ZIPFILE DUPLICATE CHECKING SYSTEM (ZDCS)  Ver. 2.03
                Copyright (C) 1991-1994 by Stacy Smith
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USING ZDCS WITH CD-ROMS

CD-ROMs are becoming more popular with sysops as a cost-effective way of making
large collections of shareware and public domain software available to their
callers for downloading.  But because a CD-ROM can contain so many megabytes of
files, you might think it difficult to keep track of all the files and prevent
any duplicates from being added to the collection.

ZDCS provides the solution.  It serves both the sysop putting a CD-ROM online
and the manufacturer preparing to master a new CD-ROM.


IF YOU'RE A SYSOP

Sysops can take advantage of the pre-built ZDCS 2.0 databases available for
many of the most popular CD-ROMs.  You'll find them available for individual
download on The Bloom Beacon-Picayune BBS, along with the merge utility package
Z2-DBMG.ZIP.  Inside that ZIP package is the merge utility ZDCSDBMG.EXE and a
detailed, step by step explanation of how to merge your existing ZDCS database
with any of the pre-built ones.  It's a simple operation and much faster than
creating a new database from scratch, but we've taken the chance on insulting
your intelligence by laying out all the steps for you anyway.


IF YOU'RE A CD-ROM MANUFACTURER

CD-ROM makers can use the database build feature of ZDCS to create a database
of the file collection before it goes for final mastering. Then you can use the
database report generator to identify any duplicates in the collection.  This
gives you an easy way to clean up the files and assure your customers of a high
quality collection of files.  In fact, we encourage you, via a free
registration offer, to put a ZDCS 2.0 database right on the CD-ROM for your
customers' convenience.


FREE REGISTRATION

To make the use of pre-built databases even more attractive for the benefit of
sysops, we are making the following offer to CD-ROM manufacturers, good through
the end of 1994:

   If you master a new CD-ROM and you put the ZDCS 2.0 pre-built database for
   that CD-ROM right on the disk, we will give you a full ZDCS registration
   when you notify us of the details for distribution to ZDCS sysops (CD-ROM
   name, company name, contact information, and expected release date).

If you have any questions, give The Bloom Beacon-Picayune BBS a call at
919-557-3845, 0645 and 0745.  You can browse the list of pre-built CD-ROM
databases to see which ones are already completed.

CD-ROMS are just one more reason why ZDCS is *simply* the best zipfile
duplicate checking system.