
Advanced Disk Catalog: README
=============================

Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation
  Release notes
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
-------------------

Program Archive Name:
  adc120.zip
Program Name:
  Advanced Disk Catalog
Program Version:
  1.20 Beta 1
Program Release Date:
  December 10, 1997
Program Description:
  Catalog system - organize your disks, folders and files
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0
Software type:
  Shareware ($20)


Company information
-------------------

Company Name:
  Elcom Ltd
Contact E-mail Address:
  kitten@transcom.mipt.ru
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.elcomsoft.com
Contact Postal Address:
  2-171 generala Antonova St.
  Moscow 117279 Russia
Contact Telephone/Fax Number:
  (+7 095) 7923141


Description
-----------

Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC) is an easy to use tool with
explorer-like interface which allows you to catalog the drives:
floppy disks, hard drives (including network ones), optical
disks, CD-ROMs, ZIP disks and other media.

With ADC you are able to:

	- Organize volumes, folders and files into categories;
	- Add comment to each file, folder and disk;
	- Analyse ZIP, ARJ, RAR and CAB archives;
	- Search for files/folders using file name or your own
          comments (with wildcards), limiting the search
	  results by date, size and category;
	- Search for files in archives;
	- Update volume information (with saving comments and
	  categories);
	- Generate the reports which can be imported from the
	  programs like Microsoft Excel;
	- Search for duplicated files;
	- Import descriptions from files like "file_id.diz",
	  "files.bbs", "descript.ion" etc.;
	- Extract description from executable modules (EXE,
	  DLL etc.);
	- Compare catalogued disk with actual
	  (new files, changed files, modified files);
	- ... and more.

ADC written totally in C++, doesn't use any database engines and
so very fast. The database generated by ADC is very compact.


Installation
------------

Important! If you've got ADC not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

We recommend you to uninstall the previous version of ADC (if
you have one) from your computer before installing this one. You
can do this via "Add/Remove Programs" Control Panel applet. If
you'll get the notification that the ADC folder is not empty, be
careful when removing it: it may contain the .cat files (the
databases created by ADC) you may wish to keep.

To install ADC, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
and the components to install.

Note: the Advanced Disk Catalog may not run correctly if the new
version of common control library (comctl32.dll) is not
installed; the program requires version 4.70 or later. This new
version is already available in Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2
and Windows NT 4.0; you may also have it if you're using
Internel Explorer 3.x or later. The installation program of
the Advanced Disk Catalog checks what version do you have, and
it'll ask you to update this file if it is old. If it will
happen, just run the "com32upd.exe" to update your system;
reboot the computer and start the setup program again. For your
convenience, we're distributing "com32upd.exe" together with
the Advanced Disk Catalog setup files; it is also available
from Microsoft FTP site:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/COM32UPD.EXE

Also, please take into account, that this version of ADC, if
unregistered, cannot work with databases which contain more than
five disks (in the previous releases, there was a limitation on
the total size of files in the database -- 2Gb). If you've
created such database in version prior to 1.20, you'll still be
able to load it, but your changes could not be saved. As a
workaround (if you're still evaluating the previous version),
you can start the old version of ADC and split your database
into a few parts, each with 5 disks or less. Sorry for
inconvenience.

And another important note. This beta version is international
(and so supports 14 languages, including English), but we don't
recommend you to use it with any settings other than English.
The reason is: some messages, menu items and dialog texts
(specific to version 1.20) are not translated to other
languages; so, they'll be still in English. Plus, some messages
have been changed from previous versions, and the old text you'll
see (with non-English language set) may	confuse you. The final
release 1.20, of course, will not have this problem.


History
-------

See "history.txt" file.

Registration
------------

See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
---------------------

See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
-----------------

If you've got a problem, please contact Mr.Vladimir Katalov at:
  
  Phone: 	+7 095 7923141
  Fax: 		+7 095 7923141
  E-mail: 	kitten@transcom.mipt.ru (preferred)
		vladimir@technologist.com
		vladimir.katalov@usa.net

Please inform us about the following:

  - Advanced Disk Catalog version (from "About" dialog)
  - Advanced Disk Catalog serial number (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get Advanced Disk Catalog (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/NT version (including service packs and other
    fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q158/2/38.htm

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.
