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FormatMaster 3.30
Copyright 1987/88/89/90 by New-Ware
All Rights Reserved
(tm) ┌─────────┐
┌─────┴───┐ │ MEMBER
───│ │ │────────────────
│ ┌──────┴──┐ │ Association of
│ │ ├──┘ Shareware
└──┤ ■ │ Professionals
──────│ ║ │───────────────────
└────╨────┘
Contents
1 PROLOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2 REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 CREDITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 VERSION HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5 REGISTERING FORMATMASTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6 GETTING UP AND RUNNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.1 PROGRAM INTIALIZATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6.2 FORMATMASTER DRIVE TABLE SETTINGS . . . . . . . 7
6.3 FORMATTING SYSTEM DISKS . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7 FORMATMASTER OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.1 SET DRIVE TABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.2 ENTER DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.3 TRANSFER SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.4 ADD VOLUME LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.5 CYCLIC FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.6 CYCLIC FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.7 BEEPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.8 RAPID FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.9 VERIFY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.10 ONLY VERIFY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.11 CHECK DISK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.12 800K FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.13 REGISTRATION FORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.14 QUIT TO DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.15 FORMAT A DISK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.16 DOS FORMAT/VERIFY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.17 SIMULTANEOUS DOS FORMAT/VERIFY . . . . . . . . 17
7.18 @ CONFIGURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.19 THE ESCAPE KEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.20 ERROR HANDLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
8 TECHNICAL NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
9 MONITOR PROBLEMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
10 MOUSE SUPPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Index 21
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1 PROLOG
The program author, John J. Newlin, is an active member of the
Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). The 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.
DISCLAIMER
New-Ware hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this product,
whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied
warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. New-
Ware cannot and will not be liable for any special, incidental,
consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any
other reason, even if New-Ware or an authorized New-Ware agent has been
advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the
liability for any damages ever exceed the price paid for the license to
use software, regardless of the form and/or extent of the claim. The
user of this program bears all risk as to the quality and performance of
the software.
LICENSE
FormatMaster is a Shareware product. As such, it is made available
to the general computing public for evaluation. Users are licensed to
operate FormatMaster on their personal computers for the purpose of test
and evaluation on a trial basis for a limited trial period. It is not
possible to reasonably define any definitive limits of a fair and
equitable time period for evaluation, therefore it is left to the user's
judgment and sense of fair play as to the time required to make a
decision as to its usefulness. If the user decides the program is not
of sufficient merit to warrant purchase through registration with New-
Ware, the program should be removed from their personal computer.
Otherwise, if the program is deemed useful and is in regular use on the
user's personal computer system, registration with New-Ware is required.
Registered users are those users that elect to pay for FormatMaster
and register that payment with New-Ware. By virtue of registration and
payment for the program, registered users are granted a license to
continue to utilize the program on their personal computer for as long
as they choose. This license authorizes the user to use the program on
any personal computer system he or she may own so long as the program is
operated on only one computer system at a time.
- 2 -
2 REGISTRATION
FormatMaster is sole property of New-Ware Shareware products. The
Shareware version, and ONLY that version, may be freely copied and
transferred to individual parties for evaluation purposes. The
Shareware version, and ONLY that version, may be posted on Bulletin
Board systems (BBS) for electronic access as long as NO FEE is charged
for its distribution except for private BBS operations that charge a
regular user subscription fee. Computer information services such as
Compuserve (CIS), Genie, etc., are authorized to post this product for
subscriber access. The Shareware version of FormatMaster may NOT be
distributed on diskette by any disk distributor/vendor that charges more
than $10.00 for the diskette upon which the program and attendant files
are recorded without written consent from New-Ware.
FormatMaster is a fully functional Shareware product. Shareware is
a computer program distribution/marketing method that permits potential
buyers to thoroughly try the program prior to purchase. It is NOT free
and it is not in the Public Domain. If, after evaluating the program,
you find it to be useful enough to use it on a regular basis, you are
expected to pay for it by registering with New-Ware. The registration
fee is $25.00 and the registered version, which is NOT distributed as
Shareware, will not contain the opening Shareware screen nor the closing
messages.
You may register FormatMaster in one of three ways:
1) By mail with check or money order to:
New-Ware
8050 Camino Kiosco
San Diego, CA 92122-1820
2) By telephone with Visa/Mastercard to:
New-Ware
(619) 455-6225
3) Electronically through the New-Ware BBS: