DIMG Release 1.2 Release Notes                9 April 2011
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  DIMG is a simple disk imaging utility for Windows and UNIX. Features include:
    * Read image from disk
    * Write image to disk
    * Browse FAT12 filesystem and extract files
  DIMG uses Qt4 to provide its user interface.

  This release represents the state of v1.2 development at the time of tagging
  (9 April 2011). There may be future bug fix releases before the next planned
  feature release (v1.3).

  This software, despite its version number, should be considered BETA quality.
  Due to the limited number of users it receives little to no beta testing
  before a release is tagged.

  DIMG v1.2 is packaged as the following components:
    DIMG v1.2: The base program. On its own it can not do much.

    DQWindrv v1.0: A very basic Drive Access plugin for windows systems. It
    talks to windows directly to access the floppy drive and provides good
    performance. Its format support is fairly limited.

    DQDLibDsk v1.0: A Drive Access plugin that uses LibDsk to talk to floppy
    drives on UNIX. It is much more advanced than DQWindrv and will handle a
    much wider variety of disk formats but provides very bad performance to
    the point of being nearly unusable. As such, DQWindrv is provided and is
    used as the default on that platform with DQDLibDsk being the default
    everywhere else.

    FatFS v2.0: A read-only FAT-12 filesystem implementation. This is
    necessary for filesystem functions.
    
    FPraw v1.0.0: Support for loading and saving raw floppy disk images.

    FPzip v1.0.1: Support for loading and saving compressed .IMZ disk images.

  Contents (Source Code):
    /dimg        -- DIMG program
    /DQDLibDsk   -- DQDLibDsk Drive Access Plugin (UNIX)
    /DQWindrv    -- DQWindrv Drive Access Plugin (Windows)
    /fatfs       -- FAT12 filesystem implementation
    /FSContainer -- Filesystem Plugin container
    /FilePlugins -- Plugins for supporting various image file formats
    /lib         -- Some important libraries required to build DIMG.

  Available Documentation:
    A000-UM03  -- DIMG User Manual, Version 1.2
    A000-CL03  -- DIMG Change Log, Version 1.2

  Requirements:
    Trolltech Qt version 4.6 or higher. On UNIX, LibDsk is required. Version
    1.2 or higher should work.

  Supported Platforms:
    This program has been tested and is known to work on Windows XP, Windows 7
    and and Kubuntu 8.04. It should in theory run where ever LibDsk and Qt 4.6
    do. Windows is the primary development platform and so the program will
    likely encounter the least issues there.

  License:
    See the COPYING file which you should have received with this distribution.
    This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License Agreement,
    Version 2 or (at your option) any later version.

  Known Issues:
    - Geometry handling on Windows using DQWindrv is very basic. Only 1.44MB
      disks have been tested and it is unknown if any other format will work.
    - Retry for read/write operations does not work. If there is a read or a
      write error you will have to abort and start again.
    - On linux the file save dialog may not automatically append an extension
      preventing the file from saving. If this happens just manually add '.imz'
      (for compressed) or '.ima' (for raw) to the end of the filename when
      saving.

  New in v1.2:
    See the change log for full details.
    - Complete rewrite of the FAT-12 filesystem code resulting in numerous
      bug fixes, stability improvements and new features.
    - Long filename support
    - Multiple file extract and recursive directory extract
    - Various UI improvements

  Changelog:
    See the CHANGES file which you should have received with this distribution.
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A000-RN03.001                                                      David Goodwin