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Disk OrGanizer - Version 3.14
August 18, 1991
Soft GAM's Software
G. Allen Morris III
P. O. Box 1311
Mendocino, CA 95460
Copyright 1991
All Rights Reserved
Compuserve: #73210,3374
BBS: (707)778-8944, ALLEN MORRIS
Voice: (707)961-1632
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Table of Contents
1. Getting started ........................................... 1
1.1. Introduction ............................................ 1
1.2. Shareware ............................................... 1
1.3. Purpose ................................................. 1
1.4. Installation ............................................ 1
1.5. Background programs ..................................... 2
1.6. Copy protected programs ................................. 3
1.7. Power failure ........................................... 3
1.8. Quick start ............................................. 3
2. Using Disk OrGanizer ...................................... 5
2.1. Modes ................................................... 5
2.2. Switches ................................................ 6
2.3. Command line syntax ..................................... 6
2.3.1. Command line commands ................................. 7
2.4. Orderfile syntax ........................................ 7
2.4.1. Setting the mode ...................................... 7
2.4.2. Setting switches ...................................... 8
2.4.3. Order file Commands ................................... 8
2.4.4. File identifiers ..................................... 10
2.4.5. Comments ............................................. 10
3. Licensing and support .................................... 11
3.1. Copyright/License/Warranty ............................. 11
3.2. Licensing .............................................. 11
3.3. Technical Support ...................................... 12
3.4. ASP Ombudsman Information .............................. 12
4. Error messages ........................................... 13
5. Glossary ................................................. 16
6. Index .................................................... 17
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1. Getting started
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1.1. Introduction
1.1. Introduction
Hello, and thank you for taking the time to read this manual. I
hope that you find Disk OrGanizer useful.
1.2. Shareware
Disk OrGanizer is not a public domain program. There is no fee
for personal use of Disk OrGanizer.
You may register your copy of Disk OrGanizer for $30 and receive
a disk and manual along with notification of major upgrades.
A license is required for use of Disk OrGanizer by corporations
and institutions, and for its commercial distribution.
If you don't support shareware, who will?
1.3. Purpose
A disk that has been in use a while will usually become slower
accessing the data and programs that have been stored on it.
This is due to two problems:
o The disk has become fragmented.
o There are deleted entries in directories.
Disk OrGanizer will solve these problems and make your disk run
like new.
If the size of a directory decreases enough after removing the
deleted entries, Disk OrGanizer can also recover some disk
space.
Disk OrGanizer has been tested with MS-DOS 2.10, 3.01, 3.10,
3.30, 4.01 and 5.0 on logical drives as large as 600 megabytes.
It is believed that Disk OrGanizer will operate on any MS/PC-DOS
disk.
Disk OrGanizer performs extensive tests before it starts to move
data, to make sure that the File Allocation Table (FAT) and
directories are in good repair.
1.4. Installation
You should BACK UP your hard disk before you run Disk OrGanizer.
To install Disk OrGanizer, you need only copy it to a directory
on your PATH.
You can test Disk OrGanizer by typing the command:
Disk OrGanizer 1
1. Getting started
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1.4. Installation
DOG [d:] /TEST
d: is an optional drive specifier. (The []'s mean optional and
should not be typed.) If no drive is specified, the current
drive will be used.
If Disk OrGanizer reports errors and you have not run Disk
OrGanizer before, you should run CHKDSK with the /F switch and
repair the disk.
If you have not backed up your disk, Disk OrGanizer will warn
you as to how many files may need to be backed up.
PLEASE back up your disks before you run Disk OrGanizer.
Disk OrGanizer will also list any files that are open on on the
disk that you are organizing. Disk OrGanizer will not be able to
move these files nor pack the directories that they are in.
If you have used other disk defragment programs before, and have
had no problem, it should be safe to run Disk OrGanizer.
Disk OrGanizer will move HIDDEN files, most other disk defrag-
menters don't move these files.
If you have not run any disk defragment programs before, you
should read the rest of this chapter.
1.5. Background programs
Disk OrGanizer reads and writes to the disk directly. If a pro-
gram tries to write to the disk while Disk OrGanizer is
operating, data may be lost. You should not run Disk OrGanizer
on a disk that you know will be written to. Programs that are
likely to write to the disk are printer spoolers, multitasking
programs like Windows or DesqView, switching programs and net-
work programs.
If you have FASTOPEN installed on your computer, you will need
to reboot your computer after you run Disk OrGanizer.
Some background programs leave files open all of the time. Disk
OrGanizer will not move files that are open, and it will not
pack a directory that has open files in it.
If you do not know if you have these programs on your computer,
I would suggest that you run Disk OrGanizer from a floppy disk
as described in the Quick Start section.
Disk OrGanizer 2
1. Getting started
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1.6. Copy protected programs
1.6. Copy protected programs
Disk OrGanizer may make some copy protected software unusable.
It is recommended that you remove any copy protected software