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Floppy Image Creator  ver. 1.4.1
Copyright John Maher 1999

http://www.geocities.com/johnno_ann

Make image files of all those floppy's and store them on your hard drive or transfer them to CD-R.
You then have a backup ready to restore to floppy disk whenever the need may arise.
Floppy Image Creator will work with all standard format floppy's IE: 1.44MB 3.5",  720KB 3.5",
1.2MB 5.25", 60KB 5.25".

Floppy Image Creator is freeware and as such may be copied, distributed  and used free of charge,providing the following conditions are complied with.
All the files listed below must be included UNCHANGED with any and all copies made 
of the program.

These files must be included UNCHANGED.
readme.txt        (This file.)
FicHelp.txt          (Instructions on using the program.)
flpimg141.exe      (The program file.)



INSTALLING: (If the file is in ZIP format (flpimg141.zip))
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1.   Unzip flpimg141.zip to a folder of your choice.

That's it!! The program does not add ANY files anywhere else or make any changes to
any other part of the system.

 
USING THE PROGRAM:
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Please read the program help file "flphelp.txt".


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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Any system running Windows 95/98/Me or NT should have no trouble running this program.


FEEDBACK:
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Any suggestions or bugs please email me: johnno_ann@yahoo.com 


THE LEGAL STUFF.

Floppy Image Creator is provided on an "as is" basis without warranty of any
kind expressed or implied. In no event will the author be liable to you for
any damages, including any lost profits, lost savings or other incidental 
or consequential damages arising out of the use of or inability to use the
program, even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such 
damages, or for any claim by any other party.



New in 1.4.1
                    The way that a description is entered has changed. Now the 
                    description is visible at all times and may be edited at any time, without
                    the need to check an option.(In fact the item has ben removed from the menu)
	The program help is no longer built into the program,but is in it's own file
  	
New in 1.4
	Includes support for Windows NT. (Tested with NT 4.0)
	Fixed a couple of small bugs mainly related to display file names.
	Now has the option to first check a floppy for bad sectors before
	restoring an image. It is essential that a any disk used in restoring
	an image is free of bad sectors, even if the disk has just been 		                                                     formated and bad sectors marked as such by the format program, it
	should NOT be used.
                    NOTE:
                               The image compression has been removed from this version.
                    For some reason that I have not yet been able to pinpoint,the compression algorithm
                    occasionally seemed to be causing some problems with the images,so because of this and
                    because the compression ratio was not all that great anyway,I have removed it from
                    the program for the time being. However,existing compressed images are still able to be                                 expanded, so images made by earlier versions of the program can still be used by
                    this version. 
		

New in 1.3  
                    Now gives the option to include a description of the image file.
	Go to  "Options->Include Description"	
                    The description can be up to 256 chars. in length  and may  be edited at any time
                     by opening the file and choosing  " Options->Edit Description".                            	                                  Image files created by versions 1.2 and 1.2.1 may also have a 
                     description added to them by this method.

New in 1.2.1 
                     Fixed a minor bug that caused the "File already exists"  warning to display even
                     when only restoring an image and a display bug that  caused the
                     "Save Image/Restore Image" display to cover the options  box when the window
                      was maximized.

New in 1.2  
                     Added image compression.
	 (Although this is still not great, depending on the compressed state of files on the disk)
                         
