DriveR8Convert Program - Copyright (C) Nick Bailey 2017-2019
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Email: DriveR8 AT nick-bailey DOT co DOT uk
Web  : http://www.nick-bailey.co.uk/DriveR8

03 February 2019
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Your Attention is brought to the WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENSE AGREEMENTS 
section at the end of this file!  
 
By installing and using this program you agree to be bound by these
WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENSE AGREEMENTS. 
 
Notably **You use it at your own risk**.  

This version supersedes all previous versions.  

GENERAL
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Welcome to DriveR8Convert Program a Utility Program for the DriveR8 Control Program.

DriveR8Convert is compatible with *Windows XP/Vista/7/8.1/10 and requires Microsoft's 
.NET 3.5 platform to be installed.  It may also work on previous versions of *Windows 

DriveR8Convert Program is written in *Visual Basic .NET and is a 32-Bit program.

Before installing DriveR8Convert Program, please take a few minutes to read this 
file as it will hopefully answer many of your potential questions.

INSTALL PROCESS
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To install DriveR8Convert Program is very straight forward.  You will have received 
the program in either a ZIP file or as separate files.  The program has no specific 
install program and does not make registry changes.
 
  Step 1) Create a directory of your own choice on your PC.  It is recommended that
          you use the same directory that you have for the DriveR8 Control Program.
		  Alternatively create another directory. 
		  
  Step 2) Un-ZIP / copy the program files to the directory you have just created 
  
  Step 3) Read the DriveR8Convert-ReadMe.txt and DriveR8Convert-History.txt files.  
          They have important information. 
            
  Step 4) It is suggested to create a short cut to the DriveR8Convert.exe file on your
          desktop or elsewhere.   
		   
  Step 5) Optional - backup the original distribution file(s) to a safe location 
		   
UN-INSTALL PROCESS
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DriveR8Convert Program can be simply and fully un-installed at any time.  Please 
also see UPGRADE PROCESS. 

CAUTION!  The following steps will completely remove DriveR8Convert Program and all
          your associated data.  

  Step 1) Delete the folder you created and all the files therein.  WARNING!!! If
          you put DriveR8Convert in the same directory as the DriveR8 Control Program
          then you should ONLY delete those files with DriveR8Convert in their names!!!!		  
  
  Step 2) Delete the short cut you created (if any)
    
UPGRADE PROCESS
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Upgrading to a later version of DriveR8Convert Program is simple and straight forward.  
Upgrading will retain your important configuration files. Following all the steps of 
this procedure will also give you a backup version(s) of the program to revert to 
should you wish or need to. 
 
  Step 1) Locate your current installation folder 
  
  Step 2) Create a new sub folder named Vn.n.n.n corresponding to the version
          number of your currently installed version, e.g. V1.0.0.9 
		   
  Step 3) Copy ALL the contents of the current installation folder into the new
          backup Vn.n.n.n sub folder you just created 
		   
  Step 4) Un-ZIP / copy the new program release files to the current installation 
          folder and OVERWRITE/REPLACE the existing files
		  
  Step 5) Read the DriveR8Convert-ReadMe.txt and DriveR8Convert-History.txt files.  
          They have important information. 
            
COMMENTS, FEEDBACK and CONTACT INFORMATION
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The author can be contacted at Email: DriveR8@nick-bailey.co.uk

When writing please specify the version number, eg. 1.0.0.0, of the DriveR8Convert 
program you currently have/use.

Regards

Nick Bailey  

Email: DriveR8@nick-bailey.co.uk
Web  : http://www.nick-bailey.co.uk

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WARRANTY, LIABILITY and LICENSE AGREEMENTS - reading is a condition of use
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The DriveR8Convert Program is here into referred to as the 'Program'.
In using the Program you are agreeing to accept all of the terms and conditions stated herein.

The Program is currently Freeware (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware). The author 
reserves the right to change the program status and limitations on any future release.  
Existing releases will retain their status and your right to use them but support may not be 
available.

The Program is supplied 'ASIS' and the author neither accepts, implies nor offers any warranty, 
liability or any other responsibility for any damages, loss or other claim of any type in 
respect of this Program, its usage or consequence of its usage.

**You use it at your own risk**.

The Program has no guarantee of support or implied right to support.

The Program is the sole Copyright of the author and all rights are reserved.   

The author's Copyright is restricted to those files containing 'DriveR8Convert' in their name 
and any other file clearly written by the author.  The Copyright includes the intended operation, 
design and function of the Program.   The Program requires other runtime files to function 
and the Copyright of these files belongs to their respective owners/authors.

The creator of this Program asserts that the appearance of the user interface screens is a work 
of art and therefore attracts Copyright protection under EU law.

You may not disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise interfere with any of the Program 
executable files.

You may not use this Program for any illegal or unlawful purpose.

You may not sell, rent or otherwise charge for this Program.
 
The preferred availability and distribution of the Program is from the authors website 
to which you and others should refer to. 

You may however freely distribute the Program but must do so entirely free of charge, 
save for any reasonable charge in respect of any physical media used in its distribution.  
All electronic or other non physical media distribution must be free of all charges.  
You may not alter, modify, remove, or in any way change any of the files that comprise the 
DriveR8Convert Package as released by the author.  You may add your own text or other 
information files but these must be clearly identifiable as yours, added by you and 
in such a manner that they do not in any way form part of the DriveR8Convert Program or 
could easily be considered to be part of the DriveR8Convert Program.  Neither must they 
infringe the Copyrights of any author, person or organisation and must not contain offensive, 
illegal or other illicit material.

Should you believe that your version of the Program package has been subject to any infringement 
of the above conditions then please contact the author immediately providing as much information 
as possible.

Prior to release, the author has to his satisfaction checked that the Program is free of any Virus 
or other potentially destructive software/code, but this is not guaranteed. 

Before using the Program you are advised to Virus check the version of the Program you have prior 
to using it.  The author's Website may also carry MD5 checksums for the critical files.  
You are advised to verify these as well.

You are requested to fully read this and any other documentation prior to installing and using the 
Program.  In using the Program you are agreeing to accept all of the terms and conditions stated herein.

The author hopes that you find DriveR8Convert Program both easy to use, reliable and of assistance 
to you.  He may be contacted at his Email address and would certainly like to hear of any bugs, 
criticism, suggestions etc. that you may have.

Please remember.  The Program is supplied 'ASIS' and you use it a your own risk.