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                                EZ-Copy Lite
                              by EZX Corporation

  EZ-Copy Lite  was  written by  MaeDae Enterprises  based  on  FastCopy  by
  Systems, Software, Support of Houston, TX.

  EZ-Copy Lite  turns your computer into a high speed  diskette  duplicating
  machine  equalling  the  performance of many dedicated  hardware  diskette
  duplicators costing thousands of dollars.   Comments  or  suggestions  for
  improving EZ-Copy Lite will be appreciated.
     
  EZ-Copy Lite requires  an  IBM PC or compatible with 640K of RAM.  Display
  adapters  known  to  work with EZ-Copy Lite are the  IBM monochrome (MDA),
  color (CGA),  enhanced  graphics (EGA),  and  video  graphics  array (VGA)
  adapters.

  EZ-Copy Lite supports  160K, 180K, 320K, and 360K format 5 1/4 inch disks.
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  You are currently using the EZ-Copy On-Line Manual.

  Normal commands:
  
  Escape -- Escape from the on-line manual.
  Home -- First page of the on-line manual.
  End -- Last page of the on-line manual.
  PgUp -- Previous page (will wrap from first page to last page).
  PgDn -- Next page (will wrap from last page to first page).
  Any key -- Proceed  thru  the  manual  one page at a  time,  exit  on-line
             manual after the last page.


  Possible errors:
  
  1. No manual screen defined for your selected area.
  2. Couldn't find EZCLMAN.TXT.   Are both the manual (EZCLMAN.TXT) and  the
     index  (EZCLMAN.INX)  in   the   subdirectory   specified   under   the
     installation portion  of EZ-Copy?   Use  the  installation  portion  of
     EZ-Copy Lite to set up a new default help/manual path.
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  General help for all menus:
  
  This menu is broken up into two basic windows.   The  window  at  the  top
  of  your screen shows several options to choose from.   The window at  the
  bottom  of  the  screen expands on what  will  occur  if  you  choose  the
  highlighted option (the one that has a different background color).
     
  Options may be selected in one of two ways.   You  can  either  press  the
  first letter of the desired command  or  move the highlight bar  over  the
  desired option and press enter.   To move the  highlight  bar  use  either
  the space bar, up arrow, down arrow, left arrow, or right arrow.   You can
  also use home to move to the first top line item on the menu.

  Using the first letter of a command only works in the  ACTIVE  window.  If
  you  don't have any pulldown then the active window  is  the  top  window.
  Once you pulldown one of the options that becomes the active window.   You
  must use one of the commands in the pulldown once it is active.    You can
  always  use Escape to back out of the pulldown and return to the top menu.
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  You  are  now  using  the EZ-Copy  Lite  Main Menu.   From  here  you  can
  access  the main functional  areas  of  EZ-Copy.   Refer  to  the  On-Line
  Manual to get a feel for what a fully featured diskette duplicator can do.

  Please note that an abbreviated directory window will appear in the middle
  of your screen as soon as a valid source diskette has been loaded. It will
  show the diskette volume label (if any) and the first four file names.

  We have tried to design EZ-Copy to let you get your job done  quickly  and
  easily.  Please feel free to forward any suggestions for improvement to us
  at EZX Corporation, Attn: EZ-Copy Lite Author.
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  Drive  was  not ready for read/write.   Please ensure you have a floppy in
  the drive and the drive door is closed.

  Sometimes on very fast AT compatible computers with 1.2 Mb diskette drives
  the drive can't respond quickly enough.   In this case try  the  operation
  again  or  add  a  utility  to  modify the timeout on the drive.   Several
  programs are available to fix this disk drive timeout problem.

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  An error was detected  while trying to read your source diskette.   Please
  ensure the diskette is inserted in the specified drive and that the  drive
  door is closed.  Also you might try to take the diskette out and re-insert
  it back into the drive.   Sometimes the diskette isn't centered  correctly
  within the disk drive.

  The  source  was not loaded so you will not be able to  make  any  copies.

  Only standard 160K,  180K,  320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.

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  EZ-Copy Lite  could not save the diskette in memory to the diskette in the
  designated drive.

  Please ensure:    1. The diskette isn't write protected.
                    2. There really is a  diskette in the destination drive.
                    3. There is no obvious physical damage to the  diskette.
                    4. You aren't trying to save to a 1.2 Mb diskette  in  a
                       360 Kb disk drive.
                    5. You don't have any disk cache software that is trying
                       to buffer writes to your floppy drive.
                    6. You  really do have the specified destination  drive.

  This error may be generated on some hard disk based systems where you boot
  from the hard disk.  Try  booting from a floppy containing your DOS.   The
  problem may go away.   We have seen this happen with certain  versions  of
  DOS, specifically Compaq DOS 3.31 and IBM PC DOS 4.0.  We will continue to
  research the problem and provide an update ASAP!

  The  next help screen  will provide a detailed explaination of  the  error
  codes.
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  Error codes:

 Code                        Description
   

    1  Bad command: invalid request made to diskette controller
    2  Bad address mark: sector ID marking invalid or not found
    3  Write protect error: attempt to write on protected diskette
    4  Bad sector: requested sector not on diskette
    8  DMA failure
    9  DMA boundary error: attempt to DMA outside 64K area
   16  Bad CRC: diskette read found invalid parity check of data
   32  Controller failed: diskette controller malfunction
   64  Bad seek: move to requested track failed
  128  Time out: drive did not respond

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  A map of your diskette  is laid out before you.   Any  cluster  with  a  *
  contains information.   Any  cluster with a . doesn't contain information.

  Information on how the clusters relate to absolute sides, tracks, sectors,
  etc. can be obtained by using the  drive status option  under the  utility
  section of EZ-Copy Lite.

  Only standard 160K,  180K,  320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.
  If  you get  an  invalid drive type  message  then  the  diskette  may  be
  formatted  in  a  720K, 1.2M,  or 1.44M format.   These  formats  are  not
  supported.

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  This screen shows you a lot of technical information that  probably  seems
  very confusing at first.   DOS uses all this information and more to  keep
  track of information stored on floppy diskettes.

  As  the  IBM PC and DOS has evolved over the last  few years  so  has  the
  formats of the media used in the computer.  This has caused a large number
  of formats for the media.   EZ-Copy Lite uses the following drive types to
  track this.

  0  320K  Double sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track
  1  160K  Single sided, 40 track, 8 sectors per track
  2  360K  Double sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track
  3  180K  Single sided, 40 track, 9 sectors per track

  Other information displayed on this page will need to be looked  up  in  a
  DOS technical reference manual.   You can easily obtain a book  containing
  this information from your local computer store.

  Only standard 160K,  180K,  320K, and 360K diskette formats are supported.
  If  you get  an  invalid drive type  message  then  the  diskette  may  be
  formatted  in  a  720K, 1.2M,  or 1.44M format.   These  formats  are  not
  supported.
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  You must first load a diskette before you can save it.   Use the load disk
  option to load a diskette.

  Did you have a disk error on the previous read?  Only diskettes which have
  been read into memory can be written back out.

  If  you  are using this option to format diskettes first  format  a  clean
  master  diskette  using  your DOS.  Load that diskette into  EZ-Copy Lite.
  Turn the forced format option on for best results.   You can now  save  as
  many copies of the diskette as desired.   The result  is the same as using
  DOS's format command but is faster.

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  You  must first load a diskette before you can do a directory of it.   Use
  the load disk option to load a diskette.

  The  in-memory directory command looks at the diskette image stored in RAM
  and generates a directory from it instead of re-reading the diskette. This
  is much faster and more convient for the user.

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  EZ-Copy Lite  can't legally format diskettes without  violating  copyright
  laws.   Copyrighted  information  is  stored  on  the boot tracks of  each
  diskette.   So we are forced to perform the format in two steps using  the
  DOS FORMAT program that came with the DOS for your computer.

  Step 1: Format a diskette using the  DOS FORMAT  command.   See  your  DOS
          manual for details.

  Step 2: Load and copy the freshly formatted diskette just as you would any
          other using EZ-Copy Lite.   Use the forced format option for  best
          compatibility with other machines.

  Thats all there is to it.

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  Use  of  this  option   is  highly  recommended  for  companies  producing
  diskettes  which  need  to be read on the widest range of  computers.   By
  forcing  the  format of a diskette you guarantee that data  is  laid  down
  cleanly  on the new tracks.   If  you simply write over old  data  without
  reformatting  the  diskette it can cause some problems  with 1.2 Mb floppy
  drives.  The 1.2 Mb drives are very picky on the AT.   By reformatting the
  floppy it helps readability.

  Use  of the  forced format option will cause the copy  operation  to  take
  about 50% longer than saving to a formatted floppy without forced format.
  If you  are  constantly  saving  to  blank  unformatted  diskettes  it  is
  strongly recommended that you set the default at  forced format.   Without
  forced format EZ-Copy Lite first tries to write to  the diskette,  if that
  fails it will then set forced format to on for  this  one copy  only.  You
  can save the one or two seconds test time by telling EZ-Copy Lite  to just
  go ahead and format the floppy without testing to see if the  diskette  is
  already formatted.

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  This  option  allows  you to  define the default  path for  accessing  the
  on-line manual and context sensitive help.   Make  sure  you  include  the
  index files  (.INX)  along with the help and manual  files  (.TXT) in  the
  specified directory.

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  This option alows you to enable/disable the  sound  or  beeps  on  errors.
  Some  people  find  programs  that beep on errors to  be annoying  (me for
  one).   This option  will  allow you  to  disable  ALL  warning  beeps  in
  EZ-Copy Lite.

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  This menu allows you to change all the colors used in  EZ-Copy  Lite.   To
  change a default color - first use the up or down arrow key to select  the
  color, then type in the new color.   When you have changed all the  colors
  press Ctrl+D to display these colors in a  sample  window.   As  with  all
  installation options,  these changes will not be used until you choose the
  retain option on the main menu.   This allows you to experiment  with  the
  installation options  and then not have to lose your original defaults.
   
  Please  keep  in  mind  the  foreground  text  colors  can  be  0-15,  the
  background 0-7. If you choose a text color the same as a background  color
  then the text will disappear.  You may notice some of your installed color
  combinations  result  in  invisible lines  on  the  Ctrl+D  popup  window.
  Please be careful not to choose this color for one of your text colors!!

  Note:  For  many of the EZ-Copy installable options and  user  inputs  you
  will  see a prompt containing the characters  .   If  you  count  the
  number of 's you will find the maximum number of characters that  can  be
  entered.   Also  Escape is used throughout EZ-Copy to signal "I want out".
  Press Enter, up arrow, down arrow, or whatever  is  asked for to enter the
  desired value.   Escape  will  throw away any  immediate  changes and  get
  you out of the area you are in.
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  Please  note  that  the background color (0-7) is one digit long  and  the
  foreground color (0-15) is two digits long.   That is why you will see the
  input  prompt  (the  s) change it's  width as you go between the  colors.

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  This screen shows the possible combinations of  colors  in  EZ-Copy  Lite.

  If you are using a non IBM display adapter you may have to "play" with the
  colors to get a pleasing combination.   EZ-Copy  defaults to  colors  that
  work  well  with the  IBM Color Graphics Adapter,  IBM  Enhanced  Graphics
  Adapter, and IBM Monochrome Display Adapter.

  On  some  monochrome  display  adapter  clones  you  may  need  to alter a
  foreground text color to get the background to change intensity.

  The default combination of colors will work on any 100% IBM PC  compatible
  display adapter!

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  EZ-Copy  Lite  allows  the help & manual paths,  program colors,  etc.  to
  be saved in a configuration file.   If no configuration file is  specified
  on the command line (ex. C:>EZCL MyConfg.CNF)  when you  call  up  EZ-Copy
  then EZ-Copy will use the default name of EZCL.CNF.

  You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to  load.   You
  may have several configuration files saved under different names.

  Example:   BW.CNF (for black and white composite monitors  attached  to  a
  composite color card), etc.

  Please make sure that the  configuration file you are  asking  EZ-Copy  to
  use is really an EZ-Copy configuration file!

  Remember you can always press ESC if you got into this area by accident.

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  EZ-Copy Lite allows the default help/manual paths, program colors, etc  to
  be saved in a configuration file.   If no configuration file is  specified
  on the command line (ex. C:>EZCL MyConfg.CNF)  when you  call  up  EZ-Copy
  then EZ-Copy will use the default name of EZCL.CNF.

  You are being asked for the name of the configuration file to save all the
  program defaults to.  You may have several configuration files saved under
  different names.

  Examples:  BW.CNF  (for black and white composite monitors attached  to  a
  composite color card), etc.

  Please  remember  you can always press ESC  if you got into this  area  by
  accident.

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