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     WARNING!    WARNING!    WARNING!    WARNING!    WARNING!   WARNING!
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     These Utils are VERY powerful and can WIPE hard disk drives etc.
     DO NOT use them without fully reading the Manual (PMK-UTIL.DOC) and
     ensure you FULLY understand and FOLLOW the instructions given.
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 There follows a brief extract from the PMK manual (PMK-UTIL.DOC)
 to give you some idea of the capabilities of PMK:

   The Professional Master Key Utilities are an evolving group of programs
   designed to open the doors into your MS-DOS disks.  They give you the
   flexibility, ease of use, and power to manipulate and change your
   disks in many ways that you weren't able to previously.

   The present version of these programs, version 3.1, are written in the C
   programming language.  The programs are user friendly, fast, and very
   powerful.

   There are eight programs in the utilities.  You can run all of the
   utilities from one menu, so you won't have to remember all of the
   commands.  There is also an installation program that lets you configure
   the options and colors of the programs in any way you want.


                       Professional Master Key (PMK).

   PMK is much more than a mere sector editor.  It also edits, manipulates,
   renames, erases, and most importantly undeletes files.  The features in
   PMK include:

   -- Access any MS-DOS disk available.  Any sized floppy disk, any sized
      hard disk, any sized RAM disk, and any physical or virtual disk
      accessed through a device driver can be used.  The only limitation
      on a disk is that its sector size cannot exceed 4096 bytes and the
      number of clusters cannot exceed 32767.

   -- Access any file or sub-directory in any sub-directory on these disks.
      The status of a file or sub-directory is not important.  PMK can
      easily access all Hidden, Read-Only, and System files.

   -- Edit all sectors on a disk.  The disk is edited on a sector by sector
      basis, giving full access, either sequentially or randomly, to any
      available sector on the disk.  The editing display includes both the
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      disk or file.

   -- Quickly display a graphical map of total disk usage and free space,
      as well as a map of the location of any file on the disk.

   -- Change any of the file attributes for any file or sub-directory on a
      disk.  This includes Read-Only, Hidden, System and Archive status as
      well as the date and time of creation.

   -- Find any file or sub-directory on a disk matching an ambiguous (like
      *.BAT) or unambiguous (PMK.EXE) file specification, including Hidden
      and System files.

   -- Rename any file or sub-directory on a disk.

   -- Erase any file on a disk, including Read-Only files.

   -- Undelete any file or sub-directory on a disk that is able to be
      undeleted.

                                 Fill Disk.

   Fill Disk writes any message on all free sectors on a disk leaving
   existing files alone.  It can also zero all unused sectors, removing all
   traces of old file data.  The uses of Fill Disk are many, ranging from
   stamping a hard disk with your name and address (to provide you with a
   positive means of identifying it in the event of a theft) to merely
   clearing out remnants of previous work.

                           Full  Screen File Sort.

   File Sort rearranges the order of file names on a disk.  It can sort
   file names according to their name, extension, date, time, or size, all
   in either ascending or descending order.  It also allows you the
   flexability to rearrange the order of file names in a directory
   arbitrarily to suit your needs.

                                 Un  Format.

   Protecting against accidentally formatting a hard disk is what Un Format
   is all about.  When used regularly it protects hard disk users from
   losing many of their files and data after an accidental hard disk
   format.  After a surprising format of your hard disk, Un Format, when
   used properly, quickly and easily restores the hard disk to the state it
   was in before it was formatted.

                                 Zero Disk.

   Zero Disk removes all traces of all data from a disk.  Unlike Fill Disk,
   which can optionally zero unused sectors of a file while leaving all
   existing files untouched, Zero Disk completely eliminates all existing
   files along with everything else.  If you want to make sure an old disk
   can't be dissected for confidential data, zero that disk.

                                 Zero File.

   Zero File removes all traces of a file's current data from your disk.  A
   file deleted by MS-DOS could later be recovered on the disk using PMK.
   However, a file zeroed with Zero File cannot be recovered, in any way,
   from that disk.  A file's current data is completely eliminated from
   your disk.  By using Zero File along with Fill Disk, you can make sure
   that no trace of a sensitive file's data, new or old, remains anywhere
   on your disk.

                                  Install.

   There is an easy way to configure The Professional Master Key Utilities
   to run the way you want them to.  The installation program lets you
   reconfigure the colors displayed.  You can also change the default
   settings for the /Mono and /Bios options to make the utilities run
   better on your computer.

                              PMK Master Menu.

   PMK Master Menu makes running the programs easier and helps new users
   learn how the utilities work.  As each program in The Professional
   Master Key Utilities is highlighted, a brief narration on it is shown
   describing what its function is and options it has.  Then, the program
   can run just as it would from the MS-DOS command line, with or without
   options.

                               Tiny Edit

   A small no-frills text editor and file viewer for use with CONFIG.SYS
   and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.  The only strong feature of Tiny Edit is its
   small size.  Good to include on floppy disks and for use with laptops
   where space is at a premium.

                             System Requirements

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   Computer.  Any computer that uses MS-DOS as an operating system and is
   at least compatible on a BIOS level with IBM PC computers should run The
   Professional Master Key Utilities without any problem.  Computers that
   are 100% IBM PC compatible will seem to operate considerably faster due
   to direct screen writing for video output.

   Operating system.  The Professional Master Key Utilities will work
   correctly when using MS-DOS or PC-DOS version 2.0 or later.  The
   programs have been tested on version 2.0 through version 4.0.
   Additionally, The Professional Master Key Utilities have successfully
   run under the TopView, DESQview, and Microsoft Windows operating
   environments.  In all cases, The Professional Master Key Utility
   programs run in a separate window allowing simultaneous use with other
   programs.

   Disk drives.  Again, if your computer has and uses disk drives, chances
   are that they will work without any problems with The Professional
   Master Key Utilities.  Each of the programs can work with and use
   virtually any MS-DOS disk your system has.  This includes 160k, 180k,
   320k, 360k, 720k, 1.2MB, and 1.44MB floppy drives; hard disks drives;
   RAM disks; and physical or virtual disk drives accessed by a device
   driver.  Specifically works with drives controlled by OnTrak's Disk
   Manager and Golden Bow's formatting software

   What these requirements end up meaning is there is a very good
   probability that The Professional Master Key Utilities will run on any
   MS-DOS computer, yours included, with at least 128k of RAM available.

                              User Requirements

   To use The Professional Master Key Utilities, you are also required to
   have at least some of the following:

       experience ............... an intermediate to advanced level
       a desire to learn ........ and a will to discover what's new
       respect .................. for the power you now have


   Experience.  The Professional Master Key Utilities programs are designed
   to be as easy and straightforward to use as possible.  Because of that,
   anyone can use the utilities, a "first day beginner" or a "seasoned
   master."  However, due to the concepts and difficulty involved with
   explaining the operation and physical layout of disks, some experience
   is desired.

   A desire to learn.  Experience isn't always required.  If you don't have
   a lot of experience but have a big will to learn more about what's on a
   disk and how it works, you have definitely come to the right place.  The
   Professional Master Key Utilities will help you to learn more about
   disks every day you use any of the programs.

   If you have absolutely no knowledge about disks, please read a book or
   two that discusses them before making a plunge into the depths of your
   disks.  Nearly any book discussing MS-DOS will help.  Not only will this
   help you understand what is going on, but it will make you more aware of
   what shouldn't be altered.

   Respect.  A healthy respect for the power you have with The Professional
   Master Key Utilities is likely the most important user requirement.  You
   can be a little short on experience and low on a big desire to learn,
   but you must be aware that making blind modifications, especially with
   PMK, may render your disks useless.  To give you the most flexibility,
   the utilities usually assume that any changes you are make are the
   correct ones.

   Experimenting with these utilities to learn more about them and your
   disks is fine, but please also take some precautions.  Make a copy of
   your floppy disk or back up your hard disk before making any changes.
   This is important if you aren't sure that what you may be doing is what
   you want to do.  Be cautious about modifying the boot sector, FAT
   sectors, and any directory, unless you are certain of your changes and
   their results.

   These user requirements aren't as stringent as the system requirements,
   but they are just as important.  What you may lack in one requirement,
   you should make up for in another.  The bottom lineis to be0`êé╟ üB +éz╪K(æ┤bQ@hEî·@z-Gdå└èhèh(ïc" ╥áQä0┤ΘxÇi9(ÿIE½é┬A:ΣIè¥ÇÑDE(¡─66%d,ÇàVa2ªαûpÿBH$êêè$l-J$mó!óÇÉMáüá@⌐Ç╠üσöPSI
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   files for registration details.
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