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- DosK V1.0 Release 1.0
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- Amiga Dos Enhanser
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- DosK V1.0 ©January 1994 By Kenneth J. McCormick. All Rights Reserved.
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- This enhansed version of Amiga Dos is giftware. It can be distributed
- freely if the following conditions are met:
- 1. It is kept fully intact
- 2. It is not altered in any way
- 3. No renumeration of any kind is received for it without my written
- consent except by Fred Fish's nominal fee for his disks or CDs
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- What is Needed to Run DosK
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- 1. You must be using Workbench 3.0 or above
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- 2. You need a Bootable Hard Drive.
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- HOW TO USE DosK
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- Nothing could be simpler. Type the usual Amiga Dos command but add a 'K' at
- the end and you will be in DosK. The exception to this is a DosK Command that has
- no Amiga Dos equivlent.
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- E.G. To use the directory command type DirK
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- An example of a unique DosK Command is VidK, is has no Amiga Dos equivlent
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- DosK HELP is also very easy to access, there are 2 ways to get to it:
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- 1. Type the DosK Command and add a '?' at the end
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- E.G. DirK?
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- 2. Type HelpK and a file requestor appears with a listing of
- all command help and pick the one you want.
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- E.G. HelpK
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- Simple enough ?
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- REMEMBER NOT ALL AMIGA DOS COMMANDS HAVE BEEN ENHANSED BUT ALMOST ALL OF THE MOST
- COMMONLY USED ONES HAVE BEEN.
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- UNIQUE DosK COMMANDS
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- I have and will be creating dos commands using the best of the Public Domain
- Sys:C type programs and enhansing them to Create a DosK Command. An example
- of this is VidK which uses the PAL and NTSC PD Programs that change your
- screen mode. Thd DosK Command VidK changes your screen mode between PAL
- and NTSC by the press of a button. When you use the installer you will
- be given the option of installing the PD programs to your WorkBench C
- directory where they MUST be in order for the DosK Command to operate.
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- HARD DRIVE SPACE REQUIRED TO RUN DosK V1.0 Rel 1.0
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- The DosK Commands use approximately 48,000 bytes of space
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- The Dosk Help files take up approximately 230,000 bytes of space
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- Trade Off to save storage space:
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- You can save approximately 156,000 bytes by NOT installing the
- Dosk Help ICONS.
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- ADVANTAGE - THE SPACE YOU SAVE
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- DISADVANTAGE - YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE INDIVIDUAL HELP
- FOR DosK THROUGH THE WORKBENCH BY OPENING THE DRAWER CALLED KHELP
- AND CLICKING ON THE ICON, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE WILL STILL WORK THE
- SAME WHEN USING DOS.
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- Q What the heck is DosK Anyway ?
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- A DosK is an enhansement to the Amiga Dos system. It does not replace Amiga
- Dos but rather improves it. While Amiga Dos has improved over the years
- it still uses the same interface. This interface is the typed line that
- scrolls past the screen and requires a great knowledge of the options
- available with each Amiga Dos Command. DosK allows you to use Amiga
- Dos commands without typing, in most cases, and very little in others.
- DosK will never scroll past the screen since it supplies a scroll bar
- which will allow you to scroll back up and see what slid past you. Now
- you can also print any text screen without having to use a dump program
- and it is done by using one of the menus that are now at the top of
- your screen along with bookmarks and many other goodies.
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- More good news:
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- DosK has its own commands that will increase the usefulness of Amiga Dos.
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- HOW TO INSTALL DosK
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- 1. OPEN THE TAB ON THE DISK CONTAINING DosK
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- 2. INSERT THE DISK IN DRIVE DF0:
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- 3. CLICK ON THE INSTALL ICON
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- 4. AFTER INSTALLATION COMPLETE RESET THE COMPUTER BEFORE USE
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- Please Note - a copy of your origional User-Startup file will be saved in
- the drawer ORIGIONAL_US. This wasn't necessary but I thought you
- might like to save it.
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- KCOMM AMIGA DOS DESCRIPTION
- ====== ========= ===========
- AvailK - AVAIL shows avail memory
- AddbuffersK - ADDBUFFERS add and subtract device buffers
- BlankerK- BLANKER screen blanker
- BreakK - BREAK halts running Dos Commands
- CdK - CD redirection
- CmdK - CMD intercepts parallel port and sends data to file
- ConclipK- CONCLIP reads clipboard and can close it
- CopyK - COPY copies files and directories
- DirK - DIR LIST shows directories and listings
- DeleteK - DELETE deletes files and directories
- DiskCopyK - DISKCOPY copies a disk
- FilenoteK - FILENOTE comments files and directories
- FormatK - FORMAT formats a disk
- HelpK - No Amiga Dos Equivlent. Brings up Dosk Help Commands
- InfoK - INFO shows much information
- InstallK- INSTALL installs and checks bootblocks
- JoinK - JOIN joins files together as one
- LockK - LOCK lock devices to avoid writing, reading etc.
- MakedirK- MAKEDIR creates directories
- PrtK - PRINT prints to printer or files
- ProtectK- PROTECT protects and unprotects individual files
- ReadK - NO EQUILAVENT brings up Multiview, AmigaGuide and More
- RenameK - RENAME renames files and directories
- ResidentK-RESIDENT shows and manipulates Resident Commands
- RunK - RUN runs programs etc.
- SearchK - SEARCH search for strings or files
- SortK - SORT sorts to a new file
- TypeK - TYPE types file to new file in Hex or Ascii Char.
- VerK - VERSION reads version of libraries etc.
- VidK - NTSC & PAL toggles screen mode between Ntsc and Pal
- (REQUIRES THE PUBLIC DOMAIN PROGRAMS PAL & NTSC)
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- Things you should know:
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- MANY OF THE 'K COMMANDS' USE ENVIROMENTAL VARIABLES. IT IS IMPORTANT
- THAT YOU NEVER REQUEST A GADGET TO CARRY OUT A FUNCTION AFTER YOU
- HAVE PRESSED CANCEL ON A FILE REQUESTER BECAUSE THE LAST FUNCTION
- OR FILE IDENTIFIED WILL STILL BE REPRESENTED BY THE VARIABLE, HENCE
- YOU MAY, FOR EXAMPLE, CREATE A FILE WHERE YOU DIDN'T WANT ONE ETC.
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- WHEN USING A FILE REQUESTOR(S) MAKE SURE THE DESIRED INFORMATION
- APPEARS ON THE LINES OF THE REQUESTOR(S) BEFORE SAVING. IF THERE IS
- SOMETHING TO BE TYPED IN MAKE SURE YOU DO IT.
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- ONE DosK Command uses Sound. To fully ulitize this command you should
- set the Workbench Prefs/Sound to Flash and Bell or Sampled Sound.
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- Future commands will, no doubt, use more sound so I suggest you set
- the sound as specified above.
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- ====================================================================
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- PLEASE NOTE - I am only explaining the few commands that are a
- little unusual since all commands have their own help.
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- ====================================================================
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- AliasK:
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- BreakK:
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- BreakK ONLY WORKS ON DOS COMMANDS AND ITS OPERATION IS THE SAME AS
- THE BREAK COMMAND. IT DOESN'T WORK IN ALL INSTANCES SINCE THE
- BREAK COMMAND DOESN'T.
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- CmdK:
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- THE OPTIONS ON CmdK DO NOT SEEM TO DO MUCH. I HAVEN'T TRIED THEM ON
- ANY BIG TEXT FILES, MAYBE THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE ?
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- ConclipK:
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- Conclip can be turned off by click the button but this doesn't
- clear the clipboard of any clips.
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- InstallK:
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- THIS COMMAND ONLY USES THE FAST FILE SYSTEM SINCE IT HAS BEEN A
- STANDARD SINCE WORKBENCH V1.3. IF YOU WANT TO INSTALL OLDER DISKS
- FROM PRE WORKBENCH V1.3 USE THE REGULAR DOS COMMAND INSTALL.
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- SearchK:
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- I PUT A LOT OF INTERMEDIATE REQUESTORS IN THIS ONE TO LET YOU CHANGE
- YOUR MIND AT DIFFERENT STAGES IN THE CHOICE MODES, IF TOO MANY PLEASE
- DROP ME A LINE AND I WILL REMOVE SOME.
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- PORTAL - Kenneth McCormick
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