to Exit to the Main Menu.
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File Finder Help
Enter the file name (and optionally the drive) to search for. A directory path is not essential. ComeBack Config's file finder will default to the root directory. If a directory is specified, the file finder will search all of the subdirectories as well as the directory specified.
For example: To look for all files that begin with the letters FOG, enter:
FOG*.*
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File Prompt Helpu
ComeBack allows you to limit the number of files to view/recover by the file specification. Full DOS wildcard support is provided. See your DOS manual for DOS file naming specification.
The default mode is all files (*.*).
For example: If you want to recover all files which end in the "DOC" extension, you would enter: *.DOC.
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File Editor Selection Help"
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File Finder Menu HelpF
File Finder is a powerful tool that allows you to find a file anywhere on your hard disk. Don't feel bad. What with the size of hard disks these days, it is easy to misplace one of those files. Just enter the file specification and File Finder will find all of them on your hard disk.
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General Helpz
Navigating through ComeBack Config's menus is performed using any combination of the following techniques:
Cursor Control Keys - use the <UP_ARROW> or <DOWN_ARROW> to position the cursor. Once you have selected the entry you wish, press the <ENTER> key.
Highlighted Character - in every menu, items may be selected by pressing the key corresponding to the item. This key is identified in bold for Text mode applications and underlined for Graphics mode applications.
Mouse - items in menus may be selected by pointing the mouse cursor at the item and "clicking" the left mouse button.
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Include Exclude Help?
ComeBack allows you to limit the type of files that it protects against accidental deletions and overwritten files. Since you only want to protect files that are important, you may specify exactly what files you want to protect with this option.
This is done by specifying either the files that you want to protect (the INCLUDE option) or the files that you don't want to protect (the EXCLUDE option). Generally, most users want to protect all files except certain file types (the EXCLUDE) option. For example, you may want to protect all files except those with a .TMP extension which you use to create temporary files. Or perhaps one of your programs creates a lot of temporary files with a .$$$ extension. In these cases, you would select to EXCLUDE all files with either the .TMP or .$$$ extensions. In addition, you may have one giant data base file called BIGFILE.DBF that you don't want protected. You would EXCLUDE that file also.
In certain cases, you may only want to protect your .DOC, .TXT, .WK1 and .WK3 files. In these cases, you would select the INCLUDE option and specify these extension on the next screen.
This option does not affect ComeBack's undelete feature.
On the next screen, you will be given the option to specify the list of files to include or exclude.
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Include Exclude List Help
On this screen, you may enter a list of file specifications that you either want protected (INCLUDE) or do not want protected (EXCLUDE). Each file specification must be separated with a comma. You may specify full file specification (without the path) like:
THISFILE.DOC
or you may specify just the extension (with or without the period) like:
.DOC,WK1
We left the periods out because you usually include or exclude files based on their extensions.
You may also use the DOS wild cards * and ? in your file specifications.
You may have up to 60 characters in this list.
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Leave As Is Help
This option will allow you to exit this menu without changing the option status at all. You may select another option at the next menu.
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KeyPlay Log Drive Help&
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Main Menu Help6
From the Main Menu:
You may start ComeBack to recover some files that you have overwritten or deleted.
You may reconfigure the parameters for ComeBack
You may find a file on a hard disk
See the General Help (<Alt-F1>) for information on how to select entries.
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No Snow Elimination Help#
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Passive Drive Help@
For some drives, it is not desirable to have ComeBack active. For example, it is not desirable to have ComeBack active on a removable drive. If the disk is removed, ComeBack would lose track of previously protected files. For drives like this, ComeBack allows protection if the drive is defined as a Passive Protected drive. These drives must be present with a valid disk when configured but need not be present on startup.
Each Passive Protected drive's deleted and overwritten file will be protected on the first active drive. This may cause certain operations to slow down if the passive drive is slow (like a floppy drive). Use this option with certain caution in regards to performance.
Up to 8 passive drives may be specified
Each drive should be separated with a comma.
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Keystroke/Mouse Recovery Help&
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KeyPlay File Recovery Option Help&
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Configure KeyPlay Help%
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KeyPlay Number of Keys Option Help(
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KeyPlay Program List Help&
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KeyPlay Set Speed Option HelpM
The <ESC> key will stop the play back.
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ComeBack Program List Help
Certain programs require you to turn off all TSRs before they are run. Disk defragmenting programs and virus detection programs commonly do this. For example, FastDisk requires you to turn off all TSRs before you defragment your disk (ComeBack does this automatically for FastDisk. You need not specify it here).
ComeBack allows you to specify any programs for which you want it's protection turned off. This will allow you to keep ComeBack on all the time. It will automatically stop protecting only when the programs specified here are run.
This must be the file name of an .EXE or .COM file (not a .BAT file).
For example, if you run ViruCide from a batch file named V.BAT, you would enter VIRUCIDE here rather than V.
This list may be up to 46 bytes long. Just the file name is required. The extension or the path name should not be entered.
For example, you would enter SD for SPEEDISK not SD.EXE or \NU\SD.
Program names are separated with commas.
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Set the Number of Protected Files Help?
If ComeBack were allowed unlimited protection, eventually all of your disk space would be used up. Instead, ComeBack maintains a list of the of a certain number of overwritten and deleted files. The length of this list is determined with this option.
Generally, the longer the list (and thus the bigger the number), the more disk space you will use. This number can be in the range from 1 to 1000. Depending on your disk size and the size of your files, a number in the range of 50-100 is reasonable. For larger disks this number can be greater. For smaller disks or larger files, the number can be a little small.
The smaller the number, the smaller the list of protected files. Thus too small a number may result in ComeBack not saving the one file you are trying to recover.
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Save Configuration Help
This option will save the current configuration both on your hard disk (so that it will configure ComeBack Config every time you power up) and in the active TSRs so that these features will go into effect immediately.
There is one exception to this. If you enlarge the number of files protected, you will receive a warning that this will not go into effect until the next time you re-boot.
Once this is saved, you will return to the previous menu.
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Snow Elimination Help&
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FastDisk Hard Disk Defragmenter Help
Over time, accessing files on your hard disk will become slower because of a process called fragmentation. This process occurs as files are deleted and replaced by new files of different size. The DOS operating system places the new files in the first available holes left by the deleted files. Since the available hole is rarely the exact size of the file being inserted in the hole, DOS puts as much of the file as it can in the hole and puts the rest in the next available hole. After a few days (hours?), your hard disk looks like spaghetti with file fragments scattered all across your hard disk. This reduces performance and slows you down!
FastDisk will remove this fragmentation and improve the performance of your hard disk.
When invoked, FastDisk will first analyze your hard drive to determine the amount of fragmentation. You will be forced to re-boot after de-fragmenting if the drive is not a floppy or other removeable disk.
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Clear FastDisk Help
Selecting this option allows you to start FastDisk with either a Clear unused data blocks or a Don't Clear unused data blocks option (the default).
Whenever a file is deleted by DOS, the data is not deleted. That is why Undelete is able to recover the data. Usually this is useful. But there are times that you do not want confidential data floating around your hard disk. When you select Clear unused data blocks, all unused disk space will be cleared. This will cause FastDisk to take a little longer to run. We recommend that you select Don't Clear unless you have a real need to clear the unused data.
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Clear Data Blocks for FastDisk HelpX
Selecting this option allows you to start FastDisk with a Clear unused data blocks option.
Whenever a file is deleted by DOS, the data is not deleted. That is why Undelete is able to recover the data. Usually this is useful. But there are times that you do not want confidential data floating around your hard disk. When you select Clear unused data blocks, all unused disk space will be cleared. This will cause FastDisk to take a little longer to run. We recommend that you select Don't Clear unless you have a real need to clear the unused data.
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FastDisk Drive Help
You may specify the target drive for FastDisk to defragment. This may be a hard drive or a floppy. We STRONGLY recommend that you not attempt to defragment a network drive.
Only a letter is required.
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No Clear Data Blocks for FastDisk HelpG
Selecting this option allows you to start FastDisk with a Don't Clear unused data blocks option (the default).
Whenever a file is deleted by DOS, the data is not deleted. That is why Undelete is able to recover the data. Usually this is useful. But there are times that you do not want confidential data floating around your hard disk. When you select No Clear unused data blocks, all unused disk space will be left as they were on your disk. We recommend that you select Don't Clear unless you have a real need to clear the unused data.
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Start FastDisk Help
Selecting this option will start FastDisk with either the default drive (the drive that was showing at the DOS prompt when you started ComeBack Config (BB)) or with a drive that you selected from this menu. FastDisk will also get any options that you may have selected from BB. FastDisk will analyze your disk and give the option to continue. You will have to re-boot your hard disk when defragmenting is completed.
FastDisk not only defragments your files but it also defragments your hard disk. This means that it fills in all of the gaps between files to minimize future fragmentation. Although this takes a little longer, it allows you to use your system longer before it becomes necessary to run FastDisk again.
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