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┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES │
│ ------------------------------------------------------ │
│ The author has taken due care in writing this program, │
│ and the program is supplied as is. The author makes │
│ no expressed or implied warranty of any kind with regard │
│ to this program. In no event shall the author be liable │
│ for incidental or consequential damages in connection │
│ with or arising out of the use of this program. │
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├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│This program is NOT public domain. │
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│It may be distributed and used free of charge by anyone,provided: │
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│ 1. No charge is made for this program other than a │
│ minimal charge for the blank disk, postage, etc... │
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│ 2. Both the software MORT'S.EXE and this short │
│ documentation file MORT'S.DOC are distributed │
│ together and un-altered. │
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│ 3. This software is not distributed in a manner to │
│ provide "added value" to a commercial product │
│ which is being sold for profit. │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
MORT'S
by Ken Koch
(c) 1992
v2.5
v.1.6 April 20, 1991
v.1.7 May 6, 1991
fixed Major bug. It was deleting files if both the
source & the destination directories were the same.
fixed Minor bug. Screen display between loading files
and sorting files would become blank, erroneously
indicating that the program had froze.
v.1.8 May 14,1991
Added Automatic Overwriting of any files that exist
in destination directory, when moving or copying.
v.1.9 May 20, 1991
Fixed Mark & UnMark bug.
v2.0-
2.3 Not released
v2.4 Added DOS 5.0 format features.
Changed Copying/Moving display.
Included MORTINST.EXE for installing
your own Binary & Text editor, and
a Browser program.
v2.5 March 26, 1992
Changed many internal functions for faster/
better readability & use.
History of Mort's
-----------------
I made Mort's because I needed a Norton Commander-like program
to manage my Hard drive. I also needed a program that was not a
ShareWare or Commercial product. This program came into being at
my place of employment. We needed a cheap program that could do
alot of the things Norton does with his program NC, but would not
cost anything. This is why I wrote Mort's. (Mort's is short for
Morton Commander. <grin>)
Syntax
------
To invoke Mort's, either have the program in your current directory
or Pathed thru a PATH= statement. Then type MORT'S
Commands
--------
The commands in Mort's are very straight forward.
To change a directory, place the highlighted bar on the directory
you wish to go, & press [ENTER].
To go back to a previous directory, place the highlighted bar on
the "UP DIR" directory & press [ENTER].
To Execute, Edit, or Browse a file:
Place the highlight bar on the selected file and Press [ENTER].
A selection window will appear. You have the options of Edit,
Execute, or Browse the file. Move the highlight to the
desired action and press [ENTER].
By default the BROWSE function is done by using DOS's TYPE
command to type the files contents to the screen.
Also by default the Text Editor uses DOS's EDLIN command, and
the defauly Binary editor is DOS's DEBUG program.
To change any of these defaults, use the accompanying program,
MORTINST. (See the section called "CHANGING MORT'S".)
The following Function keys have the following effects.
F1......Copy File(s). To copy files you must first mark them. To
mark them, place the highlighted bar on the desired file
and press the [SPACEBAR]. Simularily to Un-Mark them press
the [SPACEBAR] again. This acts like a toggle. A ">" symbol
will appear in that lines first location. This indicates it
has been selected. You then have to give Mort's a destination
to copy the file(s) to. Press [F6] and at the bottom prompt
enter the destination drive or directory. Then press the [F1]
key to begin the copy. After the file is copied it is
verified to make sure it copied OK.
F2......Delete File(s). To delete files you must first mark them. To
mark them, place the highlighted bar on the desired file
and press the [SPACEBAR]. Simularily to Un-Mark them press
the [SPACEBAR] again. This acts like a toggle. Then press
the [F3] key to begin the delete.
F3......Move File(s). To move files you must first mark them. To
mark them, place the highlighted bar on the desired file
and press the [SPACEBAR]. Simularily to Un-Mark them press
the [SPACEBAR] again. This acts like a toggle. You then
have to give Mort's a destination to move the file(s) to.
Press [F6] and at the bottom prompt enter the destination
drive or directory. Then press the [F3] key to begin the
move. Before the source file is deleted, the target file
in the new drive/directory is checked to make sure it's
a exact duplicate of the original.
F4......MkDir. This is a way to Make a Directory in the the current
directory. When you press [F4], a prompt will appear at
the bottom of the screen. Enter the name of the directory.
This prompt will only except acceptable DOS filename
characters. To abort, press [ESC].
F5......Change Source Directory. When you press this key a prompt
will appear at the bottom of the screen awaiting input.
Type in the directory or drive you wish to make your
source. This is very helpful to go to a drive other than
your current drive. If you are in the directory you want
as your SOURCE directory, just press the [ENTER] key.
F6......Change Target Directory. When you press this key a prompt
will appear at the bottom of the screen awaiting input.
Type in the directory or drive you wish to make your
Target. This is very helpful to go to a drive other than
your current drive. If you are in the directory you want
as your TARGET directory, just press the [ENTER] key.
F7......Format a Disk. This command will only work if the DOS
FORMAT command is in the current directory or within the
PATH statement you have set up. Currently it's set up
to work with only DOS 5.
Right
Arrow...Rename a file. When you press this key, the old name will
disappear, a prompt on the same line will await the new
name. This can also be used to change the name of a directory.
To Abort, just press Enter.
ALT B...Will provide a screen saver display. This will continue
until you press any key.
"+".....Mass Select. When you press this key a prompt appears
awaiting a string to select by. You may enter only a string
pattern not a filename specification. This still works if
all you want is to select COM files. Just enter COM. It
will also find any filenames containing the word COM, so
if after you mass select it, you can edit the selection by
pressing the [SPACEBAR] to un-select it.
"-".....Mass Un-Select. When you press this key a prompt appears
awaiting a string to select by. You may enter only a string
pattern not a filename specification. This still works if
all you want is to select COM files. Just enter COM. It
will also find any filenames containing the word COM, so
if after you mass unselect it, you can edit the selection by
pressing the [SPACEBAR] to select it.
Any other keypress other than those listed above will be
interpreted as a DOS command and will try to execute it.
Notes:
======
In previous versions I provided a way for you to change the sort
parameters for the directory listing. In this version there is only
one way to sort so I removed those commands. This version first sorts
by the extension, then it sorts each extension by name in ascending
order.
Changing Mort's
===============
Mort's provides a way for you to change the EDIT & BROWSE programs
that are called up to edit or look at a file. The accompanying
program MORTINST does this by first asking you what you want the
program to change & writing these filenames in the Mort's program.
To use, you must have MORT'S in the directory at which you are
calling up MORTINST.
Mort's comes with
DOS's EDLIN as the default text editor.
DOS's DEBUG as the default binary editor.
DOS's TYPE command as the default "browser".
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COMMENTS
========
If you wish, you may write to me at:
Ken Koch
507 Whitten St.
Ingleside, IL. 60041
These letters (from you) may tell me of any problems you have
experienced with using Mort's (or any other programs).
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