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- {subhead}Hints & Tips{def}{p}
- Article by Mark Tierno
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- This month it's just a little collection of DOpus nuggets, little things
- that you may have forgotten. So, without further adeu, and in no
- particular order...
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- Ever find that PAd Lock on the listers useless? Just set the
- Envitronment variable (in ENV:DOpus/) HidePadlock to 1.
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- In the Settings-->Environment-->Directories you can set the default max
- filename length in terms of number of chatracters. Default is 30, but
- I've found 40 to be a good default for most anything I'll run into.
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- You can set the screen titel for the DOpus screen, that you no doubt
- know. But take a more careful look at the command arguments. %pm is
- for the Phase of the Moon, and actually includes a little moon icon (of
- the appropriate phase) to be displayed.
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- Click on the Left sidebar of any Lister and that lister's contents will
- back up one directory along it's path.
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- And finally, the keypad works with the active lister. Pg Dn scrolls the
- display down one page, Pg Up up, End to the last lines displayed, Home
- at the top of the directory list. Of course, the normal cursor arrows
- do what you'd think as well.
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