----------------------------------------
                     Showdisk, Copyright (C) 1993 EQU
                 ----------------------------------------


                                  Preface
                               ============

As the name may indicate this utility is used
to display the ASCII (>31, <127) contains of your disk on
your default output.
Currently only disks with 80 Tracks (512 bytes blocksize)
are supported, maybe I will add a routine so that
it works with any size of disks if I see reason to.


                               Requirements
                               ============

Any model of the Amiga Homecomputer with an OS 2.0 or above.


                                   Usage
                               ============

Showdisk should be used from CLI/Shell with the following
argument:
		Showdisk <drive>
		where <drive> is a number from 0 to 4.

Sofar Showdisk can't be ran from Workbench,
maybe I will implement this one day.
If you specify an drive with no disk in it,
Showdisk will show an IoError message but won't guru.

Showdisk is pure code meaning you can make it resident for
the best/fastest access possible.
Just type 'Resident <path>Showdisk' to make Showdisk resident


                               Distribution
                               ============

This utility is whatsoever software, so you can do anything you want with it.


                                Last Words
                               ============

Until now I used to scan my disks with DiskX 2.2a from Steve Tibbett ('89?),
but I now run OS 3.0 so it is fairly understandable that it
doesn't perform to my standards.
If I have some spare time I may make a GUI for this one and add a few nice
options but we will see...

I take no responsability of the consequences created from the
use of the program, use it on your own risk.


                                  Changes
                               ============

Showdisk 0.1 (1993-08-16)
------------

Initial release. Final size 1216 bytes (Unpacked format)

Showdisk 0.2 (1993-09-03)
------------

I had made an enourmous mistake in version 0.1 .
When allocating memory for the scan buffer, I
had specified MEMF_FAST flag which means
that if one didn't have fast memory installed,
the utility refused to work. Sorry for this one
but I'm only human...
	More bugs to come: There was a memory loss of
4 bytes, fixed (Thanks to mungwall and Spock for
giving it to me).
	I rewrote the program. The most meaningfull
change is that the scan rutine/loop which
scans for ASCII matches will be totally
placed in your cache if you have one,
speeds up scanning by a huge factor.

Bug fixed and rewritten. Final size 940 bytes (Unpacked format)


-EOF-