For Immediate Release
Contact: Gilles Vollant, Chairman
Gilles Vollant Software
13, rue F. Mansart
F-91540 Mennecy
France
Fax +33 (1) 64 99 94 55
info@winimage.com
http://members.aol.com/gvollant
ASP Author #00976
MENNECY, FRANCE, September 10,
1996 - Today, Gilles Vollant Software released version 3.0 of the
shareware program WinImage. WinImage is a powerful disk utility
that enables users to make a disk image from a floppy. Like some
diskcopy tools, WinImage can create an image file from a floppy,
and then duplicate the floppy with the image file. But it does
more: the Fat file system of the floppy is recognized, and when
an image is loaded, files are displayed and many file operations
are available, for example: you can copy files into or out of an
image file, defragment an image, create a new image, and put the
image onto a blank formatted floppy. WinImage can read and write
images in a "raw" format, compatible with some images
found, for example, in Microsoft Select or Microsoft Developer
Network Platform, and in a compressed format, WinZip and
PkZip-compatible.
WinImage supports DMF, the 1.68
MB format on 3"½ HD floppy used by Microsoft for their
distribution disks, so users now can, for the first time, make
backups of these disks (Microsoft does not provide tools to
duplicate DMF disks). WinImage is available in a Win16 version
(for Windows 3.1) and in a Win32 version (for Windows 95, Windows
NT, or Windows 3.1 with the free Win32s 1.30 extension). Version
for Windows NT on RISC computers (Dec Alpha, PowerPC and Mips
R4000) are also available. Several languages are supported :
English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
"MIS often uses WinImage to
save installation sets of floppies in a modern format (hard disk,
on a network, DAT...),” said developer Gilles Vollant.
“They can easily recreate the set of floppies or extract the
files to install the software without using floppies. Individual
users can create legal backups of their software, including those
on Microsoft DMF floppies. We have tried create the most
user-friendly interface possible, with a seamless integration
with explorer (same look and feel, drag and drop...)."
The main addition in version 3.0
is image compression. WinImage uses the zLib technology from Mark
Adler and Jean-loup Gailly, the makers of Gzip and Infozip
Zip/UnZip. This warrants a secure (this compression code is one
of the most used in the world) and a very open compression (the
compressed file format is Zip compatible). A set of several
floppies can now be stored in one file, and a batch assistant
allow automatic operation in all image of a set.
WinImage was chosen as the WUGNET
“Shareware Pick of the Week” on Wugnet compuserve
forum.
WinImage 3.0 is now shipping.
Individual copies are priced at $30, including postage and
handling. Both the 16 bit (Windows 3.1) and 32 bit (Windows
95/NT) versions are shipped on the same disk and covered by the
same license agreement. Users may obtain fully functional
evaluation copies of both versions from the WinImage home page on
the Internet at http://members.aol.com/gvollant,
and in Compuserve (search Winima30.ZIP or keyword WinImage in
Wugnet forum). Registration is available with Compuserve Swreg
service, thought PsL or directly from Gilles Vollant Software.