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                             PART II
               THE "ULTIMATE VIRUS KILLER" MANUAL

          4 - WORKING WITH THE "ULTIMATE VIRUS KILLER"

On start-up,  a GEM dialog box will appear on the  screen.  This
kind of dialog box will be used throughout the program and offers
some interesting extras when compared to the standard GEM  dialog
boxes you may be used to.  For example,  it is  not only possible
to  select your option by clicking the  left mouse button on  it,
but  your selection may also be made by keeping  the  [ALTERNATE]
key   pressed  and  then  pressing  the  alpha-numeral  that   is
underlined within the option you want to select.  The option that
has  a  thickened frame is the 'default'  button,  which  may  be
selected  additionally by pressing [RETURN] or  [ENTER].  Buttons
that cannot be selected are represented with a 'greyed out'  text
and border.
Help options,  when available, are accessible by clicking on the
"HELP" button at the left bottom of a dialog box,  or by pressing
the [HELP] key on your keyboard.  Any button containing the  text
"(U)" (usually a button containing "NO",  "CANCEL" or "QUIT") may
additionally  be  selected  by pressing the [UNDO]  key  on  your
keyboard.
One extra thing about all the "Ultimate Virus Killer" dialogs is
that they are displayed in windows. This means that you can often
use the top drag bar to move the window elsewhere and that multi-
tasking  systems can have other tasks running in the  background.
Dialog screen positions will be remembered for later  occurrences
of the same dialog box.

Five options are available to you from the main menu dialog  box
(see figure 4 in the "pictures" folder):

                     Seek'n'Destroy Viruses
                          Restore Disks
                    Information about UVK x.x
                          System Status
                       Quit to the Desktop

These  options,  where necessary,  will be explained in  further
chapters.

Notes on using the "Ultimate Virus Killer" as a .TTP file:

The "Ultimate Virus Killer" may be used as .TTP file (for  which
the  "UVK_x_x.PRG"  needs to be  renamed  to  "UVK_x_x.TTP"),  or
similarly from a command line interpreter.  This allows for it to
receive certain parameters from you or from other programs before
it gets started.
Although the options offered here are not as extensive as  those
of the program in regular mode, they may still be useful. All the
options  that  are on offer here are  purely  diagnostic.  So  no
viruses can be killed, for example!

SYNTAX:                  DESCRIPTION:

B X                      Checks   drive   "X"   for   bootsector
                          viruses.

L X:                     Checks  the  entire partition  "X"  for
                          link viruses.

L E X:                   Checks  the  entire partition  "X"  for
                          link   viruses,    but   only    checks
                          executable files. The ":" at the end is
                          important!

L X:\PATH\               Checks  all files and all files in  any
                          folders  within the folder "\PATH\"  of
                          drive "X" for link viruses.  The "\" at
                          the end is important!

L X:\PATH\NAME.EXT       Checks file "NAME.EXT" in path "\PATH\"
                          of drive "X" for link viruses. "\PATH\"
                          can  consist  of more than  one  folder
                          name, divided by "\", to go into deeper
                          subdirectories.

X:\PATH\NAME.EXT or
NAME.EXT or
\PATH\NAME.EXT           Alternatively  you can 'feed' just  any
                          valid  file  name.   It  will  then  be
                          checked for link viruses,  with  packer
                          info mode on and waiting for a key once
                          finished.   In  combination  with  e.g.
                          "NeoDesk"  (or any  desktop  supporting
                          drag  and drop,  including more  recent
                          Atari ones) this allows you to check  a
                          file  for link viruses by dragging  its
                          icon  on  top of  the  "Ultimate  Virus
                          Killer"  icon without having to  rename
                          the  "Ultimate  Virus  Killer"  program
                          file at all.
                          In  this mode,  none of the  parameters
                          specified below may be added.

After  the  initial  "L" or "B" a "-" may  be  added  (like  for
example "L- X:\NAME\NAME.EXT") to suppress your having to press a
key when leaving the program and to prevent the screen from being
cleared at start.
Likewise,  a "+" may be added when doing a link virus scan -  to
supply  you with additional information about whether  executable
files are packed and,  if so, with which packer. A combination of
"+"  and "-" (to get both suppression of 'waiting for a key'  and
extra packer information) is also permitted.

In  a  command line interpreter you could enter  "UVK_x_x.PRG  L
E:\1ST_WORD\WORDPLUS.PRG"  for example.  For this to work in  the
standard    GEM   desktop   you   would   have   to   enter    "L
E:\1ST_WORD\WORDPLUS.PRG"  in the box that appears on the  screen
after  you  have renamed the file to  "UVK_x_x.TTP"  and  double-
clicked on the file. In combination with an extended desktop such
as "NeoDesk" you can just drag the "WORDPLUS.PRG" icon across (it
won't be copied, only the name will be fed to the command line).

Working with the UVK