This is an update to the PC Magazine Utility DCOMPRES/PCMANAGE.  There
have been a number of bug fixes and other upgrades made to this package
to turn it into the current version, Version 1.1.

A few areas still need to be fixed, however.  They'll be fixed in a future
upgrade.  If you find that you are using this utility and access to your
files is being denied for any reason or that the compressed file is not
decompressing properly, here's what you do:

1)      Reboot your system without DCOMPRES running.
2)      Run DCOMPRES using the /i or -i option. This causes DCOMPRES
        to ignore the INDEX.CMP when trying to determine if a file
        has been compressed.  The overhead of using the /i or -i
        option is not zero, however, since the first few bytes of the
        file (all files) must be read into DCOMPRES.  In reality, since
        you're probably going to be reading or writing to the file
        anyway, chances there will be little impact.  Not a bad idea to
        always run DCOMPRES with the "ignore" option set, depending on
        what applications you run and whether it adversely affects
        your disk acces times.
3)      To recover a compressed file, type "COPY filename NUL". This
        should decompress the file.

Make sure that your CONFIG.SYS specifies at least 40 files (FILES=40
should be the line you include in your CONFIG.SYS to enable this).

Certain programs may not work properly with DCOMPRES, including some versions
of some popular word processors; Word Perfect is a particular problem spot
for some users.  Make a backup first!


DCOMPRES:
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1)       Now reads the exclude file (C:\DCOMPRES.EXL) and will not
        operate on any matching member, including directory entries.
        No INDEX.CMP will be created in an excluded directory.

2)      Follows attributes properly

3)      Keeps date and file time when decompressing a file

4)      No longer tries to decompress files that are not compressed

5)      Works with DOS 2.x

PCMANAGE:
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1)      Reads a file called "C:\DCOMPRES.INC" to determine what
        directories it should examine and access.  Each line is a
        directory entry.  If the last character on a line is a '+',
        then all subdirectories under this directory *and* that
        directory will be examined:  C:\+ will cause the entire C:
        drive to be accessed as required.  If the include file is
        there, then the -p switch is ignored.  The exclude file
        contents are still used to throw out matching files.

2)      All root directory files are ignored and will not be
        compressed.



Reporting problems:

If DCOMPRES and PCMANAGE do not work properly for you, there may be
something specific to the configuration of your computer (the disk
structure, the version of the operating system, the phase of the moon,
whatever!).  We'd like to fix that problem, if it can be fixed.  Please
report problems directly to PC Magazine, either by regular mail (address
such mail to Technical Editor, PC Magazine, 1 Park Avenue, New York, New
York 10016, Attention:DCOMPRES) or by electronic mail in the Utilities
Forum of PCMagNet.  Electronic mail is *always* answered, paper mail
gets lost quite frequently.

Updates will always be made available first in the Libraries directly
affiliated with the Utilities Forum of PCMagNet.   It's always a good
idea to check if a new version of a utility is available in the Libraries
of the Utilities Forum of PC MagNet before reporting a potential problem:
it may have already been fixed.