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DISKLEFT Version 2.8
6 Feb 1994
DiskLeft, a Single-Screen Smart Disk Space Summary.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A Free Product from the Makers of Personal Calendar(tm).
╔══════════════════════════════╤═══════════════════════╗
║ Paul Muñoz-Colman │ TECHNICAL SUPPORT: ║
║ FunStuff Software │ Voice 703-435-1110 ║
║ 11645 Charter Oak Court │ 703-693-5227 ║
║ Suite 201 │ FAX 703-435-3130 ║
║ Reston, VA 22090-4526 USA │ CompuServe 71141,1224 ║
╚══════════════════════════════╧═══════════════════════╝
Purpose: DISKLEFT is a program to quickly display a profile of all logical
~~~~~~~ drives of your hard disks, correct to the byte.
Operation: At the DOS prompt, type:
~~~~~~~~~
DISKLEFT for hard drives and network drives only
DISKLEFT /floppy to additionally show drives A: and B:
DISKLEFT /mono for forced monochrome display (for laptops)
DISKLEFT /monitor for continuous display (any key quits)
(updates once per second)
DISKLEFT /debug writes data files with technical details
on disk characteristics
Options may be used in combination.
Floppy Drives.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Floppy drives A: and B: are ignored unless the /FLOPPY option
is included. Floppy drives other than A: and B: defined by device drivers are
not affected by this option.
Continuous Display.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For those in multasking environments (DESQview, Windows, etc), or on networks,
the /MONITOR option is useful to watch disappearing disk space, as applications
in other windows write to files.
Debugging.
~~~~~~~~~
There are so many new disk storage mechanisms in the marketplace which use
DOS drive letters, we included a /DEBUG option just in case you have a
particular drive which is not properly displayed. Using the /DEBUG option will
write two data files, DISKLEFT.DBG and DISKLEFT.DB2, which contained detailed
information regarding the properties of each drive, as perceived by DISKLEFT.
Output: The display from DISKLEFT is shown below:
~~~~~~
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┐
│ Disk Space Summary, Version 2.8 (in millions of bytes) │
│ Copyright 1990-1994 by FunStuff Software. All rights reserved. │
│ │
│ Capacity Available Used Capacity Available Used │
│ ────────── ────────── ────────── ────────── ────────── ──────── │
│A \ For these, type DISKLEFT /FLOPPY │ N 105.906176 50.319360 55.586816 │
│B / │ O (not configured) │
│C 105.906176 63.727616 42.178560 │ P (not configured) │
│D 84.938752 18.694144 66.244608 │ Q (not configured) │
│E 105.906176 50.319360 55.586816 │ R (not configured) │
│F 83.908608 28.219392 55.689216 │ S (not configured) │
│G 83.908608 31.954944 51.953664 │ T (not configured) │
│H 83.394560 6.883328 76.511232 │ U (not configured) │
│I 6.807552 6.154240 0.653312 │ V (not configured) │
│J (not configured) │ W (not configured) │
│K (not configured) │ X (not configured) │
│L (not configured) │ Y (not configured) │
│M (not configured) │ Z (not configured) │
│ │
│ 547.962880 199.798784 348.164096 Total Fixed Drives │
│ 105.906176 50.319360 55.586816 Total Network Drives │
│ 653.869056 250.118144 403.750912 Grand Total Fixed & Network Drives │
│ 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 Grand Total CD-ROM Drives │
│ 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 Grand Total Compressed Drives │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┘
Color Configuration File DISKLEFT.CFG
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Colors are preconfigured, but may be changed to suit your taste in a
configuration file, called DISKLEFT.CFG. This file must reside in the
directory in which you install DISKLEFT.EXE (if running under DOS 3 or later),
or in the current directory (under DOS 2).
DISKLEFT.CFG is created if it is not found. DISKLEFT.CFG contains
instructions to modify the default color set.
This is the contents of the default file:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┐
│ SETCOLOR │
│ 0,2,1,11,9,4,10,15,14,13,12 │
│ │
│ This is DISKLEFT's color configuration file. Only the first │
│ two lines above are meaningful to the program. You may change │
│ the values in them, using your favorite ASCII editor. Follow │
│ the instructions below. The values represent: │
│ │
│ On line 1: │
│ SETCOLOR or SETMONO (if you want to force monochrome) │
│ │
│ On line 2 (separated by commas, in the order listed): │
│ Common background color │
│ Fixed data areas │
│ SUBSTituted Drives │
│ Fixed drives │
│ Network drives │
│ Unavailable drives or unknown drive types │
│ Floppy drives │
│ RAM drive │
│ Grand total (shown only if you have network drives) │
│ Compressed drive │
│ CD-ROM drive │
│ │
│ The numbers on line 2 are color values and mean this: │
│ │
│ 0 Black 8 Grey │
│ 1 Blue 9 Light Blue │
│ 2 Green 10 Light Green │
│ 3 Cyan 11 Light Cyan │
│ 4 Red 12 Light Red │
│ 5 Magenta 13 Light Magenta │
│ 6 Brown 14 Yellow │
│ 7 White 15 Bright White │
│ │
│ The only restriction imposed is the common background color │
│ cannot be the same as any of the other colors. If this │
│ occurs, the default colors will be set. │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┘
NOTE: If you use the SETMONO option to force monochrome (or the /MONO command
line option), your color choices will be ignored.
Distribution:
~~~~~~~~~~~~
DISKLEFT is Copyright 1990-1994 Paul Muñoz-Colman, a free product of
FunStuff(tm) Software.
DISKLEFT is not shareware; it cannot be registered. DISKLEFT may be
distributed to anyone, providing that no fee is charged, except a nominal
distribution fee by for-pay BBSs or disk vendors.
DISKLEFT is provided without warranty of any kind; the author assumes no
liability for its use in any situation.
History:
. 2.8 - Added correction for CDROM drives under NetWare
- Added CDROM category as bright red
- Added detection for Stacker(r) drives
- Added notification of drives which report space incorrectly
- Added sensing for certain device-driven fixed drives
- Added /MONITOR option for continuous display (any key quits)
. 2.7 - Added indicator for DOS 6 DBLSPACE (stacked) drive in bright magenta
. 2.6 - Correct display of ASSIGNed floppies to floppy color
- Indicate unknown drive types (in unavailable color)
- More precise isolation of drive types
. 2.5 - Colored indicators added for:
Floppy drives: bright green
Network drives: bright blue
SUBSTituted drives: dark blue
RAMdrives: white
Unavailable drives: red
Grand total: yellow
- Color configuration file.
- /MONO option for laptops to force monochrome.
- Separate totals for fixed & network drives, and grand total.
- Differentiates between drives which are unavailable and
not configured.
- Senses use of device DRIVER.SYS for alternate floppy drives.
- /? help option for syntax
- Many cosmetic improvements.
. 2.4 - Correct abort if program is started from a network drive.
. 2.2 - Corrected reversal of "X" and "Y" drive labels.
. 2.1 - Restore DOS environment colors upon program termination.
. 2.0 - First public release; cosmetic changes to the screen colors.
. 1.0 - Initial release.
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By FunStuff Software, publishers of Personal Calendar, DiskLeft,
Subjects, ATOSEdit, and other quality software.
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Copyright 1990-1994 by FunStuff Software. All rights reserved.
Member, Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP)
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