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                   (the HD space saver for your DLG BBS)

                          written by Joep Grooten

                        © Digital Intelligence 1994



WHAT IS IT ?
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DLGfdf (no it's NOT a typo !) helps you with the horrible task of finding
double files (or files with multiple versions) in your DLG-Pro BBS.  It
scans all your file area's and compares the first x (adjustable) chars of
the filenames and produces a list of double files that can be saved.



HOW DO I INSTALL IT ?
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You don't...  Starting the file 'DLGfdf' is enough.  Just put it somewhere
in your searchpath.



HOW DO I USE IT ?
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(Almost as easy as installing it ;-) )

After starting DLGfdf wait until your file area's are scanned.

Select the area's that must be scanned with the 'first area' and 'last
area' slider gadgets (or leave them the way they are if you want to scan
the entire file base).

Select the number of characters that must be compared at the beginning of a
filename.  You can also adjust the number of characters that must be
skipped at the beginning of a filename (although this isn't very helpful in
most cases). 

Press 'Generate list' and wait until the list is generated (and displayed in
the listview gadget).

After this you can modify the comparisation parameters, save the list,
quit, whatever...



THE AUTHOR
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  Author :                           Digital Intelligence :

  Joep Grooten                       Digital Intelligence
  Verwerakker 80                     J.J. Allanstraat 222
  1541 VV KOOG A/D ZAAN              1551 RR  WESTZAAN
  Holland                            Holland

  phone: +31-75-125 006              phone: +31-75-352 137
                                     BBS:   +31-75-703 832 (24hr 8N1-14K4)
email:

Internet: joep@htsa.hva.nl

Fidonet:  Joep Grooten@2:281/218.10
          (I cannot reply via Fido so please use this address only if you
           want to tell me something and don't need a reply...)



LEGAL STUFF
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POWERCHAT IS FREEWARE.  IT MAY BE FREELY DISTRIBUTED AS LONG AS THE PACKAGE
IS STILL IN IT'S ORIGINAL FORM.  ALL FILES IN THIS PACKAGE ARE, UNLESS
OTHERWISE NOTED, COPYRIGHT (C) DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE.

THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS".  NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE,
CURRENTNESS,  OR  OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION, AND ALL USE
IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.  NEITHER DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE NOR THE AUTHOR(S) ASSUME
ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION.  NEITHER DIGITAL INTELLIGENCE NOR THE AUTHOR(S)
ARE  OBLIGED  TO  REMOVE  BUGS  OR CREATE UPDATES.  IF YOU DON'T AGREE WITH
THESE  TERMS,  DO  NOT  USE  THIS  SOFTWARE.   BY  USING  THIS SOFTWARE YOU
AUTOMATICALLY AGREE TO THESE TERMS.



THE HISTORY OF DLGFDF
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??-???-?? V0.0 Well, not really a program. A simple scriptfile that was
               sorted afterwards. Not very useful.

??-???-?? V1.0 A small program that scanned the entire FILE: directory tree
               and produced an ASCII list of double files (did not read
               file.dat filelist but scanned directories and skipped .fd
               files, indentified double files by comparing the first 4
               chars). (never released)

24-Oct-94 V2.0 Completely rewritten. This time it has a GUI, reads file.dat
               files for maximum speed etc. etc. (first release)