README for Clone Killer for OS/2

since i needed a program to find and eliminate duplicate files on my cd's and harddisks
and since the already available programs for OS/2 didn't work the way i wanted to find my files,
i wrote my own "clone killer"

Features:

- Freeware under the GPL (since i consider it a rather "quick hack" :-)
- comes with source, so there is space for you to improve the code and send me your improvements
- finds files on any kind of drive (hard drives, cd's, network drives)
- uses crc32 (slower) or md5 (quicker) checksum algorithm
- uses own config file for easy configuration and adaption
- scans complete drives or only subdirs
- scan directories or also recurses into directories
- scans for given specified filetypes ( maybe only *.jpg or *.gif or both or...)
- stores values in database (example: you have files already on cd and dont want to scan these cd's every time
  you try to find your clones)
- generates "CMD" file to delete the clones found or run it in "unattended" mode in a batch file..
- delete all duplicates found or files only from specified drives or directories

Latest versions can be obtained from "http:\\www.nheller.de" under the "freeware" section


TO DO LIST:
(things that i or you may add or change)

- change the "Array Database"
- clean up the code and make some improvements on sorting / scanning / filtering
- Port to GCC or EMX
- Port to Windows/NT - Linux ...







have fun, Norbert Heller, Mai 1998

email: "norbertheller@swol.de"
www: "http:\\www.nheller.de"





