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                            SHAREWARE    
                       VERSION  1.03 Beta
                   Super Copy Utility - SCOPY     
                            edited by  
                          David A. Mary  
             (C) Copyright 1989,1990 by David Risack    
                               and    
               Federated Telecommunications, inc.    
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SHAREWARE NOTICE    
----------------    
 
 
     This program is currently distributed as shareware, this   
doesn't mean that it's free.  If you find this program useful,  
please send a donation of $20 or anything you can afford.  If you
don't find the program useful, please pass it on to someone 
else.  This initial donation will entitle you to product 
registration, notification of updates and new products, and to 
ask as many questions as you like over the Micro-Fone BBS.  I've
spent a lot of time writing this program, and as much as I like 
to write programs I had to realize that I cannot survive on 
programming alone, money seems to be a factor unfortunately; a 
lot of it just to buy all the soda I drank while I sat in front 
of my computer for hours programming and pondering what insane 
idea got me started on this thing.  So please help me out!    
       
   Thanks,    
     Dave Risack  
    
     Send any donations, comments, questions, useful criticism's,
and suggestions on improvements, or suggestions for new products 
to:    
    
    Federated Telecommunications, inc.     
    Software Engineering Division 
    99 Stephenville Parkway  
    Edison, New Jersey  08820    
    
     Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope along with
your donation payable by check or money order to Federated  
Telecommunications.  This is a donation, and certainly not  
required, but it does help pay the bills and guarantee a swift  
reply as time permits.  All donations are non-refundable.  
For BBS support, dial into the Micro-Fone Bulletin Board System.  
      Metuchen, New Jersey  
     (201) 494-3649  
  
NOTE:  Although I would recommend this board highly, the Micro-   
     Fone Bulletin Board system NOT affiliated with Federated     
   Telecommunications, inc.  You must leave mail for David  
       Risack in order to get a reply.  Requests will be answered 
      as time permits.  
       
       See Appendix C for complete ADAPSO's Thou Shall not Dup    
  
  
  
                              - i -
  
  
                        Table of Contents  
                        ---===========---  
  
  
  
Chapter   Title                                              Page 
 
-------   -----------------------------------                ---- 
  
          Introduction                                         1 
 
   1      Setup and Installation                               3  
 
   2      Basic Commands                                       5 
   3      Trouble Shooting                                     6

   4      Reading the Display                                  7

   5      Technical Info                                       8
  
          Appendix A  - Function quick reference 
   
          Appendix B  - Standard disk configurations
  
          Appendix C  - ADAPSO 
   
          Appendix D  - Other uses of SCOPY







   
 
 





 



   
NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES    
--------------------------------------    
 
     In no event shall David Risack and/or Federated    
Telecommunications, inc. be liable for ANY damages whatsoever   
(Including, without limitation, damages for loss of business    
profits, business interruption, or other pecuniary loss) arising 
out of the use or inability to use this Federated 
Telecommunications, inc. product.  Use this product at your own 
risk; you the user are solely responsible for any and all uses of
the product.  Illegal use of this product is forbidden.    

INTRODUCTION    
------------    
 
 
     The problem with copy protection is that it punishes the   
people who made the investment by not allowing them to back up  
their valuable software.  You are given the right by law to make
archival backup copies for your own personal use.  (Your rights 
may vary from state to state, so please check your local statutes 
before making backups.)    
     This program is intended to safeguard your investment, by 
allowing backup copies of some protected software.  It is not 
intended to be used for illegal purposes. There are many copy 
programs available on the market, but no purely software product
gives the user the flexibility and power that SCOPY does. The 
only thing we've seen that surpasses SCOPY is the Option Board 
(Option Board is copyright by Central Point Software, inc.)  Of 
course you must pay over a hundred dollars for the special 
hardware AND software.  While we do not claim this program comes
even close to the capabilities of the Option Board, We do claim 
that it is your option to try before the Option Board.  If this 
software can't copy your IBM software, then you definitely need 
an option board to copy it.  This program is not intended as a 
substitute for the normal copy program, as it is relatively slow on
the older slower processors. We make up for this slowness by 
copying anything that was produced by a standard disk controller. 
   
     Super Copy Utility goes beyond what most copy software 
does, in terms of looking for data.  If you tell it to, and you 
have the time, SCOPY will search for anything and everything that
can  possibly be read by a standard disk controller.  It will 
take all of the data and make analysis files and a data file on 
your hard disk, that contain all the information necessary to 
copy the disk.  This allows you to copy non-standard tracks and 
sectors.  It copies disks by doing a sector by sector search for
data.  Since this process is relatively slow, you might wish to 
make a copy of the disk as best you can with a standard diskcopy,
and then using SCOPY to copy over only the tracks that you got 
errors on, or suspect of being non-standard.  Using analysis 
files you can even create your own copy-protection scheme, and 
make your own copy protected disks! 
                             - 1 -  
Super Copy Utility offers you all of this and more!    
 
     Please read the rest of the manual carefully.  If you have 
a problem with a particular disk, write to us, indicating what 
type of computer your using, what type of disk your trying to 
copy (5-1/4" [360K,800K,1.2M], 3.5" [720K,1.44M]) , what type of 
format it has, what is the name of the software and name of the 
company that produces the software, and any relevant other info 
about the format or special messages that SCOPY produced in it's
report file, along with your SASE and a $3 dollar donation.  If 
one of the messages produced by SCOPY says that you will most 
likely need SPECIAL HARDWARE to copy the disk then it's probably
not worth writing, as the disk can probably only be copied with 
special hardware and software.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             - 2 - 
 
Chapter 1 - SETUP and INSTALLATION    
---------------------------------- 
 
 
 
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS    
-------------------    
     This software should run on any IBM compatible with at  
least 256K of memory; CGA, EGA or VGA display; a Hard Disk, and 
one or two, 5 1/4" or 3.5" drives.  It will run best on 80286 and
80386 machines, though it will run normally on the slower 80186,
8088, and 8086 computers.    
    
 
Installation Instructions 
------------------------- 
 
     Copy all SCOPY files included on this disk (or Archive file)
on your hard disk in a directory called SCOPY (or any other 
suitable directory name).  Either make your own batch file or use
the one supplied to run the program.  The batch file sets the 
environment variable SCOPY equal to :    
    
   c:\SCOPY\    
    
by the command:    
    
   set SCOPY=c:\SCOPY\    
    
     Notice the spacing and the ending back slash, they are    
important.  This variable is used by SCOPY so it knows where to 
retrieve or save data files.  If you do not set the SCOPY 
variable at all, the SCOPY utility will use the current working 
directory as the default.  You will also see an error message 
after the program has loaded, stating that the program didn't 
detect the environment variable.  Once the batch file is 
complete, run SCOPY by calling the batch file. 
     The next environment variable you'll need to know about is
SERRORS.  This variable can be set equal to a number 3 to 10.  It
is the number of retries that SCOPY will try before giving up on
the read/write operation.  Note: When analyzing a disk SCOPY does
at least 6 read operations per sector, so if all of them are bad it
will try SERRORS number of times before trying the next read
operation.  So if you set the variable to it's max value 10, it
would be doing 60 read tries if all of them were bad/not-found;
this is a quite common occurence when analyzing beyond normal
sector values.  The default value when this variable is not defined
is 4 retries.  The minimum retries is 3 as this is required by BIOS
to determine if the operation was in fact bad or if it was just an
error due to timing problems.


                              - 3 -

Example command to set SERRORS:
   set SERRORS=5

     Again note the spacing, it is important.  When you first load
SCOPY it will display what the value was set to, in the status
window, if this variable was defined. 
Example file: 
 
     set SCOPY=c:\SCOPY\ 
     set SERRORS=3
     C:\SCOPY\SCOPY     
    
 
 
 
 
 
                              
 
 
































                              - 4 -

Chapter 2 - Basic Commands 
-------------------------- 
 
 
     Almost everything you can change or do can be seen or  
changed directly on the main screen.  Up and Down arrows allow 
you to move the highlighted bar to the selection of your choice. 
The left and right arrows let you change the item you selected.  On
numeric fields holding the control key and pressing the left 
arrow changes the numeric field to it's lower limit, control and
the right arrow changes the numeric field to it's upper limit. 
The filename field can be changed by pressing the left or right 
arrow keys or pressing enter, and when finished changing the 
field it can be exited by pressing the END key.   
     The message area screen will display user prompts and other
relevant information, about what you are about to do or have 
just completed.  Occasionally some information will be displayed in
this window during an operation, explaining about something 
that the program encountered during it's current operation.   
     The status screen will display information about the current
operation that is taking place;  Usually track/sector/side   
information.   
 
     The information on the left of the screen is all of the user
modifiable parameters for READ OPERATIONS.  The parmeters have
little or no effect during write operations, normally they are just
used to help determine correct information for operation status
reports (except of course for the DRIVE, FILENAME and SCOPY options
items.) 
 
 
 




















                              - 5 -
TROUBLE SHOOTING
----------------
     There have been a few problems noted, when SCOPY is run on
particular machines with a particular DOS.  Here are the ones we've
encountered:


Disk copy worked, but the disk created was unusable- General
failure error - 
------------------------------------------------------------
     We encountered this problem when running on an IBM PS/2 Models
70 and 80 under PC-DOS 3.3.  This is possibly due to a bug in the
ROM BIOS and PC-DOS, that incorrectly handles multiple sector
reads/writes.  We have been unsuccessfull at obtaining a patch from
IBM as yet, which we hope will clear up this problem.

     This problem can sometimes occur during some bad formatting
operations.  While all efforts are made to verify the information
layed down, sometimes even that isn't adequate.  You might try
letting the program re-format and copy the data onto the first
couple tracks.  This usually fixes the problem, if this is the
case.



Top 3 or 4 lines of the screen flicker during copying
-----------------------------------------------------
     This problem occurrs on some IBM compatible 8088 system, with
a CGA card.  Slower systems with CGA cards sometimes have problems
keeping the screen updated during intense scrolling operations. 
While this is quite annoying, it should not affect program
performance.
 

MEMORY ALLOCATION ERROR - SYSTEM halted
---------------------------------------
     This error can occur sometimes due to memory-resident programs
installed in the system.  Make sure you remove all resident
software, disk cacheing, etc. before trying to run SCOPY again.














                              - 6 -
Reading the information on the display
--------------------------------------

     During read operations, the status window will display the
track information with a "R>" before it meaning that it is reading. 
The ">" at the end means it is currently diagnosing this sector,
checking all possible combinations of sector types.  After
completing it will add an ending to the line usuall "F2<", for
standard IBM disk sectors.  The "F" means that the sector was
found, the "2" is the sector size (0=128, 1=256, 2=512, 3=1024,
4=2048, 5=4096, 6=8192).
     Occasionally on copy-protected disks there will be some non-
standard sectors, usually having sector size numbers other than
"2".  If you see sectors like this, it is almost a sure sign of
copy-protection.  Another thing you may see instead of just an "F"
might be an "FC" or an "FH",  followed by the sector size number. 
The "FC" means that the sector when read normally would produce a
Cyclic Redundancy error (CRC) and SCOPY should have no problem
copying it; this will almost always be because the sector size
value is non-standard.  The "FH" ending means that a HARD CRC error
has occurred; meaning that this error could only be generated by
fairly sophisticated hardware devices for copy-protection or this
error occurred because the disk sector is bad.

     User prompting messages and some special messages will appear
in in the long window on the bottom of the screen.  Operation
status information, will be displayed in the rectangular window on
the right of the screen.

























                              - 7 -





MEDIA TYPE VALUES - Displayed by the ALT-D (Examine Disk Boot -----
---------------   Sector)

65520   -    3.5"  1.44M Disk
65528   -    Should never been seen (fixed disk)
65529   -    5 1/4" 1.2M  or  3.5"  720K Disk
65532   -    5 1/4" 180K  
65533   -    5 1/4" 360K  or  8" 501K Disk
65534   -    5 1/4" 160K  or  8" 250K  or  8" 1.252M Disk
65535   -    5 1/4" 320K



SCOPY IMAGE FILE Information
----------------------------
     The first 8 bytes of the SCOPY files .ANN and .DAT files are
bytes to let SCOPY know that this is a file that it created.  This
is too keep from accidently trying to use another file as an image
file; without this information, SCOPY would happily read in any
file you specified, and use it as sector information.  The Data
file is just a big sequential data file, it's layout is only
defined by the .ANN file that goes with it;  If you mix up a
differnt .ANN file with a differnt .DAT file, the results could be
rather unpleasant to think about.
     The .ANN files contain 4 bytes of information on each sector;
it's track number, sector number, side #, and byte size (not
necessarily in that order (This information starts after the
initial 8 byte identification header.)  All the sectors that are
put in the .ANN file will be listed for you in the .RPT file in
text format for you to read.
     The .RPT file:  This file contains text information about all
of the sectors that were read correctly.  This is generally just
the track information that was displayed during the Analyze
operation; but occasionally it contains statements about certain
sectors, stating that SCOPY will not be able to copy it accurately. 
This type of error will be made known to you at the end of an
operation (usually the analyze) and will have a number other than
zero for HARD errors listed in the operation report. Refer to the
"Reading the display" section of the manual to understand what the
sector information means in the .RPT file.


  






                              - 8 -
                           APPENDIX A  
                           ----------  

SCOPY OPTIONS:
==============

IMAGE TO DISK
-------------
     Takes an image file you've already created (.ANN and .DAT
files), specified by the FILENAME option, and will make a disk
using these files on the destination drive (specified by the drive
option).  Always formats the destination disk as it copies.


ANALYSIS ONLY
-------------
     Only makes .ANN and .RPT files; does NOT read in data.  Will
overwrite existing files of the same name if they are found in the
working directory specified.


FULL IMAGE COPY
---------------
     This is the full disk copy routine; (Makes .ANN, .RPT, and
.DAT files) it first reads in the entire source disk onto your Hard
Disk, and then asks for a destination file and makes you a new disk
from the Image files.  Always formats the destination disk as it
copies.


USE ANALYSIS
------------
     Uses an existing .ANN file, specified by the FILENAME option,
to read in data from the source disk.  This is useful if somebody
gave you an analysis file that will enable you to copy a particular
disk.


FORMAT ONLY
-----------
     This option will make an initial format only! (uses the .ANN
file).  It does not copy any data.


COPY-NO FORMAT
--------------
     This option will copy only the data to the destination disk,
and will not format it.  (It is suggested that you let SCOPY format
the disk as it copies, unless this causes more problems than it's
worth).  




QUICK REFERENCE   
---------------   
   
   Up Arrow              -    Move up to next item   
 Down Arrow              -    Move down to next item   
 Left Arrow              -    Change current selection   
Right Arrow              -    Change current selection   
Ctrl-Left  Arrow         -    Change item to lower limit   
Ctrl-Right Arrow         -    Change item to upper limit   
Ctrl-Home                -    Clear Message and Status screens   
  ALT-S                  -    Save current configuration   
  ALT-D                  -    Display disk format information   
  ESCAPE                 -    Abort operation and/or leave SCOPY 
 
  END                    -    Exit filename field   
  ENTER                  -    Go to next item (or enter filename) 
   



































                           APPENDIX B  
                           ----------  
  
  
  
  
   
IBM DISK STANDARD CONFIGURATIONS   
--------------------------------   
                             
  Bytes                    Sectors   
per sector    Disk Type    per Side   Sides   Tracks   
----------   -----------   --------   -----   ------  
  
    512      180K 5-1/4"    8 or 9      1     0 - 39   
    512      360K 5-1/4"         9      2     0 - 39   
    512      800K 5-1/4"         9      2     0 - 79   
    512      1.2M 5-1/4"        15      2     0 - 79   
    512      720K 3-1/2"         9      2     0 - 79   
    512     1.44M 3-1/2"        18      2     0 - 79   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
 
  
  
                           APPENDIX C  
                           ----------  
  
  
  
ADAPSO's Thou Shalt Not Dupe    
----------------------------   
 
   
EITHER WAY IT'S WRONG   
---------------------   
 
     People who would never walk into a store and shoplift a   
software product think nothing of making several copies of the  
same software.  The results are the same.  The act just as wrong.
When it comes to unauthorized duplication of software, many  
people do not realize the costly impact on the software developer
and the customer community.  The relationship between customer  
and developer in a software transaction is one of mutual trust. 
The customer trusts the developer has produced a product that  
will deliver the desired result, performs according to  
specifications, and is properly documented and supported.  The  
developer trusts that the customer will make use of only those  
copies for which he has purchased a license, even though making 
additional, unauthorized copies is relatively easy.  Unauthorized
duplication of software violates the U.S. Copyright Law, and  
unfairly deprives software developers of revenue they are  
entitled to receive for their work.   
     Software developers find that thousands of illegal copies  
have been made by customers who either innocently believe they  
are doing wrong or simply choose to ignore the law.   
   
   
THE LAW IS CLEAR   
----------------   
Reproducing computer software without authorization violates U.S.
Copyright Law.  It is a Federal offense.  The money paid for a  
software product represents a license fee for the use of one  
copy.  It does not represent an authorization to copy.  Civil  
damages for unauthorized software copying can be as much as  
$50,000 or more and criminal penalties include fines and  
imprisonment.  Bills have been introduced in Congress to  
strengthen the law and increase penalties.   
 
 
 
 
   
   
MYTHS AND FACTS OF SOFTWARE   
---------------------------   
 
     Let's start by dispelling some myths with a few facts. 
First, software developers do not condone unauthorized copying in
order to gain market penetration.  Second, the price of software
does not make unauthorized copying justifiable.  The cost of a 
software product to a consumer represents only a small fraction 
of the publishers development and marketing costs.  Third, 
although the cost of soft-lifting is borne initially by the 
software developer, it is paid for ultimately by legitimate 
users.   
   
   
WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU   
--------------------  
  
     It's obvious that legitimate software users are paying for 
theft along with software developers.  It's obvious, too, that no
one is going to put up with it for long.  Think twice before you
ask someone to give you an illegal copy of their software.  Think
three times before you offer to do it for someone else.  Soft- 
lifting or software piracy is not only a crime; it's simply 
wrong.   
   
   
WHERE TO GET MORE INFORMATION   
-----------------------------   
 
     ADAPSO represents more than 750 corporate members that 
provide a wide spectrum of computer services and software 
including: micro, mini, and mainframe software products; 
professional software  services; batch and remote processing 
services; integrated hardware/software systems; education and 
training; and consulting.   
 
For further information or questions on software protection,  
contact ADAPSO at:  
  
         Suite 300   
         1300 North 17th Street   
         Arlington, VA  22209   
  
Or phone (703) 522-5055.   
 
 
 





                           APPENDIX D







Other uses
----------

Archival disk storage
---------------------
     You can copy disks to the image files and use Archive/compress
programs to store entire disks in archives!  You can transmit this
compressed file via modem, and if the receiver has SCOPY he/she can
generate an exact duplicate of the disk on his/her end!


Unprotects
----------
     Currently unprotect files are passed around so that users are
not hindered by copy-protection schemes.  With SCOPY, you can make
an analysis of a protected disk, and just keep the analysis file as
an unprotect (in this case copier) file.  The .ANN file is
relatively small and will then allow easy copying of the disk it
was intended for.


Copy-protection
---------------
     With knowledge of SCOPY .ANN files, special disks can be made,
that won't be able to be copied by normal DOS or copy programs. 
Currently we are considering adding many features to enhance this
use of the SCOPY program.




















Screen selection options:
-------------------------

DRIVE   
-----
     Select drive A: or B: by using the left and right arrow keys.
This will be the source/destination drive.


FILENAME
--------
     Enter up to an 8 character filename (Do not enter an
extension!) This file name will be used to make up to 3 files, with
this name (extensions .ANN, .DAT and .RPT files).  Pressing enter
on this field will let you re-enter a new file name.  After
entering the new filename press the END key.


Start Track
-----------
     Use the left and right arrow keys to change this track number
to the desired starting track (or enter the number and press
<ENTER>).


End Track
---------
     Use the left and right arrow keys to change this track number
to the desired ending track number (or enter the number and press
<ENTER>).


Sectors per side
----------------
     This is used while the current track is not within the Special
Begin/End track boundries.  This is for reading standard IBM
sectors.  Sector numbers are 1 through the number selected. 
Selection is made the same way as stated above.


Which Side
----------
     You may select side 0 only, side 1 only, or both.  This is
useful if you wish to only copy one side (this would allow you to
speed up the copying of protected disks by being able to do sides
seperately you can set parameters up so it will take less time to
analyze one side, if you know there is no protection on that side.)






Bytes per Sector
----------------
     This option can be changed using the left and right arrow keys
only.  This lets you select a DEFAULT sector size value for SCOPY
to check.  SCOPY will try this value first before doing a special
analyze looking for the sector.  This will greatly increase copy
speed, if this option is set correctly.  For almost all standard
IBM disks, this value is 512 bytes.


Start/End sectors
-----------------
     These options tell SCOPY the lowest sector number to search
for and the highest to search for, when the current track is within
the Special Begin/End Track boundries.  A full analyze would requre
you to set the START SECTOR at 0 and the END SECTOR at 255; NOTE:
This will cause SCOPY to operate on the disk for a VERY long time,
as SCOPY will try 6 reads per sector, and on a standard 720K disk
there are around 1,440 sectors; that's 8640 reads (times the error
tries option, as it retries each one of the six reads this many
times (SERRORS)), so at the default of 4 retries per error, it will
really try reading the disk 34,560 times! (Definately something to
avoid doing when you don't have a couple hours to spare; over night
is recommended if you want to try this!, although it is the most
complete method.  If the disk can be copied these setting will do
it (if you also set Special Begin/End to 0 and the last track,
respectively)).


Special Begin/End Tracks
------------------------
     When the current track number is greater than or equal to the
Begin value and the current track is less than or equal to the End
value, SCOPY will use the Start/End Sector options instead of the
"Sectors per side" option.  This basicly tells SCOPY when to start
a special analyze of the disk, and when to end.

















