DiskBase 5 ReadMe ================= This file contains the following information: 1. Brief description 2. Installation 3. Uninstallation 4. Price 5. Trial use licence 6. Distribution License 7. Contact More information can be found in DiskBase Help. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Brief description -------------------- DiskBase is disk cataloging program. Enables to store names of files and folders from a disk (floppy, CD-ROM, ZIP etc.) to a database with powerful search capabilities. Names in archives like ZIP, RAR, ARJ can be extracted and stored too. A description can be attached to any folder or file in the database. The description can be made either manually, or constructed automatically from the file contents. Unlike other disk cataloging programs that show disk contents as one long flat list of files, DiskBase offers common user interface with a tree and a list of files in the current folder displayed. There is also no need to install any database engine in order to run the program. Exists in 16-bit version for Windows 3.1x and 32-bit version for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. Long file names are supported in the 32-bit version. Please note that this program is distributed as a shareware and you may use it for a one-month evaluation period only. If you find it useful and want to continue using it after that period, you must purchase it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Installation --------------- The program is distributed in two files: SETUPxx.EXE and DSKBASxx.ZIP, where xx is 16 or 32 (indicates 16-bit or 32-bit version). Do not unzip the DSKBASxx.ZIP file manually; the SETUPxx.EXE program unpacks the contents of the DSKBASxx.ZIP file into a specified folder and creates icons in Program Manager or items in the Startup Menu. Note for Windows 3.1x: The program requires the "ctl3dv2.dll" file to be present in the \windows\system folder. This file is not a standard part of Windows, but it is added to Windows by most of the recent Windows programs, so it is highly probable that you already have it installed. If not, the installation program SETUPxx.EXE will not run and will announce that this file is missing. Then you must manually copy the file into the System folder of Windows. You will find this file in the "ctl3dv2.zip" file. This applies only for Windows 3.1x, not for 95s and NTs. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Uninstallation ----------------- The installation does not require anything else than the above stated: normally it does not put any files into the Windows system directory, it does not modify any system profile file like WIN.INI nor the Registration Database. So it is very easy to remove the program from your PC, if you do not like it. You just delete the icons (or menu items) and then the folder with the program. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Price -------- The price for 1 license is $29. There are significant discounts for multiple licenses. See program Help for details and ordering information. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Trial Use License -------------------- DiskBase is not freeware and it is not in the public domain. It is sold through the shareware market. As such, you may evaluate the program for a period of one month free of charge. If after that time you decide to continue using DiskBase, you must purchase it (i.e. register it). The only exception is using the unregistered version of DiskBase for viewing the contents of read-only Diskbase databases, created by a third party. Such use is legal without any time limitation and any requirement to purchase it. DiskBase and its accompanying documentation are protected by the Copyright law and also by international treaty provisions. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this package, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Zdenek Martinek, the author of the program. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Distribution License ----------------------- The distribution requirements are the following: - Only unregistered version of DiskBase (herein called the Software) can be distributed. It is expressly forbidden to distribute any registered or cracked version of the Software. - Only complete and unmodified package of the Software can be distributed. Neither the distributor nor anybody else is permitted to make any extraction, modification and repacking of the package contents, created by the author of DiskBase. The only permitted modification is adding a short zip comment about the distributor to the zip file. - If the user pays for the Software, he/she must be clearly informed, that the payment is just for distribution, not for any right to use the Software. Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed above is hereby authorized. No explicit permission from the author needs to be acquired in order to make authorized distribution of the Software. Any other copying or distribution is unauthorized and as such is expressly forbidden. You may be held legally responsible for any copyright infringement which has been encouraged or caused by the failure to abide by the terms of this License. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Zdenek Martinek, the author of the Software. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. Contact ---------- DiskBase home WWW server on Internet is: http://www.diskbase.com E-mail: info@diskbase.com More information can be found in DiskBase Help.