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- MegaD 2.00 Copyright © 1990, 1991, 1992 John L. Jones
- All Rights Reserved.
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- My appreciation to the below mentioned
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- Through the years of my obsession with this beast (MegaD), there
- are three who have always been by my side.
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- Kathy
- My loving wife for 17 years
- Who, still is not quite sure what MegaD does. Yet she
- will give it a chance. I know this because, she has
- not taken a sludge hammer to the two Amiga Computers we
- have.
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- Christina
- My daughter, 15
- Who, simply accepts me for what I am. Who, gives me
- many reasons to be proud of her.
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- Benjamin
- My son, 13
- Who, is my little buddy. Who, will be taller than me
- by the time I finish this program. Who, will pay me
- back, for all the things I did to my parents as I grew
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- All three have bared with me through the years, I love each of
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- Acknowledgments to the beta testers.
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- Richard Brady Andrew Porter
- Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Etobicode, Ontario, Canada
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- David Cole Scott Reynolds
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA West Valley City, Utah, USA
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- Blaine Gardner Micheal Salls
- Bountiful, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Terry Fisher Ron Sudweeks
- West Jordan, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Bob Krusinski Rodney Volkmar
- Littelon, Colorado, USA State Line, Nevada, USA
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- Tim Madden Jeff Wagg
- Bountiful, Utah, USA Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Doug Nakakihara
- Simi Valley, California, USA
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- A very special thanks goes to the below mentioned.
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- Chris Hopps
- Roayal Oak, Michigan
- Who wrote the compile time library, "MemLib". This library
- does two things for the user, One: prevent memory
- fragmentation. Two: guarantees that when you quit MegaD,
- All memory used by MegaD will be returned to the system.
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- Sebastiano Vigna
- Milano, Italy
- A programer, whom I admire. He is the author of Leggi,
- SuperDuper, Mostra and many others. If you like the fact
- the MegaD supports screen fonts and text fonts in the menus
- and windows, you can thank him for pushing for it. If you
- like the way MegaD can copies large files from one floppy
- disk drive to another, at great speeds, you can thank him
- for supplying me the example code of how it can be done.
- Along with this, he has given me many suggestions to think
- about, work on, and include with MegaD.
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- Steve Tibbett
- Another noted programer on the Amiga. Steve, was willing
- to take time from his busy schedule to look over MegaD. He
- offered, comments, complaints and suggestions. Though I
- doubt I have won him over from DiskMaster II, he was still
- very helpful.
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- I am sure that I have overlooked some, who have helped me in one
- way or another with this project. If I have, please forgive me,
- and accept this as that thanks.
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- No warranties are implied or expressed with regard to the fitness
- or merchantability of MegaD for any particular purpose. All
- risks and damages, incidental or otherwise, arising through the
- use or misuse of MegaD are entirely at the responsibility of the
- user.
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- While considerable effort has been made to provide you with a
- reliable product, there is no guarantee that this program is 100%
- "bug-free". Any problems that do arise will be corrected when
- and if feasible. Maintenance releases will be made available in
- order to correct potentially hazardous malfunctions within the
- program. Fixes for benign problems, usually cosmetic in nature,
- will most likely be deferred until the next major release of
- MegaD. This disclaimer does not guarantee future versions of
- this product, only a prescribed method of dealing with possible
- errors, and their corrections, to this program.
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- MegaD Shareware version is freely distributable as long as all
- of the following conditions are met:
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- 1. All copyright notices must remain unaltered.
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- 2. MegaD may not appear on shareware or public domain
- disks for which the consumers are charged more than a
- reasonable disk copying fee of seven dollars per disk.
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- 3. MegaD may not appear on any electronic agency which
- charges more than the basic access fee to down-load
- MegaD.
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- 4. MegaD may not appear on any electronic agency that
- claims copyrights to uploaded programs, either alone or
- as part of a collection.
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- 5. MegaD may not be sold commercially alone or as a
- element in another product.
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- 6. All of the files must be included in their original
- form without additions, deletions, or modifications of
- any kind. Any such modifications must appear in
- separate files.
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- If you would like a variance to any of the above conditions,
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- What he had to work with, were very simple and incomplete
- descriptions that I had prepared as a Beta Document. During his
- attempt to prepare this document, I kept changing MegaD, making a
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- MegaD 2.0
- By John L. Jones
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- The Best Directory Utility Ever
- Made for the Amiga Computer
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- User Guide and Documentation
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- Prepared By Timothy Madden
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- Welcome to MegaD, the best directory utility
- ever written for the Amiga computer.
- Although there are many programs to
- manipulate files and directories, none of
- them incorporates the versatility and power
- of MegaD. Unlike other services of this
- nature, MegaD is not restricted to only two
- disk directories at one time. You can now
- have as many as the memory on your computer
- will allow. You can copy files from one
- source to multiple targets. It can be
- configured to run external programs such as
- picture viewer with the click of a button.
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- This manual and the MegaD.Tutorial manual
- will explain to you how to do it all. It
- will get you into the program and guide you
- through all the features. It will comment on
- the advantages and disadvantages of each of
- these features. Explanations as to why the
- feature was added will be given. Examples on
- topics that may confuse you abound.
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- Two Manuals This manual is too the point. It offers
- short descriptions for both the commands and
- settings of MegaD. The MegaD.Tutorial file
- was designed to take you step by step through
- the all of the functions and preferences
- settings of MegaD. If this is the your first
- time behind the wheel of MegaD, I suggest
- that you start with the MegaD.Tutorial file.
- If you like to jump into a program, get lost
- somewhere (as I do), and then read the
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- Starting MegaD MegaD can be started from either the Command
- Line Interface (CLI), or from Workbench. To
- start it from the CLI, change the current
- directory to the directory MegaD is installed.
- Type:
- run MegaD <return>
- Workbench users should open the drawer to the
- MegaD icon. Double click the icon with the left
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- Once MegaD is started, a window titled 'MegaD'
- will open (See Figure 1-1). This is the command
- window and it is the control center for the
- program. All program functions can be accessed
- through this window.
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- |MegaD 2.0 Control Window |
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- | Free Volumes |() Volumes In Memory | |
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- | First Buffered Volume DF0: 648,324 | |--1
- | Second Buffered Volume DF1: 232,987 |/\|
- | Third Buffered Volume WORK: 22,343,548 |\/|
- |---------------------------------------------------------------|
- |**| Device Gadget 1 | Device Gadget 4 | Device Gadget 7 |
- |**|-------------------+---------------------+------------------|
- | | Device Gadget 2 | Device Gadget 5 | Device Gadget 8 |
- | |-------------------+---------------------+------------------|--2
- | | Device Gadget 3 | Device Gadget 6 | Device Gadget 9 |
- | |-------------------+----------------------------------------|
- | | Device Name: | |
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- |**| Files Selected Chip |
- |**| Dir. Selected Fast |
- | | Bytes Selected Large |--3
- |**| Free Disk space Total |
- |**| Active Directory |
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- | Keypad '(' | Keypad ')' | Keypad '/' | Keypad '*' | |
- |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------| C |
- | Keypad '7' | Keypad '8' | Keypad '9' | Keypad '-' | - |
- |--------------+--------------+--------------|--------------| |
- | Keypad '4' | Keypad '5' | Keypad '6' | Keypad '+' | S |--4
- |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------| - |
- | Keypad '1' | Keypad '2' | Keypad '3' | | |
- |-----------------------------+--------------| ENTER | A |
- | Keypad '0' | Keypad '.' | | |
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- Figure 1-1
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- Using MegaD MegaD is different from most other Amiga
- directory utilities in that it can display
- more than two directories at a time. In
- fact, it can display as many directories as
- desired within the limits of available
- memory. Once a directory had been read, it
- remains in memory. This saves time as you
- move in and out of directories on different
- volumes. It is possible to select files and
- directories on disks that are not in any disk
- drive.
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- The Main Window There are 18 command gadgets in the main
- window (See figure 2-1). These do common
- functions such as copy, delete, or rename
- files. They also let you create new
- directories, view text files, set protection
- bits, and find files. On the right hand side
- are three special gadgets labeled C, S, and
- A. The letters correspond to the Control,
- Shift, and Amiga keys. When you click once
- on one of these gadgets or holds down the
- respective key, a new set of 18 command
- gadgets can be selected. Therefore, there
- are 72 possible command gadgets to chose
- from.
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- | Keypad '(' | Keypad ')' | Keypad '/' | Keypad '*' | |
- |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------| C |
- | Keypad '7' | Keypad '8' | Keypad '9' | Keypad '-' | - |
- |--------------+--------------+--------------|--------------| |
- | Keypad '4' | Keypad '5' | Keypad '6' | Keypad '+' | S |--4
- |--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------| - |
- | Keypad '1' | Keypad '2' | Keypad '3' | | |
- |-----------------------------+--------------| ENTER | A |
- | Keypad '0' | Keypad '.' | | |
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- Figure 2-1
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- The main window includes a list area
- controlled by a cycle gadget in the upper
- right hand corner (See figure 2-2). Clicking
- once on this gadget with the left mouse
- button toggles it between 'Volumes in Memory'
- and 'Devices, Assigns, and Includes'. This
- gadget controls the display below it. The
- first option lists any directory or volume
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- in memory. The second option lists all
- logical and physical devices as well as
- assigns available to the computer.
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- | Free Volumes |() Volumes In Memory | |
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- | First Buffered Volume DF0: 648,324 | |--1
- | Second Buffered Volume DF1: 232,987 |/\|
- | Third Buffered Volume WORK: 22,343,548 |\/|
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- Figure 2-2
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- Depending on the state of the cycle gadget,
- the display window shows either the volumes
- in memory or the devices that can be
- accessed. The scroll bar to the right can be
- moved with the left mouse button to show more
- items above or below. Double clicking with
- the left mouse button on one or more of these
- items opens a window with the files and
- subdirectories for that device. If the files
- on that device has already been read into a
- buffer, the contents of the buffer will be
- displayed. Because of the multitasking
- nature of the Amiga computer and the fact
- that other programs can alter the files on a
- device, the buffer may not reflect the
- current status of the device. MegaD has ways
- to solve this problem which will be explained
- below.
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- In the upper left hand corner of the main
- window is a gadget labeled 'Free Volumes'.
- Clicking on it with the left mouse button
- will empty all buffers for the volumes in
- memory. This is one way of updating the
- status of a volume or device. This will also
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- |**| Device Gadget 1 | Device Gadget 4 | Device Gadget 7 |
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- | | Device Gadget 2 | Device Gadget 5 | Device Gadget 8 |
- | |-------------------+---------------------+------------------|--2
- | | Device Gadget 3 | Device Gadget 6 | Device Gadget 9 |
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- | | Device Name: | |
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- Figure 2-3
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- In the middle of the main window is a string
- gadget labeled "Device Name:". When the box
- to the right of the label is clicked with the
- left mouse button, a logical or physical
- device can be typed into it. For example, to
- open a window to the Amiga C: directory, the
- box is clicked and 'C:' is typed followed by
- a return. A window to that directory is then
- opened. If the device is already in a
- buffer, the contents of the buffer are
- displayed.
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- Above the string gadget is a collection of
- User-Specified gadgets (See figure 2-3). The
- function of these gadgets can be toggled
- between command and device gadgets with the
- Utilities in Window menu option. Device
- gadgets act as quick access buttons for
- loading directory windows with logical and
- physical devices.
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- Command gadgets can be set up to run
- virtually any sort of external program. The
- implementation of a user function with these
- gadgets is explained in the tutorial. The
- default setting are the commonly used archive
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- |**| Files Selected Chip |
- |**| Dir. Selected Fast |
- | | Bytes Selected Large |--3
- |**| Free Disk space Total |
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- Figure 2-4
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- Below the string gadget is selected
- files/directory and memory information (See
- Figure 2-4). Selected files and directories,
- total bytes selected and the active directory is
- displayed on the left-hand column of the text
- area. The right-hand column displays the current
- memory available on the system.
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- Files Selected and Dir. Selected tells you how
- many files and directories have been selected in
- all open windows. Bytes Selected totals the size
- of these items. The Free Disk space denotes the
- unused space for the destination. On the line
- beneath this one is the current selected window
- indicator. This reflects the active window the
- mouse is on or was last active. It usually
- denotes the destination or target directory for
- most command operations. This information is
- very important if you are copying, moving, or
- creating a new directory. Using all of these
- elements you can decide whether the selected
- files will fit on the destination floppy or
- other device.
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- Clicking with the left mouse button anywhere on
- these indicators will toggle them between Items
- selected and Source Items. Source items show how
- many files and directories will be copied to the
- destination window.
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- Several small box gadgets with horizontal lines
- through them appear next to the User-Specified,
- command, and string gadgets. Clicking once with
- the left mouse button on one of these boxes with
- hide or reveal the gadget next to it. You can
- make the main window as simple or complex as
- desired. The settings of the hide gadgets are
- saved so that the next time you run the program,
- the main window reflects the conditions of the
- last session.
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- Directory Windows This is a character representation of the
- directory window.
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- | Workbench2.0: |#|@|<- Top window drag bar, close and
- |-----------------------| Zoom Gadgets
- | Parent / |Dest|Lock| |<- Parent, Destination, Lock gadgets
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- | C | |
- | Devs | |
- | Expansion | |
- | Fonts | |
- | L | |
- | Libs <---------- Scrolling list area.
- | monitors | |
- | Prefs | |
- | Rexxc | |
- | S | |
- | System | |
- | Trashcan | |
- | Utilities | |
- | WBStartup | |
- | disk.info | |
- | Expansion.info | |
- | Monitors.info | |
- | Prefs.info | |
- | Shell.info | |
- | System.info | <- Vertical scrolling gadget
- | Trashcan.info | |
- | Utilities.info | |
- | WBstartup.info | |
- | | |
- ----------------------/\|<- Up arrow
- | |<|>| \/|<- Left, Right, Down arrow
- ------------------------ and horizonal scrolling gadget
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- Directory Windows Clicking on either a user gadget or an entry
- in the device list will open a window listing
- files and directories. Any file or directory
- can be selected by clicking on it with the
- left mouse button. Directories can be opened
- to a new window if available (see Use Limits
- menu option below) or replacing the current
- directory.
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- Directory windows are of two types: source
- and destination. Source windows are origin
- of an action and destination windows are the
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- target. For example, selected files are in
- the source window, and the destination window
- is where they are to be copied.
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- Destination windows have the DEST gadget at
- the top of the window selected. This is
- generally the last active window. Clicking
- once with the left mouse button on the DEST
- gadget will cause an outline to appear around
- the gadget.
- The window is now set as a destination, and
- will remain so until the gadget is clicking
- again. In this way multiple targets can be
- set.
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- The LOCK gadget to right of the DEST gadget
- keeps the window open. Clicking once with
- the left mouse button will set it. Once set,
- MegaD cannot replace the current directory in
- this window and is forced to use another
- window.
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- On the left of the DEST gadget is the PARENT
- gadget. Clicking on this with the left mouse
- button will open a new window with the
- directory above, if it exists. Clicking on
- this gadget in the root directory of a device
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- ABoot Add
- (Add to Autoboot) ABoot Add requires one executable and at
- least two data files to be selected before it
- will create an AutoBoot. After the autoboot
- has been created any file matching either the
- extension or data within will automatically
- start the appropriate program by double
- clicking that file type. Multiple selections
- are now allowed.
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- A very powerfully requestor is used for Add
- to Autoboot, User Gadgets and Menu sets. And
- extensive discussion of that requestor can be
- found in the MegaD.Tutorial file by searching
- for the string:
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- "Program Control Window"
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- The reading of this section of the tutorial
- is a must if you want to harness the control
- of external programs through MegaD.
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- ABoot Edit
- (Edit Autoboot) Allows you to change the parameters of an
- AutoBoot program. It will actually take you
- to the preference Keypad window. This window
- offers a great deal of editing power over
- many areas of MegaD.
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- Clear All Unselects all items in open directory
- windows.
- Clr ABoot Clear Items in open directory windows by use
- of the AutoBoot parameters. This command is
- very disk intensive.
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- Clr Src Clears selected items in all windows where
- the 'Dest'ination gadget is not set.
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- ClrSrcDir Clears source directory items in all open
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- ClrSrcFile Clears source file items in all open windows.
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- Clr Dir Clears directory items in all open windows.
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- Clr Files Clear marks on all files items in all open
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- Clr Pattern Clear selected items by use of a pattern
- match. It will bring up a window for setting
- match by NAME, DATE, PROTECTION and SIZE. It
- will select from all windows if ALL gadget is
- selected or else only in the DEST directory.
- Remember, you must activate the filter you
- want with the gadget marked activate. You
- can mix the filters so that a selection can
- be made from any set of criteria.
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- Copy This will copy selected files and/or
- directories to the destination directory
- window or windows. The destination windows
- will all have the DEST gadget pressed in.
- Note: while using this program it is a good
- idea to keep windows from covering the title
- bar.
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- Copy will check to see if the selected file
- or files will fit onto the destination disk.
- If not it will inform you that insufficient
- space is available on the destination disk.
- You will be able to force MegaD to continue
- with the copy or move if necessary. Before
- starting you will be requested with a window
- to be sure you want to do this. It will show
- the number of files and directories selected
- and the destination directories name that the
- files will be copied to.
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- Copy As This is the same as copy except that you
- change the name of the file during the copy.
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- Copy/Format This calls the external disk copy and
- formatting program.
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- Create Dir This will create a new sub-directory in the
- active directory window. A request window
- will open and ask to input the name of the
- sub-directory to add to the active directory.
- OK and ABORT gadgets are available here.
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- Delete This will Delete all files and directories
- marked whether the directory window is active
- or not. Before this action starts you will
- be given one last chances to stop files from
- being deleted. A window will pop up and ask
- "Delete ## Files and Directories?" Select YES
- or NO to continue with what ever actions are
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- desired. If items are selected in more than
- one window Extra information will be
- displayed in the window "Delete Will Remove
- Items From ## Windows. Continue?". Once a
- file is deleted there is little chance to
- retrieve it with conventional methods!
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- WATCH OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- MegaD delete works on all open directory
- windows NOT JUST DESTINATION windows. If you
- are deleting out of more than one window it
- will tell you so in a requester.
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- Duplicate Duplicate file or directory when you supply a
- name. It will replace another file if it
- exists. If the option to warn if replacing
- newer file is set, you will get a requester
- stating so.
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- Export File Creates a database export file for use with
- you favorite database.
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- File Comment This works much the same as Rename mentioned
- above. It is used to alter the File Comment
- stored within the directory structure of the
- disk. If items are selected in open directory
- windows MegaD will open a requester to input
- or change the current File Comment on the
- selected file. If the Skip gadget is hit or a
- return is made on an unchanged string gadget
- MegaD will not changed the file comment.
- Blanking out the string and pressing return
- or hitting the OK gadgets will erase the file
- comment on that file or directory. You will
- be able to tell all files that have a file
- comment by an '*' just after the column in
- the directory windows that contain the
- filename. The '*' is visible file comment is
- attached to a file or directory unless the
- comment field is visible. This way you are
- always aware that a comment has been place on
- any displayed file.
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- Filters + See Sel Pattern below.
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- Filters - Removes all current filters.
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- Select From Pattern option in that does not
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- look in the open directory windows to find a
- match and it will look though all directories
- even if it is hidden by the Hide menu
- options. Find will search though volumes
- selected in the Volumes in Memory List . It
- will start from the first file in the volume
- and search though the volume until it ether
- find a match for the string entered in the
- string gadget or finds the last directory
- item on the volume. If a match is found a
- message will be displayed and you will be
- asked if you want to continue. If you answer
- no to the query you will be able to use the
- information displayed in the message window
- to find the file. It will also create a very
- nice file of all found items on a volume (if
- volume is selected in the Volume in Memory
- list) or it will search selected directories.
- This is accomplished by filling the 'Path and
- filename for items found' string gadget A
- file will be created of all directory items
- matching the select criteria. If matched
- items were found it will also open a text
- window to display that list.
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- Go Deep This will load all sub directories in a
- marked volume or directory. This is useful
- for finding the actual size of any directory
- as long as SIZE is being shown in the window.
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- Iconify This will create an AppIcon if you are
- running version 2.0 or higher of the Amiga
- operating system. Drop a volume or drawer
- from the Workbench on the MegaD icon and it
- will come to life with that volume loaded. If
- Activate AutoBoot is checked in the option
- menu it will load text files or check
- AutoBoot defined parameters to call another
- program. There is also an option that will
- leave the icon out at all times whether you
- iconify the program or not. If MegaD is on
- the Workbench the control window is an
- AppWindow so you can drag and drop icons on
- it.
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- Label Print disk labels. If items are selected it
- will create and print the label if no items
- are selected it will open a window for you to
- input the information to print.
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- Label Align Print dots to the printer to help align the
- label. The dots should be just above the
- label and the label should be centered
- between the dots.
- Lab. Modify Automatic labels with an option to modify the
- printed lines before it reaches the printers.
-
- Label Times Same as Label but give the option for
- duplicate labels.
-
- Move Move works identical to copy except that it
- will remove the old files or directories once
- they have been placed successfully in the new
- directory. If the file is to be moved from
- directory to directory on the same volume, it
- will simply rename the file or directory to
- the new place on the disk. Before starting
- you will be requested with a window to be
- sure you want to do this. It will show the
- number of files and directories selected and
- the destination directories name.
- NOTE: Copy and Move will not move a
- directory to a sub-directory of itself.
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- Move As Same as Move with new filename option.
-
- Output File Creates a directory list of selected items
- and directories. If a directory is selected
- it will list all items and sub-directories in
- the list. The current display information
- will be include in this list. (ie. Size and
- date will be printed if they are displayed in
- the directory windows.)
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- Output Ptr Same as Output, only to the printer
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- Prt Text Sends selected text files to the spooler.
-
- Quit Exits MegaD.
-
- Relabel Relabel a marked volume in the Volume in
- Memory list. (OS version 2.0 only)
-
- Rename This will rename any file or directory name
- to what ever valid filename you wish to
- change it to. A window will open with three
- boolean Gadgets (OK, ABORT, and SKIP) and one
- string gadget. This string gadget will hold
- the current name of the file that was found
- selected in any open directory window. At
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- this point you will have three options:
- Change the name of the file, Skip to the next
- selected item, or Abort the rename option.
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- Save Defaults Write MegaD preference file as "megad2.pf".
-
- Set Defaults Open MegaD prefs window for defining Menu
- sets and device gadgets. Includes gadgets to
- go to other default windows for other
- settings such as Colors, Displays, Defaults,
- Keypad.
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- Search Text This will search selected text files for a
- string. It has an option to write all
- information to a text file to create a list
- of strings that have been found.
- Select All This will select all directory items in all
- open directory windows, excluding the Volumes
- in Memory window or the device window.
-
- Sel ABoot This option will open a window displaying all
- of the MegaD Auto Boot parameters available.
- By selecting individual Auto Boot parameters
- and then closing the window, MegaD will
- search the header information of each file in
- the open directory windows to see if they
- match the Auto Boot definitions. So if you
- have an Auto Boot parameter that will
- recognize sound samples and select that
- parameter, MegaD will then select all sound
- files in the open directory window. Select
- directory items by use of the AutoBoot
- parameters. This is very disk intensive.
-
- Sel Src Select all items in source windows.
-
- SelSrcDir Select Directories in source windows.
-
- SelSrcFile Select Files in source Windows.
-
- Sel Dir Select Directories in all open windows.
-
- Sel File Select Files in all open windows.
-
- Sel Pattern This option will open a window with a string
- input gadget. You can select a directory
- item by name by typing the name to search for
- in the open directory windows. If found it
- will mark that item as selected. Pattern
- matching is supported. AmigaDOS pattern
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- matching is a combination of alphanumeric
- characters and a series of special token
- characters. These token characters denote
- such things as wildcards, repetitions, and
- negation. Valid patterns under AmigaDos 2.0
- are as follows:
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- ? The question mark matches any single
- character. For example, "A?B" will match any
- files with a three letter name that begins
- with "A" and ends with "B".
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- # The number sign matches strings
- containing one or more repetitions of the
- expression immediately following the # sign.
- For example, "#A" will match any file name
- consisting of one or more "A"'s. "#?" will
- match any non-blank file name.
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- % The percent sign matches a blank.
-
- | This is the OR symbol. This matches
- file names on either side of this symbol.
- The expressions and the OR symbol must be
- enclosed in parentheses. For example,
- "(A|B)" will match "A" or "B". "A(B|%|C)"
- will match "AB", "A", or "AC".
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- ~ The tilde negates the expression
- following it. All file names that do not
- match this expression are selected. For
- example, ~(A) will match all files that DO
- NOT begin with "A".
-
- [] Brackets are used to group a range of
- characters. For example, [A-D]#? will match
- all file names beginning with the letters "A"
- through "D".
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- All patterns can be used in combination with
- each other, thus giving you the option of
- selecting a group of files or directory with
- similar characteristics.
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- NOTE: An extensive discussion of the Filter
- requestor window can be found in the
- MegaD.Tutorial document by searching for this
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- To understand the functions
- 'Sel/Clr Pattern', 'Find' and 'Filter' the
- reading of this section is a must.
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- Set Protect This works much the same as the Rename option
- above except that it works with the
- protection bits of the file. There will be
- eight small gadgets in the center of the
- request window. The gadgets will be marked ?
- s p a r w e d. When the window opens the
- flag gadgets will reflect the way the flags
- are at the moment for the current selected
- file. By turning these gadgets off and on
- the bits can be changed on the file. The
- letters stand for:
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- d = Deletable
- e = Execute
- w = Writable
- r = Readable
- a = Archive
- p = Pure
- s = Script
- ? = Were not sure
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- Commodore/Amiga at one time defined the ? bit
- as 'h' for hidden. This, now, is not
- supported. At the time the final bit is
- defined, MegaD will be modified correctly.
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- You will also find the gadget ALL in this
- window. If this gadget is used, all selected
- items in open directory windows will have the
- protection flags changes to way that the
- flags are set in the window. This saving the
- time to set each directory item one at a
- time.
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- Set Protect Deep Should you want to set the directory flag
- deep within a selected directory you may do
- so. To accomplish this select the directory
- that you wish to change all items and
- sub-directories in. Select the Use gadgets
- for Set Protect. A small request window will
- open asking "Would you also like to set all
- items in directory DIRECTORY-NAME"? Answer
- Yes to this request and MegaD will set all
- flags deep within this directory. Answer No
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- and only the directory entry itself will be
- changed.
-
- Update Dir Due to the dynamic nature of the Amiga
- computer a directory can be changed or even
- deleted by any other program. If the
- validity of a directory is in question use
- this to update the directory to the current
- state. If the directory that the window
- displays has been removed, the directory
- window will be removed from the screen.
- Those directory items that have been added or
- deleted will be reflected. If you want to
- resort a directory by a different attribute,
- set the sort flags in the Show menu and use
- update. If Sort on None is used no sorting
- is done so little if any change will be
- shown.
-
- View Text This will open a new window to view any text
- file marked in any open directory window or
- windows. It will first check to see if the
- marked file is a text file. If it is not
- sure what type of a file it is it will open a
- request window and ask, "Not True Text File.
- Load Anyway?" Clicking on the yes gadget
- will allow the program to load the file. It
- will be placed in HEX mode. The text viewer
- will only display the true ASCII characters
- of the file. A window will open with a
- scroll bar on the right and bottom to
- manipulate the position you would like to be
- in the file. This window will stay open
- until the Close Window gadget of the window
- is selected or the close window option is
- selected.
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- If you wish to view more than one file at a
- time, simply select more than one text file
- from any of the open directory windows.
- MegaD View Text is designed just like the
- directory windows to allow an unlimited
- number of text files to be viewed at one
- time. The only limitation is available
- memory in the machine at the time.
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- All of the directory options and windows are
- active even if a text window is open on the
- screen. So if you want to open another text
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- window select that file in the directory
- window and select View Text again.
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- There is a completely new menu to select from
- within the text windows. Text and background
- color can be selected to suit your taste.
- The whole file can be printed or just the
- part visible in the window. Page up, page
- down, side to side and top to bottom of file
- commands are here. Search for a string with
- or without a pattern match and repeat last
- search. The cursor keys will act on the file
- in the direction you wish to move.
-
- The Numeric Keypads Home(7), End(1), PgUp(9)
- and PgDn(3) will move you within the text
- file. Home will move you to the first of the
- file. End will move you to the end of the
- file, PgUp will move you one page (Window
- size) up and PgDn will move you one page
- (Window size) down. The '.' key on the
- keypad will open a requestor to enter a
- search string. The '0' key will repeat the
- last search. By using the F7 function key
- you will be able to bring any open text
- window to the front of the screen. If more
- than one text window is open you can toggle
- between the windows by using the F7 key to
- cycle though the text windows. Save Defaults
- will save the last Search String used. If
- non-text is selected it will load it and
- display in HEX.
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- MegaD has seven pull-down menus. They are
- Project, Windows, Utilities, Options, Show,
- Output, and Panic. They group together
- related functions. All menus can be accessed
- by holding down the right mouse button and
- moving the mouse pointer to the top of the
- screen, and then over the desired item. An
- alternate method to accomplish this is with
- keyboard shortcuts. Thirty-four of the menu
- items have equivalent keyboard shortcuts
- listed on the right side.
-
- Project Menu The Project menu contains functions that
- apply to the overall operation of MegaD. It
- contains the Autoboot editing feature, which
- is unique to this Amiga directory utility.
- It has elements for changing the look and
- feel of the program. You can get information
- about the author of MegaD. And finally, it
- includes a way to exit the program.
-
- Project,
- Add to Autoboot The Add to Autoboot brings up a window that
- allows you to add calls to external programs
- by selecting the program to be called and any
- data files that may use it. For example, you
- may select three picture files and a viewer.
- Adding these to Autoboot will run the
- viewer when any similar picture file is
- double clicked with the left mouse button.
- Autoboot will be explained in greater detail
- in its own section below.
-
- Project,
- Edit Autoboot Edit Autoboot lets you reconfigure these
- calls or change the way MegaD operates with
- the program. MegaD will remain active during
- all external function calls. You may want to
- add flags to the program when MegaD calls it.
- As there is much to explain about Autoboot,
- again, it has been left to another section.
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- Project,
- Set Preferences Set Preferences allows you to change the
- User-Specified menus as well as alter colors,
- display resolution, gadget text, and setting
- for windows and messages. If you wish MegaD
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- to open its own screen instead of a window on
- Workbench, here is where you set that up. It
- also has the User-Specified gadgets which are
- set up similar to Autoboots. As with
- Autoboot, this is another feature to be
- described in its own section.
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- Project,
- Save Preferences Save Preferences permanently stores the
- settings to disk. They are read in the next
- time MegaD is started. MegaD can be adjusted
- to suit the individual user and made to stay
- that way. However, you may experiment with
- MegaDs' settings before you find ones that
- fit your preferences. During this time it is
- best to keep the special flag set "Save
- Defaults at closing". This forces the
- current defaults to be save each time you
- quit MegaD. You can return to the previous
- settings by exiting the program if you did
- not use Save Defaults.
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- Project,
- Color This opens a window that allows you to set
- the colors used by MegaD. It is best to have
- the screen set to the color depth that you
- want to run within. MegaD supports 4/8/16
- colors screens. The depth of the screen is
- changed within the Display menu item.
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- Project,
- Display This opens a window that allows you to set
- the screen type and depth. It allows you to
- set the date format to use within MegaD
- directory windows. It also allows you to set
- the thousand separator for numerical figures
- such as size.
-
- Project,
- Defaults This opens one of two windows that you may
- access to set various default settings for
- MegaD. Settings such as "Iconify at start",
- "Save Defaults at closing", "Dictionary
- filename"....
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- Project,
- Keypads This opens a window for editing the Keypad
- command gadgets and is also the place to edit
- AutoBoots. You can create and edit User
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- your Menu Sets and User gadgets. You can set
- colors for specific command gadgets. This is
- a very powerful window that allows setting
- and editing many of the aspect of MegaD.
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- Project,
- About About opens a window with information about
- the program and author. It displays the
- version number of MegaD so that you can
- determine whether or not certain features
- exist. It is also useful for identifying the
- latest revision of the program. The author's
- name and address appear in case you would
- like contact him with problems or
- suggestions.
-
- Project,
- Quit Quit exits MegaD and frees all memory used by
- it. A small requester window appears asking
- you to confirm this action. Clicking once
- with the left mouse button on the Yes gadget
- will end MegaD. The same click on the No
- gadget will cancel the request to quit.
-
- Windows Menu The Windows menu items control the location,
- size, and number of the directory windows.
- Through this menu the windows can be made to
- overlap one another or sit on an invisible
- grid. The grid can control the size of each
- window. Since many people find multiple
- windows confusing at first, the number of
- windows can be limited.
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- Windows,
- Open Windows Open Windows has two options. The first
- opens all windows that have been opened at
- least once. It will respect the Limit
- settings if that is set on.
-
- The second option opens windows only for
- selected directories in the windows.
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- Windows,
- Close Windows Close Windows is the opposite of Open
- Windows. It has two options as well.
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- Windows,
- Use Overlap Locations Overlap Locations deals with where the
- windows will appear. This option opens a new
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- top window border and to the right of the
- last window. Overlapping the windows allows
- for more files to be shown in large
- directories.
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- Windows,
- Use Grid Use Grid Locations tells MegaD to open new
- windows on an invisible grid. Restricting
- windows to a grid helps by not hiding titles
- underneath other windows. All titles are
- visible so a desired directory can be found
- without shuffling windows around the screen.
- The size of the grid is shown in the menu
- item above this one. Selecting this item
- will let you change the values.
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- Windows,
- Set Snapshot Set Snapshot records the position of open
- directory windows for use with the "Use
- Snapshot" window positions.
-
- Windows,
- Use Snapshot Use Snapshot, uses the fixed position the
- directory windows were in when the Set
- Snapshot menu items was selected. The
- Snapshot position are used on a first come
- first serve basis. Unlike the Overlap and
- Grid options which keep volumes aligned in
- columns.
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- Windows,
- Use Limits Use Limits allows you to restrict the number
- of windows MegaD has open at any one time.
- The use of limits helps to avoid confusion
- when there are many large windows overlapping
- each other. It will also help put off low
- memory situations. The menu item above this
- one shows the present window limitations.
- You can modify these values by selecting it.
- The values entered here also define the size
- of the grid for the "Use Grid" setting.
-
- Windows,
- Two Window Utility Two Window Utility will change MegaD into the
- more familiar directory program with two
- windows. The main window functions are moved
- to the bottom of the screen. The windows are
- split by button gadgets for devices. These
- device gadgets have a right and left half.
- The right half affects the right window and
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- the left half the left. If one window shows
- a directory and the opposite is empty, the
- contents of the directory will be swapped to
- the empty window when you select the side of
- a button gadget coinciding with the non-empty
- window. If both window have valid directory
- list in them and you request one of those
- directories in the opposite window, both list
- will be swapped to the opposite windows.
-
- Utilities Menu The Utilities menu permits you to pick
- User-Specified actions such as un-archiving a
- file. It holds five sets of definitions.
- There are menu items to shift between each
- set. They may be placed in the main window
- for easier access. In addition to the menu
- sets, a disk copy and format program may be
- called from this menu.
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- The menus are preset to the Zoo, Arc, and
- LhArc. Any of them can be modified to your
- current favorite set of archiving programs.
- They need not even be set as archiving
- functions. The can be set to any type of
- function you wish them to be. The menus are
- set up as groups of five functions. You may
- create as many sets of menu you want but only
- one of the user defined menu will be
- displayed and available at one time.
-
- Since this menu may be customize to whatever
- the you prefer, the default settings will be
- discussed. The utilities are not included
- with MegaD, however, they may be found on any
- public access bulletin board system (BBS).
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- The first menu set controls the Zoo archiving
- program. Zoo was commonly used for all files
- on the Amiga a few years ago, but has since
- lost out to faster programs that produce
- smaller output files. The top item in this
- set will compress selected items in all
- windows to the destination directory. The
- next object will unpack all marked files to
- the destination window. The third element
- will list the files that make up an archive.
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- The next menu set is for the arc program.
- Arc is even older than zoo. It suffers from
- a number of problems such as the inability to
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- handle file names longer than eight
- characters. Despite this, you may still find
- a need for it. The top component of this set
- will add the highlighted files to an archive
- in the destination window. The next one down
- will unarchive the selected files to the
- destination directory. The last item lists
- the contents of the selected archive.
-
- The third menu set has the most recent
- compression program called LhArc. This
- utility is faster than zoo or arc, and does
- not suffer the problems of either older
- programs. The highest in the list of this
- set adds the marked files to an archive in
- the destination window. The middle item will
- extract files from the highlighted archive to
- the destination. The lowest item displays
- the files contained in the archive.
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- Utilities,
- Utilities in Window Utilities in Window, when a check mark is
- visible to the left of the item will put the
- desired menu set in the main window. It
- replaces the buttons with the devices. If
- you access a particular menu set or sets
- frequently, this function may help speed the
- results. The check mark can be turn off and
- on by reselecting this menu item.
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- Utilities,
- Copy/Format Copy/Format calls an external program to
- duplicate or prepare a floppy for use. MegaD
- will use MDdisk by default. This program is
- included with MegaD. If you would like to
- use a different utility, you can specify it
- in the MegaD Preference, Set Defaults window.
-
- Options Menu The Options menu controls what common
- information is to be displayed in a directory
- window. Only 'Dest'ination windows are
- immediately updated. This can be used to
- clean up windows and make them easier to
- read. Icon files may be removed from view.
- Standard Amiga directories such as C can be
- made invisible so that the interesting files
- are more apparent. Filters for files with
- common attributes like C language source code
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- up by themselves. Icons files may be copied
- with the file they represent. Files may be
- copied exactly as they appear in the source
- directory.
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- Options,
- Select All Hide Select All Hide clears window displays of
- icon .INFO files and Amiga default assigns.
- The check mark will appear on Hide .INFO,
- Hide Amiga Directories, Hide C Directory menu
- items below. It acts as a fast global method
- of removing standard files and directories.
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- Options,
- Clear All Hide Clear All Hide causes the .INFO icon files
- and Amiga assigns to appear in the windows.
- The check mark will be removed from the menu
- items below that correspond to these actions.
- It is the opposite of Select All Hide and is
- a quick way of undoing a global hide.
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- Options,
- Hide .INFO Hide .INFO eliminates all icon files from the
- window displays. Icon files are pictures
- which relate to a data or program file with
- the same name. The Amiga operating system
- adds a .info extension to the name of the
- icon. Removing icons wipes out duplicate
- information.
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- Options,
- Hide Amiga Directories Hide Amiga directories seeks out all standard
- Amiga directories, such as DEVS, FONT, and L,
- LIB, and S. The Amiga assigns these
- directories automatically upon booting and
- they appear on all bootable disks. Taking
- them off the display clears unnecessary data.
-
- Options,
- Hide C Directory Hide C directory removes the Amiga C: (or any
- directory named 'c') from the window display.
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- Options,
- Filter Directory Filter directory brings up a window with ten
- cycle gadgets, five string gadgets, and five
- button gadgets. It allows you to display
- only those files which match a pattern. This
- pattern can be applied to only the active
- window or to all windows. The five cycle
- gadgets to the farthest left let you set the
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- pattern to match a file name, date,
- protection bits, or size. You type the
- pattern to match into the string gadgets.
-
- Options,
- Remove all filters This removes both global filters and filters
- defined for specific directories created by
- the Filter Directory option.
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- Options,
- Keep Info with file This will the mark corresponding .info file
- of any single selected file. This will have
- no effect if the a group of files that were
- drag selected. MegaD has no way to tell if
- the .info file should be left unselected or
- not. There is a work-around to this. If the
- previous Hide .info was selected the .info
- files will be copied, moved and deleted in
- the background of the task. This way you
- will not need to worry if during a drag
- select, that .info files were included.
-
- Options,
- Keep extension
- with files This will select files with extension of the
- original name. This select and unselects
- those files much the same as .info. Unlike
- Hide .info, It does not include the
- background copy of hidden extension files.
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- Options,
- Activate AutoBoot If this is checked, this tells MegaD to
- attempt to do something with a double clicked
- files. Should it be a text file it will
- load it into a text window. If an AutoBoot
- has been created to work on the type of data
- found in the double clicked file it will call
- the Program Control of the AutoBoot to
- perform the required action needed.
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- Clone Copy If checked, this will retain any file comment
- found on the source file with the newly
- copied file. It will also keep the date of
- the destination file the same as the original
- source file copied from.
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- DF1:, DF2: and DF3:
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- Options,
- Free on disk remove If checked this will free the loaded disk
- from memory once it is removed from the disk
- drive. It works with the same drives as Load
- on disk insert.
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- Show Menu This menu gives you the kind of information
- you would like to see displayed in the
- directory windows. It lets you display all
- of the possible file attributes. It also
- let you decide how they should be sorted in
- the windows.
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- Show,
- All This lets you select all possible display
- attributes. It will place a check by the
- Size, Date, Protection, and comment menu
- items of this menu.
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- Show,
- None This will let you un-select all of the
- display attributes in this menu at one time.
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- Show,
- Size If this is checked it will display the size
- of the listed files. If a directory is in
- the list it will display '(dir)' if the
- directory is empty or if you have not loaded
- all of the items in the directory. Should
- the full sub-directory be buffered MegaD will
- replace the '(dir)' with the calculated size
- of the directory.
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- Date If this is checked the date the directory
- item was created or last modified will be
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- Protection If this is checked the protection bits of the
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- decide what file attribute you want MegaD to
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- Show,
- Reset All By changing any of the attributes for the
- display of the directory window only
- 'Dest'ination windows will show the change.
- If you wish to reset all of open directory
- window to reflect the current display options
- Select this menu item.
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- Output Menu This menu is another reason MegaD stands out
- from other directory utilities. MegaD has
- incorporated a number of the common output
- function that can be done with selected items
- in directories. This menu gives you the
- option to send the selected information out
- in a number of ways. To files, or directly
- to the printer. It is also the easiest disk
- label maker known.
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- Output,
- Printer This option will send the selected items as a
- list to the printer. Much like the Dir
- command found in the C: directory. Only it
- will send the information in the sorted order
- selected in the Show menu.
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- Output,
- File This option work the same as the above
- Printer option but will send the information
- to a file.A 'Dest'ination directory needs to
- be available before calling this function.
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- Output,
- W/Tree Lines The above two options indents each printed
- sub-directory by four spaces. If this menu
- item is checked the four spaces will be
- replaced by |-- creating tree lines to easily
- trace the start and end of large
- directories.
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- Disk Label This is a sub menu. It has four other menu
- items to work the Disk label functions.
- MegaD come set to work with a standard pin
- fed disk label. The best source for this
- buying this label is from a good office or
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- be set to work with any label though the use
- of the Width and Height setting found in the
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- Output,
- Disk Label,
- Alignment This prints two small dots to the printer.
- The dots are to help align the disk label for
- the current settings.
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- Output,
- Disk Label,
- Print This will print one label for each displayed
- volume with directory information selected to
- be printed.
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- Disk Label,
- Print W/Modify This will place the information in a window
- that would have been printed to the label.
- In this window you are given the option to
- change or just preview the information before
- it is printed.
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- Output,
- Disk Label,
- Print Times This allows you to create duplicate labels
- with the same printed information on each
- one.
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- Output,
- Database Export File This is for sending the information out to a
- file. The information is formatted in such a
- way that your Database programs may read the
- information for creating records. The below
- Setup Export menu item should be called at
- lease once before using it.
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- Output,
- Setup Export... This opens a window to set the kind of
- information that you wish to send to a
- database Export file. It lets you decide the
- filename to save it to. The file can be
- appended to each time the Database Export
- File menu item is called or the file will be
- over-written each time the call is made.
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- And it will let you cancel unwanted that
- were started in error.
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- Panic,
- Stop Process This will stop any current process MegaD is
- working. It is important that in this kind
- of a program that you know how to stop a
- process that was started in error. MegaD can
- easily delete Megabytes of information in
- seconds. This is one of them. Another is
- the Suspend/Cancel gadget found in the panic
- window. And the last yet the quickest to
- access is the Esc key found at the top Left
- hand corner of your keyboard. Any of these
- will stop the current process. You may have
- to wait for a long disk activity before the
- action will be read. But it will tell MegaD
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- Cancel print This will cancel the current print task, if
- any, that the print spool is working on.
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- The MegaD preferences changes only the
- internal preferences of MegaD. It has
- nothing to do with your system preferences
- for the Amiga. All mentions of preferences
- from this point on refer to the internal
- setting of MegaD.
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- If you have taken even a quick look into what
- the Set Defaults has to offer you will find
- where MegaD has done a lot of changing from
- the last public release. The entrance window
- into set preferences still looks somewhat
- familiar to V1.10 and that is where it ends.
- This window now offers gadgets that will move
- you into five other windows or areas to help
- better define just how MegaD works and
- responds to the your wishes or preferences.
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- All areas have a Cancel gadget that will
- cancel all changes to that area. The Cancel
- gadget found in the first window will cancel
- everything that was changed in the
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- All areas have a Use gadget. This gadget
- accept the changes made so far. The Use
- gadget found in the first window will accept
- all changes made and replace the internal
- preferences of MegaD and close the preference
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- Only the first window has a Save Gadget.
- When this gadget is used the current changes
- are accepted and saved to the Megad2.pf file
- that will be save to the current directory
- that MegaD was loaded from.
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- MegaD Preferences This is the first area that you enter when
- the Set Defaults command is issued. This
- command is available from both the Menu and
- the Keypad gadgets.
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- There are two main purposes of this window
- beside giving access to the other areas of
- preferences. One is the setting of the Menu
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- Setting Menu Sets Menu Sets offer a way for the user to define
- sets of five Menus each to do specific
- functions by the use of Program Controls.
- Program controls are better explained later
- on in the documentation. But in short
- Program Controls allow you to tell MegaD to
- call a specific program to do a specific
- task on possible selected files in the
- directory windows. They originally started
- out as ZOO, ARC, and LHARC for the default
- Sets, but these can be change and modified to
- any type that you desire.
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- your needs extra set of five can be defined
- by the use of the Add Gadget found in this
- window. The only limit to the number that
- you can define is the restriction of your
- current memory in your Amiga. The Delete
- gadget will delete a group of five menu sets
- as long as it is not one of the first three
- defaults sets, ZOO, ARC, and LHARC.
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- The four string gadgets assign to each Menu
- Sets are the same string gadgets found in the
- program control window that would open if you
- were to hit the Control... gadget to the left
- of the string gadgets. It is best to
- actually go to the Program Control by the use
- of the Control.. gadget, being this offers
- the full range of settings available to the
- menu set. Once again it will helpful to read
- the section of the MegaD.Tutorial
- documentation about the program controls and
- how they operate.
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- When typing in the Path and filename for each
- program control that you want to use you will
- need to enter the full path to that file or
- the assign name for the path.
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- Setting Device Gadget The device gadget are where you would put
- your most used devices or volume names. If
- you name the device gadgets the hardware name
- such as DF0: the name will be expanded to the
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- There are times that you would wish to load
- the directory as DF0: and DF1: so that files
- can be moved on identical named disk. This
- is accommodated from the bottom of the device
- list found in the main control window.
- Should you load a directory by double
- clicking the DF0: entry from this list the
- directory window title will stay DF0:.
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- is to rename one of the volumes to a
- different name and load the volumes by the
- volume names and not the drive names. But if
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- If the preference file can not be found at
- startup MegaD will set the device gadgets to
- the first nine volumes/assign/drives in the
- device list. You may modify them to any
- valid volume or device names that you wish.
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- start by adding special load flags at the
- end of the volume name. The flags that can
- be added are L and D. The flags can be upper
- or lower case but must be preceded with one
- dash '-'. Examples:
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- start and Select the Dest gadget as a
- user defined destination.
- Ram Disk:-LLD
- Will load the Ram Disk: directory and
- start and Select the Dest gadget as a
- user defined destination and the Lock
- gadget for that directory.
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- Set Colors This area of Preferences is dedicated to the
- colors available for the display of
- information within MegaD windows.
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- In the very center of this window is a single
- check type gadget which by default is set.
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- was the change of the default colors. With
- this gadget checked the system will be check
- for 1.3 or 2.0 and the colors will be set
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- All colors can be set to your liking. MegaD
- will check for conflict of colors, if needed,
- and will warn you if you try to use the
- conflicting colors. An example of this
- would be the Directory and the File colors
- are the same. Since this would render the
- names of directories and files the same
- color, these colors conflict.
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- colors in small boxes to the right of the
- gadgets to show the effect of the selections.
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- MegaD Preferences,
- Set Display Screen type is a cycle gadgets that can be
- set to five setting for type of screens to
- create. The screens created are where all of
- MegaD windows will be placed.
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- Workbench
- Places MegaD on the Workbench screen.
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- Hires
- Creates a hires screen (640 X 200
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- Hires-Interlace
- Creates a hires-interlace screen (640 X
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- Creates a SuperHires-Interlace screen
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- Date Format Cycles though dd/mmm/yy, mm/dd/yy, dd/mm/yy
- or yy/mmm/dd. This defines how MegaD will
- display the dates for your directory items.
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- Use Today / Yesterday This is a check gadgets that will tell MegaD
- to display files created today to be marked
- with the Today and files created yesterday to
- be marked with the Yesterday instead of using
- the date for that directory item.
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- 12 Hour Clock Changes the 24 hour date to a 12 hour time
- with am, or pm behind the date.
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- Many settings are performed here, it takes
- two areas to display all of the possible
- settings and the different areas are access
- by the use of the More/OK gadget. The first
- area here is controlled by the use of check
- gadgets. If the gadget is checked, the
- following information following the title
- will be the results.
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- Auto resize windows This only works when window overlap mode set
- in the menu "Windows/Overlap Locations". It
- will attempt to resize the directory windows
- larger or smaller to display as much as
- needed.
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- Auto update windows Each time the directory window is opened it
- will test to see if it needs to update MegaD
- buffers. It tests to see if the parent
- directory entry date has changed. If the
- date conflicts with the date the directory
- was loaded, it will re-read that directory.
- If that information has been changed by some
- other program MegaD will not know about it.
- This forces the reload of the directory so
- that it will be current. This becomes
- bothersome when multiple floppy disk are
- buffered, yet not in the drives, you will
- have to re-insert the floppy disk as you
- reopen the windows to the buffered
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- Confirm quit Gives you a chance not to quit MegaD if an
- accidental quit was issued.
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- Iconify at start MegaD will iconify it's self at startup.
- This is very useful if you place MegaD in
- your startup sequence, or you WBStartup
- drawer to be pre-loaded and ready for use
- when you want it.
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- Keep active window to front
- This will force the active window on in MegaD
- to the front of the screen. It will not work
- on the Main control window. F10, F9 and the
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- The last active directory window will become
- the destination window if no user defined
- destination windows are on the screen. The
- default is the active window is destination.
- At any time a user defined 'Dest'ination
- gadget is found the auto select of the
- destination gadget by MegaD is disabled.
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- Place tool icon & menu on Workbench
- This only works if you are using the new 2.0
- operating system. MegaD uses Application
- Icons and Application Windows on the
- Workbench. This way you can drop any icon on
- to MegaD and it will attempt to do something
- with it. At the least, the MegaD screen will
- be opened if it is closed or the screen will
- be moved to the front of all of the screens.
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- onto the MegaD Icon or main control window
- MegaD will load that directory and place it
- into a directory window. Should a data file
- be dropped, and an AutoBoot is available that
- knows how to work it, MegaD will use the
- program control of the AutoBoot to work the
- file. You may drop up to 10 Workbench
- objects onto the Icon and MegaD will work
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- Messages off This will cancel all simple information
- messages that only use the Continue gadget to
- get an answer to the request. The
- information usually tells you why a function
- or task did not failed.
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- Panic button window While task are working such as Delete, Copy,
- or Move a window will open. It will have an
- area that information will be printed and
- scroll up making room for more information.
- There are two gadgets at the bottom, Suspend,
- which gives you a chance to stop the action,
- to see if you really want to cancel the
- process, and Cancel which ends the task.
- Both gadget are hard to hit in a time of
- panic, so the Esc key at the upper left
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- MegaD will save the current preferences
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- first while getting MegaD set up. This way
- all of the preferences will be updated after
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- Save window positions MegaD will remember the locations of
- requester and special windows and reopen them
- in the same locations. The default is to
- open the windows with the gadget under the
- mouse pointer if possible or to center the
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- Simple refresh windows Saves memory by opening windows that must be
- refresh if uncovered by another window.
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- Warn before copy Gives you a chance to cancel a call to copy.
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- Warn before delete Gives you a chance to cancel a call to
- delete. (Your a gutsy person if you un-check
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- Warn if deleting protected file
- If the file is protected MegaD will warn you
- so and give you the option to cancel the
- delete or delete anyway.
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- During copy/move you will be warned if you
- try to copy over a larger file.
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- Warn if replacing newer file
- During copy/move you will be warned if you
- try to copy over a newer file.
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- try to copy over any file.
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- The F10 key normally moves the MegaD control
- window to the front and rear position on the
- screen. This only works if MegaD is
- operating on its own screen. Instead of the
- window moving to the rear position, the
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- The second area in the Set Defaults has a few
- string gadgets and some cycle gadgets to set
- the order that information is displayed in
- the directory window.
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- Copy/Format MegaD will call any stand alone copy/format
- program. This program must be compatible
- with the Workbench. The best clue for this
- compatibility is the present of an Icon file.
- This hold the image for the icon you double
- click to start a program from the Workbench.
- This sting must contain the full path and
- file name to reach this program. A Program
- Control is available to set the exact action
- that MegaD should take when executing this
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- View Text MegaD has one of the most versatile text
- viewers around. But if you feel that another
- program should be called, if a text file is
- double clicked in a directory window, you may
- enter the path and filename here. A Program
- Control is available to set the exact action
- that MegaD should take when executing this
- program.
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- Label height How many printed lines are the labels that
- you wish to use with MegaD Label.
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- Label width How wide in characters are the labels that
- you wish to use with MegaD label.
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- Source icon for directories
- If you supply a name here for the an icon
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- created directories an icon. It defaults to
- SYS:system which usually exist. There is
- also a check gadget to the right of this
- string gadget that may be selected under the
- 2.0 OS system. If you check this gadget the
- system default icon will be used instead of
- loading the Icon from the filename. If you
- do not want Icons created with directory
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- Dictionary filename This must be the name without the path
- attribute of the dictionary file that you
- wish MegaD to use. The dictionary file must
- be in the same directory that the program
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- Create Master Dictionary
- By hitting this gadget MegaD will create the
- master dictionary. The main purpose of this
- file is for easy translation of MegaD to
- other languages. But this can be used to
- change any display line that you wish.
- Please read the Dictionary section for more
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- List files first
- List items mixed
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- There are five small cycle gadgets for this
- setting. The higher the number the later the
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- This is a very powerful area of MegaD
- Preferences. You can actually modify Menu
- Sets, AutoBoots, User Gadgets though here.
- You can rearrange, remove, duplicate
- functions on the keypad. Change the color of
- the keypad gadgets.
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- There are two major areas of gadgets. The
- upper area can be considered as source
- gadgets that information can be copied from.
- The lower area of gadget that are arranged in
- the order of a keypad at the side of most
- Amigas. Shift keys to the Left of the keypad
- represent the shifted mode of the keypad,
- Ctrl, Shift, Alt. This can be considered the
- destination gadgets. Any one single item can
- be selected in one of the two areas. As soon
- as an one item is selected in both areas the
- information is copied to the keypad gadgets.
- A blank source will create a blank
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- You will find two cycle gadgets, One is for
- pages of source information, the other is to
- select the type of source information to
- transfer or to work on. The types to work on
- are Built-in (you can not modify a built-in
- command), Menu Sets, AutoBoots and User
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- Below this set of cycle gadgets are gadgets
- labeled Add, Delete, Modify. By selecting a
- Menu Set, AutoBoot, or User Gadget and then
- selecting the Modify gadget you can edit how
- a program control will function. By
- selecting a keypad gadget and then modify,
- you can change the title and color of the
- keypad gadget.
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- Should you set MegaD to Two Window mode the
- keypad gadget will be arrange in the two
- window style so that you will be able to see
- just how they will look in that mode. The
- disadvantage of this is the keyboard
- equivalent of the gadgets are not represented
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- Megad has the ability to read a specialty
- formatted text file, and to use the
- information in that text file to change the
- displayed text used within MegaD windows and
- requestors. The main purpose of this file is
- to allow the complete translation of MegaD to
- other languages. The Dictionary facility of
- MegaD will accept a partial dictionary file,
- or even one single line to be translated.
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- The format of the dictionary file is simple,
- the text is followed by a number (or
- subscript if you are familiar with
- programing.) A dictionary line in the
- dictionary takes this format:
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- Close Windows; 78
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- Notice that the end of the text is signified
- by the semi-colon. The number that follows
- the semi-colon is the position MegaD will
- place the information in to the program. 78
- is the position that MegaD uses to create the
- text for the menu item "Windows, Close
- Windows". By changing this line to read:
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- Shut Windows".
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- The lines in the dictionary file are not
- required to be sorted in the same order as
- the position number at the end of the line.
- You may place the dictionary lines in your
- dictionary file in any order you wish. you
- can even duplicate them if you wish, you may
- want to do this to keep track of what the
- original line read as. You could save the
- above change in your dictionary file like
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- Shut Windows; 78
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- last occurrence of dictionary line 78, "Shut
- Windows" will be used to create the menu
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- MegaDs' native language is English. The
- English dictionary is built into MegaD.
- MegaD will write the dictionary out to it's
- Home directory as "MDMaster.dic". Currently
- MegaD has 679 dictionary lines. You can
- write this dictionary file by first selecting
- the "Project, Defaults" menu item. This will
- open a window that will have a "More"
- gadgets, select this gadget to move to the
- second Defaults window. At the bottom of the
- window you will find a gadget titled, "Create
- master dictionary", Select this gadget once.
- You will be greeted by a request window that
- reads:
- Master Dictionary
- will take about 16,000 bytes of disk space
- Continue
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- Select "Yes" and the dictionary file,
- "MDMaster.dic", will be created in MegaD's
- Home directory (the directory that the
- program MegaD is stored in.)
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- The string gadget just above "Create master
- dictionary", titled "Dictionary filename", is
- to define which dictionary file to used at
- start up. The information in this string
- gadget defaults to "MegaD.dic". This can be
- changed to any filename you wish, but it must
- be the filename only. It cannot have a Path
- appended to the front of it. Your dictionary
- files must reside in the same directory as
- the program MegaD is in and run from. To use
- the dictionary file you must first save the
- MegaD preferences file by using the "Project,
- Save Preferences" menu item. Quit MegaD,
- and then restarting it. MegaD will use the
- file you defined from the previous run, for
- the dictionary. Due to the complex nature of
- how the strings are stored within MegaD, the
- dictionary file can only be read and used
- once for each run.
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- If you took the above steps to create the
- "MDMaster.dic" file you will be able to see
- how the dictionary lines are set up. This
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- do your file. When creating your dictionary
- file remember these simple rules.
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- 1. Text first, followed by a semi-collins,
- followed by the position number.
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- 2. You need to include only the dictionary
- lines that you wish to translate.
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- 3. You may have the dictionary lines in any
- order you wish. (The dictionary file is
- not dependent on the order that the
- information is found, only by the number
- that is at the end of the dictionary
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- Only the last occurrence will be used.
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- You will find an example of a simple
- dictionary file with MegaD. It is titled
- "Example.dic". It will show the free style
- nature of the format of a dictionary file.
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- An offer from the Author.
- I do not have the talent to translate MegaD.
- I am willing to give a "Lifetime
- registration" to users who wishes to create a
- dictionary file to translate MegaD to other
- languages. The requirements for this offer
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- 1. You must first contact me by using the
- address found in the About window found
- by use of the Project menu.
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- 2. In the letter you must inform me of what
- language you plan on translating MegaD
- to. And you must include your address.
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- 3. If you are the first to make the offer
- to translate MegaD to that language and
- no others are trying to create the
- translated version for that language, I
- will mail to you a Registered version of
- MegaD.
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- and I can verify the validity of the
- translation. I will mail to you a
- contract that will sign the rights of
- the work (dictionary file) to me (John
- L. Jones), in leu of a "Lifetime
- registration" for you, from me (John L.
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- Being MegaD is a Tryware offering, it will
- not read, nor write the MegaD preference
- file. MegaD defaults to "MegaD.dic" as the
- current dictionary file. So by naming your
- dictionary file to "MegaD.dic", and storing
- it in the Home directory of MegaD, you will
- be able to test the dictionary file out while
- it is being created. This also means that
- dictionary files can be released to public
- domain and made available to other users.
- They must be kept separate from the official
- archive that I, the author of MegaD, create.
- Releasing it this way will not get you a
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- MegaD is one of the highest quality utilities
- for the Amiga computer. Its ability to
- display more than two directory lists at the
- same time puts it into a class by itself.
- With this feature, files can be copied to
- multiple destinations with ease. Multiple
- directories can be copied to a single one
- with equal deftness.
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- The ease at which MegaD can 'learn' to
- manipulate external programs is amazing.
- Some simple mouse clicks and the program
- understands how to deal with data files from
- external programs. This ability is unique
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- 1000 Separator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- 12 Hour Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- ABoot Add (Add to Autoboot) . . . . . . 9
- ABoot Edit (Edit Autoboot) . . . . . . . . 9
- Auto resize windows . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Auto update windows . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Clear All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Clr ABoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Clr Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Clr Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Clr Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Clr Src . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- ClrSrcDir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- ClrSrcFile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
- Confirm quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Copy As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Copy/Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 40
- Create Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Create Master Dictionary . . . . . . . . . 41
- Date Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Decimal is comma . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
- Dictionary filename . . . . . . . . . . . 41
- Directory listing order . . . . . . . . . 41
- Directory Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
- DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Duplicate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Export File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- F10 Closes control window . . . . . . . . 38
- File Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Filters + . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Filters - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
- Go Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Iconify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Iconify at start . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
- INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Keep active window to front . . . . . . . 36
- Lab. Modify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
- Label Align . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Label height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- Label Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Label width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
- Last active window is destination . . . . 37
- Main Window Default Gadgets . . . . . . . 9
- MegaD Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
- MegaD Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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- MegaD Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
- MegaD Preferences, Set Colors . . . . . . 33
- MegaD Preferences, Set Defaults (Area 1) . 36
- MegaD Preferences, Set Defaults (Area 2) . 40
- MegaD Preferences, Set Display . . . . . . 34
- MegaD Preferences, Set Keypads . . . . . . 42
- Messages off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Move As . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- NOTE: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
- Options Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
- Options, Activate AutoBoot . . . . . . . . 26
- Options, Clear All Hide . . . . . . . . . 25
- Options, Clone Copy . . . . . . . . . . . 26
- Options, Filter Directory . . . . . . . . 25
- Options, Free on disk remove . . . . . . . 27
- Options, Hide .INFO . . . . . . . . . . . 25
- Options, Hide Amiga Directories . . . . . 25
- Options, Hide C Directory . . . . . . . . 25
- Options, Keep extension with files . . . 26
- Options, Keep Info with file . . . . . . . 26
- Options, Load on disk insert . . . . . . . 26
- Options, Remove all filters . . . . . . . 26
- Options, Select All Hide . . . . . . . . . 25
- Order of file information . . . . . . . . 41
- Output File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Output Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Output Ptr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Output, Database Export File . . . . . . . 29
- Output, Disk Label . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Output, Disk Label, Alignment . . . . . . 29
- Output, Disk Label, Print . . . . . . . . 29
- Output, Disk Label, Print Times . . . . . 29
- Output, Disk Label, Print W/Modify . . . . 29
- Output, File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Output, Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Output, Setup Export... . . . . . . . . . 29
- Output, W/Tree Lines . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Panic button window . . . . . . . . . . . 37
- Panic Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
- Panic, Cancel all print . . . . . . . . . 30
- Panic, Cancel print . . . . . . . . . . . 30
- Panic, Stop Process . . . . . . . . . . . 30
- Place tool icon & menu on Workbench . . . 37
- Project Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
- Project, About . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Project, Add to Autoboot . . . . . . . . . 19
- Project, Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Project, Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Project, Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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- Project, Edit Autoboot . . . . . . . . . . 19
- Project, Keypads . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
- Project, Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Project, Save Preferences . . . . . . . . 20
- Project, Set Preferences . . . . . . . . . 19
- Prt Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Relabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
- Save Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Save defaults at closing . . . . . . . . . 38
- Save window positions . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Search Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Sel ABoot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Sel Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Sel File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Sel Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Sel Src . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- SelSrcDir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- SelSrcFile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Set Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- Set Protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- Set Protect Deep . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
- Setting Device Gadget . . . . . . . . . . 32
- Setting Menu Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
- Show Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, Reset All . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Show, Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
- Show, Sort O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
- Simple refresh windows . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Source icon for directories . . . . . . . 40
- Starting MegaD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
- The Main Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Two Manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- Update Dir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
- Use Today / Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . 35
- Using MegaD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- Utilities Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
- Utilities, Copy/Format . . . . . . . . . . 24
- Utilities, Utilities in Window . . . . . . 24
- View Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 40
- Warn before copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Warn before delete . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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- Warn if deleting protected file . . . . . 38
- Warn if replacing file . . . . . . . . . . 38
- Warn if replacing larger file . . . . . . 38
- Warn if replacing newer file . . . . . . . 38
- Windows Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Windows, Close Windows . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Windows, Open Windows . . . . . . . . . . 21
- Windows, Set Snapshot . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Windows, Two Window Utility . . . . . . . 22
- Windows, Use Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
- Windows, Use Limits . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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