Here is my English translation of the orignal LIESMICH.V11 file for
ProStream.  As usual, it is not necessarily word-for-word, but it is intended
as a guide to the meaning contained in the original.

Special thanks to Teddystacker for the original, and the Potter for his 'mail
services'.

                                                         The Saint   21/02/92

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README for ProStream V1.1                                           24.4.1991

The following changes over Version 1.0 have been incorporated into the new
version:

Bug fixes:

The Filefix program, which converts filenames containing umlauts, is no
longer necessary and therefore is no longer included.  ProStream now also
works correctly with lowercase umlaut characters in filenames.

In addition, a number of small errors have been removed, which however, may
not appear in normal usage.

Adaptation to the Atari TT:

The Atari TT will now be completely acknowledged, as will the SCSI bus on the
Atari TT.  Therefore we have built in new icons for the DMA devices.  These
carry a descriptive label as to whether they are ACSI- or SCSI- devices.  On
a normal Atari ST, only those icons with an ACSI label will be displayed
since there is not a SCSI bus at your disposal.  On the SCSI bus, the Atari
TT can recognize a maximum of 7 different devices (devices 0 to 6), as the TT
itself occupies position number 7.  External devices with the ID #7 will not
be recognized.

The program flags in the header to Prostream, have been set to get the
maximum usage from the Atari TT.  It is not allowed for the flag for memory
allocation of fast ram on the TT to be set, since it is not possible to use
DMA transfer from this type of memory to an ASCI device.  When only SCSI
devices are to be driven, then this flag may be set.  Therefore it is best
not to change these flags so that it will work with both.

For use on an Atari ST, these flags have no significance, and do not need to
be taken into account.

Additions:

The display during a backup has been completely re-arranged.  Now, detailed
information is given all of the time as to how many bytes have to be saved,
and how many have already been saved.  Additionally, a bar graph is displayed
showing in percent, how advanced you are in the backup operation, so that you
can predict how much longer the process is going to last.

A recorder for batch files has been incorporated.  Now you will be able to
interactively create batch files, since all actions that are required to
carry out a backup, can be taken down.  A new entry has been included under
the File menu, to start a recording.  Having selected this when you want to
record a batch file, a file selector will be displayed into which the file
name for the batch file should be entered.  Once you have made the recording,
select the File menu once again to stop the recording (the menu entry will
then appear as 'Stop recording').  Whilst the recording is being made, a
symbol of a cassette will be seen flashing in the menu bar.

There is one limitation on the recording of batch files:  When the files for
a file backup have been selected in the window by using a mouse, these
selections will not be included in the recording (this is not possible on
technical grounds.)  When a manual selection is needed, you ought first to
select the files by hand once and then save this selection.  Then, when you
record your batch file, simply load this saved selection and then in this way
you will incorporate your correct selection of files.  When files are only to
be selected via the menu entries, this procedure will not be necessary.

A dialog has been included with which you may configure which device numbers
associated with the devices ought to be searched for at the start of the
program.  In this way the program initialization time can be shortened
considerably, and this could also be critical e.g. those devices on the
DMA/SCSI bus can be excluded (SuperCharger, Scanner, Atari Laser printer,
Network adaptor).  The setting decided in this dialog together with other
information can be save via the 'Save setting' function.  Thus old versions
of PROSTRM.INF files can no longer be read, since the format of these has
been changed.

For a file restore, you may now set whether new files with the same name
ought to be overwritten or not.  The default setting is for new files not to
be overwritten.  This can be switched off with a new option in the 'Settings'
dialog.

A 'Help' function is still provided, which will display a 'Help box' on the
screen.  As always, it is available from the 'Help' key, but is now also
selectable via a menu entry.

In chapter 8 of the handbook, it is stated that the author is also available
via electronic mail.  In the meantime, the telephone number for the mailbox
MAUS BN has been changed, the new one is 0228/213230.


We wish you much fun with the new version of ProStream.
