          PFCLEAN - America On Line (AOL) Personal File Cabinet (PFC) 
			Restoration & Cleanup Utility  
	    Version 2.0
          Copyright (C) MLJSoftware 1999.
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          --DISCLAIMER------------------------------------------------

          This software is provided "as is" without warranty of fitness
          for use or suitability for any purpose, express or implied.  
          Use at your own risk or not at all.

          MLJSoftware excludes any and all implied warranties, including
          warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
          purpose. MLJSoftware makes no warranty of representation, either
          express or implied, with respect to this software program,
          its quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a
          particular purpose. MLJSoftware shall not have any liability for
          special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of
          or resulting from the use of, or misuse of this program.

          PFCLEAN.EXE is "freeware".  It may be freely used and distributed
          within the distribution guidelines issued below.  However, the 
          copyright in this software has not been abandoned, and is hereby 
          asserted.

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          REQUIREMENTS:

	    This program was written in Borland Turbo C++ and conforms to ANSI C.

          IBM Compatible PC, DOS 5.0 or higher, works under Windows 3.1, NT, 95 & 98.


          WHAT THIS PROGRAM DOES:

          PFCLEAN was written after AOL corrupted my Personal Filing Cabinet
	    file during an aborted compression.  I was very distressed to learn 
	    that AOL has no utility to restore corrupted PFCs.

	    This meant that my ENTIRE PFC, containing:

             - Saved Email Messages
		- Friend's Email Addresses
		- Favorite WWW Links
             - Newsgroup Messages

          WAS GONE!

          Worse yet, was that the file was unreadable by nearly EVERY text editor or
          word processing software (Windows Word, Write, Wordpad, QEDIT, Notepad+)
          package I had!
          
	    PFCLEAN is a very basic program.  You simply type in the name of your PFC
	    file, and it goes through the file, stripping out nonprinting characters 
          and some of the basic AOL control structures (as much as I could figure 
          out without ANY technical documentation), and inserting linefeeds and 
          carriage returns as needed to improve legibility.  An output file is 
          generated that contains the cleaned up PFC.

          Optionally, PFCLEAN also extracts email addresses and/or web links from your
          AOL Personal Filing Cabinet and writes them to a separate file.


          INSTALLING PFCLEAN

          To install  PFCLEAN: 
          - extract the files from the ZIP archive. 
          - copy the files to any directory that is in the DOS PATH 
              (C:\WINDOWS for example)


          RUNNING PFCLEAN:

          FROM DOS:

          Type:
          
	          PFCLEAN <pfcfilename>  {-be}

          Insuring that you have included the full DOS pathname to the PFC file.

          PFCLEAN will create a new file in the same directory as the PFC file, with 
          the same file name, but with the extension ".ASC" (e.g. if your PFC filename
          is C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username. , the cleaned file will be located in 
          C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username.ASC).

	    Use the optional parameters -b, -e, or -be to have PFCLEAN generate a file
	    of extracted email addresses (named pfcfilename.EML), a file of extracted
          weblinks/URLs (named pfcfilename.BKM), or both, respectively.  These parameters 
          are not case or order dependent, but do require the leading dash (-).


          For HELP, type 
              
            	PFCLEAN /?

	    FROM WINDOWS 95:

          Go to the START MENU and click on RUN.

          In the dialog box, type:

	    	PFCLEAN <pfcfilename>  {-be}

          Insuring that you have included the full DOS pathname to the PFC file.

          PFCLEAN will create a new file in the same directory as the PFC file, with 
          the same file name, but with the extension ".ASC" (e.g. if your PFC filename
          is C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username. , the cleaned file will be located in 
          C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username.ASC).

	    Use the optional parameters -b, -e, or -be to have PFCLEAN generate a file
	    of extracted email addresses (named pfcfilename.EML), a file of extracted
          weblinks/URLs (named pfcfilename.BKM), or both, respectively.  These parameters 
          are not case or order dependent, but do require the leading dash (-).

          For HELP, type 
              
            	PFCLEAN /?
          
          FROM WINDOWS 3.1:

          Go to Program Manager, and click on FILE / RUN.

          In the dialog box, type:

	    	PFCLEAN <pfcfilename>  {-be}

          Insuring that you have included the full DOS pathname to the PFC file.

          PFCLEAN will create a new file in the same directory as the PFC file, with 
          the same file name, but with the extension ".ASC" (e.g. if your PFC filename
          is C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username. , the cleaned file will be located in 
          C:/AOL/ORGANIZE/username.ASC).

	    Use the optional parameters -b, -e, or -be to have PFCLEAN generate a file
	    of extracted email addresses (named pfcfilename.EML), a file of extracted
          weblinks/URLs (named pfcfilename.bkm), or both, respectively.  These parameters 
          are not case or order dependent, but do require the leading dash (-).

          For HELP, type 
              
            	PFCLEAN /?



          UNREGISTERED LIMITATIONS:

          PFCLEAN is freeware, and as such, this unregistered version is 
          fully functional.


          PFCLEAN "FREEWARE" DISTRIBUTION GUIDELINES:

          This unregistered version of PFCLEAN and accompanying documentation 
          may be freely copied and distributed provided the conditions 
          below are met...

          1. PFCLEAN.EXE and this README.TXT file must be in the
             archive and not be modified in any way shape or form.

          2. No fee may be charged without the express written permission
             of  MLJSoftware.

          3. Disk Vendors may include it on a disk for which you charge
             a distribution fee, but may not charge for PFCLEAN itself.

          Sysops may post PFCLEAN for downloading by their users as long
          as the conditions above are met.


          PFCLEAN IS FREEWARE:

          Over the years, I've found some great software that was either
          shareware or freeware. This is my small way of repaying all those
          software authors and the web community as a whole.

          If you find this program worthwhile (and I think anyone who loses
          their PFC will!),  please either 

			send me an email at markjx@aol.com, or
 
			visit my website at http://members.aol.com/markjx/mljsoft.htm

          telling me that my efforts were not in vain.

	    If your conscience is still not satisfied, I would graciously accept
          any freewill donations, putting them towards my AOL bill or maybe a more
          current C++ compiler!  Email the above address for our snailmail address.

          If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, E-MAIL markjx  
          from America Online or from the internet, email  markjx@aol.com or 
          visit our website:  http://members.aol.com/markjx/mljsoft.htm.


          Thats about it.....

          Thanks For Trying PFCLEAN!