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File Plus Ver 1.51
Copyright (C) 1993-1994 Carl W. Moore
All Rights Reserved
Contents:
HEADING Section
~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
Concept and Features 1
Basic Operation 2
Advanced Options 3
Configuring User Buttons 4
User Function Parsing Tokens 4A
Configuring Drive Buttons 5
Introduction to File Types 6
Configuring File Types 6A
Multimedia Sound Support 7
Introduction to the PKZip Front End 8
Zip Options 8A
UnZip Options 8B
View Zip Options 8C
Zip Backup Options 8D
Notes on using PkZip 8E
DOS Functions and the FUNC.PIF 9
Operating Modes 10
Button Painting 11
Function Reference 12
Planned Improvements (Coming Attractions) 13
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Section 1 Concept and Features
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Welcome to File Plus 1.5!
This program is a result of my ultimate disgust with every disk and file
manipulation program I've encountered since I started using PC compatibles.
This program is an attempt to bring to the world of PC's an elegant and
unbelievably simple user interface to do anything you want.
Basic file and directory functions:
[Copy] files/dirs -- What it says.
[Copy As] -- Same as above but allows you to rename on the fly.
[Move] files/dirs -- Moves files or dirs, copying across volumes if
neccessary.
[Move As] -- Just like copy as, only moves instead.
[Rename] files/dirs -- Renames files and/or directories.
[Make Directory] -- What it says.
[Delete] files/dirs -- One function, many uses.
[Attributes] -- Allows you to modify file attributes.
File Plus provides the most comprehensible and simplest interface to
working with .ZIP files as well. With one click of a button you can unzip any .ZIP
file to any directory of your choice. Likewise you can zip up whole files and directories,
as well as take advantage of the useful multi-volume backup functions of pkzip.
Multimedia sound support for PC's with sound cards supported under Windows.
Virtually every function in File Plus can have a .WAV file sound associated with it.
A simple to use File Typing system. File Typing is expained in detail in Section 6.
A flexible user button definition system for creating custom commands.
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Section 2 Basic Operation
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File Plus consists of three distinct windows in it's main display.
They are as follows:
Left Directory Window, Right Directory Window, and Button Window.
LEFT and RIGHT Directory Windows:
The Left Window and the Right Window are interchangeable windows that
display the file and directory information that you use the most.
They both consist of the following buttons and controls:
(see Section 10 for Operating Modes)
Normal Mode:
Drive Status Bar: Very Top Bar of each window. Shows Bytes Free on
the currently selected drive. Also indicates
if this window is currently the Source or
Target for any function. Clicking on this
bar with the LEFT mouse button will cause
the directory and drive currently displayed
in the other window to duplicated to the one
you clicked on (Note: This is a visual change
only, the actual files and dirs are NOT copied
or moved).
Directory Status Bar: Right Under the Drive Status Bar:
This bar shows you information about the dir
loaded in that window, format is:
F:### D:### #######/########
F indicates the number of files in this
directory.
D indicates the number of subdirs in this
directory.
The number to the left of the slash indicates
the total number of bytes occupied by all the
visible files in that directory.
The number to the right is a byte count of all
the files you have selected in that directory.
Clicking on this bar with the LEFT mouse button
will cause the directory associated with this
window to be re-read.
File Dir Listing: This lister takes up the greater part of the window
and shows you the files and directories contained
in the current directory.
Directories are shown as so: <DIR>
Files are shown with no "<>" around them.
By scrolling the window to the left and right, more
file and dir info becomes available. Such as:
File Size
Attributes
Creation Date and Time
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