Welcome,
          Here's SPACE, version 1.0. SPACE is now complete from the DOS
     standpoint. Next of the rank will be minimal Win95 support, followed
     by a full windows version.

     HOWEVER, this can only happen with your support. SPACE consists of
over 10,000 lines of Assembler, 15,000 lines of Pascal and 4,000 lines of
Delphi. As of 15th of August 1995 there were 5 registered users, it should
be obvious that I cannot continue to develop SPACE without more
registered users. If you do give copies of SPACE to your friends then it
is in YOUR interests that they register those copies if they use them.

On this disk you will find the following:-

     README   TXT   This file.
     MANUAL   DOS   The dos text format of the SPACE manual.
     MANUAL   WP    A Wordperfect version of the manual.
     ~DIRW    HLP   Windows Help for ~DIRW
     various  EXE   files, refer to the manual
     SPCFILES LST   Used by the ~INSTALL program.


To install SPACE invoke the ~INSTALL program on this disk. You do not
need copy these files to your hard disk, ~INSTALL will do that for you.


~SPACE is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user
for evaluation.  Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do
not give it away altered or as part of another system.  The essence of
"user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with
quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for
programmers to continue to develop new products.  If you find this program
useful and find that you are using ~SPACE and continue to use ~SPACE after
a reasonable trial period, you must register your copy. See MANUAL.DOS or
MANUAL.WP for further information.

If any files on this disk are unreadable or missing please contact:-

     Mark van der Eynden
     P.O. Box 467
     Mt. Waverley 3149
     Vic. 
     Australia


The following is a list of significant enhancements made since 0.9.

1.   ~REORG has been completed to enable reorganisation of the SPACE
     databases. You don't need to run it too regularly, but you will need
     it one day. 

2.   ~DIRW has been written to replace ~STATS. It is a Windows program
     written in Delphi and weighing in at over 4,000 lines it is fairly
     comprehensive.

3.   When running DOS or a DOS Window SpaceIn Messages always had a blue
     background. This was not very useful if the running application also
     had a blue background, so in this case the SpaceIn messages will now
     have a green background.

4.   Some messages have been clarified.

5.   An attempt has been made to allow SPACE to be invoked in an OS/2 Dos
     box. Some of the control blocks used by SPACE do not exist under
     OS/2 and hence you will have to persevere with only being able to run
     SPACE utilities under OS/2. i.e. No access logging and no automatic
     SpaceIn.

Bugs Fixed.

1.   A badly behaved TSR was found to cause SPACE to re-enter itself.
     Considering all the TSRs that SPACE has been used with there can't
     be too many left. Changes were made to ensure that this badly behaved
     TSR cannot upset SPACE. Also code was added to ensure that, if,
     somehow, SPACE was to be re-entered, measures would be taken to stop
     the re-entry having undesired results.

2.   Whilst checking the above fix it was discovered that Windows will
     quite happily re-enter DOS under certain circumstances. This exposes
     a potential hole in the way SPACE works should you be in the habit
     of running things in the background, or even just having a busy
     'Startup' file. Changes have been made to lock the database during an
     update and also restrict the number of concurrent utilities to one.

3.   If you filled up an SPACE monitored drive (or there was less than 2k
     left) and then you caused a new file to be created that caused an
     SPACE database split you would end up with a corrupted SPACE
     database. The database code has been changed to make sure that there
     is enough room for the split before beginning it.

4.   If a SpaceIn occurred in a DOS Box running in the background, SPACE
     would previously have been (eventually) re-entered with strange
     results. Now SPACE will force the DOS box to the foreground for
     attention. An attempt to switch away from the DOS box will be
     successful until re-entry occurs, then the DOS box will again come to
     the foreground, now you will have to answer it before you can proceed
     (a SYSTEM-MODAL Dos Box!).

5.   Occasionally and SPACE database entry would be created for access to
     a character device, notably CON when 'LABEL C:xxxxx' was used. ~SCHK
     /R will fix any occurrences of this problem.