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                     *  User's Manual Supplement   *
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                     *  CMFiler -- Version 5.37d   *
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     The following features have been added or improved since the printing of
     the CMFiler Version 5.36q User's Manual:


     TREE IMAGE FACILITY:  The tree module now has a feature that captures to
     the C drive (C:\~TREES~) an image file of the tree for each drive C or
     greater when it is first accessed.  This image is then available for use
     as a quick alternative to rereading the whole drive the next time the
     tree module is entered and that drive is selected.  The image file loads
     the tree structure in a fraction of the time it takes to read the whole
     drive and construct the directory and file list.

     The first time version 5.37c is run in tree mode, CMFiler explains three
     basic setup options to help the user use this new feature in the best
     way.  In one option, you can tell CMFiler to ask permission to reread the
     drive and refresh the tree image on file after copying a structure into
     the drive tree.  It is often convenient, if you have several structures
     to copy, to wait until the last before rereading the drive and refreshing
     the tree image.

     The tree image can also be manually updated using Shift-R (Refresh tree).
     The Tree image option menu can be brought up with Ctrl-O.

     FULL COLOR SELECTION CAPABILITY:  Press Ctrl-P to select from four
     palettes.  However, each palette can now be edited by pressing E within
     the palette facility.  Each of five colors in the file list display can
     be selected by arrowing around an 8x8 color array, and pressing the
     spacebar when the desired color is reached.  The affect of each selection
     is shown as the arrow is moved around the array, so no guesswork is
     required.

     This new facility is best used with both panels open, and some files
     tagged in one of the panels, since the file tagging color and both the
     source and target path line colors are independently variable.  When
     finished editing one palette, hit Enter to return to the original level
     of the palette facility, and either Enter to set that palette as the
     default choice, or another key to rotate to the next palette.  The editor
     and tree displays are not independently adjustable, but take their colors
     from the current palette.

     The palette edit routine (Ctrl-P, E) now has the option to toggle the
     high-intensity bit selectively for each color field.  The command "T" in
     the color menu toggles between high- and normal-intensity foreground
     color attribute.

     In addition, we have added to the color palette exit sequence the option
     to set a flag on files with today's date stamp, and custom colorize the
     extension field of executable files.  When you leave the palette menu
     with the Enter key, you will be asked if you want to flag today's files
     and executables.  If you answer Yes, you will be given an opportunity to
     edit the color scheme for the executable files.  The "today" flag is a
     small square pip just in front of the extension field.

     PATH ALIAS FACILITY:  A "path alias" facility now exists in the main
     module.  This allows assigning the commands Alt-1 through Alt-9 to your
     nine most frequently used directories, for instant navigation from any
     drive and path.  To assign a path to the alias list, first go to the
     subdirectory you want to add, then press Alt-A (for Alias).  The Alias
     menu shows a list numbered 1 through 9, each with a user-definable title
     and path.  Pick a free number, press it and type in the title you want as
     your key for the path.  Hitting Enter saves the alias.

     To navigate to that aliased path instantly, either press Alt- and the
     number you assigned (if you remember), or press Alt-A, look over the
     list, and while still holding down the Alt-key press the number.  The
     alias facility can also be used in place of pressing a drive letter after
     the New drive command, or when arrowing over to the right-hand panel when
     it is blank.  The Shift- key, used with Alt-1 through Alt-9, puts the
     aliased path into the opposite panel and goes across to it, in much the
     same way as Shift-\, Shift-P and Shift-Enter on a directory name act to
     put the selected directory into the opposite path and jump across.

     FILE SPLITTER:  We have added to the main module a file splitter, called
     by Alt-S.  With the target panel set up as the destination path for the
     split files, position the cursor on a file in the source panel and press
     Alt-S.  CMFiler first asks for confirmation that you desire to split the
     file into smaller files, with extensions .A00, .A01, ..., .A99, .B00,
     etc.  The it asks for the file size for the split files, in Kb.  Split
     files are created in the target path, and the original file is left
     untouched in the source.

     REGISTRATION FORMS:  Version 5.37c added to the shareware edition a
     choice of registration forms -- one form for direct orders to NoVaSoft,
     one form for credit card orders to Public (software) Library.

     SYNCHRONIZATION of DESCRIPT.ION and NARATIVE.CF FILES:  CMFiler keeps
     file and directory notes that you enter (using the edit notes facility,
     Ctrl-N) in a file called NARATIVE.CF.  This file is in a different format
     from 4DOS/NDOS DESCRIPT.ION files.  After some debate on whether to
     convert CMFiler over to using the DESCRIPT.ION format, I have decided to
     keep the separate NARATIVE.CF file format for CMFiler's notes, but add a
     routine that, at the user's option, "synchronizes" the NARATIVE.CF and
     DESCRIPT.ION files every time the CMFiler notes facility is called for
     viewing or editing notes, or copying or moving of files.  Any entries
     already contained in either file will be preserved, and unique entries
     from each file will be simply added to the other.

     This synchronizing routine must be activated by resetting a switch ("Meld
     NARATIVE.CF and DESCRIPT.ION files?") in the Shift-O user Options menu.

     SWAPPING FILE NAMES:  A new feature in the Rename routine in the main
     file services module permits swapping two file names.  If exactly two
     files are tagged when the key R is struck, CMFiler asks if the user wants
     to swap their names.  If Yes, the file names are swapped, if No, CMFiler

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     goes to the normal rename facility.

     SWAPPING PANELS:  In the main and tree modules, you can quickly swap
     panels left-for-right and right-for-left, keeping the cursor in the same
     panel, left or right, with the new command Ctrl-W (for sWap).

     DISKETTE IMAGES:  In diskette copying and scanning routines (disKopy and
     scAn), there is a new option to save the diskette image as a file on the
     hard disk after reading master diskette, and to use a previously saved
     image as the master for making new diskettes.

     There is a short-cut to using a previously stored diskette images from
     the hard disk.  Select the directory with the diskette image you want to
     use, and put the cursor on the name of the image file before pressing
     Shift-K for disKopy.  Press Shift-K, and answer the first question Yes.
     The file name will be given as the default in the data entry window.
     Press enter to accept it, and continue with the disk copy session.

     ENHANCEMENTS FOR BLIND USERS:  To assist blind users of Telesensory
     Systems, Inc. Power Braille 40 displays, the character * is printed in
     the column to the left of the filename to denote a normal-tagged file
     (the character 1-9 or a-z was already printed to denote an Alt-tagged
     file), and the character denoting a directory is changed from the
     graphics character ASCII 249 (a small dot in the center of the character
     array) to a colon.

     PKZIP SUPPORT ENHANCEMENT:  Previously, the number of files which could
     be tagged for ZIPping in one shot by CMFiler was limited by the remaining
     space in the command line after the commands, options and ZIP filespec --
     about 8 to 16 files, depending on the length of their names.  CMFiler now
     takes advantage of the @filelist option of PKZIP, and will create a
     temporary file list as ZZIPLIST.CF in the current directory, containing
     all the tagged files.  PKZIP itself places some limits on how large this
     file can be, but for practical purposes this will no longer frustrate
     CMFiler users.


     EDITOR CHANGES:

     o   The editor is now colorized, in the same scheme as the main file
     services module and tree module.

     o   The Find-string command Alt-F now seeds the search string data entry
     line with whatever word of text the cursor is on when Alt-F is pressed.
     The previous search string can be retrieved with the Up Arrow.

     o   A new string-finding aid has been added; Ctrl-G (for "Goto next same
     word").  When the cursor is placed on a word and Ctrl-G is pressed, the
     editor searches the file for the next appearance of that word and
     repositions to it.  Unlike Alt-F, this search will recycle to the
     beginning of the file if necessary.

     o   The editor/viewer now has a pop-up ASCII table, called with the
     command Ctrl-A.  Navigate through the table with the Arrow keys or mouse
     to highlight a specific character, then type that character with Enter or
     the mouse left button.


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     o   The cursor left-right positioning while moving up and down the screen
     is now like WordPerfect.  Specifically, the cursor tries to maintain its
     original position on the line, but stays within the limits of the line.

     o   The Home and End key logic has been cleaned up.  The first press
     takes the cursor to the beginning or end of the line.  If the cursor was
     already there, the keystroke is ignored.  The second press takes the
     cursor to the top or bottom of the current screen page.  If it was
     already there, the keystroke is ignored.  The third press goes to the
     beginning or end of the file.  (The previous action of these keys could
     be surprising.  For example, if the cursor was already at the beginning
     of the line, the first press of Home would produce the unwanted effect of
     immediately jumping up to the top of the screen page, which the user was
     not expecting until the second press.)

     BUG FIXES AND MISCELLANEOUS:

     o   We have added to the file display ordering options (Ctrl-O menu) the
     choice "0", which orders the executable files first, in the order .COM,
     .EXE, .BAT and .BAT, followed by all other files in strict alphabetical
     order.

     o   The extension .BTM is now recognized as a batch file extension for
     4DOS users.

     o   The new command Ctrl-K decrements the cursor height on each keypress.
     The cursor height is now a savable parameter using Shift-S.

     o   Corrected a bug in the navigation routines in the tree module that
     occasionally caused confusion when navigating using the Shift-Up/Down
     arrows in a directory level in which one or more directories had been
     deleted since the last tree refreshing operation.

     o   Revised the display routines to show the time in 12-hour format, with
     the letter "p" for post-meridian times. (Absence of a "p" implies ante-
     meridian, including the hours from 12 midnight to 1 AM.)

     o   When you select a disk containing deleted files in a ~TRASH~
     directory the first time each new day, CMFiler asks if you want to leave
     it alone, purge (hard-delete) its files, or view it.  Heretofore, if you
     specified viewing ~TRASH~, you would be returned to the root directory
     when you were finished, even if some other directory had been specified,
     for example as an initial path parameter in the command line.  Now
     CMFiler remembers the specified path, and returns to it after you leave
     ~TRASH~ with the \ (Root) or P (Parent) command.













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