ROCDATA

Analysis of Laboratory Strength Data

(c) Copyright 2001 Rocscience Inc.

DISCLAIMER
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The authors disclaim any responsibility for the correctness of the data
generated by the ROCDATA program, or for the consequences resulting from the
use thereof. Any use or misuse of this program is the sole responsibility
of the user.

REGISTRATION
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When you purchase ROCDATA you receive:

- a registered copy of diskette and manual

- fax and email support
- notification of new releases
- free internet update service

If you use this program, then you MUST register and pay for your copy.
That way we will be able to provide you with support, inform you of any bug
fixes and help finance any future enhancements to the program.

ROCDATA IS NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN OR SHAREWARE.

To obtain information and order forms for ROCDATA, as well as the rest of
our rock engineering programs, (i.e., EXAMINE-3D, EXAMINE-2D, EXAMINE-TAB,
UNWEDGE, SWEDGE, PHASES, DIPS, SLIDE, CPILLAR and ROCKFALL) please contact:

ROCSCIENCE Inc.
c/o Ms. Evelyn Cunningham, Office Manager
31 Balsam Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4E 3B5

Telephone: 1-416-698-8217
Fax : 1-416-698-0908
email : software@rocscience.com
WWW : http://www.rocscience.com

UPDATES
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Free updates for MINOR releases (i.e. bug fixes) of each program are available
from our Internet site http://www.rocscience.com
Make sure you read the update
policy before downloading the latest version.
You might have to pay for an upgrade to the last MAJOR release (i.e. improved
functionality) of the software. Please check the web site prior to submitting
a bug report. Your problem may already have been fixed.

DISTRIBUTION
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You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use on a single

computer the enclosed copy of ROCDATA and its user documentation. Use of
any portion of ROCDATA in any other software that you intend to distribute
is strictly prohibited. Use of ROCDATA by non-registered users is
strictly prohibited.

INSTALLATION
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To install the ROCDATA program insert the ROCDATA disk into

the A: or B: drive. Switch to that drive and type INSTALL.

Example installation process (installed from the A: disk drive)

C:\> A:
A:\> INSTALL

HARDWARE SUPPORT
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ROCDATA supports the following hardware:

IBM PC/XT/AT/386/486/Pentium or compatible

Extended DOS, minimum 2MB extended memory

Graphics Display Adapters:

Video Graphics Array (VGA)

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA)
Multi-Color Graphics Array (MCGA)
Hercules Monochrome Display Adapter
ATT 400 Series, Compaq Plasma
VESA SuperVGA (must be running VESA driver!)

Microsoft Mouse and compatibles (not required)

80x87 math coprocessor (not required)

Screen dumps to the following printers:

HP Laserjet
HP Laserjet III
HP Laserjet IV
HP Paintjet
HP Paintjet XL
HP Paintjet XL 300
HP Deskjet
HP Deskjet 1200C
Epson 9 Pin Printers (MX,FX)
Epson 24 Pin Printers

Screen dumps to the following image file formats:

DXF files
PCX files

SUGGESTED MINIMUM CONFIGURATION: IBM 80386 / VGA / 80387 / MOUSE

RUNNING ROCDATA
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If you wish to run ROCDATA from another directory you must place the ROCDATA
directory in your path i.e.

PATH=C:\DOS;C:\ROCDATA;

PRINTER SUPPORT
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As of version 2.2, ROCDATA supports screen dumps to HP Laserjet,

HP Paintjet, HP Deskjet, and EPSON compatible printers. Configure your
printer through the "Print Cfg" option in the main menu.

PCX SUPPORT
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As of version 2.2, ROCDATA supports the capture of screen images to

PCX files. These images can be then brought into MS Paintbrush, MS Word
and many other WINDOWS and DOS programs. You can enable this option
through the "Print Cfg" option in the main menu. Instead of printing
to a printer, it sends the image to a PCX file. The name of the file
is set by the program and is of the format screen?.pcx, where ? is a
number depending on how many PCX files already exist.

SUPER VGA SUPPORT

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The VESA Super VGA mode 800X600 16 colors is supported. To run the program
in this mode use the /1 commandline parameter (ie. ROCDATA /1), or set the
environment variable SVGA to a value of 1 by placing the following line in
your autoexec.bat file:

SET SVGA=1

If the program hangs in this mode you might require a VESA driver for your
display adapter to be loaded first.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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The participation of the following people is greatfully acknowledged:

Project Leader - Evert Hoek

Overall conceptual design of ROCDATA - Sandip Shah
Programming of ROCDATA - Sandip Shah
with revisions by - Brent Corkum
Manual - Devika Shah
Developmental Funding - Mining Research Directorate

The interface for ROCDATA is based on the FEINT user interface package
(ver 3.0) developed by Brent Corkum, Rock Engineering Group, University
of Toronto, with funding from the Mining Research Directorate, the
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the University
Research Incentive Fund (Ontario).