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- MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 1
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- MAssign v2.00
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- Copyright © 1991, 1992 Peter Stuer
- All rights reserved
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- Release date July 7, 1992
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- FREEWARE
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- User Manual
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- MAssign software and documentation are © 1991, 1992 by Peter
- Stuer. All rights reserved.
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- DISCLAIMER
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- MAssign has been thoroughly tested and is the result of a
- constant process of changes and updates that started in February
- 1991. The program has proven to be stable in everyday use. The
- author is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to
- software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from
- the use of this program. The author reserves the right to make
- changes to the software or documentation without notice.
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- PREFACE
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- This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it
- freely as long as you don't ask any more money for it than a
- nominal fee for copying. If you want to distribute this program
- you should keep this document with it. This program cannot be
- used for commercial purposes without written permission from the
- author.
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- Special permission is hereby granted to include MAssign in
- Public-Domain collections such as Fred Fish's Amiga Library.
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- Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign
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- MAssign is a little program that allows you to make Multiple
- (hence the 'M') assigns at once. For users of BindNames this may
- sound familiar. It allows you to remove all the assign and
- makedir commands from your startup-sequence and user-startup
- files. You can keep the assigns of different programs in
- different files. For example:
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- Assigns -> a directory in Work:
- System -> contains all the system assigns
- DPaint -> contains the assigns for DeluxePaint
- Macro68 -> contains the assigns for Macro68
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- MAssign takes the name of a directory or a file as argument.
- If the argument is a directory any file in that directory will
- be parsed.
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- The files must be in pure ASCII format. Take a look at the
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- ; : Assigns 1.00 (7.7.92)
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- FOO: SYS:
- FOOBAR: SYS:Devs
- Temp: RAM:T Work:T add
- C: Work:C Rexx:C WShell:C add
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- Any line that begins with a colon (;) is considered a comment
- line and will be left alone. Blank lines will also be ignored.
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- The first argument is your normal assign name. For example the
- first line would be the same as:
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- assign FOO: SYS:
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- However unlike assign MAssign first looks if the second assign
- name exists yet. If it doesn't, the directory will be created.
- For example:
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- T: RAM:T
- ENV: RAM:ENV
- CLIPS: RAM:CLIPBOARDS
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- The above example comes from my startup-sequence. I don't have
- to bother with a lot of assign and makedir commands. MAssign
- creates the RAM:T, RAM:ENV and RAM:CLIPBOARDS directories before
- assigning them to T:, ENV: and CLIPS: respectively.
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- MAssign now supports all the assign the normal AmigaDOS 2.0
- Assign can make. This means you can use the ADD, REMOVE, DEFER
- and PATH.
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- 1.1 System requirements
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- MAssign should run on any Amiga system with at least 512KB RAM
- and one disk-drive. MAssign requires KickStart v2.04 or higher
- to run.
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- Should you have any trouble running MAssign on your machine,
- please write to me with the full specifications of your machine,
- that is KickStart version, model, expansion boards etc...
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- 1.2 About the program
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- If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if
- you find any bugs, please let me know.
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- When sending in bug reports, please state exactly under what
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- circumstances the bug occurred, what equipment was used and what
- happened. If possible also try to give me enough information to
- reproduce the bug. It is very difficult to find bugs when you
- don't know exactly what happened.
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- Write to the following address:
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- Peter Stuer
- Kauwlei 21
- B-2550 Kontich
- Belgium - Europe
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- Fido: 2:292/603.7
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- 1.3 Usage
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- MAssign is for CLI usage only. Trying to run MAssign from the
- Workbench may result in a system crash.
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- If you run MAssign without any arguments get a message similar
- to the following one:
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- MAssign v2.00 by Peter Stuer (7.7.92 18:56:08) FREEWARE
- Makes many assigns at once.
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- If you run MAssign with an questionmark (?) as argument you'll
- get the argument template:
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- FROM/A/M,V=VERBOSE/S:
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- You can supply as many arguments as you like. If the argument
- is a directory or a device all the files in that directory or
- device will be examined.
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- If you also supply the VERBOSE switch MAssign will show you
- which files and directories it's scanning and which assigns it
- makes.
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- MAssign can be stopped at any time by pressing Control-C.
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- Table Of Contents
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- MAssign v2.00
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- Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign .......................... 1
- 1.1 System requirements ............................ 2
- 1.2 About the program ............................... 2
- 1.3 Usage ......................................... 3
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- © 1992 MAssign v2.00 written by Peter Stuer
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- Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !
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