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PODMate 2.02
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0. What's new?
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see changelog.txt

1. What is PODMate?
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A utility to merge several POD files (Monster Truck
Madness user tracks, trucks and other add-ons).
PodMate allows you to store several tracks in just one POD!

This means: GOODBYE 15 POD LIMIT! The only remaining limit
is that of MTM itself (a total of about 30 tracks).

Many people have asked for the possibility to merge
more than two tracks at a time. PODMate2 features a
Merge List and a multiple selection file dialog for
fast and easy merging of a large number of PODs.

PODMate2 has been totally rewritten. No code of PODMate 1.x
remains. I hope that the strange effects (multiple tracks,
etc.) the version 1.2 sometimes produced will not happen
with V2.0.

2. Installation
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Simply copy the file
  PODMate2.exe
to a directory of your choice.
The Program should be ready to run.

3. How to use PODMate
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Before you are certain that PODMate always does
what you want/expect, make a backup of all
the files you use.

* ADDING FILES TO THE LIST

Press the "Add to list..." button to activate a
Windows file dialog. Only folders and POD files
will be displayed, unless you change the file
type to "all files *.*".

Go to the folder where the PODs you want to
merge are stored and select as many of them
as you want. You can use the SHIFT and ALT
key to select multiple files.

Press "Oeffnen" (German for "Open") to add
the selected files to the Merge List.

Repeat the process for PODs from different
folders until you have selected all the PODs
you want to merge.

* REMOVING FILES FROM THE LIST

If you want to remove PODs from the Merge List,
select them (once again, you can use the SHIFT
and ALT keys to select multiple files) and
press the "Remove from list" button.

* SPECIFYING A NAME FOR THE MERGED POD

You can enter the Merged POD name directly
in the edit box near the bottom of the dialog.
The file name will be relative to the folder
from which you started PODMate.

Alternatively, press the "..." button to the
right of the edit field to activate a Windows
file dialog. Move to the destination folder
and either select an existing POD (that will be
overwritten) or type in the name of a new POD
(do not forget the .POD extension!)

The selected file name and path will appear
in the edit field.

* MERGING THE PODS

Press the "Merge" button to merge all PODs in
the Merge List.

Press "Done" to exit the program.


* Advanced' topics:

- You can use a merged POD file as source file.
- to update a track when an older version of that track
 is already in a merged POD file, use the new track as
 FIRST source track, the merged POD with the old version
 as SECOND source.
- It is not possible to keep two different versions of the same track in one POD.

4. PODMate homepage
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http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~pieper/mtm/mtmutil.html

5. The author of BINedit
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Oliver Pieper (aka 8589Redburne in MTMA)
Student of computer science at the 
Philipps-University of Marburg, Germany.

email: pieper@informatik.uni-marburg.de
WWW: www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~pieper

Please email me all comments and suggestions regarding PODMate2
or any of my other utilities!

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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
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Resale is strictly prohibited unless given permission by the author.
All material contained with the ZIP file is considered copyrighted by
the author.

1997 Oliver Pieper