Faster 1.0
     Copyright (C) 1996 Ching-Chih (Oscar) Chang
     All Rights Reserved
     
     email:oscar.chang@rahul.net

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                      Legal Notice and Use Policy
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     You may use this program freely, recompile it for  other  platforms
     or  alter it to your liking.  I do *require* you to state that I am
     the original author of this program.
     
     As a courtesy, please  send  me  an  email about the changes you've
     made or if you've ported this program  to  another  platform.   The
     makefile   you  write  for  your  platform  can  be  added  to  the
     distribution source.

     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
     WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without   even  the  implied  warranty  of
     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

     In other words, use this  at  your  own risk.  I am not responsible
	 for any or all damages that may come from the use of this program.

     (  Don't you just love legal mumbo jumbo?  Oh well it keeps my butt
	 out of jail.  :) )

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                           Function of Faster
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  	 Faster is designed to make your web pages load up...well faster. :)

     It's done by adding the WIDTH and HEIGHT components to the IMG tag.

     By  doing  this,  a  graphical  web browser will know the width and
	 height of an image, put a  place holder there, and continue loading
	 the page.  This makes the page load faster because the browser will
	 know the size of the image  without  loading  the  actual  graphics
	 file.

     NOTE: If you find this utility useful, please drop me an email at
	 oscar.chang@rahul.net, I'd love to hear from you.

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                           How to use Faster
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     Usage:
     	faster <options> <wildcards> ...

     Options:
     	-h or -? 	Will load the help screen explaining all the options

     	-u          Uppercase: All the width and height tags added
     	            will be in uppercase letters.

     	-l          Lowercase: all the width and height tags added
     	            will be in lower case letters. *Default*

     	-b          Backup: A copy of the original files will be made 
		            before it is processed.

     	-r          Recurse: Recurse into the subdirectories.

     	-d          Delete: Delete all the WIDTH and HEIGHT components
		            without adding new ones.

Examples:

     faster *.html

     This will process all the files in the current directory that ends
     in an .html

     faster *.html *.shtml

     This will process all the files in the current directory that ends 
     in .html and then .shtml.

     faster -r *.html *.shtml

     This will process all the files ending in .html and *.shtml in the 
     current directory and its subdirectories.

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                           Additional Goodies
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     I did add a function where if the hard  disk  runs  out  of  space,
	 Faster  will  ask you for an alternate path to save your html file.
	 However, this has not been tested, but, it should work.  :)

     When using the -b  option  and  Faster  is  backing up files, if an
     error occurs (most likely from running out of disk  space),  Faster
     will  ask  you  if  you'd  like  to continue or quit.  If your in a
     multitasking environment you can clear some disk space  for  Faster
     to continue.

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                          Supported Platforms
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     Official Platforms Supported
	 	OS/2 2.0 and higher (32-bit)
		MS/PC DOS 5 and higher (16-bit)

     Note:   If you have ported Faster to another platform, please email
	 me and I can  make  the  makefile  available  along with the source
	 distribution.  If you only have the binary please tell me where  it
	 is  located  and  I  will  put  the location in this section of the
	 documentation.

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                               Known Bugs
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     The  DOS version of Faster will not work with the long filenames of
	 Win95.  An unofficial Win95 version should be out soon.

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                                History
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      09/13/96      1.0 released to the general public.
	                Yes I know, it's Friday the 13th, muhahahahahah!! :)