             Letter Assigner v1.1.2
             for Microsoft® Windows® 95/98
             (C) 2000 Vadim Burtyansky.

This file provides information for freeware distributors and disk vendors that want to distribute this program.

           DISTRIBUTION
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Letter Assigner may be freely distributed by any way, copied, published on the Internet software archives, public FTP servers, CD-ROMs etc., provided that it is not modified, and the original files remain intact.

           LATEST VERSION
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The retrieve the latest version of Letter Assigner, please, use the following address:
   http://www.bigfoot.com/~vadbrtn
It will redirect you to the most recent location of the home page. Its current location is:
   http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/

           CONTACT INFORMATION
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E-mail: vadbrtn@bigfoot.com


           REQUIREMENTS
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Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Windows® 98 operating system.


           KEYWORDS
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drive letter, drive letters, letter, letters, change, assign, choose, force, drive, drives, hard disk, new, partition, repartition, utility, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows, Win95, Win98, MS-DOS, DOS

           DESCRIPTION
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   Everybody who at least once connected a second hard disk drive to a computer or repartitioned a hard disk, knows how many problems may arise because of the non-customizable letter assignment performed by the operating system.

   Letter Assigner allows to assign any letter to any drive in the system ( with a few non-significant exceptions ). It gives the users of Microsoft® Windows® 95, Windows® 98 ( and probably, the future Windows® Millennium ) the freedom in choosing drive letters. It also includes command line utility that supports letter assignment for the MS-DOS® operating system ( v4.0 and higher ).

   Letter Assigner remebers drives by their serial numbers or by the labels, which provides protection against letter changes after repartitioning or connecting new drives. It also prevents non-bootable situations that may occur when Windows® directory is located on a drive other than C, and the drive changes its letter. ( It contains special mechanism for this purpose, including automatic correction of the files "msdos.sys", "winboot.ini", "config.sys" ).

   The easy, intuitive interface offers simple methods to choose letters, to move them from one drive to another and to view the free letter set. The main application window contains drive list  with detailed description of each drive ( like My Computer in the "details" mode, but with additional information: compression status, file system, serial number ). The special toolbar ( Letter Bar ) shows which letters are free and which are available. The user can simply drag a letter from the Letter Bar and drop on a drive, or drag a letter from one drive to another.

   Letter Assigner also allows to easily view and change device properties for each drive. It provides the direct way to invoke these properties by a simple double-click on the drive letter ( instead of going to the Control Panel / System / Device Manager and searching for the drive among all system devices ).

   There are certain limitations when the system contains compressed drives. The letters of the host drives ( the drives containing compressed volume files ) can not be changed, but the letters of the compressed drives can be changed. On the contrary, if the host drive and the compressed drive are swapped, the letter of the host can be changed, but the letter of the compressed drive can not be changed. You don't need to remember these limitations: the program automatically informs you if the assignment you choose can not be performed.

   Letter Assigner includes command line utility "letassig.exe" for MS-DOS®. It allows to assign drive letters when working in MS-DOS®. One of the possible advantages of this utility is simplification of the bootable diskette creation. Usually it is necessary to create a RAM drive using "ramdrive.sys" and copy "command.com" and some other files to that drive. However, it's impossible to predict the letter that the system assignes to that drive. Letter Assigner allows to assign any desired letter to RAM drive based on its label: "MS-RAMDRIVE".


            TRADEMARKS
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Microsoft, Windows and MS-DOS are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
