                            Diamond Edge V1.04
                      Release Date: March 20, 1993

   Congratulations! You have just purchased the most advanced disk 
management system available for your Atari ST. Before you can begin using 
Diamond Edge, you must complete the program installation procedure.  Be sure 
that your master disk is enabled for writing, then double-click on 
INSTALL.PRG and answer a few simple questions(Name, Address, etc..) and 
then select INSTALL from the program menu.  That's all there is to it! 

   To ensure that you get the most out of your investment,  I STRONGLY urge 
you to carefully read your manual.  Although Diamond Edge has been 
designed for extreme ease of use and has online help for every program 
function, the depth of power and flexibility becomes much clearer after 
reading the manual. Many tricks and tips to help you get more out of the 
program are explained as well as the product support procedures.  It is
EXTREMELY important that you fill out your owners registration card and
promptly return it to Oregon Research Associates.  This is required for
you to obtain the high level of product support that you deserve.

   On behalf of Oregon Research Associates, I would like to wish you 
faster drive performance and happy endings to all of your disk problems.

Bob Luneski
Author Diamond Edge

Diamond Edge Emergency Disk
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Diamond Edge is distributed on a single sided disk to accomodate those
who only have single sided drives.  To make an effective 
emergency disk you should copy all of the files on the 
distribution disk to a double sided disk after you complete the 
installation procedure.  This is necessary so your emergency 
disk will have enough free space to save the disk and SCSI 
information files.

Extra Folders for TOS  
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      Just because you have a TOS past 1.4 does not mean that you are 
immune to operating system memory pool problems.  Although the limits 
have been extended, they have not been eliminated and you can still run 
into problems.  Disk Utility programs stress the operating system memory 
pool more than other programs by accessing many more folders in a single 
session than would be accessed during normal use.  

   If you experience problems(even if you don't) we recommend you run 
FOLDRXXX.PRG with several hundred folders or add additional folders through 
your hard disk driver configuration program.  This recommendation is 
regardless of the version of TOS that you have.

A Note to TT owners
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It is very important to have the latest versions fo hard disk drviers
for this machine.  Contact Atari or ICD for more information.  You should
not set the TT Load or TT Ram flags on your hard disk driver.

A Note to Data Diet Users
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   In general we recommend that you turn Data Diet OFF during 
while running Diamond Edge.

   If you are using Data Diet from Double Click Software be sure to read
pages 25-27 of the Data Diet manual about the Find First/Find Next setting.
If you are going to perform any validation file validation functions, then
before running Diamond Edge you must either turn Data Diet OFF or select
FIND NEXT FILE: ORIGINAL SIZE.  Data Diet normally DOES NOT return the 
correct uncompressed file size from the operating system call used to 
determine a file's size.  This will cause problems with ANY program that 
relies on the official Atari documented behavior of the operating system call.

   Some other file copy/backup programs use a "read until End Of File(EOF)" 
method and do not need(but should) to know the actual file size.  However, 
this method that can yeild an incomplete copy with no error message in the 
event of a disk error or corrupted file.  All you really know is that the 
operating system reached an EOF marker(FFFF in the FAT Table), you don't 
know for certain that you have all of the file.  I have personally 
experienced at least a dozen such instances where the operating system has 
failed to read the entire file as a result of a corrupted FAT table yet 
reported no error.  You would then have a corrupted file and a false 
sense of security. For absolute data integrity, Diamond Edge requires 
knowledge of the actual file size so that if can determine that all of the 
file has been really been read during a File Validation process.


Desk Icons for TOS 2.0x and above  
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Mr. Robert Morrow has generously donated the icons appearing in the file 
ORAICONS.RSC. Use them with TOS 2.0x and above.  They make an attractive 
addition to your desktop. 


Are you in possession of stolen merchandise?
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   Diamond Edge is commercial software.  If you have not paid for this
software and you are reading this illegally, then please reconsider your 
actions.  You are literally stealing food from my childrens mouths.
In addition to being illegal and morally wrong to steal,  you will 
be personally responsible for the death of the Atari ST and small 
software companies like Oregon Research Associates.  Think about it.



