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Disk Commando 1.10 Release Notes -- 04 May 1987
Overview:
Disk Commando is a set of utilities incorporating the following
functions:
(1) Disk Optimizer
(2) File Unerase
(3) Disk Sort
(4) Disk Bad Sector Repair
(5) File/Disk Hex Editor
(6) Disk/File Map
The Disk Optimizing feature allows you to select between five
different optimization options, rather than one.
Documentation:
Documentation is only available in printed format to registered
users. We have provided some instructions to get you started.
Availability & Pricing:
Disk Commando is available for $40.00 with printed documentation.
Your copy of Disk Commando may be registered by sending a check or
money order to:
Sandi & Shane Stump
Box 13719
College Station, Tx 77841
or by calling 1-(409)-776-1911 for Visa, MC, and COD orders.
If you have not registered your copy, please do not call us for
support.
When registering, if in the continental United States, please
provide a street address, rather than post office box, if possible.
We normally ship orders via UPS.
If you are a Texas resident, please add 6.25% sales tax ($2.50) per
Disk Commando ordered.
For orders outside North America, please add $10 for shipping per
order.
We do have a version for the Texas Instruments computer.
Registration is on a single user basis. What this means is that the
$40 fee does not register an entire user group, business, company,
corporation, government office, school district or any other
multiple-user/computer organization. In these cases, we have
quantity pricing as follows:
Number of machines/users Price per unit
2 - 10 $35
11 - 25 $30
26 - 50 $25
51 - $20
Site licensing is available for larger companies. Please call for
more information.
Conditions for Use:
All new users are entitled to try this program out for a period of
two weeks. After this period of time, to continue using this
program legally, please send the required registration fee or
remove all copies of the software from your machine(s).
This program may be distributed by anyone, as long as our copyright
is not violated and the users agree to our conditions of use as
described above. A distribution fee of no more than $10 may be
charged for this program. It is up to the distributor to inform the
user that this fee does not entitle him/her to any privileges of
registration.
Benefits of Registration:
When you register as a user of our software, you will receive the
latest version of the program along with printed documentation,
phone support, and notification of new programs and versions. You
will be given a discount on subsequent purchases of our other
programs. Later updates will be reasonable, based primarily on
their cost.
Getting Started:
To execute the program, type Disk at the DOS prompt. If you cannot
read the screen clearly at this point, press ESCAPE to exit. In
this case, try again by typing: Disk -c
at the DOS prompt. This turns off color support.
An important note: Before using these or any utilities such as
these, we recommend that you take normal precautions. The most
important one is to make certain that you have backed up all
material that you can't afford to lose recently.
If you intend to use the disk optimization feature, you must
uninstall all copy-protected software on the disk. This is due to
the varying methods used by various companies in protecting their
software. PLEASE back-up your disk before running the optimizer.
This program has been tested on many different machines and
configurations with no problems whatsoever.
Another hint: When unerasing a file, if at first you don't succeed,
delete the file and try to put it together again by hand (if it was
a text file). If you are attempting to unerase a file on a floppy
disk, it probably would also be smart to use the DOS DISKCOPY
command to make an exact copy of the disk where the lost file was
located before trying to resurrect it, so if you make a mistake you
have another copy to try again with.
When unerasing the file, an important step in the process is SAVING
the sector that you have recovered. If you use the automatic file
recovery procedure, you must press W-Write to save the recovered
file sectors to disk. If, instead, you are recovering the file
sector by sector, you must press A-Add to add the sector to the file
being recreated, then press W-Write when you have recovered all the
sectors of the file.
When your disk has been used a lot, it becomes fragmented, which
means the contents of your files is strewn out all over the disk.
This makes unerasing a file very difficult. If you optimize your
disk regularly, this process unfragments your files and makes it
much easier to recover them if something happens. DO NOT optimize
your disk before recovering a deleted file. The optimization
process removes all deleted files from the directory, so once a
disk has been optimized, all deleted files are gone and cannot be
unerased.
The Patch editor will modify either a file or the disk unit. This
can be a very dangerous utility if you do not know what you are
doing. Probably the best advice that I could give you is to not use
any function that you do not clearly and completely understand. If
you do not know what you are doing, you can lose data, corrupt a
file, mess up a directory, or render a disk unbootable.
Disclaimer:
Sandi & Shane Stump make no warranty to the use of this program;
that is, this program is distributed (sold) as is, and the user
accepts all responsibility for consequences of use.
Happy Computing,
Sandi & Shane Stump