CiderPress Help

If you're reading this much, you know how to access the "help" system. In case you got here by accident: select "Contents..." from the "Help" menu, or hit F1 while the menus are active. Many of the interactive dialogs also have "Help" buttons that will take you directly to a relevant page.

Most dialog windows have a little question mark ('?') in the upper right-hand corner. If you click on that, then click on a button or checkbox in the same window, you will get a short description of what that button does.

A Frequently Asked Questions list and a CiderPress tutorial are available from http://a2ciderpress.com/.

The "About..." item on the Help menu brings up the CiderPress "About Box". This shows the version you're using, what versions of DLLs were loaded, and to whom your copy is registered. If the product has not been registered, it shows how many days are left in the 30-day evaluation period.

"DLL" is an acronym for Dynamic Loadable Library. That's a fancy way of saying that it's a part of the program that is stored in a separate file, which means it can be shared among multiple copies of the same program or multiple different programs. The DLLs used by CiderPress are:

- DiskImg. All of the code for accessing disk images is here. This is an integral part of CiderPress, and is shared by the CiderPress application and MDC (Multi-Disk Catalog).
- NufxLib. All of the code for accessing NuFX (ShrinkIt) archives is here. This is an open-source library developed by the author of CiderPress. It's also used by the NuLib2 command-line utility.
- zlib. Free software from the authors of gzip. This provides "deflate" compression, and is used by hundreds of different applications.
- wnaspi32, a/k/a "the ASPI layer". Unlike the previous DLLs, this one is only loaded when necessary. For CiderPress, it's only necessary under Win98/ME, so Win2K/XP users won't ever see this loaded.

The first three DLLs are distributed with CiderPress, and are updated whenever you download a new version of CiderPress. The ASPI DLL is part of the operating system, and may be replaced when you install CD recording software. (If you want to use a specific version of wnaspi32.dll, copy it into the CiderPress installation directory, usually C:\Program Files\faddenSoft\CiderPress\.)

Click on "Credits" to bring up some information about the development of CiderPress. If your copy has not been registered, click on "Enter registration code" to enter the code you received from faddenSoft after buying the product.