notefold 1.0
Placeholder install sheet: brackets mark values nobody has recorded.
Refreshes a licence token over a modem line, at night.
notefold dial --device /dev/ttyS0
no carrier — the licences moved to TCP in 2009Note from the shelf row: superseded in 2009
Before you install
- Runs on: Windows. the application must be 4.0.7 to 4.1.6.
- Space: about 96 KB for the download, plus [WORKING SPACE] while it runs.
- Rights: an ordinary user account; no elevation needed
- Know first: [PREREQUISITE] — what has to be true before this tool will run at all.
Download and verify
Take the build for your platform from the [SHARE] and check it against the digest on the shelf row before you unpack anything.
certutil -hashfile notefold-1.0-win64.zipExpected: f69034c14918. The shelf row carries the same digest.
Install
Copy it into place and put it on the path. Nothing here installs a service or a scheduled task.
Windows
Unpack the zip, then:
xcopy notefold-1.0-win64 C:\Tools\notefold /E /I
setx PATH "%PATH%;C:\Tools\notefold"
notefold --versionCheck it worked
Check the version first, then run the one command the tool exists for:
notefold --version
notefold dial --device /dev/ttyS0
no carrier — the licences moved to TCP in 2009Expected output is the line shown above; anything else means [TO DO: write the failure list].
Removing it
Delete the folder and drop the path entry. The tool keeps no state of its own.
rmdir /s /q C:\Tools\notefoldIf it goes wrong
- [KNOWN FAILURE 1] — the usual fixes for this tool have not been written down yet. Add them the second time somebody hits one.
- Wrong error number or a fault you cannot name: run the tool's own diagnostic first (shelf row).
- Before any repair that writes to a store, take the export — backoff is the tool for it.