DISKSALV 2 (V11.25) RELEASE NOTES This is the first public release of the DiskSalv 2 program. The DiskSalv program and distribution materials are Copyright 1991-1993 by Dave Haynie, All Rights Reserved. This program is freely redistributable copyrighted software. It may only be distributed as a complete package. No fees other than reasonable copying and media charges may be collected for non-commercial distribution. A shareware fee of US$10 is suggested for anyone using this program. A professional quality printed manual (approximately 100 pages), AmigaGuide on-line manual, and latest version are also available for US$40 as a semi-commercial package. At present, the shareware and registered version of DiskSalv are the same, though they may not always be. Some extra stuff will wind up on the registered disk as well. The price includes one free update. A year of updates (at least two) is an additional US$10. I expect the manual to be ready sometime in August of 1993, though I'll certainly take orders ahead of time. Foreign orders may pay in equivalent local currency. No credit cards can currently be accepted. Please write for commercial or other special licencing agreements. Dave Haynie 284 Memorial Avenue Gibbstown, NJ 08027 USA BIX: hazy Portal: hazy UseNet: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com ABOUT DISKSALV DiskSalv is a "Disk Salvage" program. It can recover data from a disk in severe trouble, it can fix a good portion of disk problems directly on the problem disk, and it can locate valid partitions on a disk with an unknown layout or damaged rigid disk block. It supports all AmigaDOS file systems through 3.0. The included "Cheap" manual details the basic functions available, while the semi-commercial manual covers every little detail, theory of operation, and other good stuff. If you're the type who would rather just run the program and see what happens, type "DiskSalv" or click on the icon to begin. Brief help on individual menu items and gadgets is available via the HELP key. HELP will active the help message for any gadget or menu item that's currently under the mouse pointer. CONTENTS The DiskSalv 2 distribution comes in two archives for on-line release, one for the program and English documentation, one for the various locale support files. For software library distribution, it comes with the program and English documentation expanded, the locale information compressed. The files themselves are the same in any case. The main program distribution (all files have associated .info files) DiskSalv2/README This file DiskSalv2/DiskSalv The main program DiskSalv2/Project.info A sample project icon DiskSalv2/Docs The documentation files DiskSalv2/Docs/english English docs directory DiskSalv2/Docs/english/DiskSalv.doc The cheap manual, in English Please see the current locale distribution for the available selection of localized catalogs and documentation files. SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to acknowledge some of the help I had on this project. There are individuals too numerous to mention who had a part, either by making suggestions or testing. Thanks go to the Commodore-Amiga Software group for help with the GUI development and pushing me to use style-guide standards and post 2.04 things like localization. And I want to call particular attention to those who did the translations for me: Danish translation by Jesper Kehlet email: kehlet@kehlet.adsp.sub.org French translation by Jean-Francois Dreyfuss email: dreyfusj@issy.cnet.fr Italian translation by Fabrizio Lodi email: lodi@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it Norwegian translation by Petter Nilsen of Ultima Thule Software email: petter@pnilsen.adsp.sub.org Finnish translation by Jukka Marin email: jmarin@messi.uku.fi Swedish translation by Mathias Axelsson email: d92max@txfs1.hfb.se Hopefully additional translations will be finished before too long, work continues on this.