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- DIRECTORYOPUS 4.01
- COMPLEATE MANUAL
- ORIGINAL MANUAL SUPPLIED BY FIREFLASH OF COMBAT 18
- TYPED BY VIPER
- RELEASED 24/5/1993
-
-
- CHAPTER 1
-
- A DIRECTORYOPUS
- WALK-THROUGH
-
- 1.1 WHAT IS DIRECTORYOPUS?
-
- THE THEORY BEHIND DIR OPUS IS QUITE SIMPLE.ON THE SCREEN THERE ARE TWO WINDOWS.
- THESE ARE CALLED DIRECTORY WINDOWS.YOU CAN READ A DIRECTORY INTO EACH OF THESE
- FROM ANY DEVICE ACCESSIBLE BY THE AMIGA.YOU CAN READ A DIRECTORY INTO EACH OF
- THESE FROM ANY DEVICE ACCESSIBLE BY THE AMIGA.YOU CAN SELECT FILES AND/OR
- DIRECTORIES IN EITHER OF THESE WIDOWS,THEN MINIPULATE THEM ALMOST ANY WAY
- YOU LIKE.SELECTED ENTRIES CAN BE COPIED TO THE OPPOSITE WINDOW,DELETED OR
- RENAMED;TEXT FILES CAN BE READ,PICTURE FILES CAN BE VIEWED,AND SOUND CAN
- BE HERD.DIRECTORYOPUS OFERS MUCH MORE THAN THESE "BARE BONES" FEATURES,
- AND YOU WILL LEARN MORE LATER IN THIS MANUAL.
-
- 1.2 FILES AND DIRECTORIES
-
- THE AMIGAS DOS (DISK OPERATING SYSTEM) DEALS WITH TWO KINDS OF DATA ARRANGEMENT
- FILES AND DIRECTORIES.
- EACH FILE AND DIRECTORY MUST BE GIVEN A UNIQUE NAME;WITHIN A DIRECTORY YOU
- CANNOT HAVE TWO FILES,TWO DIRS. OR A FILE AND DIR OF THE SAME NAME.
-
- 1.2.1 FILES
-
- ANY DATA YOU RECORD ON A DISK IS STORED IN A FILE.FILES CONTAIN INFORMATION.
- WHICH MAY BE FROM A DATA BASE, FROM A WORD PROCESSOR, FROM A PAINTING PROG,
- OR THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF A PROGRAME.
- THE SIZE OF A FILE IS EXPRESSED IN BYTES, EACH BYTE BEING EQUIVALENT TO
- ONE CHARACTER.STORING THE STRING HELLO IN A FILE WOULD USE FIVE BYTES,
- AS THE WORD HELLO IS FIVE CHARACTERS LONG.
- WHETHER A FILE CAN BE DISPLAYED,EXECUTED,DELETED,EDITED,OR CONSIDERED AS
- A SCRIPT FILE,DEPENDS UPON ATTRIBUTES THAT ARE EXPLAIND LATER.
- ALL FILES HAVE A DATE STAMP WHICH SHOWS WHAT THE SYSTEM DATE AND TIME WHERE
- THE LAST TIME THE FILE WAS WRITTTEN TO.
- FILES MAY ALSO HAVE A COMMENT OF UP TO 79 CHARACTERS ATTACHED TO THEM.
-
- 1.2.2 DIRECTORIES
-
- TO STORE INFORMATION IN A LOGICAL MANNER,DISKS ARE GENERALY ORGANIZED INTO
- DIRECTORIES,WHICH ARE OFTEN REFERD TO AS DRAWERS.IF YOU PICTURE A DISK AS
- A FILEING CABINET,WITH YOUR PROGRAMS,DATA BASE FILES AND PICTURES AS THE
- ACTUAL FILES,THEN DIRECTORIES ARE THE DRAWERS OF THE FILEING CABINET.
- SOME OF THESE DRAWERS HAVE FUTHER DRAWERS INSIDE THEM, CALLED SUB DIRS,
- WHICH THEMSELVES CAN CONTAIN DRAWERS,AND SO ON, INDEFINITELY.
- THE DIR OR SUB DIR CONTAINING ANY GIVEN SUB DIR IS KNOWN AS ITS PARENT
- DIR.
- THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ORGANIZATLAN IS THE ROOT DIR.IF THE DIR IS A FILING
- CABINET,THEN THE ROOT DIR IS THE ROOM IT STANDS IN.
- THE ROUTE YOU TAKE ALONG A DIR TREE TO REACH A FILE IS CALLED A PATH.
- AS YOU PROCCED ALONG THE PATH,EACH BRANCH OF THE TREE IS SEPERATED FROM
- THE NEXT BRANCH BY A /CHARACTER.FOR EXAMPLE,THE PATH OF ARCHIVES IS
- EXPRESSED AS WORK:DOWNLOADS/ARCHVES/PICTURE.ARC.
- TO REFER TO PCTURE.ARC,YOU USE WHAT IS CALLED A PATH NAME.THIS CONSISTS
- OF A FILES PATH,FOLLOWED BY THE NAME OF A FILE.PICTURE.ARC,S PATH NAME
- WOULD BE WORK ;DOWNLOADS/ARCHIVES/PICTURE.ARC.
- THE NUMBER OF FILES AND SUB DIR ANY GIVEN DIR CAN CONTAIN IS LIMITED ONLY
- BY THE AMMOUNT OF SPACE ON THE DISK.
-
- 1.3 INSTALLING DIR OPUS
-
- IF YOUR COMPUTER DOES NOT HAVE A HARD DRIVE,YOU MAY WANT TO RUN DIRECTORY
- OPUS FROM THE DISTRIBUTION DISK;OTHERWISE YOU NEED TO USE THE INSTALLATION
- PROGRAM,INSTALLOPUS,WHICH INSERTS DIRECTORY OPUS INTO YOUR HARD DISKS ROOT
- DIRECTORY.IT WILL MODIFY YOUR USER STARTUP SEQUENCE. INSTALLOPUS ALLOWS
- YOU TO CHOOSE THE APPROACH BEST SUITED TO YOUR LEVEL OF EXPERTISE.
-
- FOR THE NOVICE, INSTALLOPUS INSERTS DIR OPUS INTO YOUR HARD DISKS
- ROOT DIRECTORY AND DOES EVERYTHING FOR YOU,OFFERING YOU FEW CHOICEWS.
- YOU MAY CHOOSE TO HAVE THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN DISPLAYED WHEN YOU
- FIRST BOOT UP YOUR COMPUTER, OTHERWISE YOU MAY RUN DIRECTORY OPUS
- FROM THE WORKBENCH OR FROM THE CLI.
-
- AT A MORE AMBITIOUS LEVEL,INSTALLOPUS ALLOWS YOU TO SELECT THE
- DIRECTORIES INTO WHICH DIRECTORY OPUS IS TO BE INSTALLED.
-
- THE EXPERT USER CAN TAKE CONTROL:INSTALLOPUS ALLOWS YOU TO DEFINE
- EVERY SINGLECHOICE AVAILABLE,AND ASSUMES THAT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE
- DOING.YOU ARE ABLE TO MODIFY YOUR STARTUP SEQUENCE TO YOUR NEEDS.
-
- FOR MORE INFORMATION,USE INSTALLOPUS BUILT IN HELP SYSTEM.
-
- 1.4 RUNNING DIRECTORY OPUS
-
- THERE ARE THREE COMMON WAYS OF RUNNING DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- FROM WORKBENCH
-
- FROM CLI
-
- FROM YOUR STARTUP SEQUENCE
-
- EACH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW.
-
- 1.4.1 STARTING FROM WORKBENCH
-
- THE EASIEST WAY TO RUN DIRECTORY OPUS IS FROM THE WORKBENCH.
- DOUBLE-CLICK ON THE DIRECTORY OPUS ICON ON THE WORKBENCH
- SCREEN AND,SEVERAL SECONDS LATER, THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN
- WILL APPEAR.
-
- 1.4.2 STARTING FROM A CLI
-
- TO RUN DIRECTORY OPUS FROM THE CLI ENTER:
-
- DOPUS:DIRECTORYOPUS
-
- THIS ASSUMES ONE OF TWO THINGS.EITHER YOU ARE RUNNING DIRECTORY
- OPUS FROM A FLOPPY DRIVE CONTAINING THE DIRECTORY OPUS DISKETTE,
- OR YOU HAVE IT INSTALLED ON A HARD DRIVE WITH AN ASSIGNMENT OF
- DOPUS:TO ITS LOCATION.(THE INSTALL UTILITY CAN CREATE THE ASSIGNMENT
- IN YOUR STARTUP SEQUENCE).
-
- 1.4.3 AUTOMATIC STARTUP IN THE STARTUP-SEQUENCE
-
- THE STARTUP-SEQUENCE IS A SCRIPT FILE THAT IS AUTOMATICALLY EXECUTED
- WHEN YOU FIRST TURN ON THE COMPUTER. IT CAN CONTAIN INSTRUCTIONS TO
- DO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS,INCLUDING RUNNING DIRECTORY OPUS.
- EITHER THE INSTALLOPUS UTILITY CAN MODIFY YOUR STARTUP-SEQUENCE
- FOR YOU,OR YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF. TO MODIFY YOUR STARTUP SEQUENCE
- YOU NEED A TEXT EDITOR SUCH AS COMMODORES ED OR MEMAX.A HIGHLY
- RECOMMENDED COMMERCIAL TEXT EDITOR IS CYGNUSED PROFESSIONAL,BY
- ASDG-INC.THIS IS THE TEXT EDITOR WITH WHICH DIRECTORY OPUS WAS
- WRITTEN,AND IS A VERY POWERFUL TOOL.
- RUN YOUR TEXT EDITOR,AND LOAD YOUR STARTUP-SEQUENCE INTO IT.THE
- STARTUP-SEQUENCE RESIDES IN THE S:DIRECTORY OF YOUR BOOT DISK.PICK
- A CONVENIENT PLACE TO PUT THE NEW INSTRUCTION.A GOOD PLACE WOULD
- BE THE LINE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE ENDCLI INSTRUCTION (AT THE END),
- BUT YOU CAN REALY PUT IT ANYWHERE.ADD THE LINE:
-
- ASSIGN DOPUS:DH0:TOOLS/DOPUS
- DOPUS:DIRECTORYOPUS -i
-
- THIS ASSUMES YOU HAVE INSTALLED DIRECTORY OPUS IN A DIRECTORY CALLED
- DH0:TOOLS/DOPUS. OF COURSE YOU NEED TO USE THE ACTUAL DIRECTORY PATH.
-
- THE -i AT THE END OF THE INSTRUCTION TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO START UP
- ICONIFED,WHICH MEANS THAT THE PROGRAM WILL OPEN ONLY A LITTLE WINDOW
- ON THE WORKBENCH SCREEN,INSTEAD OF ITS OWN CUSTOM SCREEN,AND WILL
- SIT UNOBTRUSIVELY IN THE BACKGROUND UNTIL NEEDED.FROM THE WORKBENCH,
- YOU CAN ADD A TOOLTYPE OF ICONSTART=1 TO THE DIRECTORY OPUS ICON,
- FOR THE SADME EFFECT.IF YOU DO NOT WANT DIRECTORY OPUS TO START UP
- ICONIFIED,SIMPLY REMOVE THE -i.
-
- THE MORE TECHNICALLY INCLINED MAY NOTICE THAT THERE IS NO RUN ON
- THE INSTRUCTION LINE.THIS IS BECAUSE DIRECTORY OPUS DETACHES ITSELF,
- FREEING UP THE CLI AND ALLOWING IT TO CONTINUE WITH THE STARTUP
- SEQUENCE (AND ULITMATELY CLOSING).
-
- MAKE SURE YOU SAVE THE STARTUP-SEQUENCE ONCE YOU HAVE MODIFIED IT.
- IF YOUR CHANGES MAKE SENCE,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BE RUN AUTOMATICALLY
- WHEN YOU BOOT UP.
-
- THERE IS ANOTHER FLAG YOU CAN USE WHEN YOU RUN DIRECTORY OPUS.
- THE -c FLAG TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS WHERE TO LOAD THE CONFIGURATION
- FILE FROM. FOR INSTANCE, -cDH1:STUFF/DIRECTORYOPUS.CFG WOULD LOAD
- (AND SUBSEQUENTLY SAVE) THE CONFIGURATION FILE FROM DH1:STUFF
- /DIRECTORYOPUS.CFG. FROM WORKBENCH,A TOOLTYPE OF CONFIGFILE=DH1:
- STUFF/DIRECTORYOPUS.CFG WOULD HAVE THE SAME EFFECT. BY DEFAULT,
- IT WILL LOOK IN DOPUS:MODULES.
-
- 1.5 INTRODUCTION TO USING DIRECTORY OPUS
-
- THIS SECTION GIVES YOU A SHORT TOUR OF DIRECTORY OPUS.IT DESCRIBES
- DIRECTORY OPUS IN ITS DEFAULT CONFIGURATION. THE VARIOUS CONFIGURATION
- OPTIONS WILL BE DESCRIBED IN A LATER CHAPTER.
-
- 1.5.1 ABORTING
-
- BEFORE USING THE PROGRAM,IT IS INPORTANT TO KNOW HOW TO ABORT AN
- ACTION.MOST FUNCTIONS CAN BE ABORTED ONCE THEY HAVE BEGUN,AND THIS
- CAN BE USFUL IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY START DELETING THE CONTENTS OF YOUR
- HARD DRIVE.
-
- TO ABORT,PRESS THE LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS SIMULTANEOUSLY.THIS
- WILL ONLY TAKE EFFECT IF THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN IS ACTIVE (I.E,IT
- IS AT THE FRONT OF THE DISPLAY).
-
- DO NOT BE ALARMED IF THE ACTION DOES NOT ABORT IMMEDIATELY;SOME
- FUNCTIONS SUCH AS COPY,WILL HAVE TO FINISH THE FILE THEY ARE WORKING
- UPON BEFORE ABOTRING.
-
- 1.5.2 DIRECTORY OPUS COMPONENTS
-
- LETS START WITH A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE MAIN COMPONENTS OF THE
- DIRECTORY OPUS DISPLAY.
-
- TITLE BAR: THE TITLE BAR IS AT THE VERY TOP OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS
- DISPLAY. IT IS USED TO DISPLAY VARIOUS STATUS OR ERROR MESSAGES.
- IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHAT DIRECTORY OPUS IS DOING,IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO
- LOOK IN THE TITLE BAR FOR A HINT.THE TITLE BAR IS ALSO USED TO
- REPOSITION THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.
-
- CLOCK/MEMORY BAR: THE CLOCK/MEMORY BAR IS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DIRECTORY
- OPUS DISPLAY.IT DISPLAYS CURRENT MEMORY AND TIME INFORMATION.
-
- DIREWCTORY WINDOW: A DIRECTORY WINDOW ALLOWS YOU TO DISPLAY THE
- FILES AND SUB-DIRECTORIES CONTAINED IN A DIRECTORY.YOU CAN SELECT
- (AND DESELECT) FILES AND SUB-DIRECTORIES.DIRECTORY OPUS HAS TWO
- DIRECTORY WINDOWS. THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS ARE DESCRIBED IN GREATER
- DETAIL BELOW.
-
- CUSTOM BUTTONS: THE CUSTOM BUTTONS PERFORM ACTIONS WHICH USUALLY
- TRIGGER AN OPERATION ON THE SELECTED FILES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- DRIVE BUTTONS: THE DRIVE BUTTONS READ THE CONTENTS OF A SPECIFIC
- DIRECTORY AND DISPLAY THEM IN THE CURRENTLY ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- CUSTOM MENUS: CUSTOM MENUS,LIKE CUSTOM BUTTONS,PERFORM ACTIONS.
-
- NOTE: MANY PARTS OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS INTERFACE USE THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON FOR ALTERNATIVE OPERATIONS.AS WITH DPAINT,THE MOUSE
- POINTER MUST BE POSITIONED ON THE TITLE BAR WHEN THE RIGHT MOUSE
- BUTTON IS CLICKED FOR THE MENU TITLES TO APPEAR.
-
- TINY BUTTONS: FOUR TINY BUTTONS ARE POSITIONED BETWEEN THE TWO
- DIRECTORY WINDOWS,AND SIX TINY BUTTONS ARE PLACED ON THE CLOCK/
- MEMORY BAR.
-
- 1.5.3 DIRECTORY WINDOWS:
-
- THERE ARE TWO DIRECTORY WINDOWS.ONE WINDOW IS ACTIVE AT A TIME.
- BECAUSE SOME ACTIONS,SUCH AS COPY,WORK WITH SELECTED FILES IN THE
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW AND USE THE INACTIVE WINDOW AS THE DESTINATION,
- THE ACTIVE WINDOW IS REFERRED TO AS THE SOURCE WINDOW AND THE
- INACTIVE WINDOW IS REFERRED TO AS THE DESTINATION WINDOW.
-
- SELECTING THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW
-
- CLICKING ANYWHERE IN A WINDOW WITH EITHER MOUSE BUTTON WILL ACTIVATE
- THAT WINDOW. UNLESS YOU ARE EXTREMELY PRECICE IN YOUR PLACEMENT OF
- THE POINTER,HOWEVER,CLICKING WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO ACTIVATE
- A WINDOW MAY LEAD TO YOUR SELECTING AN UNWANTED ENTRY.THIS IS WHEN
- USING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON CAN BE USEFUL,AS SELECTING ENTRIES IS
- A LEFT MOUSE BUTTON FUNCTION,BUT CLICKING WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE
- BUTTON CAN NEVER HAVE THAT EFFECT.
-
- PRESSING THE SPACE BAR ACTIVATES THE INACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.THIS
- ALLOWS YOU TO TOGGLE BETWEEN THE ACTIVE AND INACTIVE WINDOWS.
-
- DIRECTORY WINDOW COMPONENTS
-
- DIRECTORY FIELD
-
- DISK NAME
-
- WINDOW AREA
-
- WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS
-
- NEXT AND PREVIOUS BUFFER BUTTONS
-
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- DIRECTORY FIELD
-
- MANY DIRECTORY OPUS FUNCTIONS REQUIRE THAT YOU READ A DIRECTORY
- INTO THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.TO READ ANY DIRECTORY,ENTER THE
- NAME INTO THE DIRECTORY FIELD.
-
- WHEN YOU CLICK IN A DIRECTORY FIELD IT WILL BE ACTIVATED,AND A CURSOR
- WILL APPEAR.PRESSING THE RETURN KEY WILL ACTIVATE THE DIRECTORY FIELD
- FOR THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.ONCE THE FIELD IS ACTIVATED,ENTER THE
- NAME OF THE DIRECTORY YOU WANT.
- THERE ARE SEVERAL EDITING FEATURES YOU CAN USE:
-
- BACKSPACE: DELETES THE CHARACTER TO THE LEFT OF THE CURSOR
-
- DELETE: DELETES THE CHARACTER UNDER THE CURSOR
-
- CURSOR KEY: MOVES THE CURSOR ONE SPACE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE ARROW
-
- CURSOR KEY+SHIFT: MOVES THE CURSOR TO THE BEGINNING OR END OF THE
- STRING.
-
- RIGHT AMIGA + X KEY: THIS IS KNOWN AS AMIGA-X ERASES THE ENTIRE STRING
-
- RIGHT AMIGA + Q KEY THIS IS KNOWN AS AMIGA-X RESTORES THE CONTENTS
- OF A FIELD TO THE PREVIOUS INFORMATION.
-
- ONCE YOU HAVE ENTERED THE PATHNAME YOU WISH TO READ, PRESS RETURN.
- YOU WILL SEE THE DIRECTORY WINDOW ACTIVATE (IF IT IS NOT ALREADY
- ACTIVE),AND THE DIRECTORY WILL BE READ.
-
- DISK NAME
-
- THE DISK NAME AREA OF THE DIRECTORY WINDOW SHOWS THE DISK OR
- VOLUME NAME FOR THE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED DIRECTORY. THIS AREA
- ALSO DISPLAYS THE AMOUNT OF FREE SPACE ON THE DIRECTORYS VOLUME.
-
- WINDOW AREA
-
- THE WINDOW AREA OF THE DIRECTORY WINDOW DISPLAYS THE DIRECTORYS
- FILES AND SUB-DIRECTORYS.
-
- SELECTING FILES
-
- TO SELECT AN ENTRY,FILE OR SUB-DIRECTORY,CLICK ON IT WITH THE
- LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.IF YOU HOLD DOWN THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON AND
- MOVE THE MOUSE UP OR DOWN,ALL ENTRIES PASSED OVER WILL BE
- HIGHLIGHTED. THIS IS CALLED DRAG SELECTING.
- WHEN YOU CLICK ON AN ENTRY WHICH IS ALREADY SELECTED,IT WILL
- DESELECT IT.BY DRAG-SELECTING WHEN YOU CLICK ON A SELECTED ENTRY,
- ALREADY SELECTED ENTRIES TAHT ARE PASSED OVER WILL BE DESELECTED.
-
- ENTERING SUB-DIRECTORYS
-
- MANY DIRECTORIES THAT YOU READ IN WILL CONTAIN SUB-DIRECTORIES.
- INSTEAD OF HAVING TO TYPE IN THE NAME OF A SUB-DIRECTORY,YOU
- NEED ONLY TO DOUBLE CLICK ON IT. THIS WILL LOAD THE SUB-DIRECTORY
- INTO THE SAME DIRECTORY WINDOW.OPENING THE SUB-DIRECTORY IN THE
- OTHER DIRECTORY WINDOW ALLOWS YOU TO COPY FILES BETWEEN THE SUB
- DIRECTORY AND ITS PARENT. TO DO THIS,YOU PERFORM A CLICK MOVE CLICK
- (CLICK M CLICK) WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON. CLICK M CLICK MEANS
- TO CLICK FIRST ON A SUB DIRECTORY ENTRY THEN TO MOVE THE MOUSE
- POINTER TO THE OTHER (INACTIVE) WINDOW AND CLICK AGAIN.THIS CAN
- BE TRICKY BECAUSE THE TWO CLICKS MUST OCCUR WITHIN THE AMIGA
- CONFIGURED DOUBLE CLICK TIME (SEE AMIGA INPUT PREFERENCES).
- AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD TO CLICK M CLICK (WHICH REQUIRES LESS
- MOUSE POINTER GYMNASTICS),IS TO CLICK AND HOLD ON AN UNSELECTED
- SUB DIRECTORY ENTRY WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.THEN,WITHOUT RELEASING
- THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON,PRESS AND RELEASE THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
- WITHOUT RELEASING THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON,MOVE THE MOUSE POINTER
- TO THE INACTIVE WINDOW. AS YOU MOVE THE MOUSE POINTER, A COPY OF
- THE SELECTED SUB DIRECTORY WILL FOLLOW THE MOUSE.WHEN YOU
- POSITION THE MOUSE POINTER OVER THE INACTIVE WINDOW,RELEASE
- THE MOUSE BUTTON;THE SUB DIRECTORY WILL NOW BE READ INTO THE INACTIVE
- WINDOOW,WHICH NOW WILL BECOME THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- A FINAL ALTERNATIVE IS TO CLICK AND HOLD ON AN UNSELECTED
- SUB DIRECTORY ENTRY WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.THEN,WITHOUT RELEASING
- THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON,MOVE THE MOUSE POINTER TO THE UNSELECTED
- DIRECTORY WINDOW.THE TRICK TO THIS METHOD IS TO MOVE THE MOUSE
- POINTER HORIZONTALLY WITHOUT MOVING UP OR DOWN.SHOULD YOU
- INADVERTENTLY MOVE THE MOUSE POINTER OVER AN ENTRY ABOVE OR BELOW
- THE SELECTED SUB DIRECTORY,IT WILL NOT FOLLOW THE MOUSE POINTER TO
- THE OTHER WINDOW.WHEN YOU DO IT CORRECTLY,A COPY OF THE SELECTED SUB
- DIRECTORY WILL FOLLOW THE MOUSE POINTER OVER TO THE INACTIVE WINDOW
- AND WILL BE READ WHEN YOU RELEASE THE MOUSE POINTER.
-
- MOVING TO A PARENT DIRECTORY:
-
- IF THE DIRECTORY DISPLAYED IN A DIRECTORY WINDOW IS A SUB DIRECTORY,
- YOU MAY WISH TO RETURN TO ITS PARENT DIRECTORY.YOU COULD RETURN TO
- THE PARENT DIRECTORY BY EDITING THE DIRECTORY FIELD TEXT DIRECTLY,
- BUT THE PROCEDURE IS CUMBERSOME AND ERROR PRONE;THERE ARE BETTER WAYS.
-
- THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION INCLUDES A CUSTOM BUTTON WHICH RETURNS YOU
- TO THE PARENT DIRECTORY.
-
- EACH DIRECTORY WINDOW CONTAINS A HIDDEN PARENT BUTTON ON THE OUTER
- EDGE OF THE WINDOW AREA WHICH WILL MOVE YOU TO THE PARENT DIRECTORY.
- ON THE LEFT DIRECTORY WINDOW,IT IS THE WHITE BORDER ON THE FAR LEFT.
- ON THE RIGHT DIRECTORY WINDOW,IT IS THE BLACK BORDER ON THE FAR RIGHT.
- WHEN YOU CLICK THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON ON A HIDDEN PARENT BUTTON,DIRECTORY
- OPUS WILL DISPLAY THE DIRECTORYS PARENT,IF IT HAS ONE.WHEN YOU CLICK
- THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON ON THE HIDDEN PARENT BUTTON,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL
- DISPLAY THE ROOT DIRECTORY.
-
- WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS:
-
- ONCE THE DIRECTORY HAS BEEN READ IN,IT IS DISPLAYED IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.THERE IS A LIMITED SPACE ON THE SCREEN,HOWEVER,SO THE WHOLE
- DIRECTORY MAY NOT BE VISIBLE AT ONCE.A PAIR OF SLIDERS EXTENDS YOUR
- VIEW OF THE WINDOW.IN THE CENTRE OF THE TWO DIRECTORY WINDOWS ARE
- TWO VERTICAL WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS.YOU CAN SLIDE THESE UP AND DOWN,
- TO SCROLL THROUGH THE CONTENTS OF THE DIRECTORY.
-
- TO SLIDE THE VERTICAL WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS,PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
- ON THE BLACK BAR AND,WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE MOUSE BUTTON,MOVE THE MOUSE
- UP AND DOWN.
-
- CLICK ABOVE OR BELOW THE SOLID BAR FOR THE SLIDER TO MOVE ONE PAGE IN
- THAT DIRECTION.
-
- AT THE BOTTONM OF THE TWO VERTICAL WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS ARE ARROW BUTTONS.
- THESE WILL MOVE THE SLIDER ONE LINE IN EITHER DIRECTION WHEN CLICKED
- UPON.
-
- CLICK AND HOLD THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON ON ONE OF THE ARROW BUTTONS
- FOR THE DIRECTORY TO SCROLL THROUGH THE WINDOW.
-
- PRESS EITHER THE UP OR DOWN CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE ONE LINE IN THAT
- DIRECTION.THESE TOO WILL SCROLL WHEN HELD DOWN.
-
- PRESS THE UP OR DOWN CURSOR KEYS IN CONJUNCTION WITH EITHER SHIFT KEY
- TO MOVE A PAGE IN THAT DIRECTION.
-
- PRESS A CURSOR KEY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CTRL KEY TO DISPLAY THE TOP
- OR BOTTOM OF THE DIRECTORY.
-
- TO SCROLL QUICKLY TO THE FIRST ENTRY STARTING WITH A PARTICULAR LETTER,
- PRESS THAT LETTER;THE DIRECTORY WILL SCROLL AS CLOSE AS IT CAN GET TO
- THE FIRST ENTRY WHETHER FILE OR DIRECTORY STARTING WITH THAT LETTER.
-
- PRESS A LETTER IN CONJUNCTION WITH EITHER SHIFT KEY TO SCROLL ONLY
- TO THE FIRST FILE BEGINING WITH THAT LETTER.
-
- WHETHER OR NOT THE ENTIRE DIRECTORY FITS IN VERTICALLY,IT WILL DEFINITELY
- NOT FIT IN HORIZONTALLY.THERE IS MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR ENTRIES
- THAN JUST THE FILENAME.ALSO DISPLAYED IS THE SIZE IN BYTES,THE PROTECTION
- BITS ASSIGNED TO THAT ENTRY,THE DATE THAT ENTRY WAS LAST WRITTEN TO THE DISK,
- AND ANY COMMENT THAT MAY BE ASSIGNED TO THAT ENTRY.
-
- HORIZONTAL WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS CAN BE SEEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOWS,WITH ARROWS AT THE INNER ENDS.THESE WORK LIKE THE VERTICAL WINDOW
- VIEW SLIDERS,INCLUDING THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENTS.YOU CAN SCROLL UP AND
- DOWN,AND LEFT AND RIGHT,BY HOLDING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON AND MOVING THE
- MOUSE.
- THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS ARE USUALLY THE SAME SIZE.IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE
- INFORMATION THAN IS DISPLAYED IN THE WINDOWS YOU CAN STRETCH THE DIVIDER
- BETWEEN THEM LEFT OR RIGHT TO RESIZE THEM.
- THERE IS A HIDDEN SIZE BAR BETWEEN THE TWO VERTICAL WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS.
- WHEN YOU CLICK AND HOLD THIS BUTTON,THE SIZE BAR WILL APPEAR.WHILE HOLDING
- THE MOUSE BUTTON,MOVE THE MOUSE LEFT OR RIGHT.WHEN YOU HAVE THE WINDOW
- AS YOU WANT IT,RELEASE THE BUTTON.
- THERE THREE SHORTCUT KEYS FOR RESIZING THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS:
-
- - SLIDES THE WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS TO THE FAR LEFT
-
- \ SLIDES THEM TO THE FAR RIGHT
-
- = RE-CENTRES THE WINDOW VIEW SLIDERS
-
- NEXT AND PREVIOUS BUFFER BUTTONS:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS MAINTAINS UP TO 100 DIRECTORY BUFFERS FOR EACH DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
- TO MOVE BACK AND FORTH THROUGH THE BUFFERS,CLICK ON EITHER THE PREVIOUS
- BUFFER BUTTON OR THE NEXT BUFFER BUTTON.THE BUFFER WILL BE DISPLAYED
- WITHOUT RE-READING THE DRIVE.THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT ALTERNATIVE IS TO
- PRESS THE ALT KEY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE LEFT OR RIGHT CURSOR KEY.
- TO ACTIVATE THE DIRECTORY FIELD,PRESS THE RETURN KEY.
- TO RE-READ THE DIRECTORY,PRESS THE RETURN KEY TWICE.
-
- 1.5.4 CUSTOM BUTTONS:
-
- THERE ARE DEFAULT CUSTOM BUTTONS,ALL OF WHICH HAVE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
- FUNCTIONS.SOME OF THE BUTTONS ARE ALSO CONFIGURED TO PERFORM RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON FUNCTIONS.
- THE CUSTOM BUTTONS WITH RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON FUNCTIONS ARE INDICATED
- BY A DOG-EAR IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER OF THE BUTTON.
-
- IMPORTANT:
-
- MANY OF THE CUSTOM BUTTONS PERFORM ACTIONS ON THE SELECTED FILES IN
- THE CURRENT DIRECTORY WINDOW.BEFORE CLICKING ON A CUSTOM BUTTON,
- VERIFY THAT THE IDTENDED DIRECTORY WINDOW IS ACTIVE.NOVICE DIRECTORY
- OPUS USERS CAN BE CONFUSED WHEN THEY HAVE CLICKED ON A CUSTOM BUTTON
- IN AN INACTIVE WINDOW,AND IT DOES NOTHING.OF COURSE YOU SHOULD VERIFY
- THAT THE SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES WITHIN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW
- ARE THE ONES YOU WISH ACTED ON.
-
- ALL:
-
- THE ALL BUTTON SELECTS ALL ENTRIES IN THE CURRENTLY ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW
-
- TOGGLE:
-
- SELECTING ALL WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON WILL TOGGLE OR REVERSE
- THE STATE OF ALL ENTRIES.THIS CAUSES SELECTED ENTRIES TO BE DESELECTED
- AND DESELECTED ENTRIES TO BE SELECTED.
-
- NONE:
-
- THE NONE BUTTON DESELECTS ALL ENTRIES IN THE CURRENTLY ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- PARENT:
-
- THE PARENT BUTTON READS THE PARENT DIRECTORY OF THE DIRECTORY OPEN
- IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF THE PARENT DIRECTORY IS CONTAONED
- IN THE WINDOWS BUFFER LIST,IT WILL BE DISPLAYED WITHOUT RE-READING
- IT.
- WHEN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY IS AN ASSIGNMENT,FOR EXAMPLE C:,THE ASSIGNMENT
- WILL BE EXPANDED,AND THEN THE PARENT FUNCTION WILL MOVE TO THE PARENT
- DIRECTORY OF THE ASSIGNED DIRECTORY.
-
- ROOT:
-
- THE ROOT BUTTON READS THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.AS WITH THE PARENT FUNCTION,THE BUFFER LIST WILL BE SEARCHED
- BEFORE THE PARENT DIRECTORY IS RE-READ.
- WHEN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY IS A SUB DIRECTORY TO AN ASSIGNED DIRECTORY,
- THE ROOT FUNCTION WILL DISPLAY THE ASSIGNED DIRECTORY.WHEN THE CURRENT
- DIRECTORY IS AN ASSIGNED DIRECTORY,THE ROOT FUNCTION WILL DISPLAY THE
- ROOT DRIVE OF THE ASSIGNED DIRECTORY.
-
- COPY:
-
- THE COPY BUTTON COPIES THE SELECTED FILE TO THE DESTINATION
- (INACTIVE) DIRECTORY.IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO COPY,THE SUB
- DIRECTORY FILTER WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE COPIED.
-
- COPY AS:
-
- THE COPY AS FUNCTION IS SIMILAR TO COPY EXCEPT THAT THE ENTRIES ARE
- COPIED TO THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY USING NEW NAMES THAT YOU SPECIFY.
- WILDCARDS CAN BE USED HERE.
-
- MOVE:
-
- THIS FUNCTION WILL MOVE ALL SELECTED ENTRIES FROM THE SOURCE DIRECTORY
- TO THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY.THE ENTRY WILL NO LONGER EXIST IN ITS
- ORIGINAL PLACE.IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO MOVE,THE SUB-DIRECTORY
- FILTER WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE MOVED.
- BE CAREFUL WITH THIS FUNCTION.DIRECTORY OPUS WILL DELETE THE FILE IF
- YOU ARE MOVING IT TO A DIFFERENT DEVICE.
-
- MOVE AS:
-
- MOVE AS ALLOWS YOU TO GIVE EACH ENTRY A NEW NAME BEFORE IT IS MOVED.
-
- RENAME:
-
- RENAME ALLOWS YOU TO GIVE NEW NAMES TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR FOR EACH ENTRY IN
- TURN,ASKING FOR THE NEW NAME.THE INITIAL RENAME REQUESTER HAS TWO
- STRING FIELDS INSTEAD OF ONE.YOU WILL USUALLY JUST EDIT THE NAME
- IN THE LOWER OF THE TWO TO THE NEW NAME.
- A LIMITED TYPE OF WILDCARD RENAME IS POSSIBLE.ENTERING A * IN THE
- BOTTOM FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO ADD PREFIXES OR SUFFIXES.FOR INSTANCE,
- ENTERING *.PIC WILL ADD A .PIC SUFFIX TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES.
- ENTERING A* WILL ADD AN A PREFIX.ONLY ONE * MAY BE USED IN THIS
- PROCESS.
- YOU CANNOT GIVE A FILE A NAME THAT CONTAINS A *.
- IF YOU ENTER A * IN THE TOP AS WELL AS THE BOTTOM FIELD,YOU CAN
- REPLACE SECTIONS OF THE NAME.FOR EXAMPLE,ENTERING *.PIC IN THE
- TOP FIELD AND *.IFF IN THE BOTTOM FIELD WILL REPLACE THE .PIC
- SUFFIX IN ANY ENTRY THAT HAS ONE WITH A .IFF SUFFIX.IF AN ENTRY
- DOES NOT HAVE A .PIC SUFFIX,IT WILL BE UNTOUCHED.THE * MAY ALSO BE
- EMBEDDED.FOR INSTANCE,RENAMING FOO*BAZ AS GEE*WIZ WOULD RENAME
- FOOBARBAZ AS GEEBARWIZ.AGAIN,ONLY ONE * MAY BE USED IN EACH OF THE
- STRING FIELDS.
-
- CLONE:
-
- CLONE ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A COPY OF SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE SAME DIRECTORY,
- BUT WITH DIFFERENT NAMES.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR FOR EACH ENTRY,ASKING
- FOR THE NEW NAME.
-
- DELETE:
-
- DELETE WILL DELETE ALL SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW
- BE CAREFUL WITH THIS,AS IT IS EASY TO WIPE OUT VALUABLE DATA IF YOU
- ARE CARELESS.DIRECTORY OPUS`S DEFAULT CONFIGURATION BRINGS UP A
- REQUESTER BEFORE DELETING.NEVERTHELESS,YOU SHOULD ALWAYS DOUBLE
- CHECK THE SELECTED FILES BEFORE CLICKING THIS BUTTON.
-
- MAKEDIR:
-
- MAKEDIR ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW SUB-DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW;ITS NAME IS LIMITED TO 30 CHARACTERS.A CONFIGURATION
- OPTION,CREATE ICONS WITH DIRECTORIES,CAN BE USED TO CREATE AN ICON AT
- THE SAME TIME.THE NAME OF THE DIRECTORY IS LIMITED TO 25 CHARACTERS
- IF CREATE ICONS WITH DIRECTORIES IS ENABLED.
-
- ASSIGN:
-
- ASSIGN ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE AN AMIGADOS ASSIGNMENT TO THE DIRECTORY
- IN THE ACTIVE WINDOW.THE ASSIGN COMMAND GIVES MORE EXAMPLES.
-
- CHECK FIT:
-
- THE CHECK FIT BUTTON TESTS WHETHEER THE SELECTED FILE WILL FIT ON
- THE DESTINATION DRIVE.THE SCREEN TITLE BAR WILL DISPLAY THE NUMBER OF
- BYTES NEEDED,THE AVAILABLE SPACE,AND THE PERCENTAGE OF THE FILE WHICH
- WILL FIT ON THE DESTINATION DRIVE.
-
- GETSIZES:
-
- THE GETSIZES BUTTON CAUSES ANY SELECTED SUB-DIRECTORIES TO BE SCANNED.
- THE SCANNING CALCULATES THE TOTAL SIZE,IN BYTES,OF ALL FILES CONTAINED
- IN THE SUB-DIRECTORY.ONCE SCANNED, THE SUB-DIRECTORY WILL BE DISPLAYED.
- IF A SUB-DIRECTORY HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY SCANNED,IT WILL NOT BE RESCANNED
- WHEN YOU SELECT THE GETSIZES BUTTON.SEE CLEAR SIZES BELOW.
- THE GETSIZES BUTTON ALSO DISPLAYS IN THE STATUS BAR THE NUMBER OF FILES,
- DIRECTORIES AND BYTES THAT HAVE BEEN SELECTED OUT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER
- OF FILES,DIRECTORIES AND BYTES.IF THERE IS ENOUGH SPACE FOR THE TOTAL
- SELECTED BYTES ON THE DISK IN THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY WINDOW,ALL
- SELECTED FILES WOULD FIT ON THE DESTINATION DISK IF THEY WERE COPIED
- AND A Y WILL BE DISPLAYED AFTER THE COUNT.IF THEY WON`T FIT AN N WILL
- BE DISPLAYED.
- IF YOU SELECT AN OPERATION WHICH CAUSES A SUB-DIRECTORY TO BE SCANNED
- (E.G. COPY,PROTECT,HUNT ECT.),THE SIZE WILL BE DISPLAYED AS THOUGH YOU
- HAD PERFORMED A GETSIZES.
-
- CLEARSIZES:
-
- THE CLEARSIZES BUTTON WILL CLEAR THE SIZES FOR SELECTED DIRECTORIES,
- BUT NOT FOR SELECTED FILES.
- IF A SUB-DIRECTORY HAS BEEN SCANNED ALREADY,PRESSING THE GET SIZES
- BUTTON WILL NOT WORK.IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A PREVIOUSLY SCANNED DIRECTORYS
- SIZE IS NO LONGER ACCURATE;ANT APPLICATION,INCLUDING DIRECTORY OPUS,
- MIGHT HAVE CHANGED THE CONTENTS OF THE SUB-DIRECTORY SINCE IT WAS LAST
- SCANNED.TO RE-SCAN A SUB-DIRECTORY,THE SIZE MUST BE CLEARED WITH THE
- CLEARSIZES BUTTON.
-
- HUNT:
-
- THE HUNT BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH ALL SELECTED SUB-DIRECTORIES FOR
- A SPECIFIED FILE OR FILES.A REQUESTER APPEARS ASKING FOR THE PATTERN
- TO HUNT FOR.YOU CAN USE FULL PATTERN MATCHING FOR THIS SEARCH.
- IF A FILE MATCHING THE PATTERN IS FOUND,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WISH TO
- ENTER THE DIRECTORY CONTAINING IT,OR TO CONTINUE THE SEARCH.IF ELECT
- TO ENTER THE DIRECTORY,THE DIRECTORY WILL BE READ AND THEN ALL MATCHING
- ENTRIES WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.
- YOU CAN ALSO SELECT ENTIRE DEVICES TO HUNT,USING THE DEVICE LIST FEATURE
- THAT IS DESCRIBED LATER.
-
- SEARCH:
-
- THE SEARCH BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH THE CONTENTS OF ALL SELECTED
- FILES,AND THE FILES WITHIN SELECTED DIRECTORIES,FOR A SPECIFIED STRING.
- A REQUESTER APPEARS ASKING FOR THE STRING PATTERN TO HUNT FOR.AGAIN,FULL
- PATTERN MATCHING IS SUPPORTED.
- IF A FILE CONTAINING THE STRING IS FOUND,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WISH TO
- READ THAT FILE,OR CONTINUE THE SEARCH.IF YOU ELECT TO READ THE FILE,
- IT WILL BE LOADED INTO THE TEXT VIEWER,AND A SEARCH WILL AUTOMATICALLY
- BE INITIATED FOR THE STRING YOU WANT.
- YOU CAN ALSO SELECT ENTIRE DEVICES TO SEARCH,USING THE DEVICE LIST
- FEATURE THAT IS DESCRIBED LATER.
- IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO SEARCH,THE SUB-DIRECTORY FILTER
- WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE SEARCHED.
-
- RUN:
-
- THE RUN BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO RUN EACH SELECTED FILE IN TURN,
- PROVIDING THAT THE FILE IS EXECUTABLE.IT IS SIMMILAR TO DOUBLE
- CLICKING ON THE FILES ICON,OR RUNNING IT FROM THE CLI A REQUESTER
- WILL APPEAR,ASKING FOR ANY ARGUMENTS (SHOULD YOU REQUIRE ANY).
-
- EXECUTE:
-
- IF YOU SELECT THIS BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON,THE FILE WILL
- BE EXECUTED AS BATCH FILES.THIS HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS RUNNING THE
- BATCH FILE VIA ICONX (REFER TO AMIGADOS MANUAL),OR EXECUTING IT
- FROM THE CLI.
-
- COMMENT:
-
- THE COMMENT BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO ADD COMMENTS TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES,
- OR TO EDIT EXISTING COMMENTS.THE MAXIMUM LENGTH OF A COMMENT IS 79
- CHARACTERS.IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO COMMENT,THE SUB-DIRECTORY
- FILTER WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE COMMENTED.
- YOU WILL BE PROMPTED FOR A COMMENT FOR EACH SELECTED ENTRY.IF YOU
- WISH TO ATTACH THE SAME COMMENT TO ALL ENTRIES,YOU SHOULD SELECT
- THE ALL BUTTON.
-
- DATESTAMP:
-
- THE DATESTAMP BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE DATESTAMP OF THE SELECTED
- FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.WHEN YOU
- SELECT DIRECTORIES,YOU ARE ASKED WHETHER YOU WISH THE FILES WITHIN THEM
- TO HAVE THEIR DATESTAMPS MODIFIED ALSO.
- IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO DATESTAMP,THE SUB-DIRECTORY FILTER
- WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE DATESTAMPED.
- FOR EACH ENTRY,YOU ARE PRESENTED WITH A REQUESTER.IF YOU WISH THE FILE
- TO HAVE ITS DATESTAMP SET TO THE CURRENT DATE AND TIME,SIMPLY PRESS RETURN.
- OTHERWISE,ENTER THE DATE AND TIME YOU WANT.
- TO SET THE DATESTAMP OF ALL SELECTED ENTRIES YOU SHOULD SELECT THE ALL
- BUTTON FROM THE DATESTAMP REQUESTER.
- CHOOSE OKAY OR PRESS RETURN TO SET THE DATESTAMPS ONE FILE AT A TIME.
-
- PROTECT:
-
- THE PROTECT BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE PROTECTION BITS OF THE
- SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
- WHEN YOU SELECT DIRECTORIES,YOU ARE ASKED WHETHER YOU ALSO WISH
- THE FILES WITHIN THEM TO BE PROTECTED.FOR EACH ENTRY,YOU ARE
- PRESENTED WITH A REQUESTER DISPLAYING THE PROTECTION BITS CURRENTLY
- SET FOR THAT ENTRY.THIS IS DESCRIBED IN GREATER DETAIL IN THE NEXT
- CHAPTER.
- IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED TO PROTECT,THE SUB-DIRECTORY FILTER
- WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE WHICH FILES WILL BE PROTECTED.
-
- ICON INFO:
-
- THE ICON INFO BUTTON BRINGS UP THE DIRECTORY OPUS INFO REQUESTER
- FOR EACH OF THE SELECTED FILES.
-
- ADD ICON:
-
- ADDICON ALLOWS YOU TO ADD ICONS TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.DIRECTORY OPUS WILL AUTOMATICALLY SENSE
- WHAT TYPE OF FILE IT IS AND ADD THE APPROPRIATE ICON (DRAWER,
- TOOL OR PROJECT).DEFAULT ICONS ARE USED UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIED
- THE NAME OF YOUR OWN ICONS WITHIN THE CONFIGURATION (DESCRIBED
- LATER).
-
- ARC EXT:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO EXTRACT FILES FROM AN ARCHIVE FILE.
- DIRECTORY OPUS COMES CONFIGURED FOR ARC,ZOO,LHARC FILES.
- WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS BUTTON,THE FILES ARE EXTRACTED FROM THE
- SELECTED FILES AND COPIED INTO THE DESTINATION WINDOW.
-
- NOTE: DIRECTORY OPUS DISTRIBUTION DISKS DO NOT INCLUDE THE
- ACTUAL ARCHIVE PROGRAMS ARC,ZOO AND LHA.BECAUSE THEY ARE
- SHAREWARE,WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DISTRIBUTE THEM.THEY ARE
- AVAILABLE FREE ON MOST BULLETIN BOARDS.
-
- ENCRYPT:
-
- HAVE YOU EVER HAD FILES THAT YOU WANTED TO ENCRYPT SO THAT
- ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNEW THE PASSWORD COULD UNDERSTAND THEM?
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO DO JUST THAT.IT WILL ENCRYPT
- ALL SELECTED FILES,USING THE PASSWORD THAT YOU ENTER,WITH
- A COMPLEX ALGORITHM THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL FIND IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK
- OUT.THE RESULTING FILES ARE NOT WRITTEN OVER THE ORIGINALS,BUT ARE
- INSTEAD WRITTEN TO THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY.THEY WILL BE THE SAME
- SIZE AS THE ORIGINAL FILES,SO YOU CAN ENSURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH ROOM IN
- THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY.
- TO DECRYPT A PREVIOUSLY ENCRYPTED FILE,YOU SHOULD ENTER THE SAME PASSWORD
- PRECEDED BY A MINUS SIGN.FOR EXAMPLE,TO DECRYPT FILES YOU ENCRYPTED
- WITH THE PASSWORD FOO,SELECT THE FILES,CHOOSE THE ENCRYPT FUNCTION
- AND ENTER -FOO AS THE PASSWORD.
-
- READ:
-
- THE READ BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO READ SELECTED FILES.THE NAME OF
- THE FILE IS DISPLAYED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.YOU CAN USE
- THE SLIDER AND CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE THROUGH THE FILE.BUTTONS ALONG
- THE BOTTOM MOVE UP AND DOWN BY A PAGE,MOVE TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM,
- ALLOW YOU TO SEARCH FOR TEXT,AND PRINT THE FILE.PRESSING THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON OR THE Q KEY QUITS THE TEXT VIEWER.
-
- ANSI READ:
-
- THE ANSI READ BUTTON BRINGS UP THE SAME READER AS READ EXCEPT THAT IT
- HANDLES THE SPECIAL ANSI CONTROL SEQUENCES.
-
- HEX READ:
-
- THE HEX READ BUTTON WILL READ THE SELECTED FILES IN THE SAME WAY AS
- READ,EXCEPT IN HEXADECIMAL FORMAT.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW BINARY
- FILES AND OTHER FILES CONTAINING NON-TEXT CHARACTERS.
-
- SHOW:
-
- THE SHOW BUTTON IS VERY VERSATILE INDEED.IT WILL DISPLAY IFF ILBM
- PICTURES AND BRUSHES,ANIMATIONS,WORKBENCH ICONS AND FONTS.
- IF THE FILE IS AN IFF ILBM,IT WILL BE DISPLAYED USING INFORMATION
- FROM THE FILE.DIRECTORY OPUS WILL SHOW MOST PICTURES AND BRUSHES,
- INCLUDING OVERSCAN,EXTRA HALFBRITE (EHB),HAM (4096 COLOUR)PICTURES,
- DYNAMIC HIRES PICTURES CREATED BY MACROPAINT,AND AGA 8 BIT PICTURES.
- THE FOLLOWING KEYS CAN BE USED WHEN VIEWING A PICTURE OR ANIMATION.
-
- TAB CYCLE COLOURS
-
- CURSOOR KEYS SCROLL
-
- MOUSE POINTER SCROLL
-
- SHIFT CURSOR KEYS SCROLL BY PAGE
-
- CTRL CURSOR KEYS SCROLL TO END
-
- . MOUSE POINTER ON/OFF
-
- [ DISPLAY IN 4 BIT FORMAT
-
- ] DISPLAY IN 8 BIT FORMAT
-
- ESC OR RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON ABORT
-
- Q OR LEFT MOUSE BUTTON NEXT
-
- SPACE,HELP OR P HELP AND PRINT REQUESTER
-
- THESE KEYS CAN BE USED WHEN VIEWING AN ANIMATION
-
- S STARTS AND STOPS
-
- N NEXT FRAME
-
- - SLOW DOWN
-
- = SPEED UP
-
- \ ORIGINAL SPEED
-
- F1 - F10 VARIOUS SPEEDS (F1 FASTEST)
-
- THE SHOW ROUTINE WILL ALSO DISPLAY ICONS.IF THE FILE HAS A .INFO
- SUFFIX IT IS ASSUMED TO BE AN ICON.IF THE ICON HAS AN ALTERNATIVE
- IMAGE,PRESS RETURN TO TOGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO.
- TO DISPLAY A FONT,YOU NEED TO ENTER THE ACTUAL FONT DRAWER,AND
- SELECT THE SIZE FILE (THAT IS,THE FILE 8,12,19,ETC),NOT THE
- .FONT FILE.
-
- PLAY:
-
- THE PLAY BUTTON PLAYS THE SELECTED FILES AS SOUND FILES.IF THE FILE
- IS AN 8SVX FORMAT IFF SAMPLED SOUND (OF THE TYPE GENERATED BY AUDIO
- MASTER,FOR INSTANCE),THE SPEED AND OTHER INFORMATION FROM WITHIN THE
- FILE WILL BE USED.THIS BUTTON WILL PLAY ANY FILE,AND IF THE FILE IS
- NOT 8SVX,IT WILL ASSUME A SPEED OF 10000 SAMPLES/SECOND.
- USING THE INOVAMUSIC.LIBRARY,THE PLAY BUTTON ALSO PLAYS STAR/SOUND/
- NOISE/PROTRACKER,MED,OCTAMED,OCTALIZER,AND MED WITH MIDI MODULES.
- EACH FILE IS PLAYED ONCE ONLY. TO ABORT A SOUND WHILE IT IS PLAYING,
- PRESS THE LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS.
-
- LOOP PLAY:
-
- IF YOU SELECT THIS BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON,THE SOUNDS
- ARE PLAYED CONTINUOUSLY (LOOPED).TO ADVANCE TO THE NEXT SOUND,YOU
- MUST PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- EDIT:
-
- THE EDIT BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT ANY SELECTED FILES,USING THE TEXT
- EDITOR (OR WORD PROCESSOR) SPECIFIED IN THE CONFIGURATION.
- THE CUSTOM BUTTON CONFIGURATION IS EXPLAINED LATER.BY DEFAULT,IT
- IS CONFIGURED TO USE COMMODORES C:ED PROGRAM.YOU WILL PROBABLY WANT
- TO ALTER THIS CONFIGURATION TO USE AN EDITOR OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING.
-
- NEW FILE:
-
- THE NEW FILE BUTTON PROMPTS YOU FOR A FILE NAME.
- IF YOU SELECT THIS BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON,YOU WILL BE
- ASKED FOR A FILENAME TO CREATE A NEW FILE.
-
- PRINT:
-
- THE PRINT BUTTON BRINGS UP A REQUESTER WHICH ALLOWS YOU FULL CONTROL
- OF PRINT FORMATTING.
-
- 1.6 THE TINY BUTTONS:
-
- THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN HAS SEVERAL BUTTONS THAT ARE NOT CONFIGURABLE;
- THEY ACTIVATE THE MOST NECESSARY AND USFUL FUNCTIONS,AND ARE INCLUDED
- SO THAT THESE FUNCTIONS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE,WHATEVER YOUR CONFIGURATIONS
- MAY BE.IF YOU HAD MISTAKENLY CONFIGURED DIRECTORY OPUS SO THAT NO BUTTON
- OR MENU CALLED THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM,YOU WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO RUN
- THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM TO CHANGE THIS!
- THESE BUTTONS ARE CALLED THE TINY BUTTONS,AS THEY ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN
- THE CONFIGURABLE BUTTONS ON THE SCREEN.FOUR OF THEM ARE ARRANGED IN A
- SQUARE APPROXIMATELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE SCREEN.SIX OTHERS ARE FOUND
- IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE SCREEN.THEY ALL HAVE ONE CHARACTER
- TITLES.
-
- B BUFFER LIST:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE BUFFER LIST FUNCTION.THIS FUNCTION DISPLAYS A LIST
- OF ALL THE DIRECTORIES CONTAINED IN DIRECTORY OPUS` INTERNAL BUFFERS.
- YOU MAY THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON ONE OF THE DISPLAYED BUFFERS SO AS TO
- JUMP TO THAT BUFFER IMMEDIATLY,RATHER THAN CLICKING THE ARROWS TO
- CYCLE THROUGH THE BUFFERS ONE BY ONE.
- PRESSING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON OVER THE BUFFER LIST BUTTON WILL
- ACTIVATE THE CLEAR BUFFERS COMMAND WHICH CLEARS FROM MEMORY THE
- CONTENTS OF ALL BUFFERS EXCEPT THE TWO THAT ARE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED.
-
- R RESELECT:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE RESELECT FUNCTION.THIS FUNCTION WILL RESELECT ALL
- ENTRIES THAT WERE SELECTED BEFORE THE LAST OPERATION WAS INITIATED.
- THE ENTRIES ARE RESELECTED ONLY IF THEY STILL EXIST,AND REGARDLESS OF
- WHETHER THE BUFFER CONTAINING THEM IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYED.
- PRESSING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON OVER THE R RESELECT BUTTON PERFORMS
- THE RESCAN FUNCTION ON THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- S SELECT:
-
- THIDS BUTTON ACTIVATES THE SELECT FUNCTION.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO
- SELECT FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW USING
- WILDCARDS.ALL STANDARD WILDCARDS ARE SUPPORTED ( *~? ETC) AS
- WELL AS THE AMIGA DOS WILDCARDS HASH ? AND ?.
- PRESSING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON OVER THE FILE SELECT REQUESTER BUTTON
- WILL ACTIVATE THE GET DEVICES FUNCTION (THE DEVICE LIST FUNCTION).THIS
- FUNCTION PRODUCES A LIST OF ALL DEVICES,VOLUMES AND LOGICALLY ASSIGNED
- DIRECTORIES THAT EXIST IN THE SYSTEM.
-
- A AREXX:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE AREXX FUNCTION,WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO LAUNCH AN AREXX
- SCRIPT OR EXECUTE AN AREXX COMMAND FROM WITHIN DIRECTORY OPUS.
- PRESSING THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON OVER THIS BUTTON WILL ACTIVATE THE DIRTREE
- FUNCTION (THE DIRECTORY TREE FUNCTION).THIS FUNCTION SCANS ALL SUB-DIRECTORIES
- IN THE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED DIRECTORY,AND PRODUCES A TREE STRUCTURE.
-
- THE TINY BOTTOM RIGHT BUTTONS:
-
- THESE BUTTONS ARE OPTIONAL;IF YOU DONT WANT THEM YOU CAN MAKE THEM
- DISAPEAR BY DESELECTING THE BOTTOM RIGHT TINY BUTTONS FLAG ON THE
- CONFIG/SCREEN/GENERAL CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
-
- ? HELP:
-
- THIS BUTTON ACTIVATES THE HELP FUNCTION.PROVIDED A HELP FILE HAS BEEN
- LOADED,SELECTING ANY BUTTON OR MENU AFTER ENABLING THE HELP MODE SHOULD
- RESULT IN THE APPEARANCE OF SOME HELPFUL TEXT.
- NOTE:- THE HIGHLIGHTED QUESTION MARK INDICATES THE HELP MODE IS ACTIVE.
-
- E ERROR HELP:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE ERRORHELP FUNCTION,WHICH GIVES YOU MORE INFORMATION
- ABOUT DOS ERROR CODES THAN IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE.
-
- F SUB-DIRECTORY FILTER:
-
- THIS BUTTON ACTIVATES THE SUB-DIRECTORY FILTER.WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS
- BUTTON,A REQUESTER WILL ASK YOU TO ENTER A FILE FILTER.THE FILTER CAN
- CONTAIN A FILE SPECIFICATION CONTAINING WILDCARD CHARACTERS.WHEN YOU
- CLICK THE OKAY OR PRESS RETURN,THE REQUESTER WILL DISAPPEAR AND THE F
- BUTTON WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.THIS INDICATES THE FILTER IS ACTIVATED.
- WHEN THE FILTER IS ACTIVATED,ANY COMMAND WHICH PROCESSES THE FILES
- IN SELECTED SUB-DIRECTORIES WILL ONLY ACT ON FILES WHICH MATCH THE
- FILTER.
- THESE COMMANDS ARE:-
-
- COPY:
-
- COPY AS:
-
- MOVE:
-
- MOVE AS:
-
- HUNT:
-
- SEARCH:
-
- PROTECT:
-
- DATESTAMP:
-
- COMMENT:
-
- IF THE F BUTTON IS HIGHLIGHTED,YOU CAN TURN OFF THE FILTER BY
- CLICKING ON IT AGAIN.IT WILL BECOME UN-HIGHLIGHTED.
-
- C CONFIGURE:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE CONFIGURE FUNCTION,AND WILL EITHER LOAD INTO MEMORY
- OR INVOKE THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM.
-
- I ICONIFY:
-
- THIS BUTTON ACTIVATES THE ICONIFY FUNCTION.IT CLOSES THE DIRECTORY
- OPUS SCREEN,DE-ALLOCATES AS MUCH MEMORY AS POSSIBLE,AND THEN OPENS A
- SMALL WINDOW ON THE WORKBENCH SCREEN.
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE DIRECTORY OPUS CONSTANTLY AVAILABLE,WHILE USING
- THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF MEMORY POSSIBLE.
-
- Q QUIT:
-
- THIS ACTIVATES THE QUIT FUNCTION,WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO EXIT DIRECTORY OPUS
- (PROVIDING THERE IS NOT A PRINT OPERATION UNDER WAY).IF THE CONFIGURATION
- HAS BEEN MODIFIED AND NOT SAVED,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WISH TO SAVE IT FIRST.
-
- 1.8 DEFAULT MENUS:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS HAS 100 USER-DEFINABLE MENUS.THE FUNCTIONS CHAPTER EXPLAINS
- MORE ABOUT THE MENUS,AND THE FUNCTION EDITOR CHAPTER EXPLAINS HOW TO
- CONFIGURE THEM.THIS CHAPTER SIMPLY GIVES A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE
- DEFAULT MENUS.ALL THE MENUS CAN BE CHANGED,BUT THEY ARE CONFIGURED
- INITIALLY FOR CERTAIN FUNCTIONS.
-
- 1.8.1 PROJECT MENUS:
-
- PROJECT/SET DATE:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO SET THE SYSTEM TIME AND DATE,ESPECIALLY
- IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A BATTERY-BACKED CLOCK.AFTER YOU HAVE SET THE TIME,
- THE AMIGA CLOCK KEEPS RUNNING TO PROVIDE AN ACCURATE TIMEKEEPER.ALL FILES
- OR DIRECTORIES CREATED WILL HAVE A DATESTAMP OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM TIME.
- THE DATESTAMP COMMAND OF DIRECTORY OPUS USES THE SYSTEM TIME.
- TWO REQUESTERS WILL APPEAR;THE FIRST CONTAINING THE CURRENT DATE,AND
- THE SECOND CONTAINING THE CURRENT TIME.TO CHANGE EITHER THE DATE OR THE
- TIME,DELETE AND ENTER A NEW ONE.THE DATE IS EXPECTED TO BE ENTERED IN
- THE FORM DD-MMM-YY.FOR EXAMPLE,22-SEP-89.TIME IS EXPECTED IN THE FORM
- HH:MM:SS,AS IN 18:30:43.YOU MUST INCLUDE THE DASHES AND COLONS AS
- DEMONSTRATED ABOVE.
-
- PROJECT/CURRENT DIR:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO SET THE CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY FOR
- DIRECTORY OPUS.THE CURRENT DIRECTORY IS THE DIRECTORY LOADED WHEN
- YOU ACTIVATE EITHER DIRECTORY FIELD,DELETE THE EXISTING PATHNAME
- (IF THERE IS ONE),AND PRESS RETURN ON A BLANK STRING.
- A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR,CONTAINING THE PATHNAME OF THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.IF THIS IS ACCEPTABLE AS THE NEW CURRENT DIRECTORY PRESS RETURN.
- OTHERWISE,EDIT IT TO READ AS YOU WISH.
-
- PROJECT/HELP:
-
- PROVIDED A HELP FILE HAS BEED LOADED IN,SELECTING ANY BUTTON/MENU
- AFTER ENABLING HELP MODE WITH THIS MENU SHOULD RESULT IN THE
- APPEARANCE OF SOME HELPFUL TEXT.
- HELP CAN BE READ FROM ANY FILE,ALTHOUGH THE DEFAULT IS S:DIRECTORYOPUS.HLP.
- THE FILE NAME CAN BE CHANGED WITH THE HELPFILE CONFIGURATION OPTION,
- DESCRIBED LATER.
- THE HELP FILE CHAPTER DESCRIBES THE HELP FILE IN DETAIL,AND EXPLAINS
- HOW YOU CAN EDIT IT TO ADD HELP FOR YOUR OWN BUTTONS AND MENUS.
-
- PROJECT/ERROR HELP:
-
- ERROR HELP GIVES YOU INFORMATION ABOUT DOS ERROR CODES.WHEN YOU SELECT
- THIS OPTION,YOU ARE ASKED FOR WHICH DOS ERROR CODE NUMBER YOU WANT HELP.
- EXAMPLES OF DOR ERROR CODES ARE 123,205 AND 225.YOU ARE THEN PRESENTED
- WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THAT ERROR,AND INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE
- POSSIBLE CAUSE AND CURE OF THE ERROR.
- ERROR HELP IS ALSO STORED IN THE HELP FILE (SEE ABOVE);IF THE HELP FILE
- HAS NOT BEEN LOADED,ERROR HELP WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE.SEE THE HELP FILE
- CHAPTER FOR MORE INFORMATION.
-
- PROJECT/CONFIGURE:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS USES A SEPARATE PROGRAM TO MODIFY THE CONFIGURATION.
- THIS SAVES ABOUT 127K OF MEMORY,AS THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM NEED ONLY
- BE IN MEMORY WHEN IT IS BEING USED.
- IF YOU HAVE PLENTY OF MEMORY,DIRECTORY OPUS CAN BE CONFIGURED TO LOAD
- THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM ON STARTUP.IN THIS CASE,IT IS RUN FROM MEMORY
- EACH TIME THE CONFIGURE FUNCTION IS INVOKED,RATHER THAN LOADED FROM DISK.
- THIS CAN BE MUCH FASTER,ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A FLOPPY BASED SYSTEM.
- SEE THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM CHAPTER FOR MORE DETAILED INFORMATION.
-
- PROJACT/ABOUT:
-
- THIS FUNCTION DISPLAYS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.
-
- PROJECT/TECH SUPPORT:
-
- THIS MENU DISPLAYS INFORMATION ABOUT GETTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT.
- PLEASE REFER TO THE REQUESTER BEFORE CONTACING INOVATRONICS AS
- THERE ARE SPECIFIC TIMES AND METHODS FOR GETTING TECHNICAL SUPPORT.
-
- PROJECT/VERSION:
-
- THIS MENU DISPLAYS THE CURRENT VERSION OF KICKSTART,WORKBENCH
- AND DIRECTORY OPUS.THIS INFORMATION WILL BE NECESSARY WHEN GETTING
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT.
-
- PROJECT/ICONFY:
-
- THIS FUNCTION CLOSES THE DIRECTORY OPUS WINDOW AND SCREEN,DE-ALLOCATES
- AS MUCH MEMORY AS POSSIBLE,AND THEN OPENS A SMALL WINDOW ON THE WORKBENCH
- SCREEN.THIS IS KNOWN AS ICONIFYING,AND ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE DIRECTORY OPUS
- CONSTANTLY AVAILABLE,WHILE USING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF MEMORY.
- THE ICONIFED WINDOW MAY CONTAIN A CLOCK,OR MAY NOT BE VISIBLE AT ALL,
- DEPENDING ON HOW YOU HAVE SET THE ICONIFY TYPE CONFIGURATION OPTION
- (DESCRIBED LATER).
- TO DETERMINE THE INITIAL POSITION OF THE ICONIFIED WINDOW (ESPECIALLY
- IF YOU PLAN TO START UP DIRECTORY OPUS IN THE ICONIFIED STATE),YOU SHOULD
- ICONIFY DIRECTORY OPUS,AND POSITION THE WINDOW AS YOU WOULD LIKE IT
- TO APPEAR.THAT DONE,RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS,AND SAVE THE CONFIGURATION
- (DESCRIBED LATER).
- WHEN ICONIFIED,YOU CAN DROP WORKBENCH ICONS ON THE DIRECTORY OPUS WINDOW.
- THIS WILL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS IF YOU DISPLAYED THE FILE IN A DIRECTORY
- OPUS WINDOW AND DOUBLE-CLICK ON IT.FOR EXAMPLE,IF YOU DROP A PICTURE
- ON THE WINDOW,IT WILL SHOW IT.
- TO RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS,CLICK THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON IN THE ICONIFIED
- WINDOW,THEN PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.IF YOU WISH TO QUIT DIRECTORY
- OPUS WITHOUT GOING BACK INTO IT,CLICK THE CLOSE BUTTON AT THE FAR LEFT
- OF THE ICONIFIED WINDOW.
- NOTE THAT IF YOU HAVE THE CONFIGURATION OPTION ICONIFY TYPE SET TO
- HIDDEN,THE ONLY WAY TO RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS IS WITH THE HOTKEYS.
- THESE DEFAULT TO CTRL-SHIFT-ALT (THE CTRL KEY,THE LEFT SHIFT KEY AND
- THE LEFT ALT KEY SIMULTANEOUSLY),ALTHOUGH THIS MAY BE CHANGED IN THE
- CONFIGURATION (EXPLAINED LATER)
-
- PROJECT/BURRON ICONIFY:
-
- THIS CAUSES A SPECIAL VARIATION OF DIRECTORY OPUS ICONIFICATION.
- NORMALLY ICONIFICATION IS SET UP BY THE CONFIGOPUS/SYSTEM/CLOCKS
- SCREEN,BUT WITH THIS COMMANDYOU CAN ICONIFY DIRECTORY OPUS INTO
- A BANK OF BUTTONS ON WORBENCH.IN THIS MODE DIRECTORY OPUS ALLOWS
- YOU TO DO ALMOST ALL,IF NOT ALL IT NORMALLY DOES.FOR INSTANCE,IF
- YOU SELECT THE COPY BUTTON A REQUESTER WILL OPEN ASKING YOU TO
- SELECT SOMETHING TO COPY FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ASKING WHERE TO
- COPY IT.YOU CAN ALSO USE THE BANK OF BUTTONS AS AN APPWINDOW
- WHEN RUNNING IN OS2.0.TO SHOW A PICTURE,YOU WOULD SIMPLY DRAG
- THE ICON OF THE PICTURE ONTO THE SHOW BUTTON.
- THE SLIDER TO THE RIGHT OF THE BUTTON BANK ALLOWS YOU TO CHOOSE
- WHICH BUTTON BANK IS SHOWN.
- TO UN ICONIFY BACK TO DIRECTORY OPUS,PRESS THE UNICONIFY BUTTON
- ABOVE THE SLIDER TO THE RIGHT OF THE BANK.OR SELECT THE CLOSE
- BUTTON OF THE WINDOW.THE CLOSE BUTTON WILL YOU WISH TO QUIT
- DIRECTORY OPUS OR UNICONIFY IT.
-
- PROJECT/QUIT:
-
- THIS FUNCTION WILL EXIT DIRECTORY OPUS (PROVIDING THERE IS NOT A
- PRINT OPERATION HAPPENING AT THE TIME).IF THE CONFIGURATION HAS
- BEEN MODIFIED AND NOT SAVED,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO SAVE IT
- FIRST.
-
- 1.8.2 FUNCTION MENU:
-
- THE FUNCTION MENU CONTAINS MISCELLANEOUS DISK OPERATIONS,AND
- ARCHIVE ADDING.
-
- FUNCTION/DISK COPY:
-
- THIS FUNCTION BRINGS UP A REQUESTER WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE AN
- EXACT COPY OF ONE DISK ON ANOTHER.FOR MORE INFORMATION,SEE DISK COPY
- REQUESTER LATER.
-
- FUNCTION/FORMAT:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO FORMAT A NEW DISK.ALL NEW DISKS NEED TO BE
- FORMATTED BEFORE THE COMPUTER CAN WRITE FILES TO THEM.
- FOR MORE INFORMATION,SEE THE FORMAT REQUESTER LATER.
- WHEN THIS IS SELECTED,A REQUESTER WITH SEVERAL BUTTONS APPEARS.
- DRIVES DF0: TO DF3: ARE AVAILABLE.SEPARATE NAMES MAY BE SPECIFIED
- FOR EACH DISK.
- VERIFY ALLOWS YOU TO TURN VERIFY ON OR OFF.AS WITH FUNCTION/DISK COPY,
- THE PROCESS IS FASTER WITH VERIFY TURNED OFF,BUT YOU WONT BE MADE AWARE
- OF ANY ERRORS,SO ITS BETTER TO LEAVE VERIFY TURNED ON IF YOU DONT
- COMPLETELY TRUST YOUR DISKS.
- IF QUICK IS SELECTED,THE DISK WILL JUST BE INITIALIZED (WIPED).THIS
- PROVIDES AN EXTREMELY FAST WAY TO ERASE AN OLD DISK.THIS WILL NOT WORK
- ON NEW DISKS,HOWEVER;ONLY ON DISKS THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN FORMATTED.
- IF NO ICONS ARE SELECTED,THE DISK.INFO,TRASHCAN.INFO AND TRASHCAN
- DIRECTORY WILL NOT BE CREATED ON THE DISK.
-
- FUNCTION/INSTALL:
-
- THIS FUNCTION BRINGS UP A REQUESTER THAT ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A DISK BOOTABLE.
- TO BE BOOTABLE,DISKS MUST HAVE SPECIAL INFORMATION WRITTEN ON THEIR
- FIRST SECTOR.FOR MORE INFORMATION,SEE THE INSTALL REQUESTER LATER.
-
- FUNCTION/RELABEL:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE NAME (LABEL) OF THE DISK THAT
- IS OPEN IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- FUNCTION/PRINT DIR:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO PRINT THE DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.YOU ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE INFORMATION YOU WANT TO PRINT (FILE
- SIZES,PROTECTION BITS,DATES AND COMMENTS).THIS FUNCTION IS NOT STARTED
- AS A SEPARATE PROCESS,UNLIKE THE PRINT COMMAND.FOR MORE INFORMATION,
- SEE THE PRINT DIR REQUESTER LATER.
-
- FUNCTION/DISK INFO:
-
- THIS FUNCTION DISPLAYS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISK THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY RESIDES ON,INCLUDING SPACE USED,SPACE FREE,DATESTAMP AND
- NUMBER OF ERRORS ON THE DISK.
-
- FUNCTION/LHA ADD,ARC ADD,ZOO ADD:
-
- THESE FUNCTIONS ALLOW YOU TO CREATE AND ADD FILES TO ARCIVES,USING
- THE POPULAR ARCHIVERS ARC,ZOO AND LHA OR LHARC (AND UP TO THREE OTHERS;
- SEE THE FUNCTIONS SECTION OF CHAPTER 7 FOR MORE INFORMATION).
- TO ADD FILES TO AN ARCHIVE,SELECT THE FILES YOU WISH TO ADD,AND SELECT
- THIS FUNCTION.YOU WILL BE ASKED FOR THE NAME OF THE ARCHIVE TO CREATE
- OR ADD TO.YOU SHOULD HAVE THE DESTINAION DIRECTORY OPEN IN THE INACTIVE
- WINDOW.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER 2
-
-
- REQUESTERS AND VIEWERS:
-
- THIS CHAPTER PRESENTS THE MORE COMPLICATED REQUESTERS AND VIEWERS.
- EACH OF THESE IS ASSOCIATED WITH DIRECTORY OPUS COMMANDS WHICH ARE
- ACTIVATED BY CUSTOM BUTTONS AND MENUS.
-
- 2.1 PROTECTION REQUESTER:
-
- THE PROTECTION REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE A FILES OR A SUB-DIRECTORYS
- PROTECTION BITS.
- THE PROTECTION BITS ARE A GROUP OF FLAGS THAT ARE STORED WITH THE FILE,
- THAT DETERMINE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FILE.THESE FLAGS ARE GIVEN
- ONE CHARACTER NAMES.THE PROTECTION BITS CURRENTLY IN USE ARE HSPARWED.
-
- H:
-
- HIDDEN. IF THIS FLAG IS SET,THE FILE IS NOT NORMALLY DISPLAYED.
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO MARK CERTAIN FILES AS "INVISIBLE",TO AVOID
- CLUTTERING YOUR DIRECTORIES.THE FILE CAN STILLBE ACCESSED NORMALLY,
- AND NOT ALL PROGRAMS IMPLEMENT THIS FLAG.
-
- S:
-
- SCRIPT.A SCRIPT FILE IS A FILE CONTAINING A LIST OF AMIGADOS COMMANDS
- TO EXECUTE;IT IS LIKE A SIMPLE COMPUTER PROGRAM.THIS FLAG INDICATES
- THAT THE FILE IN QUESTION IS A SCRIPT FILE.A SCRIPT FILE IS SOMETIMES
- CALLED A BATCH FILE.
-
- P:
-
- PURE.IF A PROGRAM FILE IS FLAGGED AS PURE,IT CAN BE MADE TO REMAIN
- IN MEMORY,EVEN WHEN NOT IN USE.THIS CAN SAVE A GREAT DEAL OF TIME,
- ESPECIALLY IF THE PROGRAM IS NOT USED A LOT,AS IT DOES NOT HAVE TO
- BE LOADED FROM DISK EACH TIME.
-
- A:
-
- ARCHIVE.THIS FLAG INDICATES THAT THE FILE HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED.
- IF THIS FILE IS EVER WRITTEN TO,THE A FLAG WILL BE TURNED OFF.THIS
- CAN BE USED IN A HARD DISK BACKUP PROGRAM,TO RECORD WHICH FILES HAVE
- BEEN BACKED UP,AND NEED NOT BE BACKED UP AGAIN.
-
- R:
-
- READABLE.IF THIS FLAG IS SET,THE FILE CAN BE ACCESSED.
-
- W:
-
- WRITEABLE.IF THIS FLAG IS SET,THE FILE CAN BE WRITTEN TO (I.E,
- MORE INFORMATION CAN BE STORED IN IT THAN IS ALREADY THERE).
-
- E:
-
- EXECUTABLE.IF A PROGRAM FILE DOES NOT HAVE THIS FLAG SET.IT CAN
- NOT BE RUN.
-
- D:
-
- DELETEABLE.IF THIS FLAG IS NOT SET,THE FILE CAN NOT BE DELETED.
-
- WHILE AMIGADOS AND OTHER PROGRAMS DO NOT FULLY SUPPORT ALL OF THESE
- BITS,DIRECTORY OPUS GIVES YOU ACCESS TO ALL DOCUMENTED PROTECTION
- BITS.AS AMIGADOS IS ENHANCED,SOME BITS,SUCH AS WRITABLE,WILL BECOME
- MORE USFUL.IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE USAGE OF THE BITS,
- REFER TO YOUR AMIGA DOCUMENTATION.
- THERE IS A BUTTON FOR EACH PROTECTION BIT ALONG THE LEFT EDGE OF THE
- REQUESTER.CLICKING ON EACH OF THESE WILL TOGGLE A CHECKMARRK ON AND
- OFF WITHIN THE BUTTON.WHEN THE CHECKMARK IS ON,IT MEANS THAT THE BIT
- WILL BE SET WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE OKAY BUTTON.
- IN THE MIDDLE OF THE REQUESTER ARE FOUR BUTTONS WHICH MANIPULATE
- MULTIPLE PROTECTION BITS AT A TIME.THESE BUTTONS DO NOT CAUSE ANY
- ACTION TO TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE SELECTED FILES;THEY SIMPLY CHANGE
- THE STATE OF THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS.
-
- ALL BITS:
-
- SETS ALL PROCTION BIT BUTTONS.
-
- NONE:
-
- CAUSES ALL PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS TO BE CLEARED.
-
- TOGGLE:
-
- SETS ALL CLEAR PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS,AND CLEARS ALL SET PROTECTION
- BIT BUTTONS.
-
- REVERT:
-
- RESTORES THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS TO THE SETTINGS THEY HAD WHEN
- YOU ENTERED THIS REQUESTER.
- ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE REQUESTER ARE THREE GROUPS OF PROTECTION BITS:
- OLD,NEW,AND MASK.EACH GROUP CONTAINS A PROTECTION BIT LETTER OR A
- "-" (DASH) FOR EACH BIT.THE LETTER INDICATES THAT THE ASSOCIATED
- PROTECTION BIT IS SET,A DASH INDICATES THAT IT IS CLEAR.
- THE OLD GROUP INDICATES THE ORIGINAL BITS WHEN YOU ENTERED THE REQUESTER.
- THE NEW INDICATES THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS.
- WHENEVER YOU CLICK THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTON,IT WILL BE REFLECTED IN
- THE GROUP.
- UNLIKE THE PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED OLD AND NEW GROUPS,THE MASK GROUP BITS
- CAN BE CHANGED BY CLICKING ON THE ASSOCIATED LETTER OR DASH.THE MASK
- GROUP ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY PROTECTION BITS WHICH SHOULD NOT BE MODIFIED,
- REGARDLESS OF THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS.WHEN THE LETTER IS SHOWN,THE
- BIT WILL NOT BE MODIFIED.THE DASH MEANS THAT YOU NEED TO SET THE BIT
- ACCORDING TO THE SETTING OF THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTON.THIS IS MOST
- USFUL WHEN CHANGING FILES WITHIN A SUB-DIRECTORY OR USING THE ALL BUTTON
- (DESCRIBED BELOW).FOR EXAMPLE:YOU WANT TO SET THE ARCHIVE BIT IN ALL
- FILES CONTAINED IN A SUB-DIRECTORY,BUT YOU DONT WANT TO AFFECT ANY OF
- THE OTHER PROTECTION BITS.SET THE ARCHIVE PROTECTION BUTTON ON THE
- LEFT SIDE OF THE REQUESTER AND SET ALL THE ARCHIVE BITS IN THE MASK
- GROUP EXCEPT A.THIS WILL PRESERVE ALL THE FILES BITS WITH THE EXCEPTION
- OF THE ARCHIVE BIT,WHICH WILL BE SET.
- ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE REQUESTER ARE THREE BUTTONS:
-
- OKAY:
-
- CAUSES THE CURRENT FILE (SHOWN IN THE SCREEN TITLE BAR) TO BE SET
- AS INDICATED IN THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS (AND POSSIBLY FILTERED
- ACCORDING TO THE MASK GROUP).
-
- ALL:
-
- CAUSES ALL SELECTED FILES TO BE SET,WITHOUT ADDITIONAL PROMPTING,
- AS INDICATED IN THE PROTECTION BIT BUTTONS (AND POSSIBLY FILTERED
- ACCORDING TO THE MASK GROUP).
-
- CANCEL:
-
- ABORTS THE PROTECTION FUNCTION.
-
- 2.2 DISK COPY REQUESTER:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE AN EXACT COPY OF ONE DISK ON
- ANOTHER.WHEN THIS FUNCTION IS INVOKED,A REQUESTER WITH SEVERAL
- BUTTONS APPEARS.
-
- FROM:
-
- THIS LIST CONTAINS THE POSSIBLE DISK DRIVES THAT MAY BE USED AS THE
- SOURCE.WHEN YOU CLICK ON ONE,IT BECOMES THE SELECTED DRIVE.
-
- TO:
-
- THIS LIST CONTAINS THE POSSIBLE DESITNATION DRIVES WHICH ARE
- COMPATIBLE WITH THE SELECTED SOURCE DRIVE.THE SOURCE DISK DRIVE IS
- ALWAYS AVAILABLE AS A DESTINATION TO ALLOW YOU TO MAKE SINGLE DRIVE
- COPIES.THIS ONLY MAKES SENCE WITH REMOVABLE MEDIA SUCH AS FLOPPY DRIVES
- AS IT WOULD ACCOMPLISH NOTHING YO COPY A HARD DRIVE TO ITSELF.
-
- VERIFY:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO TURN OFF THE INTEGRITY VERIFICATION WHEN
- WRITING DATA TO THE DESTINATION DRIVE.ALTHOUGH IT IS FASTER,YOU
- PROBABLY WONT WANT TO DO THIS.
-
- BUMP NAME:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO CHANCE THE VOLUME NAME USING THE SAME NAMING
- CONVENTION AS WORKBENCH`S DISKCOPY. (SEE AMIGADOS DOCUMENTATION FOR
- DETAILS.)
- THIS FUNCTION WILL NOT COPY ANY PROCTED SOFTWARE,OR NON-AMIGADOS FORMAT
- DISKS.
- SELECTING THE DISKCOPY BUTTON WILL START THE COPY.THE EXIT BUTTON WILL
- ABORT WITHOUT ATTEMPTING A DISKCOPY.
-
- 2.3 FORMAT REQUESTER:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO FORMAT A NEW DISK.ALL NEW DISKS NEED TO BE FORMATTED
- BEFORE THE COMPUTER CAN WRITE TO THEM.
- WHEN THIS IS SELECTED A REQUESTER WITH SEVERAL BUTTONS APPEARS.ON THE
- LEFT SIDE IS A LIST CONTAINING THE DEVICES WHICH CAN BE FORMATTED
- USING THIS OPERATION.
- WARNING! THIS OPTION WILL DESTROY EXISTING DATA ON A DISK.BE SURE YOU
- WANT TO ERASE THE DATA BEFORE YOU CLICK FORMAT OR QUICK FORMAT BUTTONS
- THE LIST ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE REQUESTER CONAINS THE DEVICES WHICH
- YOU CAN FORMAT.THE SELECTED DEVICE IS HIGHLIGHTED.BE SURE THE DEVICE
- YOU INTEND TO FORMAT IS THE ONE THAT IS HIGHLIGHTED!
-
- NAME:
-
- THIS FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO GIVE THE DRIVE TO BE FORMATTED A VOLUME
- NAME.
-
- FAST FILE SYSTEM:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO FORMAT A DEVICE USING THE FAST FILE SYSTEM OPTION
- OF AMIGADOS.YOU SHOULD CONSULT AMIGADOS DOCUMENTATION FOR MORE DETAIL.
- THIS OPTION DOES NOT WORK ON FLOPPIES PRIOR TO OS2.0.
-
- INTRENATIONAL MODE:
-
- THIS ALLOWS FILE AND DIRECTORY NAMES TO INCLUDE ACCENTED CHARACTERS.
- OS2.1 AND LATER.
-
- DIRECTORY CACHING:
-
- DIRECTORY CACHING MODE WILL DECRECE THE CAPACITY OF YOUR DISK BUT THE
- DIRECTORY READING SPEED WILL BE MUSH GREATER.
-
- PUT TRAHSCAN:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO PUT A TRASHCAN IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF THE
- NEWLY FORMATTED DEVICE.
-
- VERIFY:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO DESABLE THE FORMAT VERIFICATION.AS WITH
- FUNCTION/DISK COPY,THE PROCESS IS FASTER WITH VERIFY TURNED OFF,
- BUT YOU WONT BE MADE AWARE OF ANY ERRORS,SO ITS BETTER TO LEAVE
- VERIFY TURNED ON UNLESS YOU COMPLETELY TRUST YOUR DISKS (YOU REALLY
- SHOULDNT).
-
- FORMAT:
-
- THIS BUTTON BEGINS THE FORMATTING PROCESS.BE VERY CAREFUL YOU HAVE
- SELECTED THE CORRECT DEVICE.ONCE A FORMAT BEGINS,IT CAN BE ABORTED,
- BUT DATA WILL BE LOST.
-
- QUICK FORMAT:
-
- WHEN THIS BUTTON IS SELECTED,THE DISK WILL JUST BE INITIALIZED
- (WIPED).THIS PROVIDES AN EXTREMELY FAST WAY TO ERASE AN OLD DISK.
- THIS WILL NOT WORK ON NER DISKS,HOWEVER;ONLY ON DISKS THAT HAVE
- PREVIOUSLY BEEN FORMATTED.
-
- EXIT:
-
- THIS BUTTON WILL ABORT WITHOUT ATTEMPTING A FORMAT.
-
- 2.4 INSTALL REQUESTER:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A DISK BOOTABLE.TO BE BOOTABLE,
- DISKS MUST HAVE SPECIAL INFORMATION WRITTEN ON THEIR FIRST SECTOR.
- THE LIST ON THE LEFT CONTAINS THE POSSIBLE DEVICES ON WHICH YOU CAN
- INSTALL A BOOT SECTOR.SELECT THE POSSIBLE DEVICE YOU WANT TO INSTALL
- ON.
- WHEN YOU SELECT A DEVICE (OR INSERT A NEW DISK IN THE DEVICE),DIRECTORY
- OPUS WILL EXAMINE THE BOOT SECTOR AND INFORM YOU OF THE DISKS CURRENT
- STATUS.IT DOES THIS AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU FIRST BRING UP THE INSTALL
- REQUESTER.IT WILL TELL YOU ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
-
- NO DISK PRESENT:
-
- THIS SIMPLY MEANS THAT YOU HAVENT INSERTED A DISK IN THE DRIVE YET.
- WHEN YOU DO SO,IT WILL UPDATE THIS STATUS MESSAGE.
-
- NORMAL 1.3 OFS BOOTBLOCK:
-
- THIS MEANS THE DISK WAS INSTALLED WITH THE OLD FILE SYSTEM USED BEFORE
- 2.0 OF AMIGADOS.
-
- NORMAL 2.0+ FFS BOOTBLOCK:
-
- THIS MEANS THAT THE DISK WAS INSTALLED WITH THE NEW FILE SYSTEM USED
- FOR 2.0 AND LATER VERSIONS OF AMIGADOS.
-
- NON STANDARD:
-
- THIS MEANS THAT THE DISK IS CORRUPT.IT MAY CONTAIN A VIRUS AND IT WOULD
- BE A GOOD IDEA TO RUN A VIRUS CHECKER PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE.
-
- FAST FILE SYSTEM:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO ISTALL A FAST FILE SYSTEM BOOTBLOCK.
-
- INSTALL:
-
- THIS BUTTON INSTALLS THE BOOT SECTOR ON THE DISK.
-
- NO BOOT:
-
- THIS BUTTON REMOVES THE BOOT SECTOR FROM THE DISK.THIS WILL KEEP
- THE DISK FROM BEING BOOTABLE.HOWEVER,YOU CAN ALWAYS RE-INSTALL THE
- BOOT SECTOR BY CLICKING THE INSTALL BUTTON.
-
- EXIT:
-
- THIS BUTTON WILL ABORT WITHOUT ATTEMPTING AN INSTALL.
-
- 2.5 PRINT DIR REQUESTER:
-
- THIS FUNCTION ALLOWS YOU TO PRINT THE DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.IF NO FILES ARE SELECTED,ALL FILES WILL BE PRINTED.HOWEVER,IF
- ONLY SOME FILES ARE SELECTED,ONLY THOSE FILES WILL BE PRINTED.
- YOU CAN SELECT THE INFORMATION YOU WANT TO PRINT:FILE SIZES,PROTECTION
- BITS,DATES,COMMENTS,AND FILE TYPES.DIRECTORY OPUS CAN ONLY PRINT THE SELECTED
- INFORMATION WHEN IT IS BEING DISPLAYED IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- OUTPUT TO:
-
- BY DEFAULT,THE OUTPUT WILL BE SENT TO THE PRINTER.HOWEVER,YOU CAN REDIRECT
- THE OUTPUT TO A FILE OF YOUR CHOOSING.
-
- PRINTER:
-
- THIS OPTION DIRECTS THE OUTPUT TO THE PRINTER.
-
- FILE:
-
- WHEN THIS OPTION IS ENABLED,OUTPUT IS DIRECTED TO THE FILE INDICATED
- IN THE ACCOMPANYING FIELD,
- CLICK ON THE MAGNIFING GLASS NEXT TO THE FILE FIELD TO USE A FILE REQUESTER
- TO FIND THE FILE NAME;OTHERWISE TYPE THE NAME DIRECTLY INTO THE FILE FIELD.
-
- PRINT:
-
- WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS BUTTON,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BEGIN PRINTING THE
- INFORMATION.IT IS NOT STARTED AS A SEPARATE PROCESS,SO YOU MIGHT HAVE
- TO WAIT WHILE DIRECTORY OPUS COMPLETES PRINTING THE INFORMATION.
-
- EXIT:
-
- THIS BUTTON WILL ABORT WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO PRINT THE DIRECTORY.
-
- 2.6 PRINT REQUESTER:
-
- THIS REQUESTER GIVES YOU FULL PRINT FORMATTING CONTROL FOR TEXT FILES.
-
- NOTE:
-
- ALL PRINTERS ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL.SOME PRINTERS WILL IGNORE SOME OF
- THESE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS.
- THESE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS WORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMIGA PRINTER
- PREFERENCES.THE AMIGA PREFERENCES MAY OVERRIDE THESE PREFERENCES OR
- SIMPLY MAKE THE OUTPUT LOOK SILLY.FOR EXAMPLE,YOU CANNOT USE THESE OPTIONS
- TO DISPLAY MORE LINES ON A PAGE THAN IS SPECIFIED IN AMIGA PREFERENCES.
-
- THERE ARE SEVERAL CONFIGURATION ITEMS IN THE PRINT REQUESTER:
-
- TOP MARGIN:
-
- THIS FIELD CONTAINS THE LINE NUMBER WHERE TEXT SHOULD START.A TOP MARGIN
- OF 1 STARTS ON THE FIRST LINE AND DOES NOT HAVE ANY BLANK LINES.
-
- BOTTOM MARGIN:
-
- THIS FIELD CONTAINS THE NUMBER OF PRINTED LINES ON EACH PAGE.THE TOP
- MARGIN LINES ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS VALUE.FOR EXAMPLE,A TOP MARGIN
- OF 5,AND A BOTTOM MARGIN OF 60 THE LAST LINE WILL BE PRINTED ON LINE
- 65.
-
- LEFT MARGIN:
-
- THIS FIELD CONTAINS THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS TO SKIP BEFORE PRINTING
- EACH LINE.
-
- RIGHT MARGIN:
-
- THIS FIELD CONTAINS THE NUMBER OF PRINTED CHARACTERS ALLOWED ON EACH
- LINE.THE LEFT MARGIN CHARACTERS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS VALUE.FOR
- EXAMPLE,A LEFT MARGIN OF 5 AND A RIGHT MARGIN OF 70 WILL RESULT IN THE
- LAST PRINTABLE CHARACTER IN COLUMN 75.
-
- TAB SIZE:
-
- THIS FIELD CONTAINS THE NUMBER OF SPACES TO WHICH A TAB CHARACTER IS
- EQUIVALENT.DIRECTORY OPUS CONVERTS TABS TO SPACES AND WILL INSERT THE
- APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF SPACES TO CREATE COLUMNS BASED ON TAB SIZE.
- FOR EXAMPLE,A TAB SIZE OF 8 SPECIFIES TAB POSITIONS OF 8,16,24,32,40,
- 56,AND 64.
-
- PRINT PITCH:
-
- THIS BUTTON CYCLES BETWEEN PICA,ELITE,AND FINE.THESE VALUES SPECIFY
- THE SIZE OF LETTERS TO PRINT.YOUR PRINTER WILL DETERMINE THE EXACT
- DIMENSIONS OF THESE VALUES.
-
- QUALITY:
-
- THIS BUTTON CYCLES BETWEEN LETTER,AND DRAFT.SOME PRINTERS CAN BE TOGGLED
- BETWEEN LETTER AND DRAFT QUALITY PRINTING.
-
- EJECT FINAL PAGE:
-
- A CHECK IN THIS BUTTON ENABLES A FINAL FORM FEED CHARACTER AFTER PRINTING
- THE LAST PAGE.
-
- CONFIGURATION:
-
- THIS BUTTON CYCLES BETWEEN HEADER AND FOOTER.THE TITLE,DATE AND PAGE
- NUMBER.BUTTONS (DESCRIBED BELOW) CAN BE USED WITH CREATING A HEADER
- OR FOOTER LINE FOR EACH PAGE IN THE PRINT OUT.WHEN THE CONFIGURATION
- BUTTON IS HEADER,THESE BUTTONS AFFECT THE HEADER LINE;OTHERWISE,THEY
- AFFECT THE FOOTER LINE.BY DEFAULT,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL NOT CEATE A
- HEADER OR A FOOTER LINE.
-
- TITLE:
-
- WHEN THE CHECKMARK NEXT TO TITLE IS ON,A TITLE WILL BE GENERATED.
- BY DEFAULT,THE FILENAME WILL BE THE TITLE.HOWEVER,YOU CAN OVERRIDE
- THIS BY PUTTING TEXT IN THE TITLE FIELD.YOU CAN HAVE DIFFERENT TITLES
- IN THE HEADER AND FOOTER LINES.
-
- DATE:
-
- WHEN THE CHECKMARK NEXT TO DATE IS ON,THE CURRENT DATE WILL BE PRINTED.
- USUALLY THIS IS ENABLED FOR EITHER THE HEADER LINE OR THE FOOTER LINE,
- BUT NOT FOR BOTH.
-
- PAGE NO:
-
- WHEN THE CHECKMARK NEXT TO PAGE NO IS ON,THE PAGE NUMBER WILL BE PRINTED.
- USUALLY THIS IS ENABLED FOR EITHER THE HEADER LINE OR THE FOOTER LINE,
- BUT NOT FOR BOTH.
-
- TEXT STYLE:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE APPEARENCE OF ALL THE PRINTED TEXT
- EXCEPT THE HEADERS AND FOOTERS.(SOME PRINTERS DO NOT SUPPORT ALL OF THESE
- STYLES).CLICKING ON THE TEXT STYLE CYCLE BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO CHOOSE
- FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: NORMAL,BOLD,ITALICS,UNLINED (UNDERLINED),
- DBLSTRIK (DOUBLE STRIKE),AND SHADOW.
-
- OUTPUT TO:
-
- BY DEFAULT,THE OUTPUT WILL BE SENT TO THE PRINTER.HOWEVER,YOU CAN DEDIRECT
- THE OUTPUT TO A FILE OF YOUR CHOOSING.
-
- PRINTER:
-
- THIS OPTION DIRECTS OUTPUT TO THE PRINTER.
-
- FILE:
-
- WHEN THIS OPTION IS ENABLED,OUTPUT IS DIRECTED TO THE FILE INDICATED
- IN THE ACCOMPANYING FIELD.
- CLICK ON THE MAGNIFYING GLASS NEXT TO THE FILE FIELD TO USE A FILE
- REQUESTER TO FIND THE FILE NAME;OTHERWISE TYPE THE NAME DIRECTLY INTO
- THE FILE FIELD. (IF YOU LEAVE THE FIELD EMPTY,THE OUTPUT WILL GO TO
- THE PRINTER.)
-
- PRINT:
-
- WHEN YOU CLICK THIS BUTTON,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BEGIN PRINTING THE
- INFORMATION.
- THIS FUNCTION WILL PRINT ALL SELECTED FILES,ONE AT A TIME.IF YOU
- SELECT ONLY ONE FILE TO PRINT,THE PRINT ROUTINE WILL BE STARTED
- UP AS A SEPARATE PROCESS,ALLOWING YOU TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH
- DIRECTORY OPUS.TO CANCEL THIS TYPE OF PRINT,SIMPLY SELECT THE
- PRINT FUNCTION AGAIN.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR ASKING IF YOU WANT TO
- CONTINUE WITH THE PRINT OR HALT IT.THIS REQUESTER WILL ALSO APPEAR
- IF YOU ATTEMPT TO QUIT DIRECTORY OPUS WHILE A PRINT OPERATION IS
- IN PLACE,AS YOU CANNOT QUIT UNTIL THE PRINT HAS FINISHED.
- EVEN IF YOU ABORT A PRINT,THE PRINTER MAY NOT ACTUALLY STOP FOR SOME
- TIME.THIS IS BECAUSE MOST PRINTERS HAVE BUFFERS,SOME QUITE LARGE ONES,
- WHICH STORE DATA FOR PRINTING AND WILL NEED TO EMPTY THEMSELVES
- BEFORE THE PRINTOUT WILL STOP.
-
- EXIT:
-
- THIS WILL ABORT WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO PRINT.
-
- 2.7 TEXT VIEWER:
-
- THE NAME OF THE FILE IS DISPLAYED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN,GIVING
- THE CURRENT POSITION WITHIN THE FILE BOTH IN LINES AND AS A PERCENTAGE,
- AND ALSO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LINES IN THE FILE.
- PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO SCROLL THROUGH THE FILE.PRESS THE LEFT
- MOUSE BUTTON TO SCROLLING ON OR OFF.THE DIRECTION AND SPEED OF THE
- SCROLL ARE GOVERNED BY THE POSITION OF THE MOUSE POINTER IN THE WINDOW.
- THE MOUSE POINTER WILL BECOME INVISIBLE WHILE THE TEXT IS SCROLLING.
- NO SCROLLING OCCURS IF YOU HAVE THE MOUSE IN THE CENTRE OF THE WINDOW.
- TO SCROLL FORWARD,MOVE THE MOUSE DOWN UNTIL THE TEXT STARTS TO SCROLL
- (PROVIDING THERE IS ACTUALLY MORE THAN ONE PAGE OF TEXT).THE FURTHER
- DOWN YOU MOVE THE MOUSE,THE FASTER THE TEXT WILL SCROLL.THIS PROCEDURE
- IS REVERSED FOR BACKWARDS SCROLLING.
- THE BUTTONS IN THE BOTTOM-RIGHT OF THE SCREEN ALSO ALLOW YOU TO MOVE
- AROUND THE FILE.MOST BUTTONS WILL REPEAT IF HELD DOWN FOR ANY LENGTH
- OF TIME.(EACH BUTTON USES THE CORRESPONDING LETTER AS A SHORTCUT KEY.)
-
- UP/DOWN ARROWS:
-
- MOVE UP AND DOWN A LINE AT A TIME.
-
- U:
-
- MOVES UP A PAGE AT A TIME.
-
- D:
-
- MOVES DOWN A PAGE AT A TIME.
-
- T:
-
- MOVES TO THE TOP OF THE FILE.
-
- B:
-
- MOVES TO THE BOTTOM OF THE FILE.
-
- CURSOR KEYS:
-
- MOVE UP AND DOWN.
-
- CURSOR KEY+SHIFT:
-
- MOVES ONE PAGE AT A TIME.
-
- CURSOR KEY+CTRL:
-
- MOVES TO THE TOP OR BOTTOM.
-
- THE CURRENT LINE AND PERCENTAGE VALUES (IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOTTOM
- BAR)ACT AS HIDDEN BUTTONS:CLICK ON THEM AND A REQUESTER WILL ALLOW
- YOU TO SPECIFY A NEW VALUE.IT WILL JUMP TO THE NEW LOCATION.
-
- S:
-
- SEARCHES FOR A STRING.YOU CAN USE FULL PATTERN MATCHING.
-
- P:
-
- PRINTS THE CURRENT FILE.
-
- C KEY:
-
- PRINTS ONLY THE CURRENT PAGE.THIS HAS NO BUTTON EQUIVALENT.
-
- X OR Q OR ESC:
-
- LEAVES THE TEXT VIEWER.
- YOU CAN ALSO USE THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON TO EXIT.
-
- IF YOU HAVE SELECTED MORE THAN ONE FILE,THE NEXT ONE WILL BE READ WHEN
- YOU EXIT.TO EXIT WITHOUT READING THE NEXT FILE,PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE
- BUTTON.
-
- 2.8 HEX VIEWER:
-
- THE HEX VIEWER WILL READ FILES IN THE SAME WAY AS READ,EXCEPT IN THE
- HEXADECIMAL FORMAT.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW BINARY FILES AND OTHER FILES
- CONTAINING NON-TEXT CHARACTERS.THE FILE IS DISPLAYED IN THE FOLLOWING
- MANNER:
- THE FIRST VALUE IS THE OFFSET,DISPLAYED IN HEX.THIS THE NUMBER OF BYTES
- YOU ARE INTO THE FILE.THE NEXT FOUR VALUES ARE EACH A FOUR BYTE LONGWORD,
- WITH THE ACTUAL ASCII REPRESENTATION AT THE END.ANY NON-TEXT CHARACTERS
- ARE SHOWN AS A . CHARACTER.
-
- CHAPTER 3
-
- OPUS CONFIGURATION
-
- (CONFIGOPUS)
-
- 3.1 INTRODUCTION:
-
- THE OPUS CONFIGURATION UTILITY IS A POWERFUL AND EASY TO USE INSTRUMENT
- FOR CUSTOMIZING DIRECTORY OPUS PRECISELY TO YOUR TASTES.DO YOU WANT TO
- USE AN INTERLACE SCREEN? EIGHT OR SIXTEEN COLOURS? LOTS OF BUTTONS?
- FANCY BUTTONS? DIRECTORIES SORTED BY DATE,IN REVERSE ORDER? INSTANT
- ACCESS TO VARIOUS ASSIGNMENTS? WITH CONFIGOPUS,THESE ARE BUT A FEW OF
- THE MYRIAD CHOICES YOU CAN MAKE.
-
- SOPHISTICATED THOUGH IT IS,THE CONFIGOPUS UTILITY IS QUICK AND EASY
- TO USE.THIS CHAPTER IS INTENDED AS A COMPLETE SET OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR
- USERS NEW TO DIRECTORY OPUS,AND AS A CONVENIENT REFERENCE FOR EXPERIENCED
- USERS.
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS USES A SEPARATE PROGRAM TO MODIFY THE CONFIGURATION.
- THIS SAVES APPROXIMATELY 130K OF MEMORY,AS THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM
- NEED ONLY BE IN MEMORY WHEN IT IS BEING USED.
- NOT ONLY THAT,BUT THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM CAN BE RUN INDEPENDENTLY
- OF DIRECTORY OPUS,IF YOU ARE REALY SHORT OF MEMORY.
-
- IF YOU DO HAVE PLENTY OF MEMORY,HOWEVER,DIRECTORY OPUS CAN BE CONFIGURED
- TO LOAD THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM ON STARTUP.IN THIS CASE,IT IS RUN FROM
- MEMORY EACH TIME THE CONFIGURE PROGRAM ISINVOKED,RATHER THAN LOADED
- FROM DISK.THAT CAN BE MUCH FASTER,ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A FLOPPY BASED
- SYSTEM.
-
- FROM WITHIN DIRECTORY OPUS,YOU CAN STARTUP CONFIGOPUS BY CLICKING ON
- THE SMALL C BUTTON ON THE LOWER RIGHT OR SELECTING THE CONFIGURE ITEM
- FROM THE PROJECT MENU.
-
- FROM OUTSIDE DIRECTORY OPUS,YOU CAN START CONFIGOPUS BY ITSELF EITHER
- BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON THE CONFIGOPUS ICON OR STARTING IT FROM A CLI
-
- 3.2 CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN:
-
- ON THE CONFIGOPUS SCREEN THERE ARE SEVERAL ITEMS OF INTEREST.AT THE TOP
- OF THE SCREEN YOU WILL SEE SCREEN DEPTH AND HELP BUTTONS AND THE SCREEN
- TITLE BAR.
-
- SCREEN DEPTH BUTTON:
-
- ALLOWS THE USER TO PUSH THE SCREEN BEHIND THE OTHER SCREENS OPENED.
-
- HELP BUTTON:
-
- BRINGS UP HELP INFORMATION.WHEN YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT SOMETHING ON
- THE SCREEN,TRY HERE FIRST.IFTHE HELP BUTTON DOES NOT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION,
- THEN YOU CAN DRAG OUT THE MANUAL.
-
- SCREEN TITLE BAR:
-
- DESCRIBES THE CURRENT SCREEN.DOUBLES AS THE SCREEN DRAG BAR,WHICH ALLOWS
- YOU TO DRAG THE SCREEN DOWN AND SEE THE SCREEN(S) BEHIND THE CONFIGOPUS
- SCREEN.
-
- THE NEXT SET OF BUTTONS TO LOOK AT ARE THE SUBJECT BUTTONS ALONG THE
- LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.WHEN YOU SELECT ONE,THE SCREEN WILL CHANGE TO
- SHOW THAT PART OF THE CONFIGOPUS.
-
- BUTTONS:
-
- CONFIGURE THE CUSTOM BUTTONS,ALLOWING YOU TO LAUNCH INTERNAL COMMANDS
- AND EXTERNAL PROGRAMS.
-
- DRIVES:
-
- CONFIGURE THE CUSTOM DRIVE BUTTONS.
-
- FILETYPES:
-
- CONFIGURE THE FILE CLASSES AND ACTIONS NECESSARY FOR FILE RECOGNITION.
-
- HOTKEYS:
-
- CONFIGURE THE GLOBAL HOTKEYS,ALLOWING YOU TO LAUNCH PROGRAMS FROM ANYWHERE
- IN THE SYSYEM WHILE DIRECTORY OPUS IS ACTIVE OR ICONIFIED.
-
- MENUS:
-
- CONFIGURE THE CUSTOM MENUS,ALLOWING YOU TO LAUNCH INTERNAL COMMANDS
- AND EXTERNAL PROGRAMS.
-
- OPERATION:
-
- FLAGS AND SETTINGS THAT AFFECT THE WAY DIRECTORY OPUS BEHAVES.
-
- SCREEN:
-
- MODIFIES THE CHARACTERISTICS AND APPEARANCE OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS
- SCREEN AND GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE.
-
- SYSTEM:
-
- ADDITIONAL ITEMS THAT AFFECT THE WAY DIRECTORY OPUS INTERACTS WITH
- THE OPERATING SYSTEM.
-
- THE LAST BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN ARE THE OKAY AND CANCEL BUTTONS.THESE
- ALLOW YOU TO SAY EITHEER OK,LETS USE THIS SETTING AND GO BACK TO
- DIRECTORY OPUS,OR OOPS! FORGET ALL THAT,AND LETS GET OUT OF HERE!
-
- 3.3 CONFIGOPUS CONFIGURE MENUS:
-
- THERE ARE FOUR MENU ITEMS AVAILABLE ON MOST SCREENS IN CONFIGOPUS
- THAT ALLOW THE USER TO CONTROL THE CONFIGURATION DATA.YOU CAN REVERT
- TO THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION,LOAD A CONFIGURATION FILE OR SAVE THE
- CURRENT CONFIGURATION.ON THE CONFIGOPUS SCREEN THESE MENUS WILL ALLOW
- YOU TO AFFECT ALL THE CONFIGURATION DATA.WHEN YOU SELECT THE OPEN ITEM,
- YOU LOAD ALL THE CONFIGURATION DATA FROM THAT FILE,REPLACING ANY CHANGES
- THAT YOU HAVE MADE WITH THIS NEW DATA.
- ON THE OTHER SCREENS IN CONFIGOPUS,THE OPEN MENU WILL ONLY OVERRIDE
- THE INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO THAT SCREEN.FOR INSTANCE,ON THE CUSTOM
- BUTTON SCREEN ONLY THE CUSTOM BUTTON BANKS WILL BE LOADED FROM A
- CONFIGURATION FILE.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO LOAD BANKS OF BUTTONS THAT YOU
- HAVE DEFINED IN ADVANCE,SO AS TO CONTROL THE NEWTEK VIDEO TOASTER,FOR
- EXAMPLE,OR SOME OTHER APPLICATION.
-
- DEFAULT:
-
- RESET TO THE FACTORY DEFAULT CONFIGURATION SETTINGS.
-
- OPEN:
-
- LOAD CONFIGURATION SETTINGS FROM A DISK FILE.THESE BANKS WILL BE INSERTED
- AT THE END OF THE BANKS THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY DEFINED.IF YOU ARE ON
- CUSTOM BUTTONS,DRIVES,FILETYPES,HOTKEYS OR MENUS THIS WILL ONLY LOAD THAT
- PART OF THE CONFIGURATION FILE.AS AN EXAMPLE,BY USING THIS,YOU CAN
- INPORT CUSTOM BUTTON BANKS FROM SOMEONE ELSES CONFIGURATION FILE.
-
- SAVE:
-
- SAVE THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION SETTINGS AS THE DEFAULT.
-
- SAVE AS:
-
- SAME AS SAVE,BUT THIS ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY A FILENAME.
-
- 3.4 BUTTONS/MANAGER:
-
- THERE ARE 42 CUSTOM BUTTONS,LOCATED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS
- SCREEN.EACH BUTTON CAN HAVE A LEFT AND/OR RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON EVENT,
- BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CUSTOM BUTTONS TO 84.
- THE CUSTOM BUTTONS ARE ARRANGED IN BANKS.THERE IS ONLY ONE BANK OF THESE
- BUTTONS BY DEFAULT,BUT THE CONFIGUREATION PROGRAM ALLOWS YOU TO ADD
- OR DELETE AS MANY BANKS AS YOU WANT,WHICH MEANS THAT THE NUMBER OF
- CUSTOM BUTTONS IS LIMITED ONLY BY THE AVAILABLE MEMORY AND YOUR
- IMAGINATION.
- THE BUTTON CONFIGURATION SCREEN DISPLAYS THE CURRENT BUTTON BANK,WITH
- THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON EVENTS AT THE TOP AND THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
- EVENTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.
- THERE ARE TEN BUTTONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE BUTTONS/MANAGER SCREEN.
- THE COPY,SWAP AND DELETE BUTTONS STAY SELECTED IF THEY HAVE BEEN SELECTED
- WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.FOR INSTANCE,COPY BUTTON WILL STAY SELECTED
- TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE IN COPY BUTTON MODE.WHEN YOU WANT TO LEAVE
- THIS MODE,SELECT COPY BUTTON AGAIN.THE BELOW THAT WORK IN THIS FASHION
- ARE: COPY,SWAP AND DELETE.
-
- NEXT BANK:
-
- WITH THIS BUTTON YOU CAN CYCLE THROUGH THE BUTTON BANKS.THE CURRENT BANK
- NUMBER IS DISPLAYED IN THE TITLE BAR OF THE SCREEN.SELECT THIS BUTTON
- WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO MOVE TO THE NEXT BANK.
- SELECT THIS BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON TO MOVE YOU BACK TO THE
- PREVIOUS BANK.
-
- NEW BANK:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO CEATE A NEW BANK OF BUTTONS.IF YOU SELECT
- THIS BUTTON WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON,IT WILL CREATE AN EMPTY BANK
- AT THE END OF THE BANK LIST.THIS BANK WILL THEN BE SHOWN.
- IF YOU PRESS THIS BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON,THE NEW BANK
- WILL BE INSERTED BEFORE THE CURRENT BANK,INSTEAD OF AT THE END OF THE
- BANK LIST.
-
- COPY BANK:
-
- USE THIS TO COPY THE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED BANK.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR ASKING
- YOU TO ENTER THE BANK NUMBER TO COPY THE CURRENT BANK ONTO.IF THE BANK
- NUMBER YOU ENTER DOES NOT EXIST THEN A NEW BANK WILL BE CREATED,AT THE END
- OF THE BANK LIST.THE CURRENT BANK WILL BE COPIED THERE.
-
- SWAP BANK:
-
- SWAP BANK ALLOWS YOU TO SWAP THE CONTENTS OF THE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED
- BANK WITH THOSE OF ANOTHER.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR ASKING YOU TO ENTER
- THE BANK NUMBER TO COPY TO.IF THE BANK NUMBER YOU ENTER DOES NOT EXIST,
- THE SWAP OPERATION WILL BE ABORTED.
-
- DELETE BANK:
-
- AFTER ASKING FOR CONFORMATION,THIS BUTTON WILL DELETE THE CURRENT BANK.
- IF THE CURRENT BANK IS ALSO THE ONLY BANK,YOU WILL BE WARNED.
-
- COPY BUTTON:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO COPY ONE CUSTOM BUTTON ONTO ANOTHER.
- SELECT THE CUSTOM BUTTON TO BE COPIED,THEN SELECT A CUSTOM BUTTON
- TO COPY IT ONTO.TO ABORT THE COPY,TURN OFF THE COPY MODE,SELECT
- COPY BUTTON AGAIN,OR SELECT THE CUSTOM BUTTON YOU ARE COPYING AGAIN.
-
- SWAP BUTTON:
-
- THIS PERMITS YOU TO SWAP TWO CUSTOM BUTTONS.IT WORKS THE SAME WAY AS
- THE COPY CUSTOM BUTTON EXECPT THAT IT SIMPLY EXCHANGES THE TWO CUSTOM
- BUTTONS.
-
- DELETE BUTTON:
-
- AFTER ASKING FOR CONFORMATION,THIS WILL RESET ALL THE DATA ASSOCIATED
- WITH THE CUSTOM BUTTON.
-
- WHEN IN COPY OR SWAP BUTTON MODE,THE NEXT BANK BUTTON IS STILL USABLE
- AND ALLOWS YOU TO COPY AND SWAP CUSTOM BUTTONS BETWEEN BANKS.
-
- 3.4.1 BUTTON MANAGER MENUS:
-
- THE DEFAULT OR OPEN....MENU ITEMS IN THE CONFIGURE MENU ALLOW YOU TO
- IMPORT CUSTOM BUTTON BANKS FROM EITHER THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION OR
- A CONFIGURATION FILE FROM DISK.THESE BANKS WILL BE INSERTED AT THE
- END OF BANKS YOU HAVE ALREADY DEFINED.
-
- THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL MENU STRIP AVAILABLE ON THIS SCREEN.THE BUTTON
- ROWS MENU ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF ROWS OF CUSTOM
- BUTTONS THAT WILL BE DISPLAYED AT ONE TIME ON THE MAIN DIRECTORY OPUS
- SCREEN.YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM ZERO (NO BUTTONS DISPLAYED),ONE,TWO,THREE
- OR SIX ROWS.THIS WILL ALSO AFFECT THE DRIVE BANK HEIGHT.
-
- TO EDIT A CUSTOM BUTTON,MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT IN COPY,SWAP OR DELETE
- MODE.SELECT THE CUSTOM BUTTON,AND YOU WILL BE SHOWN THE CUSTOM BUTTON
- EDITOR SCREEN.
-
- THE LAST TWO BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN (LOWER RIGHT CORNER) ARE THE OKAY
- AND CANCEL BUTTONS.THESE ALLOW YOU TO SAY OK,LETS USE ALL THESE CUSTOM
- BUTTON CHANGES AND GO BACK TO CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN,OR OOPS! FORGET
- ALL THIS,AND LETS JUST LEAVE.
-
- 3.5 BUTTONS/EDITOR:
-
- AT THE TOP OF THE CUSTOM BUTTON EDIT SCREEN YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE
- CURRENT CUSTOM BUTTON LOOKS LIKE.THE PALETTES ON EITHER SIDE ALLOW YOU
- TO SELECT THE BUTTONS FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND COLOURS.IF YOU CLICK
- ON THE EXAMPLE BUTTON ITSELF,IT WILL HIGHLIGHT TO SHOW YOU WHAT THE REAL
- BUTTON WILL LOOK LIKE WHEN SELECTED.
-
- NAME:
-
- THE NAME FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE NAME THAT APPEARS ON THE
- BUTTON,AND IS LIMITED TO 63 CHARACTERS.
- THE SHORTCUT KEY DISPLAYS THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT FOR THIS CUSTOM BUTTON
-
- SAMPLE:
-
- TO MODIFY THE SHORTCUT KEY,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON AT THE RIGHT OF
- THE SHORTCUT KEY FIELD,THEN ANY KEYS YOU PRESS,ALONG WITH ANY QUALIFER
- KEYS,WILL BE INSERTED IN THE SHORTCUT KEY FIELD.TO TURN OFF SAMPLE
- MODE,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON AGAIN.
- TO REMOVE THE SHORTCUT KEY,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON WITH THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- 3.6 COMMAND EDITOR:
-
- A COMMAND TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS WHAT TO DO WHEN SOMTHING HAPPENS,AND
- CAN BE ATTACHED TO CUSTOM BUTTONS,FILETYPE ACTIONS,HOTKEYS AND MENUS.
- EACH OF THESE HAS ITS OWN CONFIGURATION SCREEN WITH UNIQUE ASPECTS
- (E.G.,THE TITLE AND COLOURS USED ON A CUSTOM BUTTON).
-
- THE UNIQUE ASPECTS OF THE VARIOUS EDITORS ARE DESCRIBED IN THEIR OWN
- SECTIONS,BUT THEY ALL HAVE A COMMON PORTION,REFERRED TO AS THE COMMAND
- EDITOR,WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT THE COMMAND.
-
- AT THE CENTRE OF THE COMMAND EDITOR IS THE COMMAND LIST WHICH CONTAINS
- THE COMMANDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FUNCTION.TO THE LEFT OF THIS LIST ARE
- FOUR BUTTONS THAT ALLOW YOU TO MODIFY THE ORDER AND EFFECTIVENESS OF
- THESE COMMANDS.
-
- NEW ENTRY:
-
- ADDS A NEW COMMAND TO THE LIST.
-
- DUPLICATE:
-
- TO DUPLICATE AN EXISTING COMMAND,SELECT THE COMMAND AND SELECT THE
- DUPLICATE BUTTON.THE DUPLICATED COMMAND WILL BE ADDED TO THE END OF
- THE COMMAND LIST.
-
- SWAP:
-
- TO EXCHANGE THE POSITION OF TWO COMMANDS,SELECT THE FIRST,THEN SELECT THE
- SWAP BUTTON.WITH THE SWAP BUTTON ACTIVE,SELECT THE SECOND COMMAND TO SWAP.
- TO CANCEL THE SWAP OPERATION,SELECT THE SWAP BUTTON AGAIN.
-
- DELETE:
-
- TO DELETE A COMMAND FROM THE LIST,SELECT THE COMMAND AND SELECT THE DELETE
- BUTTON.
-
- TO EDIT A COMMAND,SIMPLY CLICK ON IT.THE COMMAND STRING WILL BE COPIED
- TO THE FIELDBELOW THE LIST FOR YOU TO EDIT IT.
-
- 3.6.1 EDIT FIELDS:
-
- BELOW THE COMMAND LIST IS A GROUP OF EDITING TOOLS.THESE TOOLS ALLOW
- YOU TO EDIT ACTIVE COMMAND ENTRIES.WHEN YOU CLICK ON AN ENTRY IN THE
- COMMAND LIST IT BECOMES ACTIVE,OR AN EMPTY ONE IS CREATED WHEN YOU
- SELECT NEW ENTRY.
-
- COMMAND TYPE:
-
- THE CYCLE BUTTON ON THE LEFT BELOW THE COMMAND LIST ALLOWS YOU TO
- SPECIFY WHICH KIND OF COMMOND IS USED.WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS BUTTON,
- IT WILL CYCLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING COMMAND TYPES:
-
- COMMAND:
-
- EXECUTABLE:
-
- WORKBENCH:
-
- BATCH:
-
- AREXX:
-
- EACH OF THESE COMMAND TYPES IS DESCRIBED BELOW.
-
- WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE MAGNIFING GLASS BUTTON JUST TO THE RIGHT OF THE
- COMMAND TYPE BUTTON,A REQUESTER APPEARS ALLOWING YOU TO PICK AN
- APPROPRIATE ENTRY FOR THE SELECTED COMMAND TYPE.EACH OF THE FOLLOWING
- DESCRIPTIONS INDICATES THE KIND OF REQUESTER WHICH WILL APPEAR.
-
- COMMAND:
-
- THESE ARE INTERNAL COMMANDS,BUILT INTO DIRECTORY OPUS.MANY OF THESE
- COMMANDS CAN TAKE PARAMETERS FROM BUTTONS AMD MENUS,AS WELL AS FROM
- AREXX.INTERNAL COMMANDS ARE DOCUMENTED IN THE COMMANDS CHAPTER.
- THE MAGNIFING GLASS BUTTON BRINGS UP A LIST OF INTERNAL COMMANDS.
-
- EXECUTABLE:
-
- EXECUTABLES ARE LAUNCHED AS IF YOU WERE RUNNING THEM MANUALLY FROM THE
- CLI.THUS,WITH AN OUTPUT WINDOW ENABLED,THEY CAN RECEIVE KEYBOARD INPUT
- FROM THE USER AND DISPLAY OUTPUT ON THE SCREEN.
-
- THE MAGNIFING GLASS BUTTON BRINGS UP A FILE REQUESTER.
-
- WORKBENCH:
-
- WORKBENCH PROGRAMS ARE ALSO EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS.THEY ARE LAUNCHED,
- HOWEVER.AS IF YOU WERE DOUBLE CLICKING ON THEIR ICONS FROM WORKBENCH.
- THIS CAN BE AN ADVANTAGE,AS MANY PROGRAMS DO NOT TAKE ARGUMENTS,
- OR DO NOT WORK AT ALL IF RUN FROM CLI.
- IF THE WORKBENCH PROGRAM GIVEN IS A TOOL (I.E.,AN EXECUTABLE PROGRAM),
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL LOOK FOR ITS ICON FILE TO DETERMINE THE NECESSARY
- STACK SIZE TO GIVE TO THE PROGRAM.IF THE ICON CANNOT BE LOCATED,THE
- STACK SIZE DEFINED IN THE BUTTON,MENU OR FILETYPE WILL BE USED.
- IF THE WORKBENCH PROGRAM IS GIVEN IS A PROJECT (A NON-EXECUTABLE FILE
- CREATED BY ANOTHER PROGRAM),DIRECTORY OPUS WILL LOOK FOR ITS ICON FILE
- TO FIND ITS DEFAULT TOOL,THE ACTUAL PROGRAM NEEDED TO LOAD THE FILE.
- IF THE ICON CANNOT BE FOUND,OR A DEFAULT TOOL CAN NOT BE LOADED
- SUCCESSFULLY,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL NOT LAUNCH THE FILE.THE PROJECTS
- ICON IS ALSO USED TO DETERMINE STACK SIZE.
-
- WORKBENCH PROGRAMS CAN ALSO TAKE ARGUMENTS FROM DIRECTORY OPUS USING
- THE {f} AND CIMILAR SEQUENCES.THIS CAN BE VERY USFUL INDEED.DELUXE PAINT,
- FOR INSTANCE,DOES NOT ACCEPT ARGUMENTS IF RUN FROM THE CLI;YOU WOULD
- BE UNABLE,THEREFORE,TO SELECT A PICTURE FILE FOR DELUXE PAINT TO LOAD
- FROM DIRECTORY OPUS IF YOU WERE RUNNING DPAINT AS AN EXECUTABLE.
- IF,HOWEVER,YOU HAVE THE COMMAND DEFINED AS:
-
- DPAINT {f}
-
- AND HAVE THE COMMAND TYPE SET TO WORKBENCH,DELUXEPAINT WILL BE RUN AS A
- WORKBENCH PROGRAM.FROM THE WORKBENCH,DELUXEPAINT WILL ACCEPT ARGUMENTS,SO
- THE FIRST FILE YOU SELECTED WOULD BE LOADED INTO DPAINT AUTOMATICALLY
-
- THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON BRINGS UP A FILE REQUESTER.
- WHENEVER DIRECTORY OPUS OPENS A COMMAND EDITOR,IT CREATES AN APPICON
- ON WORKBENCH.THE DIRECTORY OPUS APPICON LOOKS LIKE A NORMAL ICON,BUT
- IT DOES NOT DO ANYTHING WHEN YOU DOUBLE CLICK ON IT.HOWEVER,IF YOU
- DROP AN ICON ON IT,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL ADD A WORKBENCH COMMAND ENTRY.
-
- BATCH:
-
- BATCH FILES,ALSO CALLED SCRIPT FILES,ARE FILES THAT YOU MIGHT RUN WITH
- THE EXECUTE COMMAND,OR WITH THE EXECUTE COMMAND FROM THE CLI.SELECTING
- A COMMAND TYPE AS BATCH WILL CAUSE THE FILE TO BE EXECUTED AS A SCRIPT
- FILE.
- THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON BRINGS UP A FILE REQUESTER.THIS FILE REQUESTER
- IS INITIALLY SET TO S: BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE BATCH FILES COME FROM BY
- DEFAULT.
-
- AREXX:
-
- THIS TYPE INDICATES THAT THE COMMAND IS AN AREXX SCRIPT.THIS SCRIPT
- WILL ONLY BE LAUNCHED IF AREXX IS ACTIVE IN THE SYSTEM.NOTE THAT THE
- ADDRESS OF THE AREXX PORT WILL BE SET AUTOMATICALLY;YOU DO NOT NEED
- TO USE THE AREXX ADDRESS COMMAND TO ADDRESS THE COMMAND TO DIRECTORY
- OPUS.
- THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON BRINGS UP A FILE REQUESTER.THIS FILE
- REQUESTER IS INITIALLY SET TO REX: BECAUSE THIS IS THE PLACE AREXX
- FILES COME FROM BY DEFAULT.
-
- {}:
-
- THIS BUTTON IS LOCATED NEXT TO THE COMMAND EDIT FIELD.THIS BUTTON BRINGS
- UP A LIST OF THE ARGUMENT FUNCTIONS.REFER TO THE FUNCTIONS SECTION OF
- THE MANUAL FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS POWERFUL FEATURE.
- FUNCTION STRINGS CAN CONTAIN MANY DIFFERENT COMMAND SEQUENCES TO DO
- DIFFERENT THINGS WITH FILES AND DIRECTORIES.FOR DOCUMENTATION ON THESE,
- AND MORE INFORMATION ON FUNCTIONS IN GENERAL,CONSULT THE FUNCTIONS
- SECTION OF THE MANUAL.
-
- FLAGS:
-
- BELOW THE COMMAND LIST IS THE FLAGS LIST.THIS IS A LIST OF ALL THE
- FLAGS AVAILABLE FOR CUSTOM COMMANDS.THESE FLAGS APPLY TO ALL COMMANDS
- IN THE COMMAND LIST.THE FLAGS ARE:-
-
- AUTO ICONIFY:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO ENTER ICONIFIED MODE WHEN THE COMMANDS ARE
- LAUNCHED.THIS COULD BE USEFUL IN LOW MEMORY SITUATIONS.IT ONLY WORKS
- WITH RUN ASYNCHRONOUSLY ENABLED.
-
- CD SCOURCE:
-
- IF THIS IS TURNED ON,THE CURRENT DIRECTORY OF THE CUSTOM COMMAND WILL
- BE SET TO THE CURRENT SOURCE DIRECTORY (ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW).
-
- CD DESTINATION:
-
- THIS HAS A SIMILAR EFFECT TO CD SCOURCE,EXCEPT THAT THE CURRENT
- DIRECTORY OF THE CUSTOM COMMAND WILL BE SET TO THE CURRENT DESTINATION
- DIRECTORY (INACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW).
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS TO FRONT:
-
- CAUSES THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN TO BE BROUGHT TO THE FRONT WHEN THE
- COMMANDS HAVE TERMINATED.IT IS USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH WORKBENCH TO
- FRONT.IF ENABLED IN CONJUNCTION WITH RUN ASYNCHRONOUSLY AND OUTPUT
- WINDOW,THIS FLAG WILL HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT EFFECT.IN THAT CASE,
- THE OUTPUT WINDOW WILL BE OPENED ON THE WORKBENCH SCREEN AS NORMAL,
- BUT THE WORKBENCH SCREEN WILL NOT BE BROUGHT TO THE FRONT.
-
- DO ALL FILES:
-
- THIS CAUSES THE COMMANDS TO ACT ON EACH SELECTED ENTRY IN TURN,INSTEAD
- OF JUST THE FIRST ENTRY.THIS IS USED FOR COMMANDS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT
- MULTIPLE FILENAMES ON THE COMMAND LINE,WHERE {F} TO SEND ALL SELECTED
- ENTRIES,WOULD NOT WORK.
-
- INCLUDE DOPUS-STARTUP:
-
- HAS DIRECTORY OPUS EXECUTE A FILE CALLED S:DOPUS-STARTUP BEFORE ANY
- EXTERNAL COMMANDS ARE ACTUALLY EXECUTED.THIS FILE IS USED IN THE SAME
- WAY AS THE SHELL-STARTUP FILE ABOVE,BUT IT IS DISTINCT FROM THE SHELL
- STARTUP FILE,AND THEREFORE ALLOWS YOU TO PUT INTO IT ANY DIRECTORY
- OPUS-SPECIFIC COMMANDS.
-
- INCLUDE SHELL-STARTUP:
-
- IF THIS OPTION IS ENABLED,THEN DIRECTORY OPUS WILL EXECUTE THE
- STANDARD S:SHELL-STARTUP FILE BEFORE ANY EXTERNAL COMMANDS ARE
- ACTUALLY EXECUTED.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE ALL YOUR PATH LISTS,
- RESIDENT COMMANDS,ETC.AVAILABLE TO CUSTOM COMMANDS.
-
- NO FILE QUOTE:
-
- THIS OPTION ENABLES DIRECTORY OPUS TO OPERATE CORRECTLY WITH SOME
- OLDER OR POORLY WRITTEN SOFTWARE.NORMALLY,WHENEVER DIRECTORY OPUS
- SENDS A FILENAME TO A CUSTOM COMMAND WITH THE {f},{o},ETC.FLAGS,
- THE FILENAME IS ENCLOSED IN QUOTATION MARKS.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO
- USE FILENAMES CONTAINING SPACE WITH EXTERNAL PROGRAMS.HOWEVER,SOME
- SOFTWARE DOES NOT INTERPRET THE QUOTATION MARKS CORRECTLY.IF YOU FIND
- THIS IS THE CASE WITH ANY PROGRAM,SIMPLY SELECT THE NO FILENAME QUOTE
- FLAG.
-
- OUTPUT WINDOW:
-
- OPENS A WINDOW FOR OUTPUT FROM THESE COMMANDS.THE WINDOW WILL OPEN ON
- THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN,UNLESS THE WORKBENCH TO FRONT OPTION OR THE
- RUN ASYNCHRONOUSLY OPTION IS ENABLED.IN THIS CASE,IT WILL OPEN ON THE
- WORKBENCH SCREEN,AND THE WORKBENCH SCREEN WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE FRONT
- AUTOMATICALLY.THE WINDOW IS OPENED USING THE HANDLE SPECIFIED IN THE
- SYSTEM/AMIGADOS SECTION OF THE CONFIGURATION.
-
- OUTPUT TO FILE:
-
- REDIRECTS ALL OUTPUT FROM THE COMMANDS TO A TEMPORARY FILE IN THE T:
- DIRECTORY,WHICH IS THEN READ VIA THE TEXT VIEWER.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO
- READ THE OUTPUT OF A PROGRAM THOROUGHLY,AND EVEN TO PRINT IT.NOTE
- THAT IF YOU ARE SENDING OUTPUT TO A FILE,THE COMMAND CANNOT RECEIVE
- INPUT FROM THE KEYBOARD.
-
- RECURSIVE DIRECTORIES:
-
- ALLOWS THE COMMAND ACCESS TO FILES WITHIN SUB-DIRECTORIES.NORMALLY,
- WHENEVER A {f} OR {F} ORSIMILAR SEQUENCE WOULD RESULT IN THE NAME OF
- A DIRECTORY BEING INCLUDED IN THE PROGRAMS PARAMETERS,DIRECTORY OPUS
- WOULD TREAT THE DIRECTORY IN THE SAME WAY AS A FILE.IN OTHER WORDS,
- THE COMMAND WOULD NOT ACT RECURSIVELY ON ALL FILES WITHIN THE DIRECTORY.
-
- IF THIS OPTION IS ENABLED,THE NAMES OF ALL FILES WITHIN THAT DIRECTORY,
- AND WITHIN SUB-DIRECTORIES WITHIN THE DIRECTORY,AND SO ON,ARE INCLUDED
- IN THE PROGRAMS PARAMETERS.THIS ALLOWS THE COMMAND TO ACT ON ALL FILES
- IN THE DIRECTORY AND NOT JUST ON THE DIRECTORY ITSELF.
-
- RELOAD EACH FILE:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO RESCAN A FILE AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACTED UPON
- BY A COMMAND,AND UPDATES THE SIZE,DATESTAMP,COMMENT AND PROTECTION
- BITS OF THE FILE.YOU CAN THEREFORE REFLECT CHANGES IN SIZE,FOR INSTANCE,
- MADE BY A TEXT EDITOR TO A FILE.
-
- RESCAN DESTINATION:
-
- THIS FLAG MAKES DIRECTORY OPUS RELOAD THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY (INACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW) WHEN THE COMMAND TERMINATES.THIS,AND THE ABOVE OPTION,
- ALLOWS DIRECTORY OPUS TO DISPLAY CORRECTLY ANY CHANGES MADE TO EITHER
- DIRECTORY WINDOW BY EXTERNAL PROGRAMS,SUCH AS ARCHIVERS.
-
- RESCAN SCOURCE:
-
- MAKES DIRECTORY OPUS RELOAD THE SCOURCE DIRECTORY (ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW) WHEN RHW COMMAND TERMINATES.
-
- RUN ASYNCHRONOUSLY:
-
- INDICATES THAT THE COMMANDS ARE TO BE LAUNCHED AS A NEW PROCESS,
- AND DIRECTORY OPUS IS NOT TO WAIT FOR IT TO RETURN.IF THIS IS THE CASE,
- AND AN OUTPUT WINDOW IS SPECIFIED,THE OUTPUT WINDOW OPENS ON THE
- WORKBENCH SCREEN.
-
- WORKBENCH TO FRONT:
-
- CAUSES THE WORKBENCH SCREEN TO BE BROUGHT TO THE FRONT.
-
- THREE FIELDS AT THE LOWER RIGHT ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY STACK SIZE,PRIORITY
- AND OUTPUT WINDOW CLOSE DELAY.
-
- STACK SIZE:
-
- THE STACK SIZE IS THE SIZE (IN BYTES) THAT EXTERNAL PROGRAMS WILL USE
- AS STACK SPACE.THE DEFAULT AND MINIUM IS 4000 BYTES.THE DOCUMENTATION
- OF THE PROGRAM YOU ARE RUNNING SHOULD ADVISE YOU OF THE BEST STACK SIZE
- TO USE.
-
- PRIORITY:
-
- THE PRIORITY FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO DETERMINE THE PRIORITY AT WHICH THE
- PROGRAMS WILL RUN.THE DEFAULT IS 0.YOU SHOULD NOT NORMALLY USE ANYTHING
- LOWER THAN -10 OR HIGHER THAN 10,EXECPT FOR CERTAIN PROGRAMS (THE
- DOCUMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM MAY ADVISE YOU OF APPROPRIATE PRIORITIES.
-
- CLOSE DELAY:
-
- THIS FIELD IS THE NUMBER OF SECONDS AFTER THE COMMANDS HAVE FINISHED
- BEFORE THE OUTPUT WINDOW CLOSES (IF ONE IS SPECIFIED).THE DEFAULT IS
- 2,WHICH MEANS THAT THE OUTPUT WINDOW WILL CLOSE TWO SECONDS AFTER THE
- COMMANDS HAVE TERMINATED.IF YOU SET THE CLOSE DELAY TO 0,THE OUTPUT
- WINDOW WILL CLOSE IMMEDIATELY.IF YOU SET IT TO -1,IT WILL WAIT FOR YOU
- TO PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON BEFORE CLOSING.
-
- 3.6.2 EDIT MENU:
-
- IF YOU MOVE THE MOUSE TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN AND PRESS THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON,YOU WILL SEE THAT THE MAIN CONFIGURE MENU HAS BEEN REPLACED
- BY THE EDIT MENU.THE OPTIONS IN THIS MENU OPERATE ON THE CURRENTLY
- DISPLAYED COMMAND LIST.THIS INCLUDES THE FLAGS AND FIELDS.
- ALL SCREENS WITH A COMMAND EDITOR CONTAIN THE EDIT MENU WITH CUT,COPY,
- AND PASTE FUNCTIONS.THESE ALLOW YOU TO SWAP FUNCTION DEFINITIONS
- BETWEEN CUSTOM BUTTONS,MENUS AND FILE TYPES.
-
- CUT:
-
- COPIES THE SETTINGS OF THIS COMMAND LIST TO THE CLIPBOARD THEN ERASES
- THEM,RESETTING ALL FIELDS TO THEIR DEFAULT SETTINGS.
-
- COPY:
-
- COPIES THE SETTINGS OF THIS COMMAND LIST TO THE CLIPBOARD,BUT WILL
- LEAVE THE VALUES UNTOUCHED.
-
- PASTE:
-
- DISPLAYS A LIST OF ALL COMMAND CLIPS IN THE CLIPBOARD (IF THERE
- ARE ANY PRESENT).IF YOU SELECT AN ENTRY FROM THIS LIST,IT WILL BE
- PASTED INTO THE CURRENT COMMAND REPLACING ANY INFORMATION THAT WAS
- THERE ALREADY.
-
- ERASE:
-
- RESETS ALL FIELDS TO DEFAULT SETTINGS,ERASING THE COMMAND LIST.THE
- COMMAND WILL NOT BE COPIED TO THE CLIPBOARD.
-
- CLEAR CLIPS:
-
- WHEN YOU USE THE CUT AND COPY EDIT MENUS,THE COMMANDS ARE STORED IN
- THE FILE T:CONFIGOPUS.CLIP.CLEAR CLIPS DELETES THIS FILE CAUSING ALL
- PREVIOUSLY CLIPPED COMMANDS TO BE CLEARED.
-
- 3.7 DRIVES/MANAGER:
-
- THE DRIVES BUTTON CONFIGURATION SCREEN ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE THE
- DRIVE BUTTONS.THESE BUTTONS GIVE YOU QUICK AND EASY ACCESS TO DEVICE
- OR DIRECTORY.THERE ARE 30 DRIVE BUTTONS,ARRANGED IN FIVE BANKS WITH
- SIX BUTTONS IN EACH.THE DRIVES CONFIGURATION SCREEN DISPLAYS ALL 30
- DRIVE BUTTONS AT THE TOP.
- THERE ARE TEN BUTTONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.SOME OF THESE
- BUTTONS STAY SELECTED WHEN SELECTED WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
- FOR INSTANCE,COPY BANK WILL STAY SELECTED,REMINDING YOU THAT YOU
- ARE NOW IN COPY BANK MODE.TO LEAVE THIS MODE,SELECT COPY BANK AGAIN.
- THE BUTTONS BELOW THAT WORK IN THIS FASHION ARE: COPY BANK,SWAP BANK,
- DELETE BANK,SORT BANK,COPY DRIVE AND DELETE DRIVE.
-
- GET DRIVES:
-
- CAUSES TO BE ASSIGNED TO THE NAMES OF ALL THE DEVICES AND ASSIGNED
- DIRECTORIES (THE FIRST 30 PRESENT) IN YOUR SYSTEM.YOU WOULD NORMALLY
- ONLY DO THIS WHEN PERFORMING A MAJOR RECONFIGURATION.
-
- COPY BANK:
-
- COPIES ONE DRIVE BANK ONTO ANOTHER.SELECT ANY DRIVE BUTTON IN THE
- DRIVE BANK TO COPY,AND THEN ANY DRIVE BUTTON IN THE DESTINATION
- BANK.
-
- SWAP BANK:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO EXCHANGE THE CONTENTS OF TWO DRIVE BANKS.THIS WORKS THE
- SAME WAY AS THE COPY BANK BUTTON.
-
- DELETE BANK:
-
- ERASES THE CONTENTS OF A DRIVE BANK.IF A DRIVE BANK HAS NO BUTTONS DEFINED
- IN IT,IT WILL NOT BE DISPLAYED ON THE MAIN DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN (I.E.
- DIRECTORY OPUS SKIPS OVER UNUSED DRIVE BANKS).IN FACT,IF YOU DELETE
- ALL THE BANKS,THE DRIVE BANKS WILL NOT EVEN BE SHOWN ON THE MAIN
- DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.THIS ALLOWS THE MAIN CUSTOM BUTTONS TO BE WIDER.
-
- SORT BANK:
-
- ALPHABETICALLY SORTS THE CONTENTS OF A DRIVE BANK.SELECT ANY DRIVE
- BUTTON IN A BANK AND THAT BANK WILL BE SORTED.
-
- COPY DRIVE:
-
- COPIES ONE DRIVE BUTTON ONTO ANOTHER.SELECT THE DERIVE BUTTON TO BE
- COPIED,THEN SELECT A DRIVE BUTTON TO COPY IT ONTO.YOU CAN ABORT THE
- COPY BY TURNING OFF COPY MODE,SELECTING COPY DRIVE AGAIN,OR SELECTING
- THE COPIED DRIVE BUTTON A SECOND TIME.
-
- SWAP DRIVE:
-
- SWAPS TWO DRIVE BUTTONS.THIS WORKS THE SAME WAY AS THE COPY DRIVE
- BUTTON EXECPT THAT IT EXCHANGES THE TWO DRIVE BUTTONS.
-
- DELETE DRIVE:
-
- AFTER ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION,RESETS ALL THE DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A
- DRIVE BUTTON
-
- THE LAST TWO BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN (LOWER RIGHT CORNEER) ARE THE OKAY
- AND CANCEL BUTTONS.THESE ALLOW YOU TO SAY OK,LETS USE ALL THESE DRIVE
- BUTTON CHANGES AND GO BACK TO CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN,OR OOPS!FORGET ALL
- THIS,AND LETS JUST LEAVE.
-
- 3.8 DRIVES/EDITOR:
-
- WHEN YOU SELECT A DRIVE BUTTON FROM ONE OF THE BANKS,THE DRIVES EDITOR
- WILL APPEAR OR BE UPDATED WITH THAT DRIVE BUTTONS INFORMATION.THE DRIVES
- EDITOR WILL BE DISPLYED DIRECTLY BELOW THE DRIVE BANKS.
-
- NAME:
-
- THIS FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE NAME THAT APPEARS ON THE DRIVE
- BUTTON.THE NAME FIELD IS LIMITED TO FIFTEEN CHARACTERS.
-
- PATH:
-
- THIS IS THE ACTUAL AMIGADOS PATH THAT IS READ IN WHENEVER THIS DRIVE
- BUTTON IS SELECTED.THE PATH FIELD IS LIMITED TO 256 CHARACTERS.
-
- SHORTCUT KEY:
-
- IS A DISPLAY AREA FOR THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT FOR THIS DRIVE BUTTON.
-
- SAMPLE:
-
- TO MODIFY THE SHORTCUT KEY,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON.WHILE THE SAMPLE
- BUTTON IS SELECTED,ANY KEYS,ALONG WITH ANY QUALIFIERS,YOU PRESS WILL
- BE INSERTED IN THE SHORTCUT KEY FIELD.TO TURN OFF SAMPLE MODE SIMPLY
- SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON AGAIN.
- TO REMOVE THE SHORTCUT KEY SIMLPY SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON WITH THE
- RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- 3.9 FILETYPES/MANAGER:
-
- A FILE IS SIMPLY STORED DATA.FILES CAN CONTAIN EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS,
- IFF PICTURES,ICONS FOR WORKBENCH,OR A MULTITUDE OF OTHER KINDS OF
- DATA.MOST (BUT NOT ALL) FILES HAVE AN IDENTIFIABLE STRUCTURE.DIRECTORY
- OPUS FILETYPES SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE A FILES STRUCTURE AND
- IDENTIFY THE KIND (OR TYPE) OF DATA IT CONTAINS.YOU CAN CONFIGURE
- DIRECTORY OPUS TO UNDERSTAND AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF FILETYPES.
-
- FILETYPES ARE A VERSATILE FEATURE OF DIRECTORY OPUS.USING FILETYPES,
- YOU CAN CONFIGURE DIRECTORY OPUS TO PLAY ANIMATIONS WHEN THEY ARE
- DOUBLE CLICKED,TO LOAD A DATABASE PROGRAM WHEN YOU ATTEMPT TO READ
- A DATABASE FILE,OR TO UNCOMPRESS AN ARCHIVED FILE WHEN YOU CLICK M
- CLICK ON IT.
- THIS IS THE ESSENCE OF THE FILETYPES:WHEN YOU DO SOMETHING TO A FILE,
- DIRECTORY OPUS CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT KIND OF FILE IT IS,AND TAKE THE
- APPROPRIATE ACTION FOR THAT TYPE OF DATA.
- THERE ARE TWO SECTIONS TO THE FILETYPES CONFIGURATION:
-
- FILETYPES:
-
- THERE IS A LIST OF FILETYPES WHICH IS SEARCHED WHEN AN ACTION OCCURS.
- IF THE FILE BEING PROCESSED MATCHES A FILETYPE,YOU CAN CONFIGURE DIRECTORY
- OPUS TO PERFORM A SPECIFIC ACTION.
-
- FILE CLASSES:
-
- THERE IS A DATABASE OF FILE CLASS DEFINITIONS:EACH DESCRIBES THE PROCESS
- OF MATCHING A PARTICULAR KIND OF FILE.
- DIRECTORY OPUS COMES WITH MORE FILE CLASSES THAN YOU WILL PROBABLY USE.
- YOU CAN SELECT FROM THIS LIST WHEN YOU ARE CREATING A NEW FILETYPE ENTRY.
- YOU DONT HAVE TO BE AN EXPERT OR KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE INTERNAL
- STRUCTURE OF THE FILE TO DO THIS.
- THE FILE CLASS MANAGER,DESCRIBED IN THE NEXT SECTION,ALLOWS YOU TO
- EDIT EXISTING FILE CLASSES,OR DEFINE NEW ONES.(THIS CAN BE SOMEWHAT
- MORE COMPLICATED.)
-
- 3.9.1 FILETYPES:
-
- THE FILETYPE CONFIGURATION SCREEN DISPLAYS THE LIST OF FILETYPES THAT
- DIRECTORY OPUS RECOGNIZES.BY DEFAULT,IT RECOGNIZES LHA ARCHIVE,
- ARC ARCIVE,ZOO ARCHIVE,AND WORKBENCH ICONS.
- THERE ARE FIVE BUTTONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.SOME OF THESE
- BUTTONS WHEN SELECTED WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON STAY SELECTED. FOR
- INSTANCE DELETE WILL STAY SELECTED INDICATING THAT YOU ARE NOW IN
- DELETE MODE.TO LEAVE THIS MODE SIMPLY SELECT DELETE AGAIN.BOTH THE DELETE
- AND SWAP BUTTONS WORK IN THIS FASHION.
-
- NEW:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW FILETYPE ENTRY BASED ON A PREDEFINED
- FILE CLASS.WHEN YOU SELECT THIS BUTTON A REQUESTER APPEARS CONTAINING
- CURRENTLY DEFINED CLASSES.TO CREATE A NEW ENTRY FOR ONE OF THESE FILE
- CLASSES SIMPLY SELECT IT AND YOU WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE FILETYPE ACTION
- EDITOR (DESCRIBED BELOW).
-
- SWAP:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO EXCHANGE THE POSITIONS OF TWO FILETYPES
- IN THE LIST.THIS CAN BE VERY USEFUL OR EVEN NECCESSARY.IN THE CASE OF
- HAVING TWO FILETYPES DEFINED IN WHICH ONE IS A SUB-SET OF THE OTHER,
- E.G. 24 BIT ILBM PICTURES vs REGULAR IFF ILMB PICTURES,YOU WOULD WANT
- THE 24 BIT ILBM PICTURES TO COME FIRST BECAUSE THEY ARE A SPECIAL CASE
- OF THE REGULAR IFF ILBM PICTURE FILETYPE.OTHERWISE,PICTURES (IN THIS
- CASE) WILL BE MATCHED WITH THE REGULAR IFF ILBM PICTURE FILETYPE AND
- WILL NEVER HAVE A CHANCE TO MATCH WITH THE SUB-SET 24 BIT ILBM PICTURE
- FILETYPE.
- TO ACTUALLY PERFORM A SWAP,CLICK ON THE SWAP BUTTON TO ENTER THAT MODE.
- CLICK ON THE FIRST FILETYPE,THEN ON THE SECOND.THOSE TWO FILETYPES WILL
- EXCHANGE PLACES IN THE LIST.TO EXIT SWAP MODE SIMPLY PRESS SWAP A
- SECOND TIME.
-
- DELETE:
-
- IN THIS MODE YOU CAN SELECT FILETYPES TO REMOVE FROM THE LIST.CLICK
- ON THE DELETE BUTTON,THEN CLICK ON THE ENTRIES YOU WISH TO DELETE.
- IF YOU ACCIDENTALLY DELETE AN ENTRY,CLICK ON THE CANCEL BUTTON.
-
- OKAY AND CANCEL:
-
- THESE BUTTONS ALLOW YOU TO SAY OK,LETS USE ALL THESE FILETYPE
- CHANGES AND GO BACK TO CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN,OR OOPS! FORGET
- ALL THIS AND LETS JUST LEAVE.
-
- TO EDIT A FILETYPE,MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT IN SWAP OR DELETE MODE.
- THEN SIMPLY SELECT IT.YOU WILL THEN BE TAKEN TO THE FILETYPE EDITOR
- SCREEN.
-
- 3.9.2 MENUS:
-
- THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL MENU ON THIS SCREEN WHICH CONTROLS FILE CLASSES.
- PLEASE REFER TO THE SECTION ON FILE CLASS MANAGER FOR INFORMATION ABOUT
- THIS MENU.
-
- 3.9.3 EDITING AN EXISTING ENTRY:
-
- TO EDIT AN ENTRY IN THE LIST,SIMPLE CLICK ON IT AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN
- TO THE FILETYPE EDITOR (DESCRIBED BELOW).
-
- 3.10 FILETYPES/EDITOR:
-
- THIS EDITOR ALLOWS YOU TO DEFINE THE ACTIONS TAKEN ON A MATCHING
- FILETYPE.IN A PRECEDING SECTION,YOU LEARNED TO CONFIGURE AN ACTION
- WHEN A CUSTOM BUTTON IS SELECTED.ESSENTIALLY,YOU SAY "WHEN THIS BUTTON
- IS CLICKED DO THIS.".IN THE FILETYPES EDITOR,YOU SAY:"WHEN I DO THIS
- TO THIS PARTICULAR FILETYPE DO THAT." THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE IS THAT
- A CUSTOM BUTTON CAN ONLY BE ACTIVATED BY BEING CLICKED ON;THE FUNCTIONS
- AVAILABLE FOR EDITING FILETYPES CAN BE ACTIVATED IN SEVERAL WAYS.
-
- EVENTS:
-
- AT THE TOP OF THE FILETYPES EDITOR IS A LIST OF EVENT TYPES,WHICH ARE
- INSTRUCTIONS YOU AMY CHOOSE TO DIRECTORY OPUS REGARDING FILETYPES.
- EACH OF THESE EVENTS IS ASSOCIATED TO EITHER A MOUSE ACTION OR A
- DIRECTORY OPUS COMMAND,SO EACH ENTRY ON THE LIST IS TAGGED EITHER
- ACTION OR COMMAND. AN ASTERISK * INDICATES THAT ENTRY ALREADY HAS AN
- EVENT COMMAND LIST DEFINED FOR IT.CLICKING ON AN ENTRY IN THE LIST
- HIGHLIGHTS IT TO SHOW THAT IT IS THE COMMAND LIST CURRENTLY BEING
- EDITED.THE CURRENT COMMAND LIST IS DISPLAYED IN THE EDITING LIST IN
- THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN.THE SMALL FIELD IMMEDIATELY ABOVE IT DESCRIBES
- THE EVENT.
- WHILE EACH OF THESE EVENT TYPES CAN BE DEFINED TO DO SOMETHING,USUALLY
- ONLY A FEW ARE ACTUALLY DEFINED.IT CERTAINLY IS NOT NECCESSARY TO DEFINE
- ALL EVENTS FOR A FILETYPE.
- WHEN ONE OF THESE IS ACTIVATED,DIRECTORY OPUS DOES THE FOLLOWING:
-
- IT FIRST SEARCHES THE FILETYPE LIST,STARTING WITH THE FIRST ENTRY,AND
- CHECKS WHETHER IT MATCHES THE ENTRYS FILE CLASS.
-
- IF IT MATCHES,IT LOOKS TO SEE IF THE CORRESPONDING EVENT IS DEFINED
- FROM THIS EDITOR.IF IT IS DEFINED,IT PERFORMS THE COMMAND LIST.
-
- IF IT DOES NOT MATCH THE FILE CLASS,OR IF IT MATCHES AND DOES NOT
- HAVE A COMMAND LIST DEFINED,IT CONTINUES TO SEARCH THE FILETYPES
- LIST.IT IS POSSIBLE FOR IT TO MATCH A SUBSEQUENT ENTRY THAT DOES HAVE
- A COMMAND LIST DEFINED.
-
- 3.10.1 MOUSE ACTION EVENTS:
-
- MOUSE EVENTS OCCUR WHEN YOU EITHER DOUBLE CLICK ON A FILE OR PERFORM
- A CLICK M CLICK.
-
- DOUBLE CLICK:
-
- THIS OCCURS WHEN YOU DOUBLE CLICCK ON A FILE.A POPULAR USE OF THIS IS
- TO EXAMINE A FILE (E.G.,SHOW IT IF IT IS A PICTURE OR PLAY IT IF IT
- IS A SOUND).THE ACTUAL DOUBLE CLICK SPEED IS DEFINED BY THE OPERATING
- SYSTEMS PREFERENCE PROGRAM.
-
- CLICL M CLICK:
-
- THIS EVENT OCCURS WHEN A FILE IS CLICKED ON THEN THE MOUSE IS MOVED
- TO THE OTHER WINDOW AND CLICKED.ONE POPULAR USE OF THIS EVENT IS FOR
- ARCHIVE EXTRACTING.ANOTHER WAY THIS EVENT CAN HAPPEN IS BY USING CLICK
- DRAG RELEASE.WITH THIS YOU LITERALLY DRAG A FILE INTO THE WINDOW AND
- DROP IT THERE.
-
- 3.10.2 COMMAND EVENTS:
-
- COMMAND EVENTS ARE CALLED WHEN A FILE IS ACTED UPON BY A DIRECTORY
- OPUS COMMAND. FOR EXAMPLE,WHEN A READ COMMAND IS PERFORMED ON A FILE.
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL SEARCH FOR A FILETYPE WHICH MATCHES THE FILE AND
- HAS A READ EVENT DEFINED.YOU COULD,HOWEVER,HAVE READ DO SOMETHING
- SPECIAL FOR AN ARCHIVE (I.E. LIST THE CONTENTS OF THE ARCHIVE).
- LIKEWISE IF YOU HAVE A MUSIC SCORE YOU COULD DEFINE THE PLAY (OR
- LOOP PLAY) TO CALL UP YOUR PLAYER FOR THAT MUSIC SCORE.
- EACH OF THE FOLLOWING COMMAND EVENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A
- CORRESPONDING DIRECTORY OPUS COMMAND.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO REDEFINE THE
- SPECIFIC ACTION TAKEN FOR A PARTICULAR FILETYPE.BY CONVENTION YOU
- SHOULD USE A COMMAND EVENT FOR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO ITS NORMAL USE,
- BUT THERE IS NOTHING TO STOP YOU FROM GIVING A COMMAND EVENT A LABEL
- THAT IS TOTALLY IRREVELENT TO ITS USE.ITS UP TO YOU TO KEEP THE CONTEXT
- OF THE COMMAND (I.E. A READ WOULD WOULD BE CONFUSING IF IT DID A DISK
- FORMAT).
- THE FOLLOWING LIST DESCRIBES THE NORMAL USAGES.YOU CAN DECIDE WHAT YOU
- WANT IT TO MEAN FOR ANY GIVEN FILETYPE.
-
- ANSI READ:
-
- FANCY TEXT VIEWWR.
-
- HEX READ:
-
- BINARY OR HEXADECIMAL FILE VIEWER.
-
- LOOP PLAY:
-
- NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH PLAYING SOUNDS IN LOOPS
-
- PLAY:
-
- PLAYING SOUNDS.
-
- READ:
-
- SIMPLE TEXT VIEWER OR VIEWING CONTENTS OF ARCHIVES.
-
- SHOW:
-
- PICTURE VIEWER.
-
- USER EVENTS:
-
- THE TERMS USER1,USER2,USER3,AND USER4 MAY SEEM CRYPTIC,BUT THEY ARE
- HERE TO GIVE YOU FLEXIBILITY.EACH OF THE PRECEDING COMMANDS HAS AN
- IMPLIED USAGE,BUT YOU MAY HAVE AN APPLICATION WHICH DOESNT REALY MEAN
- ANY OF THESE.IN THAT CASE,YOU CAN DECIDE THAT ONE OF THESE USER EVENTS
- MEANS "PERFORM THIS SPECIAL OPERATION".
- DIRECTORY OPUS DEFAULT CONFIGURATION EMPLOYS USER1 FOR EXTRACTING FROM
- ARCHIVES.
-
- EDIT CLASS:
-
- THE BUTTON TO THE FAR RIGHT OF THE LIST ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THIS FILETYPES
- CLASS DEFINITION.WE WILL TALK ABOUT EDITING FILE CLASSES IN THE FILE CLASS
- SECTION.
-
- BELOW THE LIST OF EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FILETYPE IS A FIELD
- DESCRIBING THIS PARTICULAR EVENT.FOR INSTANCE YOU COULD HAVE THE READ
- EVENT SAY SOMETHING LIKE "READING FILE...".THIS MESSAGE WILL APPEAR
- IN DIRECTORY OPUS TITLE BAR WHEN THE EVENT IS BEING PERFORMED.
- THE REMAINING PART OF THIS REQUESTER IS DESCRIBED IN THE COMMAND EDITOR
- SECTION.
-
- 3.11 FILE CLASS/MANAGER:
-
- FILE CLASS MANAGEMENT IS HANDLED BY A MENU ACCESSIBLE FROM THE FILETYPE
- MANAGER SCREEN THEN OFFERS MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND STORAGE OPTOINS:
-
- NEW:
-
- SELECTING THIS MENU OPTION ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW FILE CLASS DEFINITION.
-
- EDIT:
-
- THIS WILL OPEN A REQUESTER SHOWING YOU ALL THE CURRENTLY DEFINED FILE
- CLASSES.TO PICK ONE TO EDIT,SIMPLY SELECT IT;YOU WILL THEN BE BROUGHT
- TO THE FILE CLASS EDITOR.TO ABORT PRESS CANCEL.
- ONCE YOU HAVE MADE A FILETYPE ENTRY BASED ON A FILE CLASS DEFINITION
- THEN YOU MUST USE THE EDIT CLASS BUTTON ON THE FILETYPE EDITOR SCREEN.
- WHEN YOU MAKE A FILETYPE,IT USES A COPY OF THE FILE CLASS IN THE ACTUAL
- FILETYPE ENTRY.THIS HAS SEVERAL IMPORTANT RESULTS.ONCE A FILETYPE IS
- MADE,YOU CAN EDIT ITS FILE CLASS DEFINITION WITHOUT CHANGING THE ORIGINAL
- DEFINITION.THE EDIT CLASS BUTTON ON THE FILETYPE EDITOR ALLOWS YOU TO
- DO THIS.SELECTING EDIT FROM THE CLASSES MENU ALLOWS YOU TO EDIT THE
- ORIGINAL FILE CLASS DEFINITION.THIS WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE ANY
- FILETYPES WHICH USED THE ORIGINAL DEFINITION.YOU CAN EVEN DELETE THE
- ORIGINAL FILE CLASS WITHOUT AFFECYING A FILETYPE WHICH USED IT.
-
- DUPLICATE:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW FILE CLASS BASED ON AN ALREADY
- DEFINED FILE CLASS.
-
- DELETE:
-
- THIS WILL BRING UP A REQUESTER ALLOWING YOU TO SELECT A FILE CLASS TO
- CLEAR FROM MEMORY.SIMPLY SELECT THE FILE CLASS TO DELETE AND RESPOND
- YES TO THE CONFIRMING REQUESTER.PRESS CANCEL TO ABORT DELETING.
-
- OPEN:
-
- WITH THIS YOU CAN INPORT FILE CLASS DEFINITIONS FROM A FILE.
-
- SAVE:
-
- SAVE THE CURRENT FILE CLASSES TO THEIR DEFAULT PLACE ON DISK.
-
- SAVE AS:
-
- SAVE THE CURRENT FILE CLASSES TO A SPECIFIC FILE ON DISK.
-
- CLEAR:
-
- CLEAR ALL FILE CLASS DEFINITIONS FROM MEMORY.
-
- 3.12 FILE CLASS/EDITOR:
-
- SELECTING NEW,EDIT,OR DUPLICATE FROM THE FILETYPE MANAGER SCREEN OR
- CLICKING EDIT CLASS BUTTON ON THE FILETYPES EDITOR BRINGS UP THE FILE
- CLASS EDITOR.
- THIS SCREEN IS THE MOST COMPLEX SECTION OF CONFIGOPUS.IT EVEN LOOKS
- SCARY,BUT DONT WORRY:IT IS RATHER SIMPLE ONCE YOU GET TO KNOW IT.
- THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE THIS SCREEN IS TO START AT THE TOP AND GO
- DOWN FROM THERE.
-
- FILE VIEWER:
-
- THE FIELD AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN IS SIMPLY A FILE VIEWER.TO VIEW
- A FILE,TYPE ITS NAME INTO THE FIELD OR CLICK ON THE MAGNIFING GLASS
- TO BRING UP A FILE REQUESTER.THE FILE SELECTED WILL APPEAR BELOW THE
- FIELD.IT WILL BE DISPLAYED IN HEX/ASCII FORMAT SIMILAR TO THE HEX READ
- COMMAND IN DIRECTORY OPUS ITSELF.
- YOU MAY WONDER WHY WE HAVE A FILE VIEWER ON THIS SCREEN.WE HAVE FOUND
- THAT WHEN CREATING A NEW FILE CLASS DEFINITION IT IS USFUL TO A WAY TO
- LOOK AT FILES,SINCE YOU ARE TRYING TO DESCRIBE TO DIRECTORY OPUS A WAY
- OF IDENTIFYING FILES.
- TO THE RIGHT OF THE FILE VIEWER IS A BUTTON THAT CYCLES FROM DECIMAL
- TO HEX.THIS BUTTON TELLS CONFIGOPUS IN WHAT FORMAT TO DISPLAY THE
- POSITION AND OFFSET INFORMATION IN THE TWO READ-ONLY FIELDS BELOW THE
- CYCLE BUTTON.
- THE SIMPLEST WAY TO SHOW HOW THIS ALL WORKS IS WITH AN EXAMPLE.SELECT
- THE FILE C:ED (BY EITHER TYPING INTO THE FIELD OR USING THE MAGNIFYING
- GLASS FILE REQUESTER).
- THE FORMAT OF THE DATA IN THE FILEVIEWER IS AS FOLLOWS:THE FIRST COLUMN
- IS THE ADDRESS INTO THE FILE WE ARE LOOKING AT.THE NEXT FOUR COLUMNS
- ARE 16 BYTES OF DATA FROM THE FILE IN HEXADECIMAL FORMAT.THE LAST
- COLUMN IS SIMPLY THOSE 16 BYTES IN ASCII FORMAT.WHERE THERE IS A BYTE
- THAT IS 00 OR NUL WE DISPLAY IT IN ASCII AS A PERIOD.
- POSITION YOUR MOUSE POINTER OVER THE "F3" CHARACTERS AND PRESS THE
- LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.A CURSOR WILL APPEAR AND THE POSITION READ ONLY
- FIELD WILL BE FILLED WITH "000000003".THIS MEANS THAT THE CURSOR IS
- POSITIONED ON THE FORTH BYTE IN THE FILE (REMEMBER BYTE LOCATIONS ARE
- ZERO RELATIVE,THAT IS,FIRST BYTE IS AT LOCATION ZERO).IF YOU CLICK
- THE CYCLE BUTTON ABOVE THE POSITION READ ONLY FIELD AND CHANGE IT TO
- HEX THEN THE POSITION WILL BE FILLED IN WITH "$00000003" WHICH IS
- HEXADECIMAL FOR THREE.YOU CAN MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND IN THE FILE
- WITH EITHER THE MOUSE POINTER (SIMPLY SELECT ANOTHER PLACE IN THE
- FILE) OR THE CURSOR KEYS.
- NOW DOUBLE CLICK ON THOSE "F3"CHARACTERS.THIS TIME THE CHARACTERS
- CHANGE COLOURS.THEY ARE NOW THE POSITION FROM WHICH OFFSETS ARE
- COMPUTED.MOVE THE CURSOR BY PRESSING THE DOWN KEY A FEW TIMES AND
- YOU WILL NOTICE THE OFFSET READ ONLY FIELD CONTAINS THE OFFSET FROM
- THE DOUBLE CLICK POSITION.
-
- 3.12.1 FILE CLASS EDITOR COMPONENTS:
-
- THATS ABOUT IT FOR THE FILE VIEWER PART OF THE FILE CLASS EDITOR SCREEN.
- NOW WE GO OFF TO THE REAL POWER HOUSE OF DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- FILE CLASS:
-
- THE FIELD BELOW THE FILE VIEWER IS FOR THE NAME OF THE FILE CLASS.
- THIS IS FOR THE NAME OF THE FILE CLASS.
-
- CLASS ID:
-
- THE CLASS ID WILL APPEAR BESIDE THE FILETYPE IN THE FILETYPE MANAGER
- SCREEN AND IS A SHORTHAND WAY FOR DIRECTORY OPUS TO WRITE THE NAME OF
- THE FILE CLASS.
-
- UNDERNEATH THE FIELDS IS THE FILE CLASS IDENTIFICATION DEFINITION.
- THIS IS A SERIES OF ACTIONS THAT DIRECTORY OPUS WILL PERFORM IN ORDER
- TO IDENTIFY A FILE CLASS.THE ACTION MAY BE AS SIMPLE AS MATCHING A
- FILENAME TO A PATTERN OR AS COMPLEX AS SCANNING AN IFF FORM LOOKING
- FOR DATA IN A SPECIFIC IFF CHUNK.
-
- BELOW THE LIST IS A MAGNIFYING GLASS,A READ ONLY FIELD AND AN ARGUMENT
- FIELD.THESE ARE USED FOR EDITING THE FILE CLASS IDENTIFICATION
- DEFINITION.
-
- NEW ENTRY:
-
- CREATES A NEW ENTRY IN THE FILE CLASS DEFINITION SCRIPT.
-
- DUPLICATE:
-
- DUPLICATES THE CURRENT FILE CLASS DEFINITION SCRIPT LINE.THE COPIED
- LINE IS INSERTED AFTER THE CURRENT LINE.
-
- SWAP:
-
- LETS YOU SWAP THE POSITION OF TWO FILE CLASS DEFINITION SCRIPT LINES.
-
- DELETE:
-
- WILL LET YOU DELETE THE CURRENT LINE.
-
- 3.12.2 EDITING:
-
- TO EDIT A LINE SIMPLY CLICK ON IT,AND THE READ ONLY AND ARGUMENT FIELDS
- WILL BE FILLED IN.TO CHANGE THE COMMAND IN THE READ ONLY FIELD,CLICK
- ON THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON AND A LIST OF OTHER COMMANDS WILL BE
- DISPLAYED.SELECT THE ONE YOU WANT OR PRESS CANCEL TO ABORT.
- THE GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE FILE CLASS DEFINITION SCRIPT IS THAT THERE
- IS A CLAUSE OR A SEQUENCE OF CLAUSES THAT DESCRIBE WHAT SHOULD BE
- CONSIDERED A MATCHING FILE FOR A GIVEN FILETYPE.THERE ARE ONLY TWO
- DIRECTIVES THAT DELIMIT CLAUSES:AND and OR.THEY ARE USED TO TELL THE
- SYSTEM WHAT TO DO IF A CLAUSE FAILS OR SUCCEEDS.
- WHEN ALL THE CLAUSES ARE FINISHED AND THE RESULT IS TRUE THEN THE FILE
- IS OF THE RIGHT TYPE.
-
- 3.12.3 FILE CLASS EDIT COMMADS:
-
- AND:
-
- IF THE PRECEDING CLAUSE SUCCEEDS,THEN ALSO DO THIS CLAUSE;OTHERWISE
- SKIP TO THE NEXT CLAUSE.IF THE PRECEDING CLAUSE EXECUTED DID NOT SUCCEED,
- THEN EXECUTION STOPS AND THE FILE DOES NOT MATCH.
-
- OR:
-
- IF THE PRECEDING CLAUSE FAILS THEN DO THIS CLAUSE;OTHERWISE SKIP TO
- THE NEXT CLAUSE.
-
- 3.12.4 TESTING DIRECTIVES:
-
- THIS STATES THAT A SEQUENCE OF BYTES STARTING AT THE CURRENT FILE OFFSET
- MUST MATCH THE GIVEN PATTERN.TO MATCH A SINGLE UNKNOWN CHATACTER WHEN
- TEXT IS GIVEN,USE THE ? CHARACTER.TO MATCH A SINGLE UNKNOWN BYTE WHEN
- $HEX IS GIVEN USE TWO OF THEM (??).YOU CAN ALSO USE \000 SYNTAX TO
- SPECIFY ASCII CHARACTERS BY THEIR DECIMAL NUMBER.A \009 WOULD BE A TAB
- CHARACTER,A \114 WOULD BE THE LOWERCASE r.
- EXAMPLE:
- MATCH $000003F3 (EXECUTABLES START WITH THESE BYTES)
- MATCH FORM????ILBM (THE WAY AN IFF ILBM PICTURE STARTS)
- MATCH HEY\0090OVERTHERE ("HEY"THEN A TAB THEN "OVERTHERE")
-
- MATCHBITS:
-
- MATCH BITS HSPARWED
-
- THIS TESTS THE FILES PROTECTION BITS.TO SEE IF A BIT IS SET,PUT A +
- BEFORE THE CHARACTER.TO SEE IF THE BIT IS UNSET USE THE - .
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MATCHBITS +RW READ WRITE MUST BE ON,OTHERS DONT MATTER.
- MATCHBITS -E EXECUTABLE MUST BE OFF,OTHERS DONT MATTER.
- MATCHBITS +RW -E READ,WRITE MUST BE ON AND NO EXECUTABLE.
-
- MATCHCOMMENT:
-
- MATCH COMMENT TEXT:
-
- SIMPLY COMPARE THE TEXT GIVEN AGAINST THE COMMENT OF THE FILE.
- ANY VALID AMIGADOS WILDCARD PATTERN IS USABLE HERE.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MATCHCOMMENT SILLY_PICTURE (FILE WITH SILLY_PICTURE AS A COMMENT)
- MATCHCOMMENT #?EDDIE#? (ANY FILE WITH EDDIE IN ITS COMMENT)
-
- MATCHDATE:
-
- MATCHDATE DATES:
-
- TEST THE DATE OF THE FILE AGAINST A DATE.FOR INFORMATION ABOUT
- DATESTRINGS OR RANGES SEE THE SELECT COMMAND LATER IN THE MANUAL.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MATCHDATE 08-SEPT-92
- MATCHDATE < 10-JAN-92
-
- MATCHNAME:
-
- MATCHNAME FILENAME:
-
- THE FILENAME MUST MATCH THE CHARACTER PATTERN GIVEN.ANY VALID AMIGADOS
- WILDCARD PATTERN IS USABLE HERE.
-
- EXAMPLE;
-
- MATCHNAME #?.ILBM.
- MATCHNAME *.lzh
-
- MATCHSIZE:
-
- MATCHSIZE > OR < OR = INTEGER:
-
- TEST THE SIZE OF A FILE AGAINST A VALUE.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MATCHSIZE > 1000
-
- 3.12.5 MOVEMENT DIRECTIVES:
-
- MOVETO:
-
- MOVETO BYTE LOCATION:
-
- MOVE TO A SPECIFIC BYTE OFFSET FROM THE BEGINING OF THE FILE.INITIALLY
- YOU ARE ALWAYS AT THE BEGINING OF THE FILE,BUT YOU MAY HAVE BEEN MOVED
- IN A PREVIOUS CLAUSE,SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT A MOVETO AT THE BEGINING
- OF A CLAUSE IN ORDER TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MOVETO 0 (BACK TO THE BEGINING OF THE FILE.
- MOVETO 100 (MOVE TO THE 101st BYTE OF THE FILE)
-
- MOVE:
-
- MOVE BYTEOFFSET:
-
- MOVE TO A BYTE RELATIVE TO THE CURRENT FILE OFFSET.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MOVE 16 (MOVE SIXTEEN BYTES FORWARD INTO THE FILE)
- MOVE -4 (MOVE BACK FOUR BYTES FROM WHERE WE ARE)
-
- SEARCHFOR:
-
- SEARCHFOR TEXT OR $HEX.
-
- SEARCH (STARTING AT THE CURRENT FILE OFFSET) FOR A CERTAIN BYTE PATTERN
- THAT MATCHES THE GIVEN PATTERN.SEE THE MATCH COMMAND FOR VALID OPTIONS
- FOR THIS DIRECTIVE.IF THE MATCH OCCURS,THEN THE CURRENT FILE POSITION
- WILL BE THE FIRST CHARACTER MATCHED.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- SEARCHFOR CMAP (LOOK FOR THE "CMAP",POSITION ON THE "C")
- SEARCHFOR M.K. (SEARCH FOR M.K.,POSITION ON THE "M")
-
- A FAILURE OF ANT MOVEMENT DIRECTIVES CAUSES THE CLAUSE TO FAIL.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- ONE EXAMPLE OF USAGE IS THE FIELD CLASS 24BIT PICTURE.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- MATCH FORM????ILBM (FILE MUST START WITH THESE CHARACTERS)
- AND (IF THE PREVIOUS CAUSE IS TRUE THEN DO THE FOLLOWING)
- SEARCHFOR BMHD (THEN SEARCH FOR THE BMHD CHUNK ID)
- MOVE 16 (MOVES SIXTEEN BYTES INTO THE FILE)
- MATCH $18 (THIS MUST BE 24 (OR $18 IN HEX) TO BE A 24BIT PICTURE.)
-
- WE WOULD SUGGEST LOOKING AT THE PREDEFINED FILE CLASSES TO GET AN
- IDEA OF THE TYPE OF THING YOU CAN DO WITH THIS SYSTEM.
-
- 3.13 HOTKEYS/MANAGER:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS CAN HAVE AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF HOTKEYS DEFINED.
- HOTKEYS ARE SYSTEMATIC GLOBAL KEY DEFINITIONS.THESE KEYS ARE AVAILABLE
- FROM EVERY APPLICATION YOU RUN,AS LONG AS DIRECTORY OPUS IS RUNNING
- OR ICONIFIED.IF DIRECTORY OPUS IS BUSY DOING SOMTHING ELSE (I.E.,COPYING
- FILES ETC.) THEN THE KEYS OPERATION WILL START UP AS SOON AS DIRECTORY
- OPUS HAS FINISHED.UNDER 2.0,HOTKEYS ARE IMPLEMENTED VIA COMMODITIES AND
- ARE CONTROLABLE VIA THE COMMODITIES EXCHANGE PROGRAM (SEE AMIGA 2.0
- MANUAL).
- THERE ARE SIX BUTTONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.SOME OF THESE
- BUTTONS STAY SELECTED WHEN SELECTED WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
- FOR INSTANCE,DELETE WILL STAY SELECTED TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE NOW
- IN DELETE MODE.TO LEAVE THIS MODE,SELECT DELETE AGAIN.THE BUTTONS BELOW
- THAT WORK IN THIS FASHION ARE: DUPLICARE,SWAP AND DELETE.
-
- NEW HOTKEY:
-
- TAKES YOU TO THE HOTKEY EDITOR SO YOU CAN DEFINE A NEW HOTKEY.
-
- DUPLICATE:
-
- DUPLICATES A HOTKEY.YOU CAN ABORT THE COPY BY SIMPLY TURNING OFF
- DUPLICATION MODE,SELECTING DUPLICATE AGAIN.
-
- SWAP:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SWAP THE ORDER OF TWO HOTKEYS.REMEMBER THAT THE FIRST
- HOTKEY IS SEEN FIRST,SO IF YOU HAVE TWO HOTKEY ENTRIES DEFINED TO THE
- SAME KEY SEQUENCE,ONLY THE FIRST ONE WILL BE SEEN.
-
- DELETE:
-
- AFTER ASKING FOR CONFIRMATION,THIS DELETES HOTKEYS.
-
- 3.13.1 MENUS:
-
- THE DEFAULT OR OPEN MENU ITEMS IN THE CONFIGURE MENU ALLOW YOU TO IMPORT
- HOTKEYS FROM EITHER THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION OR A CONFIGURATION FILE
- FROM DISK.
- TO EDIT A HOTKEY,MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT IN DUPLICATE,SWAP OR DELETE
- MODE,THEN SIMPLY SELECT IT.YOU WILL THEN BE TAKEN TO THE HOTKEY EDITOR
- SCREEN.
- THE LAST TWO BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN (LOWER RIGHT CORNER) ARE THE OKAY
- AND CANCEL BUTTONS.THESE ALLOW YOU TO SAY,OK LETS USE ALL THESE CUSTOM
- BUTTON CHANGES AND GO BACK TO CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN,OR OOPS! FORGET
- ALL THIS,AND LETS JUST LEAVE.
-
- 3.14 HOTKEYS/EDITOR:
-
- NAME:
-
- THIS FIELD IS SIMPLY A NANE FOR THE HOTKEY AND CAN CONTAIN ANYTHING.
- DIRECTORY OPUS ONLY USES THIS AS A LABEL SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW WHAT
- THE HOTKEY DOES.
-
- HOTKEY:
-
- IS A DISPLAY AREA FOR THE HOTKEY SEQUENCE.IT SHOWS THE DEFINED HOTKEY
- OR IS EMPTY IF ONE HAS NOT BEEN DEFINED.
-
- SAMPLE:
-
- TO MODIFY THE HOTKEY,SELECT THIS BUTTON.WHILE THE SAMPLE BUTTON IS
- SELECTED,ANY KEYS,ALONG WITH ANY QUALIFIERS YOU PRESS WILL BE INSERTED
- IN THE HOTKEY FIELD.TO TURN OFF SAMPLE MODE,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON
- AGAIN.
- TO CLEAR THE HOTKEY SEQUENCE SIMPLY SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON WITH THE
- RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
- THE REMAINING PART OF THIS REQUESTER IS DESCRIBED IN THE COMMAND
- EDITOR SECTION.
-
- 3.15 MENUS/MANAGER:
-
- THIS SECTION ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE THE MENUS.THERE ARE 100 CUSTOM
- MENU ITEMS,ARRANGED AS FIVE MENUS OF TWENTY ITEMS EACH.THE MENU
- CONFIGURATION SCREEN DISPLAYS THE FIVE MENUS,WITH THE MENU TITLES
- AT THE TOP.
- ALL THE MENU ITEMS IN EACH MENU STRIP ARE NOT DISPLAYED AT ONCE;
- BECAUSE SPACE IS LIMITED ON THE SCREEN,ONLY A CERTAIN NUMBER ARE VISABLE
- AT A TIME.TO MOVE THROUGH THE MENU ITEMS,USE THE SLIDER AT THE RIGHT OF
- THE SCREEN.
- THERE ARE TEN BUTTONS ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.SOME OF THESE
- BUTTONS STAY SELECTED WHEN SELECTED WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
- FOR INSTANCE,DELETE ITEM WILL STAY SELECTED TO REMIND YOU THAT YOU
- ARE NOW IN DELETE ITEM MODE.TO LEAVE THIS MODE,SELECT DELETE ITEM
- AGAIN.
- THE BUTTONS BELOW,THAT WORK IN THIS FASHION ARE:COPY MENU,SWAP MENU,
- DELETE MENU,SORT MENU,INSERT ITEM,COPY ITEM,SWAP ITEM AND DELETE ITEM.
-
- COPY MENU:
-
- COPIES THE CONTENTS OF ONE MENU TO ANOTHER.WHEN YOU HAVE SELECTED THIS
- OPTION,SELECT A MENU ITEM IN THE ACTUAL MENU YOU WISH TO COPY,AND THEN
- A MENU ITEM IN THE MENU YOU WANT TO COPY THE FIRST MENU TO.
-
- SWAP MENU:
-
- SWAPS THE CONTENTS OF TWO MENUS.IT WORKS IN THE SAME WAY AS THE COPY
- MENU FUNCTION,EXCEPT THAT THE CONTENTS OF THE SECOND MENU ARE EXCHANGED
- AND NOT REPLACED.
-
- DELETE MENU:
-
- REMOVES ALL FUNCTIONS FROM ONE OF THE FIVE MENUS.SELECT A MENU ITEM
- IN THE APPROPRIATE MENU;A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR TO VERIFY THE
- OPERATION.IF YOU SELECT OKAY,THE CONTENTS OF THE MENU WILL BE DELETED.
-
- SORT MENU:
-
- SORTS THE CONTENTS OF EACH SELECTED MENU ALPHABETICALLY BY NAME.
-
- INSERT ITEM:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO INSERT A NEW ITEM BETWEEN TWO EXISTING ITEMS.
- SELECT THE ITEM IN FRONT OF WHICH YOU WANT THE NEW ITEM TO BE
- INSERTED.
-
- COPY ITEM:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO COPY ONE MENU ITEM TO ANOTHER.WHEN YOU HAVE SELECTED
- THIS OPTION,SELECT THE MENU ITEN TO COPY,AND THEN THE MENU ITEM TO
- COPY IT TO.
-
- SWAP ITEM:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SWAP TWO MENU ITEMS.IT WORKS IN THE SAME WAY AS THE
- COPY ITEM FUNCTION,EXCEPT THAT THE SECOND ITEM IS EXCHANGED AND
- NOT REPLACED.
-
- DELETE ITEM:
-
- DELETES MENU ITEMS.SELECT THE MENU ITEM YOU WISH TO DELETE.ALL MENU
- ITEMS BELOW IT WILL BE MOVED UP TO FILL THE EMPTY SPACE.
-
- THE DEFAULT OR OPEN MENU ITEMS IN THE CONFIGURE MENU ALLOW YOU TO IMPORT
- MENUS FROM EITHER THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION OR A CONFIGURATION FILE
- FROM DISK.
- TO EDIT A MENU ITEM,MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT IN COPY MENU,SWAP MENU,DELETE
- MENU,SORT MENU,INSERT ITEM,COPY ITEM,SWAP ITEM OR DELETE ITEM MODE.THEN
- SIMPLY SELECT IT,AND YOU WILL BE TAKEN TO THE MENU ITEM EDITOR SCREEN.
-
- THE LAST TWO BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN (LOWER RIGHT CORNER) ARE THE OKAY
- AND CANCEL BUTTONS.THESE ALLOW YOU TO SAY OK LETS USE ALL THESE CUSTOM
- BUTTON CHANGES AND GO BACK TO CONFIGOPUS MAIN SCREEN,OR OOPS! FORGET
- ALL THIS AND LETS JUST LEAVE.
-
- 3.16 MENUS/EDITOR:
-
- AT THE TOP OF THE MENU ITEM EDIT SCREEN IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THE CURRENT
- MENU ITEM LOOKS LIKE.THE PALETTES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE EXAMPLE ALLOW
- YOU TO SELECT THE FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND COLOURS OF THE MENU ITEM.
-
-
- NAME:
-
- THIS FIELD ALOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE NAME THAT APPEARS ON THE MENU ITEM,
- AND IS LIMITED TO 63 CHARACTERS.
-
- SHORTCUT KEY:
-
- IS A DISPLAY AREA FOR THE SHORTCUT KEY SEQUENCE.THE SHORTCUT KEY GIVES
- THE KEYBOARD EQUIVALENT OF THIS MENU ITEM.
-
- SAMPLE:
-
- TO MODIFY THE SHORTCUT KEY,SELECT THIS BUTTON:ANY KEYS,ALONG WITH ANY
- QUALIFIERS YOU PRESS WILL BE INSERTED IN THE SHORTCUT KEY FIELD.TO
- TURN OFF SAMPLE MODE,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON AGAIN.
- TO CLEAR THE SHORTCUT KEY SEQUENCE SIMPLY SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON
- WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
- THE REMAINING PART OF THIS REQUESTER IS DESCRIBED IN THE COMMAND
- EDITOR SECTION.
-
- 3.17 OPERATIONS:
-
- THE OPERATION CONFIGURATION SCREEN GIVES YOU COMPLETE CONTROL OVER THE
- WAY EACH OF THE LISTED OPERATIONS IS PERFORMED.YOU CAN COVER ANY
- CONTINGENCY BY SPECIFYING PRECISELY HOW YOU WANT EACH OPERATION TO
- BE CARRIED OUT IN ANY SITUATION THAT MIGHT ARISE.WHEN YOU SELECT ONE
- OF THE BUTTONS TO THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN,REQUESTERS WILL APPEAR,ASKING
- YOU HOW TO PROCEED.
-
- COPY:
-
- THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO CHECK THE AMOUNT OF SPACE AVAILABLE FOR
- COPYING FILES AND DIRECTORIES,AND TO SET THE ARCHIVE BITS ONCE THE
- COPYING IS FINISHED.YOU ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE WHICH PARTS OF THE FILE
- INFORMATION NEED TO BE COPIED.YOU ARE ALSO GIVEN OPTIONS TO CONSIDER
- IF THE FILE BEING COPIED ALREADY EXISTS IN THE DESTINATION.
-
- DATE FORMAT:
-
- WITH THIS BUTTON YOU MAY CHOOSE BETWEEN THE AMIGA SYSTEMS DEFAULT OR
- THREE OTHER FORMATS FOR DISPLAYING THE DATE.
-
- DELETE:
-
- WITHOUT THE REMINDERS THAT THIS BUTTON SUMMONS,YOU MIGHT LOSE SOME
- VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION.
-
- ERROR CHECK:
-
- YOU MAY CHOOSE EITHER DOS REQUESTERS OR THE MORE COMPREHENSIVE
- DIRECTORY OPUS ERROR REQUESTERS WHEN YOU SELECT THIS BUTTON.
-
- GENERAL:
-
- THIS BUTTON DISPLAYS MISCELLANEOUS FLAGS THAT ARE DETAILED IN THE
- OPERATIONS/GENERAL SUBSECTION.
-
- ICONS:
-
- WITH THIS BUTTON YOU MAY DECIDE WHETHER TO CREATE A DRAWER ICON,
- WHETHER EACH FILES ICON UNDERGOES EVERY CHANGE THAT BEFALLS ITS FILE,
- AND WHETHER AN ICON IS SELECTED AUTOMATICALLY WITH ITS FILE.
-
- LIST FORMAT:
-
- THE SCREEN SUMMONED BY THIS BUTTON GIVES YOU CONTROL OF THE FORMAT OF
- THE LISTS IN BOTH SCREENS.
-
- UPDATE:
-
- THIS BUTTON OFRFERS VARIOUS FEATURES THAT ARE DETAILED IN THE
- OPERATIONS/UPDATE SUBSECTION.
-
- 3.17.1 OPERATIONS/COPY:
-
- WHEN COPYING FILES AND DIRECTORIES:
-
- CHECK DESTINATIONS FREE SPACE BEFORE STARTING:
-
- THIS CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO CHECK THAT THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY
- HAS ENOUGH FREE SPACE IN IT BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO COPY SELECTED FILES
- AND/OR DIRECTORIES.IF DIRECTORY OPUS DOES THINK THAT ALL SELECTED ENTRIES
- WILL FIT IN THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY,IT WILL ALERT YOU WITH A REQUESTER,
- AND GIVE YOU THE OPTION OF ABANDONING THE COPY PROCESS.IF ANY SELECTED
- DIRECTORIES DO NOT HAVE SIZES DISPLAYED FOR THEM,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL
- ASK YOU IF YOU WISH IT TO PERFORM A BYTE COUNT ON THESE DIRECTORIES
- BEFORE SEEING WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL FIT.
-
- SET ARCHIVE BIT OF SCOURCE AFTER FINISHING:
-
- AFTER DIRECTORY OPUS COPIES A FILE,THE ORIGINAL FILE WILL GET ITS ARCHIVE
- BIT SET TO TRUE.THIS MEANS THAT THE FILE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED.
-
- ALSO COPY SCOURCES...:
-
- THESE FLAGS TELL DIRECTORY OPUS THAT WHEN IT COPIES A FILE,IT MUST ALSO
- COPY THESE PARTS OF THE FILE INFORMATION AAS WELL.YOU CAN HAVE ALL,NONE,
- OR ANY COMBINATION OF THESE SELECTED.
-
- DATESTAMP:
-
- PROTECTION BITS:
-
- COMMENT:
-
- WHAT TO DO WHEN A FILE ALREADY EXISTS:
-
- THESE FLAGS TELL DIRECTORY OPUS WHAT TO DO IF A FILE THAT IS BEING
- COPIED ALREADY EXISTS IN THE DESTINATION.ONLY ONE OF THESE MAY BE
- SELECTED.YOU HAVE FOUR OPTIONS:
-
- ALWAYS REPLACE FILES:
-
- REPLACES THE ORIGINAL FILE REGARDLESS.
-
- NEVER REPLACE FILES:
-
- WILL NEVER REPLACE THE ORIGINAL FILE.
-
- REPLACE ONLY OLDER FILES:
-
- REPLACES THE ORIGINAL FILE ONLY IF THE FILE TO BE COPIED HAS A MORE
- RECENT LAST MODIFICATION DATE.
-
- ASK BEFORE REPLACING:
-
- ASKS THE USER WHAT TO DO IF THE FILE ALREADY EXISTS.
-
- 3.17.2 OPERATIONS/DATE FORMAT:
-
- DATE FORMAT:
-
- THIS TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS HOW TO FORMAT DATES.THE AMIGAS OPERATING
- SRSTEM USES THE FIRST (DD-MMM-YY) BY DEFAULT,BUT YOU MAY CHOOSE
- WHICHEVER ONE YOU PREFER.
-
- DD-MMM-YY (22-SEPT-92)
-
- YY-MM-DD (92-09-22)
-
- MM-DD-YY (09-22-92)
-
- DD-MM-YY (22-09-92)
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- NAME SUBSTITUTIUON (TODAY,TOMORROW,ETC):
-
- CAUSES WORDS LIKE TODAY,TOMORROW OR TUESDAY TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR A
- DATE,IF APPROPRIATE.
-
- 12 HOUR CLOCK:
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO CHOOSE WHETHER THE CLOCK FORMAT USED BY DIRECTORY
- OPUS BE DISPLAYED IN 12 HOUR OR 24 HOUR FORMAT.
-
- 3.17.3 OPERATIONS/DELETE:
-
- ASK BEFORE:
-
- COMMENCING DELETE:
-
- TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO CHECK WITH YOU BEFORE ACTUALLY STARTING TO DELETE.
- THIS IS RATHER A USEFUL EVERYDAY OPTION BECAUSE ITS ALWAYS BETTER TO
- BE SAFE THAN SORRY.
-
- DELETING FILES:
-
- TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO ASK FOR CONFIRMATION BEFORE DELETEING EVERY
- FILE.
-
- DELETING NON-EMPTY DIRECTORIES:
-
- TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO ASK FOR CONFIRMATION BEFORE DELETING DIRECTORIES
- THAT HAVE ITEMS IN THEM.
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- IGNORE THE DELETE PROTECTION BIT:
-
- WHEN DELETEING,THIS SETS THE DELETE PROTECTION BIT ON ALL FILES THAT
- DO NOT HAVE IT SET.THIS MEANS THAT THE FILES PROTECTED AGAINST DELETION
- WILL BE DELETED ANYWAY.
-
- 3.17.4 OPERATIONS/ERROR CHECK:
-
- ENABLE:
-
- DOS REQUESTERS:
-
- DISABLES AMIGADOS REQUESTERS THAT WOULD APPEAR ON THE DIRECTORY OPUS
- SCREEN (DISK IS WRITE PROTECTED ETC.).INSTEAD,YOU WILL ONLY SEE AN
- ERROR MESSAGE APPEAR IN THE DIRECTORY OPUS STATUS BAR.
-
- OPUS ERROR REQUESTERS:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO OPEN ITS OWN ERROR REQUESTER WHEN AN ERROR IS
- ENCOUNTERED.THIS REQUESTER CONTAINS MORE INFORMATION THAN THE STANDARD
- AMIGADOS.
-
- 3.17.5 OPERATIONS/GENERAL:
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- CLICK-M-CLICK DRAG:
-
- DRAGS FILES OR DIRECTORIES.TO DRAG A FILE YOU MUST (HOLDING DOWN THE
- LEFT MOUSE BUTTON) MOVE THE MOUSE TO THE LEFT OR RIGHT OF THE FILE.DO
- NOT MOVE UP OR DOWN UNTIL THE SELECTED FILE HAS BEEN LIFTED AS THIS
- WOULD INITIATE DRAG-SELECTING.YOU CAN ALSO PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
- WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE LEFT TO INITIATE DRAGGING.IF YOU DROP THE FILE
- IN THE OTHER DIRECTORY WINDOW IT WILL BE THE SAME AS CLICK-M-CLICKING.
- IF YOU DROP THE FILE ON A CUSTOM BUTTON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN
- THAT BUTTONS ACTION WILL BE PERFORMED.
-
- DISPLAY INFO:
-
- MAKES DIRECTORY OPUS BEHAVE AS IT DID IN VERSION 1,BY DISPLAYING A
- FILES PROTECTION BITS,DATESTAMP AND COMMET IN THE STATUS BAR.DIRECTORY
- OPUS NOW DISPLAYS THESE IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS,AND KEEPS A COUNT OF
- SELECTED FILES,ETC.IN THE STATUS BAR INSTEAD.IF YOU PREFER THE OLD
- STYLE DISPLAY,TURN DISPLAY INFO ON.ALL FILE INFORMATION WILL BE DISPLAYED
- IN THE STATUS BAR AS YOU SELECT ENTRIES,AS WELL AS IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOWS.WIHT THIS TURNED ON,YOU CAN USE THE BYTE COMMAND TO VIEW THE
- COUNT OF SELECTED ENTRIES.
-
- FILE DOUBLE-CLICK:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL INTERROGATE A FILE THAT IS DOUBLE CLICKED ON WITH
- THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON,AND WILL PERFORM THE DEFAULT ACTION FOR THAT FILE
- TYPE.
- YOU MAY YOUR OWN FILETYPES,AND SPECIFY WHAT ACTION IS TO BE PERFORMED
- ON THEM.HOWEVER,THERE ARE ALSO SEVERAL HARD CODED FILETYPES.THESE ARE
- IFFILBM PICTURES AND BRUSHES,ICONS,FONTS,IFF 8SVX SOUNDS,AND EXECUTABLE
- PROGRAMS.
- IF A FILE DOES NOT MATCH ANY OF THE USER DEFINED FILETYPES,IT IS CHECKED
- TO SEE IF IT IS ONE OF THE HARD CODED TYPES.IN THAT CASE,THE DEFAULT
- ACTION FOR THESE FILETYPES IS PERFORMED.IF A FILE DOES NOT MATCH ANY
- FILETYPES USER-DEFINED OR OTHERWISE,IT IS TREATED AS A TEXT FILE,AND
- LOADED INTO THE TEXT VIEWER.IF ANY ANSI CONTROL SEQUENCES ARE DETECTED,
- THESE WILL BE DISPLAYED CORRECTLY.IF THE FILE CONTAINS ANY NON-TEXT
- CHARACTERS,IT WILL BE READ IN HEXADECIMAL FORMAT.
-
- WINDOW SLIDER ACTIVATE:
-
- CAUSES A DIRECTORY WINDOW TO BECOME ACTIVE WHENEVER ITS SLIDERS OR
- ARROW BUTTONS ARE SELECTED.IF THIS OPTION IS NOT ENABLED,SELECTING
- THE SLIDERS OR ARROW BUTTONS OF A DIRECTORY WILL NOT CAUSE IT TO BECOME
- ACTIVE.
-
- 3.17.6 OPERATIONS/ICONS:
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- CREATE ICONS WITH DIRECTORIES:
-
- CREATES A DRAWER ICON WHENEVER YOU CREATE A DIRECTORY WITH THE MAKEDIR
- COMMAND.
-
- PERFORM ALL ACTIONS ON ICONS AS WELL:
-
- WHATEVER HAPPENS TO A FILE WILL HAPPEN TO THAT FILES ICON AS WELL.
- FOR INSTANCE,IF YOU DELETE THE FILE DATA,DATA.info (IF IT EXISTS) WILL
- BE DELETED TOO.IF YOU RENAME THE FILE FROG TO BUFFALO,THE FROG.info
- (IF IT EXISTS) WILL BE RENAMED AS BUFFALO.info AUTOMATICALLY.
-
- SELECT ICONS AUTOMATICALLY:
-
- HAS SIMILAR RESULTS TO PERFORM ALL ACTIONS ON ICONS AS WELL,EXCEPT
- THAT WHENEVER YOU SELECT A FILE,ITS ASSOCIATED .info FILE (IF IT EXISTS)
- IS ALSO SELECTED.
-
- 3.17.7 OPERATIONS/LIST FORMAT:
-
- FORMAT OF THE LIST IN THE:
-
- LEFT WINDOW:
-
- RIGHT WINDOW:
-
- THE CYCLE BUTTON SPECIFIES WHICH DIRECTORY WINDOW YOU ARE MODIFYING.
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE DIFFERENT LIST FORMATS IN EACH WINDOW,BUT IT
- DOES REQUIRE YOU TO SPECIFY THE FORMAT FOR EACH WINDOW.IF YOU CHANGE
- THE FORMAT (USING THE BUTTONS DESCRIBED BELOW),AND YOU WANT IT TO BE
- THE SAME FOR BOTH WINDOWS,DONT FORGET TO CLICK ON THIS BUTTON AND
- MAKE THE CORRESPONDING CHANGES TO THE OTHER WINDOW.
-
- AVAILABLE DISPLAY ITEMS:
-
- THIS LIST ALLOWS YOU TO ADD DISPLAY ITEMS TO THE SELECTED DISPLAY ITEMS
- LIST BY CLICKING ON THEM.AN ITEM CAN ONLY BE ADDED ONCE,SO IF YOU CLICK
- ON AN ITEM THAT IS ALREADY IN THE LIST,NOTHING WILL HAPPEN.THE AVAILABLE
- DISPLAY ITEMS ARE:
-
- FILE NAME:
-
- FILE SIZE:
-
- PROTECTION BITS:
-
- CREATION DATE:
-
- FILE COMMENT:
-
- FILE TYPE:
-
- DISPLAYED LENGTHS:
-
- THE FIELDS ALLOW YOU TO ADJUST THE WIDTH OF SOME THESE ITEMS.THE ADJUSTABLE
- LENGTHS ARE:
-
- FILE NAME:
-
- FILE COMMENT:
-
- FILE TYPE:
-
- SELECTED DISPLAY ITEMS:
-
- WHEN YOU SELECT AN ITEM FROM THE LIST OF AVAILABLE DISPLAY ITEMS.IT APPEARS
- HERE.THIS ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY EXACTLY WHAT TO DISPLAY.WHEN YOU SELECT AN
- ITEM IN THIS LIST,IT PLACES A CHECK MARK NEXT TO IT.THIS INDICATES
- WHICH ITEM TO SORT THE WINDOW LIST ON.CLICKING ON THE CHECKED ITEM
- UNCHECKS IT.IF NO ITEMS ARE CHECKED THEN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW WILL
- NOT BE SORTED.
-
- RESET:
-
- THIS BUTTON CAUSES THE LIST TO RESET TO THE FACTORY DEFAULT SETTINGS.
-
- CLEAR:
-
- THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON CLEARS ALL ENTRIES,ALLOWING YOU TO START ALL
- OVER AGAIN.
-
- THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON CLEARS THE LAST ENTRY IN THE LIST,ALLOWING
- YOU TO CORRECT A MISTAKE.
-
- ENTRY SEPARATION:
-
- THIS CYCLE BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORIES AND FILES
- ARE SORTED.
-
- DIRECTORIES FIRST:
-
- FILES FIRST:
-
- MIX FILES/DIRECTORIES:
-
- REVERSE SORTING:
-
- THIS SPECIFIES THAT THE LIST SHOULD SORT IN REVERSE ORDER.FOR INSTANCE
- INSTEAD OF A COMING BEFORE B, B WOULD COME BEFORE A.
-
- 3.17.8 OPERATIONS/UPDATE:
-
- WHEN PROCESSING FILES:
-
- MAKES DIRECTORY OPUS OPEN A PROGRESS INDICATOR WINDOW WHEN IT IS PROCESSING
- FILES.
-
- LEFT JUSTIFY FILENAME IN STATUS BAR:
-
- LEFT JUSTIFIES FILENAMES IN THE STATUS BAR RATHER THAN CENTERING THEM
- AS USUAL.
-
- SCROLL DIRECTORY WINDOW TO FOLLOW OPERATION:
-
- CAUSES THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS TO SCROLL,ENSURING THE VISIBILITY OF THE
- CURRENT ENTRY BEING ACTED UPON IN AN OPERATION.THE DISPLAY IS RETURNED
- TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION WHEN THE OPERATION IS COMPLETE.
-
- UPDATE FREE DISK SPACE:
-
- CAUSES THE FREE SPACE DISPLAY IN THE DISK NAME DISPLAY AT THE TOP
- OF THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW TO BE UPDATED WHENEVER A FILE IS
- COPIED OR DELETED FROM THE DIRECTORY.OTHERWISE,THE DISPLAY IS ONLY
- UPDATED AT THE END OF A COMPLETE OPERATION.
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- DIRECTORY REFRESH USING STARTNOTIFY 2.0 OS ONLY:
-
- SETS UP AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATION OF THE CURRENTLY VISABLE DIRECTORIES.
- IF THE DIRECTORIES ARE MODIFIED OUTSIDE DIRECTORY OPUS (I.E.,BY ANOTHER
- PROGRAM),DIRECTORY OPUS WILL AUTOMATICALLY RE-READ THE DIRECTORY TO
- REFLECT THE CHANGES.
-
- WARNING WHILE THIS FEATURE WORKS IN MANY CIRCUMSTANCES,THE CURRENT
- VERSIONS OF 2.xx AND 3.xx OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM HAVE A BUG PREVENTING
- THIS FROM BEING COMPLETELY USEFUL.CURRENTLY THE OPERATING SYSTEM DOES
- NOT NOTIFY US TO ALL EVENTS,BUT WE HAVE LEFT THIS OPTION IN PLACE SO
- WHEN THE BUG IS FIXED DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BE READY.
-
- REDRAW MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A PAGE:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO REDRAW THE WINDOW IF YOU MOVE MORE THAN A
- QUARTER OF A PAGE IN EITHER DIRECTION.THIS FLAG CAN GREATLY SPEED
- UP MOVEMENT THROUGH DIRECTORIES.ORDINARILY,IF YOU USE THE SLIDERS
- TO MOVE A DIRECTORY LESS THAN A COMPLETE PAGE IN EITHER DIRECTION,
- THE DIRECTORY WINDOW WILL SCROLL ONE FILE AT A TIME.IT IS ONLY IF
- YOU MOVE A COMPLETE PAGE OR MORE AT ONCE THAT THE WINDOW WILL
- ACTUALLY BE REDRAWNN.ALTHOUGH NOT AS PLEASING AESTHETICALLY,
- REDRAWING IS CONSIDERABLY FASTER,ESPECIALLY IN HIGH RESOLUTION
- MODES.
-
- 3.18 SCREEN:
-
- THE SCREEN CONFIGURATION SCREEN ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE APPEARANCE
- OF THE SCREEN TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS AND PREFERENCES.REQUESTERS CONCERNING
- THE SCREENS FEATURES WILL APPEAR WHEN YOU CLICK ON ONE OF THE BUTTONS
- AT THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN.
-
- ARROWS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHERE THE ARROWS ON THE SLIDERS USED BY DIRECTORY
- OPUS WILL APPEAR.
-
- COLOURS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU MODIFY THE PEN COLOURS OF ALMOST ALL THE COMPONENTS OF
- THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.
-
- FONTS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE FONTS USED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF DIRECTORY
- OPUS.
-
- GENERAL:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR THE SCREENS APPEARANCE.
-
- PALETTE:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SET THE COLOURS OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.
-
- SCREEN MODE:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE MODE,SIZE AND DEPTH OF THE DIRECTORY
- OPUS SCREEN.
-
- OKAY AND CANCEL:
-
- THESE ALLOW OYU TO SAY EITHER OK,LETS USE THE SCREEN SETTINGS
- AND GO BACK TO DIRECTORY OPUS,OR OOPS! FORGET ALL THAT,AND
- LETS GET OUT OF HERE!.
-
- 3.18.1 SCREEN/ARROWS:
-
- THIS SCREEN ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHERE THE ARROWS ON THE SLIDERS USED
- BY DIRECTORY OPUS WILL APPEAR.THERE ARE THREE CHOICES FOR EACH OF THE
- THREE SLIDER TYPES.YOU CAN ALSO ADJUST THE SIZE OF THE ARROWS.
- THE EASIEST WAY TO LEARN HOW TO USE THIS IS JUST TO PLAY WITH IT.SELECT
- THE SLIDER TYPE BY CLICKING ON IT,OR CYCLE THROUGH THE TYPES BY CLICKING
- ON THE CYCLE BUTTON.THE SELECTED SLIDER TYPE WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.
-
- ADJUST SIZE:
-
- THESE BUTTONS ALLOW YOU TO ADJUST THE WIDTH OF THE ARROWS IN THE
- SELECTED SLIDER TYPE.YOU CAN CERTAINLY MAKE THESE HUGE IF YOU WANT.
-
- 3.18.2 SCREEN/COLOURS:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE PEN COLOURS OF ALMOST ALL THE
- COMPONENTS OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.THE NUMBER OF COLOURS TO CHOOSE
- FROM ARE SPECIFIED IN THE SCREEN/SCREEN MODE: AND THE COLOUR PALETTE
- IS SPECIFIED IN SCREEN/PALETTE.
-
- A MOCK UP OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN IS SHOWN,TO ALLOW YOU TO SEE
- THE RESULTS OF YOUR COLOUR CHANGES.TO SELECT THE ITEM YOU WANT TO
- MODIFY,EITHER CLICK ON IT IN THE EXAMPLE BOX,OR CLICK THE CYCLE BUTTON
- AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN TO ADVANCE TO THE NEXT ITEM.
- TO MODIFY THE COLOURS OF AN ITEM,USE THE FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND
- PALETTE BOXES.NOTE THAT OS 1.3,YOU CANNOT MODIFY THE COLOUR OF SOME
- ITEMS.
-
- 3.18.3 SCREEN/FONTS:
-
- THE SCREEN/FONTS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE FONTS USED IN
- DIFFERENT PARTS OF DIRECTORY OPUS.WHEN THIS OPTION IS SELECTED FOR
- THE VERY FIRST TIME,THERE WILL BE A DELAY WHILE DIRECTORY OPUS LOOKS
- TO SEE WHICH FONTS EXIST IN THE SYSTEM.
-
- DISPLAY ITEM:
-
- THE ITEMS FOR WHICH YOU MAY CONFIGURE A FONT ARE DISPLAYED IN THIS
- LIST.CLICKING ON AN ITEM DISPLAYS THE CURRENTLY SELECTED FONT AND
- SIZE IN THE FONT AND SIZE LISTS.YOU CAN THEN USE THESE LISTS TO
- SELECT THE DESIRED VALUES FOR THE DISPLAY ITEM.
-
- FONT:
-
- THIS LIST CONTAINS THE LIST OF AVAILABLE FONTS.THE SELECTED FONT
- FOR THE DISPLAY ITEM IS HIGHLIGHTED.CLICK ON A FONT NAME TO CHANGE
- THE SELECTED FONT.
-
- SIZE:
-
- THIS LIST CONTAINS THE SIZES AVAILABLE FOR THE CURRENTLY SELECTED
- FONT.THE SELECTED SIZE IS HIGHLIGHTED.CLICK ON A FONT SIZE TO CHANGE
- THE SELECTED SIZE.
-
- AN EXAMPLE OF THE CURRENTLY SELECTED FONT AND SIZE WILL BE DISPLAYED
- BELOW THESE LISTS.
-
- SOME DISPLAY ITEMS ACCEPT NON-PROPORTIONAL FONTS,AND OTHERS ONLY
- ACCEPT 8-POINT FONTS.THE LIST OF AVAILABLE FONTS WILL CHANGE TO FILTER
- OUT UNACCEPTTABEL FONTS.
-
- NOTE THAT UNDER OS 1.3 YOU CANNOT USE A DIFFERENT FONT IN THE PATHNAME
- FIELD.SETTING THE PATHNAME TO A LARGER FONT WILL MAKE THE PATHNAME FIELD
- LARGER,BUT UNDER OS 1.3 THE STRING FIELDS WILL STILL USE THE GENERAL
- 8 POINT FONT.
-
- 3.18.4 SCREEN/GENERAL:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR THE SCREENS
- APPEARANCE.
-
- VISIBLE SCREEN TITLE BUTTONS:
-
- MAKES THE CLOSE AND DEPTH BUTTONS OF THE TITLE BAR VISIBLE ON DIRECTORY
- OPUS SCEEN.
-
- BOTTOM RIGHT TINY BUTTONS:
-
- MAKES THE TINY BUTTONS IN THE LOWER RIGHT OF DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN
- VISIBLE.
-
- BUTTON BANK SLIDERS:
-
- MAKES SLIDERS APPEAR BESIDE THE DRIVE AND CUSTOM BUTTON BANKS.
- THESE MAKE IT EASIER TO SCROLL THROUGH THE BANKS.
-
- INDICATE BUTTON HAS RMB FUNCTION:
-
- ALL BUTTONS WITH RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON FUNCTION WILL HAVE A DOG-EARED
- UPPER RIGHT CORNER.
-
- NEW LOOK SLIDERS:
-
- THE SLIDERS ADOPT THE NEW STYLE OF OPERATING SYSTEM 2.0.
-
- DRAGGABLE REQUESTERS:
-
- ALL REQUESTERS WILL HAVE A WINDOW TITLE BAR ALLOWING YOU TO MOVE
- IT.
-
- 3.18.5 SCREEN/PALETTE:
-
- THE SCREEN/PALETTE REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SET THE COLOURS OF THE
- DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.A PALETTE BOX IS DISPLAYED,ALLOWING YOU TO
- SELECT THE COLOUR TO MODIFY.YOU CAN CHANGE THE COLOUR BY USING THE
- SLIDERS TO ADJUST THE RED,GREEN AND BLUE COMPONENTS.YOU CAN ALSO
- ENTER COLOUR VALUES DIRECTLY,USING THE STRING FIELDS.
-
- PRESETS:
-
- THERE ARE ALSO SEVERAL PRESET COLOUR PALETTES AVAILABLE,WHICH YOU
- CAN SELECT JUST BY CLICKING.THE RESET ENTRY WILL RETURN THE COLOURS
- TO THE VALUES THEY HAD WHEN YOU ENTERED THIS SECTION (AN UNDO FEATURE
- BASICALLY).THE DIRECTORY OPUS DEFAULT ENTRY SETS THE DEFAULT DIRECTORY
- OPUS PALETTE.THE WORKBENCH DEFAULT ENTRY HAS THE DEFAULT WORKBENCH
- COLOURS.THE WORKBENCH CURRENT ENTRY IS THE COLOURS CURRENTLY SET
- ON THE WORKBENCH SCREEN.THE OTHER PRESETS ARE DIFFEERENT SETTINGS WHICH
- YOU CAN EXPERIMENT WITH AT YOUR OWN LEISURE.
-
- 3.18.6 SCREEN/SCREEN MODE:
-
- THE SCREEN/SCREEN MODE REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE MODE,SIZE
- AND DEPTH OF THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.
-
- DISPLAY MODE:
-
- CONTAINS A LIST OF THE AVAILABLE DISPLAY MODES.UNDER OS 1.3 THIS WILL
- CONTAIN HIGH RES,HIGH RES LACED,WORKBENCH:USE AND WORKBENCH:CLONE.
- UNDER OS 2.0 THE MODES AVAILABLE WILL VARY DEPENDING UPON THE MONITORS
- CURRENTLY ACTIVE IN YOUR SYSTEM.
- THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SELECTED DISPLAY MODE ARE SHOWN AT THE
- BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN.
- THERE ARE TWO SPECIAL ITEMS ON THE LIST.
-
- WORKBENCH USE:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO OPEN A WINDOW ON THE WORKBENCH SCREEN,AND NOT
- TO OPEN A CUSTOM SCREEN.THE WIDTH AND HEIGHT OF THIS WINDOW ARE EDITABLE,
- BUT THE NUMBER OF COLOURS IS FIXED AT THE CURRENT WORKBENCH DEPTH.
-
- WORKBENCH CLONE:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO OPEN A SCREEN IN THE SAME MODE AND EXACTLY
- THE SAME SIZE AS THE WORKBENCH SCREEN.THE SIZE OF THIS SCREEN IS
- NOT EDITABLE,BUT YOU MAY MODIFY THE NUMBER OF COLOURS.
-
- WIDTH:
-
- THIS FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE SCREEN WIDTH.
-
- USE DEFAULT:
-
- WHEN THIS BUTTON CONTAINS A CHECK,THE WIDTH FIELD CAN NOT BE CHANGED.
- IT WILL NOT BE CHANGED.IT WILL,HOWEVER,DISPLAY THE DEFAULT VALUE TO
- BE USED.WHEN YOU CLICK ON THIS BUTTON,IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE
- THE VALUE IN THE WIDTH FIELD.
-
- (WHEN YOU ARE USING WORKBENCH CLONE,THE USE DEFAULT BUTTON CANNOT
- BE DESELECTED.)
-
- HEIGHT:
-
- THIS FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE SCREEN HEIGHT.
-
- USE DEFAULT:
-
- WHEN THIS BUTTON CONTAINS A CHECK,THE HEIGHT FIELD CAN NOT BE CHANGED.
- IT WILL,HOWEVER,DISPLAY THE DEFAULT VALUE TO BE USED.WHEN YOU CLICK
- ON THIS BUTTON,IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO CHANGE THE VALUE IN THE HEIGHT
- FIELD.
-
- (WHEN YOU ARE USING WORKBENCH CLONE,THE USE DEFAULT BUTTON CANNOT
- BE DESELECTED.)
-
- COLOURS:
-
- DEPENDING UPON THE SELECTED SCREEN MODE,THE NUMBER OF COLOURS WILL
- VARY FROM FOUR TO SIXTEEN.THERE ARE SCREEN MODES WITH A MAXIMUM OF
- LESS THAN SIXTEEN;IF THIS IS THE CASE,YOUR SELECTION WILL BE LIMITED.
-
- HALF-HEIGHT SCREEN:
-
- THIS CAUSES THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN TO OPEN AT HALF ITS NORMAL
- HEIGHT,AND TO POSITIONED HALFWAY DOWN THE DISPLAY.WITH AN INTERLACED
- SCREEN,THIS WOULD GIVE YOU A SCREEN THE SIZE OF A NORMAL (NON-INTERLACED)
- SCREEN,WITH THE SCREEN BEHIND IT STILL BARTIALLY VISIBLE.TURNING ON
- THE HALF-HEIGHT SCREEN OPTION WILL NOT MODIFY THE SYSTEMS SCREEN HEIGHT
- SETTING.
-
- 3.19 SYSTEM:
-
- THE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SCREEN LETS YOU TELL DIRECTORY OPUS HOW TO
- RUN SEVERAL OPERATIONS.
-
- AMIGADOS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORY OPUS STARTS UP AMIGADOS
- PROGRAMS.
-
- CLOCKS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORY OPUS DISPLAYS CLOCK
- INFORMATION.
-
- DIRECTORIES:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SET VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR DIRECTORY OPERATIONS.
-
- HOTKEY:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE HOTKEY TO ACTIVATE DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- ICONS:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE ICONS WHICH WILL BE CREATED WITH THE
- iiicADDICON COMMAND.
-
- MODULES:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY PRELOADED EXTERNAL MODULES.
-
- SHOW PATTERN:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY FILES TO BE SHOWN OR EXCLUDED FROM THE
- DIRECTORY LISTS.
-
- STARTUP:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY VARIOUS STARTUP OPTIONS.
-
- VIEW AND PLAY:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE OPTIONS FOR DIRECTORY OPUS VIEWERS.
-
- OKAY AND CANCEL:
-
- THESE ALLOW YOU TO SAY EITHER OK,LETS USE THE SCREEN SETTINGS
- AND GO BACK TO DIRECTORY OPUS,OR OOPS! FORGET ALL THAT,AND LETS
- GET OUT OF HERE!.
-
- 3.19.1 SYSTEM/AMIGADOS:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORY OPUS STARTS UP
- AMIGADOS PROGRAMS.
-
- RUNNING AMIGADOS APPLICATIONS:
-
- SHELL:
-
- THIS FIELD IS THE AMIGADOS COMMAND USED TO LAUNCH PROGRAMS THAT HAVE
- OUTPUT WINDOWS.IT DEFAULTS TO NEWCLI.IF YOU WISH TO USE A SHELL,YOU
- COULD CHANGE THE DEFAULT TO NEWSHELL.IF YOU WISH TO USE A WSHELL,YOU
- COULD CHANGE IT TO NEWWSH.THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON TO THE LEFT OF
- THIS FIELD OPENS A REQUESTER TO HELP YOU LOCATE THE COMMAND YOU WISH
- TO USE.
-
- CONSOLE:
-
- THIS IS THE CONSOLE UNDER WHICH ALL OUTPUT WINDOWS ARE OPENED.IT IS
- ALSO USED TO OPEN A CLI BY THE NEWCLI COMMAND,AND BY THE RUN COMMAND
- WHEN NO FILES ARE SELECTED.THE CONSOLE ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE
- SIZE,POSITION AND TITLE OF THE OUTPUT WINDOW.IT FOLLOWS THE STANDARD
- AMIGADOS FORMAT,NAMELY:
-
- DEVICE:LEFTEDGE/TOPEDGE/WIDTH/HEIGHT/TITLE/OPTIONS.
-
- DEVICE
-
- THIS IS THE DEVICE YOU ARE USING.IT IS NORMALLY CON,BUT UNDER AMIGADOS
- 1.3 IT MAY BE NEWCON (WHICH WILL OPEN A SHELL INSTEAD OF A CLI).
-
- LEFTEDGE:
-
- THE LEFT EDGE OF THE WINDOW ( X COORDINATE, IN PIXELS).
-
- TOPEDGE:
-
- THE TOP EDGE OF THE WINDOW ( Y COORDINATE, IN PIXELS).
-
- WIDTH:
-
- THE WIDTH OF THE WINDOW IN PIXELS.
-
- HEIGHT:
-
- THE HEIGHT OF THE WINDOW IN PIXELS.
-
- TITLE:
-
- THE TITLE OF THE WINDOW.
-
- OPTIONS:
-
- SOME DEVICES ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY OPTIONAL PARAMETERS (I.E.,/CLOSE).
- THE VALID PARAMETERS VARY,SO CONSULT THE DEVICES DOCUMENTATION FOR
- DETAILS.
-
- AN EXAMPLE IS:
-
- CON:20/10/600/180/DIRECTORY OPUS OUTPUT/CLOSE.
-
- START-UP SCRIPT:
-
- THIS IS AN AMIGADOS BATCH SCRIPT THAT WILL BE PERFORMED BEFORE DIRECTORY
- OPUS LAUNCHES ANY PROGRAMS.
-
- PRIORITY:
-
- MAIN PRIORITY ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE PRIORITY AT WHICH DIRECTORY
- OPUS ITSELF RUNS.THE DEFAULT PRIORITY IS 0,WHICH MEANS THAT IT
- PEACEFULLY COEXISTS WITH EVERYTHING ELSE.SETTING THE PRIORITY
- HIGHER MEANS THAT WHILE DIRECTORY OPUS WILL NOT BE SLOWED DOWN MUCH
- BY OTHER TASKS,THE PERFORMANCE OF OTHER TASKS WILL SUFFER.IT IS
- SUGGESTED THAT YOU SET THE PRIORITY NO HIGHER THAN 10.
-
- 3.19.2 SYSTEM/CLOCKS:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORY OPUS DISPLAYS
- CLOCK INFORMATION.
-
- CLOCK/MEMORY BAR:
-
- THESE FLAGS TELL DIRECTORY OPUS HOW TO FORMAT THE CLOCK BAR AT THE
- BOTTOM OF ITS SCREEN.YOU CAN INCLUDE ANY COMBINATION OF THESE ITEMS,
- BUT IN SOME FONTS YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE ALL THE ITEMS SELECTED
- BECAUSE THEIR SPACE MAY BE LIMITED.
-
- MEMORY MONITOR:
-
- DISPLAYS THE AMOUNT OF CHIP MEMORY,FAST MEMORY AND THE TOTAL MEMORY
- IN THE CLOCK BAR.
-
- CPU MONITOR:
-
- DISPLAYS THE PERCENTAGE OF CPU TIME THAT IS BEING USED.100% INDICATES
- THAT THERE IS NOT ANY IDLE TIME AND THAT AT LEAST ONE PROCESS IS
- ATTEMPTING TO RUN CONTINUOUSLY.
-
- DATE:
-
- DISPLAYS THE CURRENT DATE IN THE CLOCK BAR.
-
- TIME:
-
- DISPLAYS THE CURRENT TIME IN THE CLOCK BAR.
-
- SHOW FREE SPACE AS:
-
- THERE ARE TWO GROUPS OF BUTTONS WITH THIS TITLE.ONE APPLIES TO THE
- CLOCK/MEMORY BAR,AND THE OTHER APPLIES TO THE ICONIFIED WINDOW.
- THEY ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY HOW THE MEMORY MONITOR,WHEN ENABLED,WILL
- DISPLAY MEMORY.
-
- BYTES FREE:
-
- DISPLAYS ALL DIGITS (THIS CAN BE HARD TO READ WITH LARGE VALUES).
-
- KILO/MEGABYTES FREE:
-
- DISPLAYS VALUE IN EITHER KILOBYTES OR MEGABYTES AS APPLICABLE.
-
- TEXT FORMAT:
-
- THERE ARE TWO GROUPS OF BUTTONS WITH THIS TITLE.ONE APPLICABLE
- TO THE CLOCK/MEMORY BAR,AND THE OTHER APPLIES TO THE ICONIFIED
- WINDOW.THEY ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY HOW THE TITLES FOR THE MEMORY
- MONITOR,WHEN ENABLED,WILL BE DISPLAYED.
-
- THE CHOICES ARE:-
-
- CHIP AND FAST:
-
- C AND F:
-
- WHEN ICONIFIED:
-
- THESE BUTTONS ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY HOW DIRECTORY OPUS SHOULD
- ACT WHEN ICONIFIED.
-
- WINDOW:
-
- THE FOLLOWING FLAGS ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY WHAT IS DISPLAYED
- IN THE WINDOW.
-
- MEMORY MONITOR:
-
- DATE:
-
- CPU MONITOR:
-
- TIME:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL ICONIFY TO A SMALL WINDOW ON WORKBENCH.IF THIS
- WINDOW IS ENABLED,ITS LAST POSITION IS SAVED WHEN YOU SAVE THE
- CONFIGURATION FILE.
-
- TO UN-ICONIFY THE WINDOW,SIMPLY ACTIVATE IT BY CLICKING ON IT WITH
- THE LEFTMUSE BUTTON AND THEN PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- NO WINDOW:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL CLOSE ALL WINDOWS.
-
- AN APPICON:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL OPEN AN ICON ON WORKBENCH.SIMPLY DOUBLE CLICK
- ON THE ICON TO UNICONIFY IT
-
- 3.19.3 SYSTEM/DIRECTORIES:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SET VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR DIRECTORY
- OPERATIONS.
-
- DIRECTORY CACHES:
-
- BUFFERS PER WINDOW:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE NUMBER OF BUFFERS TO BE ALLOCATED TO
- EACH DIRECTORY WINDOW.YOU CAN HAVE ANY VALUE FROM ONE TO 255.
-
- ALWAYS MOVE TO EMPTY BUFFER:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO USE AN EMPTY BUFFER (IF POSSIBLE)
- WHENEVER A NEW DIRECTORY IS READ.A NEW DIRECTORY IS READ WHENEVER
- YOU ENTER A PATH IN THE DIRECTORY FIELDS,DOUBLE CLICK OR CLICK
- M CLICK ON A DIRECTORY NAME,OR SELECT A DRIVE BUTTON.
-
- RE-READ CHANGED OR INCOMPLETE BUFFERS:
-
- WHEN A BUFFERED DIRECTORY IS SHOWN,THIS WILL MAKE DIRECTORY OPUS CHECK
- THE DIRECTORY ON DISK TO SEE IF IT HAS CHANGED.IF IT HAS,THIS WILL
- CAUSE A RE-READ OF THE DIRECTORY.ALSO,IF THE ORIGINAL READING OF A
- DIRECTORY WAS INTERRUPTED IT WILL BE RE-READ IN.
-
- SEARCH BUFFERS ON:
-
- PARENT/ROOT OPERATION:
-
- THIS OPTION CAUSES THE DIRECTORY BUFFERS TO BE SEARCHED FOR THE PARENT
- OR ROOT DIRECTORY OF THE CURRENT DIRECTORY,WHENEVER THE PARENT OR ROOT
- COMMANDS ARE CHOSEN.IF THE PARENT OR ROOT DIRECTORY EXISTS IN A BUFFER
- (I.E.,IT HAS ALREADY BEEN READ),THE BUFFERED DIRECTORY IS RETRIEVED
- FROM MEMORY.THIS CAN SAVE A LOT OF NEEDLESS DISK ACCESS.
-
- DOUBLE CLICK/CLICK-M-CLICK DIRECTORY READ:
-
- WHEN A DIRECTORY IS SELECTED VIA DOUBLE CLICK OR CLICK-M-CLICK THIS
- WILL CAUSE DIRECTORY OPUS TO SEARCH THE BUFFERED DIRECTORIES FIRST.
-
- MISC FLAGS:
-
- AUTO DISKCHANGE:
-
- CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO SENCE DISK CHANGES IN ANY DRIVE.IF YOU HAVE
- THE ROOT DIRECTORY OPEN IN EITHER OF THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS WHEN YOU
- CHANGE THE DISK,THEN THE NEW DISK WILL BE READ AUTOMATICALLY.THIS
- ALLOWS YOU TO SCAN THROUGH DIFFERENT DISKS WITHOUT HAVING TO FOLLOW
- THE USUAL SELECTION PROCEDURE.
-
- AUTO DISK LOAD:
-
- THIS OPTION WORKS IN A SIMILAR FASHION TO AUTO DISKCHANGE,EXCEPT THAT
- IT DETECTS ANY DISK BEING INSERTED,NOT JUST THOSE DISKS CURRENTLY
- BEING DISPLAYED.IF YOU INSERT A DISK IN A FLOPPY DRIVE WITH THIS
- OPTION TURNED ON,YOU WILL BE ASKED WHETHER YOU WISH TO READ THE DISK
- INTO THE LEFT OR THE RIGHT WINDOW.
-
- EXPAND PATHNAMES:
-
- THIS FLAG WILL CAUSE ALL PATHS TO BE EXPANDED TO THEIR FULL PATHNAMES.
- FOR EXAMPLE,IF THIS FLAG WAS ENABLED AND YOU ENTERED S: IN THE DIRECTORY
- FIELD,THE NAME MIGHT BE EXPANDED TO WORKBENCH1.3:s/.IT WILL ALSO DO THIS
- WHEN WHEN YOU SELECT A DRIVE BUTTON.FOR INSTANCE IF YOU SELECTED A DRIVE
- BUTTON MARKED DF0:,THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE DISK WOULD BE INSERTED IN THE
- DIRECTORY FIELD.
- YOU SHOULD NOTE THAT ASS THE EXPAND PATHNAMES FLAG CAUSES THE ACTUAL
- VOLUME NAME OF DISKS TO BE USED,THE SYSTEM (AND YOU) MAY GET CONFUSED
- WHEN USING TWO TWO DISKS WITH THE SAME NAME.AS A RULE,YOU SHOULD AVOID
- USING IDENTICALLY NAMED DISKS AT THE SAME TIME.
-
- USE EXALL():OS2.0 ONLY:
-
- IF SELECTED,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL USE THE EXALL FUNCTION TO READ
- DIRECTORIES,RATHER THAN THE OLD EXAMINE ()/EXNEXT() COMBINATION.
- EXALL() CAN BE SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN THE OLD METHOD.
-
- WARNING:
-
- OPERATING SYSTEMS 2.x ND 3.x CURRENTLY HAVE A BUG THAT CAUSES
- THEM TO SKIP DIRECTORY ENTRIES WHEN USING EXALL() ON CERTAIN
- DEVICES.SOME DEVICES TO WATCH OUT FOR INCLUDE:CD ROM,PARNET
- AND NETWORKS.IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS,SIMPLY TURN OFF THIS OPTION.
-
- SHOW FREE SPACE AS:
-
- THESE ALLOW YOU TO CHOOSE HOW TO MEASURE THE FREE SPACE THAT IS
- DISPLAYED ALONGSIDE THE DISK NAME.
-
- BYTES FREE:
-
- DISPLAY THE NUMBER OF FREE BYTES.
-
- KILO/MEGABYTES FREE:
-
- DISPLAYS THE AMOUNT OF FREE SPACE IN EITHER KILOBYTES OR MEGABYTES
- (DEPENDING UPON THE SIZE.
-
- BLOCKS FREE:
-
- DISPLAYS THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE (AS WILL ALSO BE SHOWN BY THE
- AMIGADOS INFO COMMAND).
-
- PERCENTAGE OF SPACE FREE:
-
- DISPLAYS THE FREE SPACE AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL SIZE.
-
- 3.19.4 SYSTEM/HOTKEY:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE DIRECTORY OPUS ACTIVATE
- HOTKEY.
-
- UNICONIFY/ACTIVATE HOTKEY:
-
- THIS HOTKEY IS REALLY A COMBINATION OF KEYS THAT YOU PRESS TO DO
- ONE OF FOUR THINGS:
-
- IF DIRECTORY OPUS IS ICONIFIED,IT WILL BE UNICONIFIED.
-
- IF THE DIRECTORY OPUS IS OPEN,BUT AT THE BACK OF THE DISPLAY,IT
- WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE FRONT.
-
- IF THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN PULLED DOWN USING THE SCREEN DRAG BAR,IT
- WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE TOP.
-
- IF THE SCREEN IS ALREADY AT THE FRONT OF THE DISPLAY,IT WILL BE
- MOVED TO THE BACK.
-
- SAMPLE:
-
- TO MODIFY THE HOTKEY,SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON AT THE RIGHT OF
- THE HOTKEY FIELD.WHILE THE SAMPLE BUTTON IS SELECTED,ANY KEYS
- THAT YOU PRESS,ALONG WITH ANY QUALIFIERS,WILL BE INSERTED IN
- THE HOTKEY FIELD.TO TURN OFF SAMPLE MODE,SELECT THE SAMPLE
- BUTTON AGAIN.
- TO REMOVE THE HOTKEY SIMPLY SELECT THE SAMPLE BUTTON WITH THE
- RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.
- THE DEFAULT HOTKEYS ARE CONTROL+LSHIFT+LALT,MEANING THAT PRESSING
- THE CONTROL KEY,THE LEFT SHIFT KEY AND THE LEFT ALT KEYS TOGETHER
- WILL PERFORM THE ACTION.
-
- USE MIDDLE MOUSE BUTTON:
-
- WITH THIS FLAG TURNED ON DIRECTORY OPUS WILL ALSO USE THE MIDDLE
- MOUSE BUTTON AS WELL AS THE HOTKEY DEFINED ABOVE.
-
- 3.19.5 SYSTEM/ICONS:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE ICONS WHICH WILL BE CREATED
- WITH THE ADDICON COMMAND.
-
- ADDICONS ICONS:
-
- THIS LIST INCLUDES THREE BUILT IN ICON TYPES:DRAWER,TOOL AND PROJECT.
- IN ADDITION,EACH OF THE FILETYPES IS INCLUDED IN THIS LIST.THIS
- SYSTEM ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY YOUR OWN ICONS TO USE WITH THE ADDICON
- COMMAND IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE DEFAULT ICONS.SIMPLY SELECT THE TYPE
- OF ICONYOU WANT TO CHANGE (E.G.,DRAWER,TOOL,ETC.),AND ITS CURRENT
- ICON WILL APPEAR IN THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER.YOU MAY CHANGE THE ICON
- BY MODIFYING THE FIELD DIRECTLY BELOW THE LIST.THE MAGNIFYING GLASS
- BUTTON IS PROVIDED TO ALLOW YOU TO FIND THE ICON YOU WANT EASILY.
-
- UNDER OS 1.3 WE PROVIDE SOME BUILT IN ICON IMAGES BUT UNDER OS 2.0
- WE USE THE SYSTEM STANDARD IMAGES.
-
- PROJECTS DEFAULT TOOL:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE DEFAULT TOOL OF PROJECT ICONS ADDED WITH
- THE ADDICON COMMAND.THIS ONLY WORKS WITH THE BUILT IN PROJECT ICON
- OR THE DEFAULT WORKBENCH PROJECT ICON;NOT WITH USER SUPPLIED ICONS.
- FOR EXAMPLE,YOU MAY SET THE DEFAULT TOOL TO C:FULLVIEW.THEN,WHENEVER
- YOU DOUBLE CLICK FROM WORKBENCH ON AN ICON THAT YOU HAVE ADDED TO
- A PROJECT,FULLVIEW WILL BE INVOKED.
-
- 3.19.6 SYSTEM/MODULES:
-
- AN EXTERNAL MODULE IS A SMALL PROGRAM WHICH DIRECTORY OPUS RUNS TO
- PERFORM INFREQUENT OPERATIONS.BY MAKING THEM EXTERNAL,THEY DO NOT
- HAVE TO BE IN MEMORY AT ALL TIMES.IF YOU ARE NOT CONCERNED WITH
- THEIR MEMORY USAGE AND YOU DONT WANT DIRECTORY OPUS TO LOAD THEM
- EACH TIME YOU USE THEM,THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHICH
- MODULES YOU WANT TO BE PRELOADED.
-
- EXTERNAL SUPPORT MODULES:
-
- LISTS ALL EXTERNAL MODULES SUPPORTED BY DIRECTORY OPUS.IF YOU WANT
- A MODULE TO BE PRELOADED,SELECT IT AND A CHECKMARK WILL APPAR.SELECT
- IT AGAIN IF YOU DO NOT WANT IT PRELOADED.PRELOADED MODULES TAKE LESS
- TIME TO START UP BUT USE ADDITIONAL RAM.
-
- LANGUAGE:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SELECT A LANGUAGE FOR DIRECTORY OPUS.BY DEFAULT,DIRECTORY
- OPUS USES THE BUILT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE,BUT AS OTHER LANGUAGES BECOME
- AVAILABLE THEY WILL APPEAR HERE.TO SELECT ONE FOR USE,SIMPLY CLICK
- ON IT.
-
- 3.19.7 SYSTEM/SHOW PATTERN:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY FILES TO SHOW OR EXCLUDE FROM THE
- DIRECTORY LISTS.
-
- DIRECTORY LIST PATTERN:
-
- HIDE FILES WITH HIDDEN BIT SET:
-
- TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO TAKE NOTICE OF THE H BIT;ANY FILES THAT HAVE
- THIS PROTECTION BIT SET WILL NOT BE DISPLAYED.
-
- SHOW:
-
- ALLOWS A WILDCARD PATTERN AGAINST WHICH ALL FILES ARE CHECKED.
- IF THE FILE MATCHES THIS PATTERN,IT IS DISPLAYED.
-
- HIDE:
-
- ALLOWS A WILDCARD PATTERN AGAINST WHICH ALL FILES ARE CHECKED.
- IF THE FILE MATCHES THIS PATTERN,IT IS NOT DISPLAYED.
-
- 3.19.8 SYSTEM/STARTUP:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY VARIOUS STARTUP OPTIONS.
-
- DIRECTORIES TO BE READ ON STARTUP:
-
- THESE FIELDS ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY THE PATH NAME OF A DIRECTORY
- THAT IS LOADED AUTOMATICALLY INTO THE LEFT OR RIGHT WINDOW
- WHENEVER DIRECTORY OPUS STARTS.THE MAGNIFYING GLASS BUTTON TO
- THE LEFT OF THESE FIELDS OPENS A DIRECTORY REQUESTER TO HELP
- YOU LOCATE THE PATH YOU REQUIRE.
-
- LEFT:
-
- THIS FIELD SPECIFIES THE STARTUP DIRECTORY FOR THE LEFT WINDOW.
-
- RIGHT:
-
- THIS FIELD SPECIFIES THE STARTUP DIRECTORY FOR THE RIGHT WINDOW.
-
- AREXX SCRIPTS TO EXECUTE ON:
-
- THESE ALLOW YOU TO SPECIFY THE NAME OF TWO AREXX SCRIPTS THAT ARE
- AUTOMATICALLY RUN WHEN DIRECTORY OPUS STARTS (STARTUP),OR WHEN IT
- RETURNS FROM AN ICONIFIED STATE (UNICONIFY).
-
- STARTUP:
-
- THIS AREXX SCRIPT IS EXECUTED WHEN DIRECTORY OPUS FIRST STARTS
- UP.
-
- UNICONIFY:
-
- THE UNICONIFY AREXX SCRIPT IS EXECUTED WHEN DIRECTORY OPUS IS
- UNICONIFIED.
-
- CFG RETURN:
-
- THIS AREXX SCRIPT IS EXECUTED WHEN DIRECTORY OPUS RETURNS FROM
- THE CONFIGOPUS UTILITY.
-
- 3.19.9 SYSTEM/VIEW AND PLAY:
-
- THIS REQUESTER ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE OPTIONS FOR DIRECTORY
- OPUS VIEWERS.
-
- PICTURE/ANIMATION VIEWER (IFF ILBM/ANIM):
-
- BALCK BACKGROUND BETWEEN PICTURES:
-
- THIS FLAG CAUSES A BLANK SCREEN TO BE DISPLAYED WHILE EACH
- PICTURE IS LOADING.OTHERWISE,THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN WILL
- BE DISPLAYED IN BETWEEN EACH PICTURE.
-
- START ANIMATION PAUSED:
-
- MAKES ANIMATION COME UP PAUSED.THIS IS PARTICULARY USEFUL
- WHEN AN ANIMATION IS SIMPLY A COLLECTION OF PICTURES AND
- NOT REALLY AN ANIMATION.
-
- 8 BITS PER GUN COLOUR:
-
- THIS TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO TREAT THE COLOUR INFORMATION
- IN IFF ILBMs AS HAVING 8 BITS PER GUN.PICTURES THAT HAVE
- 4 BITS PER GUN,PRE AGA,ARE SHOWN A LITTLE DIMMER THAN USUAL.
-
- SHOW DELAY:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SHOW PICTURES AS A SIMPLE SLIDESHOW.IF SET TO 0,
- PICTURES WILL WAIT FOR YOU TO PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON BEFORE
- CONTINUING.ON OTHER SETTINGS,THE PICTURES WILL CONTINUE TO DISPLAY
- ONE AFTER THE OTHER FOR THE SPECIFIED TIME IN SECONDS.
-
- FADE DELAY:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO CONFIGURE THE SPEED AT WHICH PICTURES FADE IN AND OUT.
- IF IT IS SET TO 0,THERE WILL BE NO FADING AT ALL.THE DEFAULT IS 2;
- THE MAXIMUM IS 10.THE VALUE,BY THE WAY,INDICATES IN 60ths (50ths ON
- PAL) OF A SECOND THE TIME BETWEEN EACH CHANGE IN COLOUR.
-
- SOUND PLAYER (IFF 8SVX):
-
- TURN AUDIO FILTER OF FOR PLAY:
-
- CAUSES THE HIGH PASS AUDIO FILTER TO BE TURNED OFF WHILE EACH IFF
- 8SVX SOUND FILE IS PLAYED.NOTE THAT ON A1000s THE AUDIO FILTER MAY
- NOT BE SOFTWARE SELECTABLE.
-
- LOOP ON DOUBLE CLICK:
-
- TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO BEHAVE AS IT DID IN VERSION 3.4.IN THAT
- VERSION,WHEN YOU DOUBLE CLICKED ON SOUNDS,THEY PLAYED IN A LOOPED
- FASHION.UNDER VERSION 4.0 THE SOUND IS PLAYED ONLY ONCE.
-
- TEXT VIEWER:
-
- TEXT VIEWER BORDERS:
-
- TELL THE TEXT VIEWER TO HAVE A SILDER AND FANCIER BORDERS.NOTE
- THAT WITH THE FANCIER BORDERS AND SLIDERS YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE
- TO READ TEXT FILES THAT ARE 80 CHARACTERS UNLESS YOU USE A SMALLER
- FONT OR WIDER SCREEN.
-
- TAB SIZE:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE NUMBER OF SPACES TO WHICH A TAB CHARACTER
- IS EQUIVALENT IN THE ANSIREAD COMMAND.THE DEFAULT IS 8,WHICH IS ALSO
- THE ANSI STANDARD.
-
-
-
- CHAPTER 4
-
-
- COMMANDS:
-
- THIS CHAPTER LISTS THE DIRECTORY OPUS COMMANDS IN ALPHBETICAL ORDER.
- LETS BEGIN WITH AN EXAMPLE OF AN ENTRYS LAYOUT,WITH ITS COMPONENT
- PARTS EXPLAINED AS THEY OCCUR.
-
- COMMAND AREXX ONLY:
-
- THE NAME OF THE COMMAND COMES FIRST.IF IT IS FOLLOWED BY THE WORDS
- AREXX ONLY IT MEANS THAT IT IS A COMMAND THAT CAN ONLY BE CALLED
- FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM BY USING THE AREXX INTERCOMMUNICATION LANGUAGE.
- OTHERWISE,A COMMAND CAN BE USED BOTH IN A BUTTON (MENU,HOTKEY OR FILETYPE)
- AND AS AN AREXX COMMAND.
-
- COMMAND THIS IS THE SYNTAX OF THE COMMAND.ELEMENTS IN SQUARE BRACKETS
- ARE OPTIONAL.
-
- BELOW THE SYNTAX,ITS ELEMENTS ARE EXPLAINED IN TURN.
- IF NECESSARY,THERE WILL FOLLOW NOTES PERTAINING TO THE USE OF THE
- PARTICULAR COMMAND.
-
- ALL DIRECTORY OPUS COMMANDS WHEN CALLED FROM AREXX RESPOND WITH TWO
- VARIABLES: RC (THE ERROR STATUS CODE) AND RESULT.RC WILL ALWAYS BE
- AN INTEGER VALUE INDICATING THE SEVERITY OF AN ERROR,0 BEING NO
- ERROR.RESULT WILL INDICATE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THE COMMAND,
- USUALLY EXPRESSED AS AN INTEGER VALUE,OR IT MAY BE DATA,SUCH AS THE
- NAME OF A FILE.
-
- ABORT PRINT:
-
- ABORT THE CURRENT PRINT PROCESS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC= 0
- RESULT = NOTHING WAS PRINTING.
- 1 SOMTHING WAS PRINTING BUT IS NOW ABORTED.
-
- ABOUT:
-
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION AND MAILING ADDRESSES.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT = UNDEFINED
-
- ADD CUST ENTRY:
- AREXX ONLY:
-
- ADDCUSTENTRY TEXT [USERDATA] [FGPEN] [BGPEN] [SELECTABLE] [SHOW] [BEFORE]
-
- TEXT IS THE TEXT FOR THE ENTRY,AND MAY BE UP TO 256 CHARACTERS LONG.
- THE DIMENSIONS OF THE HORIZONTAL SLIDER ARE ADJUSTED AUTOMATICALLY
- TO THE LONGEST ENTRY.
-
- USERDATA OPTIONAL;USER DATA FOR THIS ENTRY.THIS IS NOT DISPLAYED BUT
- CAN BE RETRIEVED,DEFAULTS TO NOTHING.
-
- FGPEN:
-
- OPTIONAL;PEN COLOUR TO DISPLAY ENTRY IN OR -1 FOR DEFAULT FILE
- COLOUR,DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- BGPEN:
-
- OPTIONAL;BACKGROUNG COLOUR OF ENTRY OR -1 FOR DEFAULT FILE BACKGROUND
- COLOUR,DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- SELECTABLE:
-
- OPTIONAL;INDICATES IF ENTRY IS SELECTABLE (0= NOT SELECTABLE OR 1=
- SELECTABLE),DEFAULTS TO 1.
-
- SHOW:
-
- OPTIONAL;BOOLEAN TO UPDATE DIRECTORY DISPLAY (0=DO NOT UPDATE,
- 1=UPDATE),DEFAULTS TO 0.
-
- BEFORE:
-
- OPTIONAL;ORDINAL ENTRY NUMBER BEFORE WHICH TO ADD THIS ENTRY. A 0 ADDS
- THE ENTRY TO THE BEGINING OF THE LIST -1 ADDS AT THE END OF THE LIST,
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE ADDFILE COMMAND,BUT ALLOWS FOR ENTRIES OF UP
- TO 256 CHARACTERS.ENTRIES ADDED WITH THIS COMMAND ARE COMPLETELY USER
- DEFINED.THIS COMMAND WILL FAIL IF THERE ARE ANY NORMAL ENTRIES ALREADY
- IN THE ACTIVE WINDOW,SO YOU SHOULD ALWAYS CALL CLEARWIN BEFORE USING
- IT.BY DEFAULT,ENTRIES ARE NOT SORTED IN ANY WAY;THE MOST RECENT ENTRY
- WILL BE SHOWN AS THE LAST.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT =0 OR 1 TO INDICATE FAILURE OR SUCCESS.
-
- ADDCUSTHANDLER;
-
- ADDCUSTHANDLER PORTNAME [WIN]
-
- PORTNAME NAME OF HANDLERS MESSAGE PORT.
-
- WIN:
-
- OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO ADD A CUSTOM HANDLER TO (-1= CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT
- OR 1=RIGHT) DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL ATTACH AN AREXX PORTNAME TO THE CURRENT DIRECTORY
- BUFFER.WHEN YOU MANIPULATE THE BUFFERS ENTRIES,DIRECTORY OPUS WILL
- PASS MESSAGES TO THE SPECIAL PORTNAME.THIS COMMAND IS ONLY USED WITH
- BUFFERS CREATED USING ADDCUSTENTRY.CURRENTLY THE ONLY TWO ACTIONS
- SUPPORTED ARE DOUBLE CLICK AND CLICK-M-CLICK.AS AN EXAMPLE,THIS SYSTEM
- COULD BE USED TO CREATE A PHONEBOOK SYSTEM OR A NETWORK MANAGER WITH
- DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS;
-
- RC=0
- RESULT= NAME OF OLD HANDLERS MESSAGE PORT (IF THERE WAS ONE)
-
- ADDFILE:
-
- ADDFILE NAME,SIZE,TYPE,SECONDS,COMMENT,PROTECTION,RESERVED.SHOW.
-
- NAME:
-
- NAME OF ENTRY.
-
- SIZE:
-
- SIZE IN BYTES OF ENTRY.
-
- TYPE:
-
- TYPE OF ENTRY (-1= FILE OR 1= DIR).
-
- SECONDS;
-
- DATESTAMP OF FILE,SECONDS FROM JAN 1,1978 (DATE THAT AMIGADOS
- CONSIDERS THE BEGINING OF TIME)
-
- COMMENT:
-
- FILE COMMENT.
-
- PROTECTION:
-
- PROTECTION BITS IN ASCII FORM RW WOULD MEAN READABLE AND WRITABLE.
-
- RESERVED:
-
- RESERVED,MUST BE 0 FOR NOW
-
- SHOW:
-
- UPDATE DIRECTORY DISPLAY BOOLEAN
-
- RHIS COMMAND ADDS A FILE OR DIRECTORY ENTRY TO THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS;
-
- RC=0
- RESULT = 0 OR 1 TO INDICATE FAILURE OR SUCCESS.
-
- ADDICON:
-
- ADDICON [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE.
-
- THIS WILL ADD ICONS TO ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW.DIRECTORY OPUS AUTOMATICALLY SENSES WHAT SORT OF FILE
- IT IS (DRAWER,PROJECT,TOOL,ETC) AND WILL ARR THE APPROPRIATE ICON.UNDER
- OS 2.0,HOWEVER,WE USE THE WORKBENCH DEFAULT ICONS.YOU MAY SPECIFY YOUR
- OWN ICONS IN THE CONFIGOPUS IF THE DEFAULT ICONS ARE NOT SUITABLE.YOU
- MAY ALSO SPECIFY THE DEFAULT TOOL TO BE USED FOR PROJECT ICONS.
- IF THE NAME IS NOT GIVEN,IT WILL USE THE FIRST AVAILABLE SELECTED ITEM
- IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT = UNDEFINED.
-
- ALARM:
-
- ALARM,THIS COMMAND WILL SOUND AN ALARM ON BOTH OR EITHER SOUND
- CHANNELS.YOU COULD USE THIS COMMAND TO WARN PEOPLE THAT THEY HAVE SELECTED
- A DANGEROUS COMMAND.FOR INSTANCE,YOU COULD MODIFY THE DELETE BUTTON
- TO READ:
-
- COMMAND ALARM
- COMMAND DELETE
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT= UNDIFINED.
-
- ALL:
-
- THIS COMMAND SELECTS ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT = UNDEFINED.
-
- ANSIREAD:
-
- ANSIREAD [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE.
-
- THIS COMMAND OPERATES IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY AS THE READ COMMAND,EXCEPT
- THAT IT DISPLAYS ANSI CONTROL SEQUENCES (COLOURS AND TYPESTYLES) PROPERLY,
- AND ALSO HANDLES TAB CHARACTERS CORRECTLY.IF THE NAME IS NOT GIVEN IT
- WILL USE THE FIRST AVAILABLE SELECTED ITEM IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED.
-
- AREXX:
-
- AREXX [COMMAND]
-
- COMMAND OPTIONAL;COMMAND TO EXECUTE.
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO LAUNCH AN AREXX SCRIPT OR EXECUTE ANY DIRECTORY
- OPUS AREXX COMMAND FROM WITHIN DIRECTORY OPUS.IF THE COMMAND IS NOT
- GIVEN A REQUESTER WILL OPEN ASKING THE USER FOR ONE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT = UNDEFINED.
-
- ASSIGN:
-
- ASSIGN [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME TO ASSIGN.
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO ASSIGN A LOGICAL DEVICE NAME TO THE CURRENTLY
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY.THE C: DEVICE IS AN EXAMPLE OF A LOGICAL DEVICE;IT IS
- NOT A PHYSICAL DISK ITSELF,BUT IS A DIRECTORY THAT HAS BEEN ASSIGNED
- THE NAME C:.FOR EXAMPLE,A SIMPE NAME SUCH AS TEXT: CAN BE ASSIGNED TO
- A LONG AND COMPLICATED PATHNAME SUCH AS;
- DH0:PROJECTS/WORK/1989/APRIL/BITS&PIECES/TEXT
- FROM THEN ON,WHENEVER YOU ENTER TEXT: INTO A DIRECTORY BUTTON,YOU WILL
- GO STRAIGHT TO THE DIRECTORY AT THE END OF THE ASSIGNED PATH,INSTEAD
- OF HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL THE SUB-DIRECTORIES ON THE WAY.YOU CAN USE
- THE ASSIGNMENT IN ANY OTHER PROGRAM AS WELL.LOGICAL DEVICES ALWAYS
- END WITH A COLON.
- ASSIGN ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO CANCEL A PREVIOUSLY ASSIGNED DEVICE,OR REASSIGN
- A DEVICE TO ANOTHER DIRECTORY.TO DO THIS,PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON
- OVER THE S (SELECT) BUTTON TO ACTIVATE THE GETDEVICES COMMAND.SELECT
- THE ASSIGNED DEVICE(S) YOU WISH TO CHANGE,AND INVOKE THE ASSIGN COMMAND.
- A REQUESTER WILL APEAR,INTO WHICH YOU CAN TYPE THE NEW PATHNAME TO BE
- ASSIGNED EACH DEVICE NAME.IF YOU ENTER A BLANK STRING,THAT LOGICAL
- DEVICE WILL BE UNASSIGNED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT = UNDEFINED.
-
- BEEP:
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL SOUNDA BEEP ON BOTH OR EITHER OF THE SOUND CHANNELS.
- YOU COULD USE THIS COMMAND TO SIGNIFY THAT A COMMAND HAS FINISHED.
- FOR INSTANCE,YOU COULD MODIFY THE DIRECTORY OPTION TO READ:
-
- COMMAND DISKCOPY
- COMMAND BEEP
-
- IN VERSIONS OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM LATER THAN 38 (2.1) THIS COMMAND
- WILL CALL THE SYSTEM BEEP ROUTINE.UNDER EARLIER VERSIONS IT WILL SOUND
- ITS OWN BEEP.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
-
- RESULT=UNDEFINED.
-
- BUFFER LIST:
-
- BUFFER LIST [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO SCAN THE BUFFER LIST INTO (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,
- 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT) DEFAULTS TO -1.
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS A LIST OF ALL THE BUFFERED DIRECTORIES.YOU MAY
- THEN DOUBLE CLICK ON ONE OF THE DISPLAYED BUFFERS TO JUMP TO THAT BUFFER
- IMMEDIATELY,RATHER THAN CLICKING ON THE ARROWS TO CYCLE THROUGH THE
- BUFFERS ONE BY ONE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- BUSY:
-
- BUSY [ON/OFF]
-
- ON/OFF OPTIONAL;ADJUST THE BUSY POINTER,DEFAULTS TO ON.
-
- THIS COMMAND TURNS ON OR OFF THE BUSY POINTER.
-
- AREXX RESULT:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED.
-
- BUTTONICONIFY:
-
- BUTTONICONIFY [ROWS] [BANK]
-
- ROWS OPTIONAL;NUMBER OF BUTTON ROWS.THIS CAN BE 1,2,3 OR 6.
- DEFAULTS TO WHATEVER DIRECTORY OPUS TO.
-
- BANK OPTIONAL;BANK NUMBER TO DISPLAY INITIALLY,DEFAULTS TO 1.
-
- THIS CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO OPEN A WINDOW ON WORKBENCH CONTAINING
- THE CUSTOM BUTTONS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED.
-
- CD:
-
- CD [PATH]
-
- PATH OPTIONAL;NEW CURRENT DIRECTORY PATH,IF PATH IS NOT GIVEN A REQUESTER
- WILL OPEN.
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO SET THE CURRENT WORKING DIRECTORY FOR DIRECTORY
- OPUS.THIS IS THE DIRECTORY THAT IS READ IF YOU PRESS RETURN ON AN EMPTY
- DIRECTORY BUTTON.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED.
-
- CHECK ABORT:
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MONITOR,FROM AN AREXX SCRIPT,WHETHER THE
- USER HAS PRESSED THE LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS TOGETHER (TO ABORT).
- IT ALSO RESETS THE ABORT FLAG EVERY TIME IT IS CALLED.IF YOU PLAN TO
- USE THE CHECKABORT COMMAND.YOU SHOULD CALL CHECKABORT AT THE START OF
- THE SCRIPT (TO RESET THE ABORT FLAG),BEFORE ACTUALLY USING IT TO
- CHECK THE ABORT STATUS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 IF ABORT SEQUENCE HAS NOT BEEN HIT,1 IF IT HAS
-
- CHECKFIT:
-
- CHECHFIT [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO A CHECKFIT ON
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT) DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS WORKS IN THE SAME WAY AS GETSIZES DOES EXCEPT THAT ITS CALCULATION
- IS BASED ON DISK BLOCK SIZES,AND IS THEREFORE MUCH MORE ACCURATE.
- THE DISADVANTAGE TO CHECKFIT IS THAT IT NEEDS TO RECALCULATE EVERY TIME
- THE DESTINATIONS BLOCK SIZE CHANGES.THEREFORE,EVEN IF ALL SCOURCE
- DIRECTORIES ALREADY HAVE THEIR SIZES SHOWN,CHECKFIT MAY NEED TO SCAN
- THEM ALL AGAIN.OPERATIONS LIKE COPY,ETC,THAT GENERATE DIRECTORY SIZES,
- ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHECKFIT,AND SO AGAIN CHECKFIT WILL NEED TO SCAN
- ALL SELECTED DIRECTORIES.CHECKFIT DISPLAYS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BYTES
- NEEDED AND THE NUMBER OF BYTES FREE (I.E.,BLOCK NUMBERS MULTIPLIED BY
- THE BLOCK SIZE),AND THE PERCENTAGE OF FILES THAT WILL ACTUALLY FIT.IF
- THEY WILL ALL FIT,IT SHOWS 100%,IF ONLY HALF FIT,IT SHOWS 50%.
- THE GETSIZES COMMAND IS RETAINED AS IT CAN BE USED QUICKLY TO PROVIDE
- A ROUGH GUIDE.CHECKFIT CAN COMPLETELY REPLACE THE GETSIZES COMMAND IF
- YOU DONT MIND IT HAVING TO RESCAN DIRECTORIES WHEN YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE
- EXPECTED IT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CLEARBUFFERS:
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL CLEAR THE CONTENTS OF ALL THE DIRECTORY BUFFERS OTHER
- THAN THE TWO THAT ARE CURRENTLY DISPLAYED.ALL UNUSED MEMORY WILL BE
- DE-ALLOCATED.THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO FREE MEMORY QUICKLY IF YOU HAVE LOTS
- OF USED BUFFERS AND ARE RUNNING A BIT LOW ON MEMORY.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CLEARSIZES:
-
- CLEARSIZES [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO CLEAR THE SIZES FROM (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0 = LEFT
- OR 1 = RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- IF A DIRECTORYS SIZE IS ALREADY DISPLAYED,THEN THE DIRECTORY WILL NOT
- BE RE-SCANNED WHEN SELECTED NOR THE GETSIZES COMMAND INVOKED.THIS COULD
- MEAN THAT THE DIRECTORY SIZE IS INACCURATE,ESPECIALLY IF ANY FILES HAVE
- BEEN CREATED OR DELETED IN IT BY ANOTHER PROGRAM.SELECTING ONE OR MORE
- DIRECTORIES,AND THEN SELECTING THE CLEARSIZES COMMAND,WILL CAUSE THE
- DIRECTORY SIZES TO DISAPPEAR.YOU CAN THEN RESELECT THE DIRECTORIES,
- INVOKE THE GETSIZES COMMAND,AND THE DIRECTORIES WILL BE RE-SCANNED AND
- THEIR UPDATED SIZES DISPLAYED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CLEARWIN:
-
- CLEARWIN [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO CLEAR
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0= LEFT OR 1 RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL CLEAR THE CONTENTS OF A DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CLONE:
-
- CLONE [NAME] [NEW NAME]
-
- NEW NAME OPTIONAL;NEW FILE NAME
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A COPY OF SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE SAME
- DIRECTORY,AND RENAME THEM.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR FOR EACH ENTRY,ASKING
- FOR THE NEW NAME.THIS CAN ALSO WORK WITH A SPECIFIED FILE.IF A NEW NAME
- IS NOT GIVEN THEN A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- COMMENT:
-
- COMMENT [NAME] [COMMENT]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILE NAME
-
- COMMENT OPTIONAL;COMMENT STRING
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE COMMENT,OR FILENOTE,OF THE SELECTED
- FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.WHEN DIRECTORIES
- ARE SELECTED,YOU ARE ASKED WHETHER THE FILES WITHIN THEM ARE TO HAVE
- THEIR COMMENTS MODIFIED ALSO.FOR EACH ENTRY,YOU ARE PRESENTED WITH A
- REQUESTER CONTAINING ITS CURRENT COMMENT.TO CHANGE THE COMMENT,EDIT
- IT AND PRESS RETURN.TO RETAIN THE COMMENT JUST PRESS RETURN.
- TO SET THE COMMENT OF ALL SELECTED ENTRIES YOU SHOULD THE ALL BUTTON
- FROM THE COMMENT REQUESTER;CHOOSING OKAY OR PRESSING RETURN WILL SET
- THE COMMENTS ONE FILE AT A TIME.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CONFIGURE:
-
- SIMPLY STARTS UP THE CONFIGURATION PROGRAM.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- CONTST:
-
- IF THERE IS A SONG PAUSED,THEN IT STARTS IT PLAYING AGAIN.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- COPY:
-
- COPY [NAME] [DESTINATION]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILENAME
-
- DESTINATION OPTIONAL;DESTINATION DIRECTORY
-
- THIS COMMAND COPIES ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW TO THE INACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW,KEEPING THE SAME
- NAMES.IF A FILENAME IS GIVEN THEN ONLY THAT FILE WILL BE COPIED,BUT
- YOU MAY ALSO SPECIFY A DESTINATION DIRECTORY.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- COPYAS:
-
- COPYAS [NAME] [NEW NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILE NAME
-
- NEW NAME OPTIONAL;NEW FILE NAME
-
- THIS COMMAND COPIES ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW TO THE INACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW,AND ALLOWS YOU TO
- SPECIFY A NEW NAME FOR EACH FILE OR DIRECTORY.IF A FILENAME IS GIVEN,
- THEN ONLY THAT FILE WILL BE COPIED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- COPYWINDOW:
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO COPY FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1
-
- THIS WILL COPY THE CONTENTS OF A SPECIFIED WINDOW OR THE CURRENT WINDOW
- INTO THE OTHER WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DATESTAMP:
-
- DATESTAMP [NAME] [DATE]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILE NAME
-
- DATE OPTIONAL;DATE TO SET
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE DATESTAMP OF SELECTED FILES AND
- DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.WHEN DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED,
- YOU ARE ASKED WHETHER YOU ALSO WISH THE FILES WITHIN THEM TO HAVE THEIR
- DATESTAMPS MODIFIED.
- FOR EACH ENTRY,YOU ARE PRESENTED WITH A REQUESTER.IF YOU WISH THE FILE
- TO HAVE ITS DATESTAMP SET TO THE CURRENT DATE AND TIME,SIMPLY PRESS RETURN.
- OTHERWISE,ENTER THE DESIRED DATE AND TIME.
- TO SET THE DATESTAMP OF ALL SELECTED ENTRIES YOU SHOULD SELECT THE ALL
- BUTTON FROM THE DATESTAMP REQUESTER;CHOOSING OKAY WILL SET THE DATESTAMPS
- A FILE AT A TIME.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DEFAULTS:
-
- THIS CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO RESET TO THE HARD-CODED,DEFAULT CONFIGURATION.
- IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED THE CONFIGURATION YOURSELF,AND HAVE NOT YET SAVED
- IT,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WISH TO SAVE IT FIRST
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DELETE:
-
- DELETE [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILENAME
-
- THIS WILL DELETE ALL SELECTED ENTRIES OR JUST THE SPECIFIED FILE IN
- THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.BE CAREFUL WITH THIS,AS IT IS EASY TO WIPE
- OUT VALUABLE DATA.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DIRTREE:
-
- DIRTREE [WIN]
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO CREATE A DIRECTORY TREE IN
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL MAP OUT A DIRECTORY TREE IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW,OR A SPECIFIED WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DISKCOPY:
-
- DISKCOPY [SCOURCE] DESTINATION [VERIFY] [BUMP]
-
- SCOURCE OPTIONAL;SCOURCE DISK
-
- DESTINATIONS DESTINATION DISK
-
- VERIFY OPTIONAL;DISKCOPY WITH VERIFY ON
-
- BUMP OPTIONAL;BUMP THE REVISION OF THE DISK NAME,AS WITH WORKBENCH
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL DISKCOPY FROM SCOURCE TO DESTINATION,WITH VERIFY TURNED
- ON IF THE VERIFY KEYWORD IS SPECIFIED.IF NO SCOURCE OR DESTINATION ARE
- SPECIFIED,THE DISKCOPY REQUESTER IS OPENED.IF THE BUMP KEYWORD IS GIVEN
- THEN DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BUMP THE REVISION (COPY_OF_DISKNAME)OF THE
- DISK NAME AS WORKBENCH DOES.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DISKCOPYBG:
-
- DISKCOPYBG SAME AS DISKCOPY
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL EXECUTE DISKCOPY IN THE BACKGROUND MODE.THIS ALLOWS
- YOU TO START UP A DISKCOPY AND STILL USE DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DISKINFO:
-
- DISKINFO [PATH]
-
- PATH OPTIONAL;PATH OF A DISK TO GET INFO ABOUT
-
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE DISK THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY RESIDES ON,INCLUDING SPACE USED AND FREE,DATESTAMP AND
- NUMBER OF ERRORS ON THE DISK.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DISPLAYDIR:
-
- DISPLAYDIR [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO REFRESH
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL UPDATE THE DISPLAY FOR THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW
- OR THE SPECIFIED WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DOPUSTOBACK:
-
- MOVE THE DIRECTORY OPUS TO THE BACK.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- DOPUSTOFRONT:
-
- MOVE THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN TO THE FRONT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- ENCRYPT:
-
- ENCRYPT [NAME] [PASSWORD]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;FILENAME
-
- PASSWORD OPTIONAL;PASSWORD TO USE
-
- HAVE YOU EVER HAD FILES THAT YOU WANTED TO ENCRYPT SO THAT ONLY PEOPLE
- WHO KNOW THE PASSWORD COULD UNDERSTAND THEM? THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU
- TO DO JUST THAT.IT WILL ENCRYPT ALL SELECTED FILES,USING A PASSWORD
- THAT YOU ENTER,WITH A COMPLEX ALGORITHM THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL FIND
- IMPOSSIBLE TO WORK OUT.THE RESULTING FILES ARE NOT WRITTEN OVER,BUT
- ARE INSTEAD WRITTEN TO THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY.THEY WILL BE THE SAME
- SIZE AS THE ORIGINAL FILES,SO YOU CAN ENSURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH ROOM IN
- THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY.TO DECRYPT A PREVIOUSLY ENCRYPTED FILE,
- YOU SHOULD ENTER THE SAME PASSWORD PRECEDED BY A MINUS SIGN.FOR EXAMPLE,
- TO DECRYPT FILES YOU ENCRYPTED WITH THE PASSWORD FOO,SELECT THE FILES,
- CHOOSE THE ENCRYPT COMMAND AND ENTER -FOO AS THE PASSWORD.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- ERRORHELP:
-
- ERRORHELP [CODE]
-
- CODE OPTIONAL;ERROR CODE
-
- THIS COMMAND GIVES YOU MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DOS ERROR CODES THAN IS
- GENERALLY AVAILABLE.WHEN YOU SELECT THIS OPTION,YOU ARE ASKED FOR THE
- DOS ERROR CODE YOU WANT HELP WITH.EXAMPLES OF DOS ERROR CODES ARE
- 123,205 AND 225.YOU ARE THEN PRESENTED WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THAT ERROR
- AND INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE POSSIBLE CAUSE AND CURE OF THE ERROR.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- EXECUTE:
-
- EXECUTE [FILENAME]
-
- FILENAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF A FILE TO EXECUTE AS A BATCH FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL ATTEMPT TO EXECUTE EACH SELECTED FILE IN TURN OR TO
- EXECUTE A SPECIFIC FILE AS A BATCH FILE.THIS HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS IF
- YOU HAD RUN THE BATCH FILE VIA ICONX,OR VIA THE EXECUTE COMMAND FROM
- THE CLI.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- FILEINFO: AREXX ONLY
-
- FILEINFO NAME [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- NAME; NAME OF FILE TO GIVE INFO FOR (MUST BE IN THE ACTIVE OR SPECIFIED
- WINDOW)
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE INFO
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET FILE FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS INFORMATION ON THE ENTRY CALLED NAME (WHICH MUST
- BE IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW).THE INFORMATION RETURNED IS SEPARATED
- BY A SEPARATOR(DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS SPACE),AND CONSISTS OF THE FILENAME,
- THE SIZE IN BYTES,THE SIZE IN BLOCKS(NOT USED YET),THE FILE TYPE (LESS
- THAN 0 INDICATES A FILE,GREATER THAN 0 INDICATES A DIRECTORY),THE SELECTED
- STATUS (BOOLEAN),THE DATE (DAYS),THE DATE (SECONDS),THE COMMENT AND
- THE PROTECTION BITS.
- THE DATE IS RETURNED AS A NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE JANUARY 1st 1978,AND AS
- THE NUMBER OF SECONDS SINCE MIDNIGHT.THE PROTECTION BITS ARE RETURNED
- IN THE FORMAT HSPARWED (WITH A - CHARACTER WHERE THE BIT IS NOT SET).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILE
-
- FINISHSECTION:
-
- INTERNAL ONLY.
-
- THE FINISHSECTION COMMAND FORCES ANY PRECEDING PROGRAMS (AMIGADOS,
- WORKBENCH,BATCH OR AREXX) TO EXECUTING BEFORE CARRYING ON TO THE NEXT
- COMMAND.THE NEXT COMMAND NEED NOT BE A DIRECTORY OPUS COMMAND;IT IS
- JUST MORE LIKELY THAT IT WILL BE.
- FOR INSTANCE,TO ADD A BEEP TO THE END OF THE LHARC LIST FILETYPE COMMAND,
- YOU WOULD CHANGE THE COMMAND LIST TO READ:
-
- AMIGADOS LHArc v {f}
- COMMAND FINISHSECTION
- COMMAND BEEP
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- FORMAT:
-
- FORMAT [DRIVE] [VERIFY] [QUICK] [NOICONS] [FFS] [INTER] [CACHE]
-
- DRIVE OPTIONAL;DRIVE TO FORMAT
-
- VERIFY OPTIONAL;FORMAT WITH VERIFY ON
-
- QUICK OPTIONAL;QUICK FORMAT
-
- NOICONS OPTIONAL;FORMAT WITH NO ICONS
-
- FFS OPTIONAL;FORMAT FAST FILE SYSTEM
-
- INTER OPTIONAL;FORMAT IN INTERNATIONAL MODE OS 2.0 ONLY
-
- CACHE OPTIONAL;FORMAT IN DIRECTORY CACHING MODE OS 3.0 ONLY
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO FORMAT A NEW DISK.ALL NEW DISKS NEED TO BE FORMATTED
- BEFORE THE COMPUTER CAN WRITE TO THEM.
- THE VERIFY FLAG ALLOWS YOU TO TURN VERIFY ON OR OFF.IF VERIFY IS TURNED
- OFF,GHE FORMAT PROCESS WILL BE MUCH FASTER,BUT YOU WILL NOT BE MADE AWARE
- OF ANY ERRORS THAT QCCUR.IF YOU DONT COMPLETELY TRUST YOUR DISKS,LEAVE
- VERIFY ON.THE FFS OPTION IN FORMAT ALLOWS YOU TO FORMAT A DISK TO USE
- THE FAST FILING SYSTEM OF KICKSTART 2.0.IF YOU ARE RUNNING A KICKSTART
- LESS THAN 2.0,YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO SELECT THIS OPTION TO FORMAT
- A DISK,HOWEVER,READING FFS-FORMATTED DISKS IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT 2.0
- OR GREATER.
- INTERNATIONAL MODE ALLOWS FILE AND DIRECTORY NAMES TO INCLUDE ACCENTED
- CHARACTERS.DIRECTORY CACHING MODE WILL DECREASE THE CAPACITY OF YOUR
- DISK BUT THE DIRECTORY READING SPEED WILL BE MUCH GREATER.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- FORMATBG:
-
- FORMATBG SAME AS FORMAT
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL EXECUTE FORMAT IN BACKGROUND MODE.THIS ALLOWS YOU
- TO START UP A FORMAT AND STILL USE DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UDEFINED
-
- GETALL: AREXX ONLY.
-
- GETALL [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE NAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET NAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF ALL ENTRIES
- IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,THE NAMES
- ARE SEPARATED BY A SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.YOU
- SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HANDLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALL THE ENTRIES
-
- GETDEVICES:
-
- GETDEVICES [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO PUT DEVICE LIST INTO
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW, 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1
-
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS A LIST OF ALL DEVICES,VOLUMES AND ASSIGNED
- DIRECTORIES PRESENT IN THE SYSTEM.YOU MAY THEN READ IN THESE DEVICES
- BY DOUBLE CLICKING ON THEM.YOU CAN ALSO SELECT ENTIRE DEVICES FOR
- USE WITH THE HUNT AND SEARCH COMMANDS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- GETDIRS AREXX ONLY
-
- GETDIRS [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE DIRECTORY NAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET DIRECTORY NAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF DIRECTORIES
- IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,THE NAMES
- ARE SEPARATED BY THE SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.YOU
- SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HANDLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALL THE DIRECTORY ENTRIES
-
- GETENTRY: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETENTRY NUM
-
- NUM THE ENTRY NUMBER WHOSE NAME IS TO BE RETURNED
-
- RETURNS THE FILE OR DIRECTORY NAME OF ENTRY NUMBER @NUM@.
-
- AREXX RESULTS;
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=NAME OF THE SPECIFIED ENTRY
-
- GETFILETYPE: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETFILETYPE FILENAME [TYPE]
-
- FILENAME FILE WHOSE FILETYPE IS TO BE RETURNED
-
- TYPE OPTIONAL;FORM OF FILETYPE ID (0=FILE CLASS DESCRIPTION OR
- 1=FILE CLASS ID),DEFAULTS TO 0
-
- RETUENS THE FILETYPE (IF RECOGNIZED) OF THE SPECIFIED FILE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=FILETYPE ID OF THE FILE IF FILETYPE IS KNOWN
-
- GETFILES: AREXX ONLY.
-
- GETFILES [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE FILENAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET FILENAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF ALL FILES
- IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,THE NAMES
- ARE SEPARATED BY A SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.YOU
- SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HANDLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALL THE FILE ENTRIES
-
- GETNEXTSELECTED: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETNEXTSELECTED [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET NEXT SELECTED ITEM FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS THE NAME OF THE FIRST SELECTED ENTRY (IN THE
- RESULT VARIABLE) IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.THE ENTRY IS NOT
- DESELECTED AFTERWARDS SO IF YOU DONT DESELECT IT YOURSELF,THAT IS THE
- ONLY NAME YOU WILL EVER GET RETURNED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=NAME OF THE ENTRY
-
- GETSELECTEDALL: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETSELECTEDALL [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE NAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET NAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF ALL SELECTED
- ENTRIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,THE
- NAMES ARE SEPARATED BY A SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.
- YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HANDLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALL THE SELECTED ENTRIES
-
- GETSELECTEDDIRS: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETSELECTEDDIRS [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE SELECTED DIRECTORY NAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET DIRECTORY NAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF ALL SELECTED
- DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,
- THE NAMES ARE SEPARATED BY A SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.
- YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO HANDLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALL THE SELECTED DIRECTORY ENTRIES
-
- GETSELECTEDFILES: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETSELECTEDFILES [SEPARATOR] [WIN]
-
- SEPARATOR OPTIONAL;CHARACTER USED TO SEPARATE SELECTED FILENAMES
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO GET SELECTED FILENAMES FROM
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS,IN THE RESULT VARIABLE,THE NAMES OF ALL SELECTED
- FILES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.IF SEPARATOR IS SPECIFIED,THE NAMES
- ARE SEPARATED BY A SEPARATOR.THE DEFAULT SEPARATOR IS A SPACE.YOU SHOULD
- BE PREPARED TO HANLE A LONG STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=ALLTHE SELECTED FILE ENTRIES
-
- GETSIZES:
-
- GETSIZES [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO WORK WITH.
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS WILL DISPLAY IN THE STATUS BAR THE SAME INFORMATION THAT IS DISPLAYED
- WHEN ENTRIES ARE SELECTED (NAMELY,THE NUMBER OF SELECTED FILES,DIRECTORIES
- AND BYTES,OUT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES,DIRECTORIES AND BYTES),ALONG
- WITH ONE ADDITIONAL PIECE OF INFORMATION.IF THE SELECTED ENTRIES OCCUPY
- FEWER BYTES THAN THE FREE SPACE ON THE DISK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW,ALLOWING ALL SELECTED FILES TO FIT ON THE DESTINATION DISK WERE
- THEY TO BE COPIED,A Y WILL BE DISPLAYED AFTER THE COUNT.OTHERWISE AN N
- WILL BE DISPLAYED.IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED WHEN GETSIZES IS CHOSEN,
- THE DIRECTORIES THAT DO NOT ALREADY HAVE A SIZE DISPLAYED ARE SCANNED,
- AND THE SIZE OF THE DIRECTORIES ARE CALCULATED AND DISPLAYED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- GETSTRING: AREXX ONLY
-
- GETSTRING [MESSAGE]
-
- MESSAGE OPTIONAL;TEXT FOR REQUESTER
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL OPEN A REQUESTER FOR THE USER TO ENTER TEXT INTO.IF
- A MESSAGE IS GIVEN,THAT IS USED AS A PROMPT FOR THE REQUESTER.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0 SUCCESS,1 CANCEL WAS PRESSED
- RESULT=STRING ENTERED BY USER
-
- HELP:
-
- PROVIDED A HELP FILE HAS BEEN LOADED IN,SELECTING ANY BUTTON OR MENU
- AFTER ENABLING HELP MODE WITH THIS MENU SHOULD RESULT IN THE APPEARANCE
- OF SOME HELPFUL TEXT.TO TURN HELP MODE OFF,SELECT THIS COMMAND AGAIN.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- HEXREAD:
-
- HEXREAD [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL READ THE SELECTED FILES IN THE SAME WAY AS READ,BUT
- IN HEXADECIMAL FORMAT.THIS ALLOWS YOU VIEW BINARY AND OTHER FILES CONTAINING
- NON-TEXT CHARACTERS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- HUNT:
-
- HUNT [NAME] [PATTERN]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF DIRECTORY TO HUNT
-
- PATTERN OPTIONAL;FILE PATTERN TO HUNT
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH ALL SELECTED DIRECTORIES (AND THEIR
- SUB-DIRECTORIES) FOR A SPECIFIES FILE OR FILES.A REQUESTER APPEARS ASKING
- FOR THE PATTERN TO HUNT FOR.YOU CAN USE FUL PATTERN MATCHING FOR THIS
- SEARCH.IF A FILE MATCHING THE PATTERN IS FOUND,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU
- WISH TO ENTER THE DIRECTORY CONTAINING IT,OR CONTINUE THE SEARCH.IF
- YOU ELECT TO ENTER THE DIRECTORY,THE DIRECTORY WILL BE READ AND THEN
- ALL MATCHING ENTRIES WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- ICONIFY:
-
- THIS COMMAND CLOSES THE DIRECTORY OPUS WINDOW AND SCREEN,DE-ALLOCATES
- AS MUCH MEMORY AS POSSIBLE,AND THEN OPENS A SMALL WINDOW ON THE WORKBENCH
- SCREEN.THIS IS KNOWN AS ICONIFYING,AND ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE DIRECTORY OPUS
- CONSTANTLY AVAILABLE WHILE USING THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF MEMORY.
- TO DETERMINE THE INITIAL POSITION OF THE ICONIFIED WINDOW,ESPECIALLY
- IF YOU START UP DIRECTORY OPUS IN THE ICONIFIED STATE,YOU SHOULD ICONIFY
- DIRECTORY OPUS,AND POSITION THE WINDOW AS YOU WOULD LIKE IT TO APPEAR.
- THEN RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS,AND SAVE THE CONFIGURATION (DESCRIBED LATER).
- TO RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS,SIMPE CLICK THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON IN THE
- ICONIFIED WINDOW,THE PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.IF YOU WISH TO QUIT
- DIRECTORY OPUS WITHOUT GOING BACK INTO IT,JUST CLICK THE CLOSE BUTTON
- AT THE FAR LEFT OF THE ICONIFIED WINDOW.
- IF YOU HAVE THE CONFIGURATION OPTION ICONIFY TYPE (DESCRIBED LATER)
- SET TO HIDDEN,THE ONLY WAY TO RE-ENTER DIRECTORY OPUS IS WITH THE HOTKEYS.
- THESE DEFAULT TO CTRL-SHIFT-ALT (THE CTRL KEY,THE LEFT SHIFT KEY AND
- THE LEFT ALT KEY HELD DOWN SIMULTANEOUSLY),ALTHOUGH THIS MAY BE CHANGED
- IN THE CONFIGURATION (EXPLAINED LATER).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- ICONINFO:
-
- ICONINFO [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF ICON (OR FILE WITH ICON)
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MODIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ICONS SUCH
- AS STACK SIZE,DEFAULT TOOL AND TOOL TYPES.IT OPERATES IN A SIMILAR
- FASHION TO THE INFORMATION MENU ITEM OF WORKBENCH.TO USE THIS COMMAND
- YOU MAY EITHER SELECT THE .INFO FILES THEMSELVES OR THE ACTUAL FILES
- OR DIRECTORIES THE ICONS BELONG TO.
- AREQUESTER WILL APPEAR WHEN YOU RUN THIS COMMAND ON A VALID ICON.THE
- ACTUAL APPEARANCE OF THE REQUESTER WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF
- ICON,BUT IN ALL CASES THE ACTUAL ICON IMAGERY WILL BE DISPLAYED.YOU
- CAN CLICK ON THIS IMAGE WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO DISPLAY THE
- ALTERNATIVE IMAGERY (IF IT EXISTS).
- THE REMAP COLOURS BUTTON WILL SWAP COLOURS 1 AND 2 OF THE ICON
- DISPLAYED.THIS CAN BE USEFUL TO REMAP ICONS DESIGNED UNDER OS 1.3 FOR
- USAGE UNDER OS 2.0,SINCE OS 2.0 SWAPPED THE LIGHT AND DARK COLOURS AROUND.
- THE INFORMATION DISPLAYED FOR EACH ICON IS LISTED BELOW.ONCE YOU HAVE
- MADE THE DESIRED CHANGES TO THE ICON,THE SAVE BUTTON WILL SAVE THE CHANGES
- TO DISK.THE SKIP AND CANCEL BUTTONS WILL EXIT WITHOUT MODIFYING THE
- ICON ON DISK.
-
- DRAWER ICON:
-
- FOR A DRAWER ICON YOU MAY EDIT THE DRAWERS PROTECTION BITS,COMMENT,
- AND TOOL TYPES.THE DATE OF THE LAST MODIFICATION OF THE DRAWER IS
- ALSO DISPLAYED.
-
- PROJECT ICON:
-
- FOR A PROJECT ICON YOU MAY EDIT THE PROJECTS STACK SIZE,DEFAULT TOOL
- AND TOOL TYPES.ALSO DISPLAYED ARE THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT IN BYTES
- AND THE BLOCKS,AND THE LAST MODIFICATION DATE.
-
- TOOL ICON:
-
- FOR A TOOL ICON YOU MAY EDIT THE TOOLS PROTECTION BITS,STACK SIZE,
- COMMENT AND TOOL TYPES.ALSO DISPLAYED ARE THE SIZE OF THE TOOL IN
- BYTES AND BLOCKS,AND THE LAST MODIFICATION DATE.
-
- DISK ICON:
-
- FOR THE DISK ICON YOU MAY EDIT THE DISKS DEFAULT TOOL.DISPLAYED ARE
- THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BLOCKS,AND THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS USED AND FREE.
- THE BLOCK SIZE,CREATION DATE AND DISK STATUS ARE ALSO DISPLAYED.
-
- TRASHCAN ICON:
-
- FOR A TRASHCAN ICON THE ONLY INFORMATION AVAILABLE IS THE LAST
- MODIFICATION DATE.
-
- PROTECTION BITS (WHERE APPROPRIATE) ARE MODIFIED IN THE SAME WAY AS
- WITH THE PROTECT COMMAND,EXCEPT THAT THE HIDDEN AND PURE BITS ARE
- NOT ACCEESSIBLE.
- TOOL TYPES (WHERE APPROPRITE) ARE MODIFIED IN THE SAME WAY AS FROM
- WORKBENCH.TO EDIT AN EXISTING TOOL TYPE,SIMPLY SELECT IT,AND PRESS
- RETURN WHEN YOU HAVE MODIFIED IT.TO CREATE A NEW TOOL TYPE,SELECT
- THE NEW BUTTON.TO DELETE AN EXISTING TOOL TYPE,SELECT IT AND THEN
- SELECT THE DELETE BUTTON.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- INSTALL:
-
- INSTALL [DRIVE] [FFS] [NOBOOT]
-
- DRIVE OPTIONAL;DRIVE TO INSTALL
-
- FFS OPTIONAL;INSTALL A FFS BOOTBLOCK
-
- NOBOOT OPTIONAL;MAKE DISK NON-BOOTABLE
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE A DISK BOOTABLE.ALL BOOTABLE DISKS
- HAVE SPECIAL INFORMATION WRITTEN TO THE FIRST SECTOR OF THE DISK.
- WITHOUT THIS,THE DISK WILL NOT BOOT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- INSTALLBG:
-
- SAME AS INSTALL
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL EXECUTE INSTALL IN BACKGROUND MODE.THIS ALLOWS YOU
- TO START UP A DISKCOPY AND STILL USE DIRECTORY OPUS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- LASTSAVED:
-
- THIS COMMAND CAUSES DIRECTORY OPUS TO READ THE LAST SAVED CONFIGURATION
- FILE.IF YOU HAVE MODIFIED THE CONFIGURATION,AND HAVE NOT YET SAVED IT,
- YOU ARE ASKED FOR CONFORMATION BEFORE THIS IS DONE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- LOADCONFIG:
-
- LOADCONFIG NAME
-
- NAME CONFIGURATION FILE TO LOAD
-
- LOADS THE SPECIFIED CONFIGURATION FILE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT= 0 MEANS SUCCESS, 1 MEANS SOME SORT OF FAILURE.
-
- LOADSTRINGS:
-
- LOADSTRINGS NAME
-
- NAME STRING FILE TO LOAD
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT= 0 MEANS SUCCESS, 1 MEANS SOME SORT OF FAILURE
-
- LOOPPLAY:
-
- LOOPPLAY [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- UNLIKE THE PLAY COMMAND,THE LOOPPLAY COMMAND PLAYS A SOUND FILE REPEATEDLY,
- REQUIRING A MOUSE BUTTON CLICK TO PROCEED TO THE NEXT ONE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- MAKEDIR:
-
- MAKEDIR [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF DIRECTORY
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO CREATE A NEW SUB-DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- MODIFY:
-
- MODIFY NAME VALUE
-
- NAME NAME OF ITEM TO MODIFY
-
- VALUE NEW VALUE
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE QUICK CHANGES IN CERTAIN CONFIGURATION
- OPTIONS FROM BUTTONS OR MENUS,RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH THE CONFIGURATION
- PROGRAM.THE MODIFY COMMAND ALLOWS CHANGES TO AT LEAST TWO CHARACTERISTICS
- THE NAME OF THE OPTION TO CHANGE,AND THE NEW VALUE (S) FOR IT.MOST VALUES
- ARE ACTUALLY A COMBINATION OF FLAG BITS;TO DETERMINE THE DESIRED VALUE,
- YOU SIMPLY ADD THE VALUES OF THE FLAG BITS TOGETHER.YOU CAN ALSO ADD
- AND SUBTRACT BITS.TO DO THIS,SPECIFY EACH BIT (OR COMBINATION OF
- BITS)THAT YOU WISH TO ADD OR SUBTRACT,PRECEDED BY THE APPROPRIATE
- SIGN (+ FOR ADD AND - FOR SUBTRACT).
- THE OPTIONS YOU CAN CHANGE ARE:-
-
- BANKNUMBER:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY THE BANK BEING SHOWN.
-
- BANKNUMBER NUM
-
- BUTTONROWS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO BUTTONS/BUTTON ROWS MENU.
-
- BUTTONROWS ROWS
-
- COPYFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATIONS/COPY
-
- COPYFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1= KEEP ORIGINAL DATESTAMP
- 2= KEEP ORIGINAL PROTECTION BITS
- 4= KEEP ORIGINAL COMMENT
- 8= SET ARCHIVE BIT
- 16= CHECK DESTINATION FREE SPACE.
-
- DATEFORMAT:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/DATE FORMAT
-
- DATEFORMAT FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1= AMIGADOS FORMAT (DD-MMM-YY)
- 2= INTERNATIONAL FORMAT (YY-MM-DD)
- 4= USA FORMAT (MM-DD-YY)
- 8= ENGLISH/AUSTRALIAN FORMAT (DD-MM-YY)
- 16= NAME SUBSTITUTION (TODAY,TOMORROW,ETC)
- 32= 12 HOUR CLOCK
-
- DEFAULTTOOL:
-
- THE CURRENT DEFAULT TOOL FOR PROJECT ICONS CREATED WITH ADDICON.
-
- DEFAULTTOOL TOOLNAME
-
- DELETEFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/DELETE
-
- DELETEFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = ASK BEFORE COMMENCING DELETE
- 2 = ASK BEFORE DELETING FILES
- 4 = ASK BEFORE DELETING NON-EMPTY DIRECTORIES
- 8 = SET DELETE PROTECTION BIT
-
- DIRFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/DIRECTORIES.
-
- DIRFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = ALWAYS MOVE TO EMPTY BUFFER
- 2 = USE EXALL() TO READ DIRECTORIES
- 4 = AUTO DISKCHANGE
- 8 = AUTO DISK LOAD
- 16 = SEARCH BUFFERS ON DOUBLE-CLICK
- 32 = RE-READ CHANGED OR INCOMPLETE BUFFERS
- 64 = SEARCH BUFFERS ON PARENT/ROOT OPERATION
- 128 = EXPAND PATHNAMES
-
- DISPLAYLENGTH:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/LIST FORMATS LENGTH FIELDS.
- THIS SETS THE LENGTHS OF SOME OF THE DIRECTORY LIST ITEMS.
- DISPLAYLENGTH WIN TYPE LENGTH
- WIN IS THE WINDOW TO ACT UPON (-1=CURRENT WINDOW, 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT).
-
- TYPES:
-
- 0 = NAME
- 1 = COMMENT
- 2 = FILETYPE
-
- ERRORFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/ERRORCHECK
-
- ERRORFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = DIABLE DOS REQUESTERS
- 2 = DISPLAY ERROR REQUESTER
-
- FADEDELAY:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/VIEW AND PLAYS FADE DELAY.
-
- FADEDELAY TIME
-
- FILTER:
-
- ADJUST THE GLOBAL FILENAME FILTER.IF FILEPATTERN IS NOT GIVEN THEN
- GLOBAL FILTER IS TURNED OFF.
-
- FILTER [FILEPATTERN]
-
- FONT:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/FONTS.THIS TAKES THREE VALUES;THE ID NUMBER OF
- THE FONT TO CHANGE,THE NAME OF THE NEW FONT,AND THE POINT SIZE OF
- THE FONT.
-
- FONT IDNUMBER FONT SIZE
-
- IDNUMBERS:
-
- 0 = GENERAL (8 POINT FONT)
- 1 = DIRECTORY WINDOW FONT
- 2 = TEXT VIEWER FONT
- 3 = BUTTONS
- 4 = MENUS
- 5 = STATUS BAR
- 6 = DISK NAMES
- 7 = CLOCK BAR
- 8 = REQUESTERS
- 9 = PATH FIELDS
- 10 = BUTTON ICONIFY
-
- GENERALFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/GENERAL
-
- GENERALFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 2 = DISPLAY INFO
- 8 = FILE DOUBLE CLICK
- 64 = WINDOW SLIDER ACTIVATE
- 128 = CLICK-N-CLICK DRAG
-
- HELPFILE:
-
- ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY A HELP FILE TO LOAD
-
- HELPFILE PATHNAME
-
- HIDEPATTERN:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/SHOW PATTERNS HIDEPATTERN
-
- HIDEPATTERN PATTERN
-
- ICONFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/ICONS
-
- ICONFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = CREATE ICONS WITH DIRECTORIES
- 2 = PERFORM ALL ACTIONS ON ICONS AS WELL
- 4 = SELECT ICONS AUTOMATICALLY
-
- ICONIFYFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/CLOCKS.
-
- ICONIFYFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = MEMORY MONITOR
- 2 = CPU MONITOR
- 4 = DATE
- 8 = TIME
- 16 = NO WINDOW
- 32 = APPICON
- 64 = MEMORY IN BYTES
- 128 = C: AND F:
-
- NOTE THAT NO WINDOW AND APPICON ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.IF THE TWO FLAGS
- ARE SPECIFIED TOGETHER THE RESULTS WILL BE UNPREDICTABLE.
-
- LISTFORMAT:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/LIST FORMAT.THE VALUE OF THIS IS NOT A COMBINATION
- OF FLAGS,BUT INSTEAD A LIST OF NUMBERS REPRESENTING ITEMS.
-
- LISTFORMAT WIN ITEMS
-
- WIN IS THE WINDOW TO ACT UPON (-1=CURRENT WINDOW, 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- ITEMS IS UP TO FIVE NUMBERS,WHICH INDICATE WHAT DATA IS TO BE DISPLAYED
- AND IN WHAT ORDER.
-
- ITEMS:
-
- 0 = NONE
- 1 = SIZE
- 2 = PROTECTION
- 3 = DATESTAMP
- 4 = COMMENT
- 5 = FILETYPE
-
- OUTPUTCMD:
-
- CORRESPOND TO SYSTEM/AMIGADOS/OUTPUT COMMAND.
-
- OUTPUTCMD SHELLCOMMAND
-
- OUTPUTWINDOW:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/AMIGADOS/OUTPUT WINDOW.
-
- OUTPUTWINDOW CONSOLEDEFINITION
-
- REPLACEFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/COPY
-
- REPLACEFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = ALWAYS REPLACE FILES
- 2 = NEVER REPLACE FILES
- 4 = REPLACE ONLY OLDER FILES
- 8 = ASK BEFORE REPLACING
-
- SCREENMODE:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/SCREENMODE
-
- SCREENMODE MODE
-
- MODE VALUES
-
- 1 = OPEN ON WORKBENCHS SCREEN
- 2 = OPEN A CLONE OF WORKBENCHES SCREEN
-
- UNDER OS2.0/OS3.0 OTHER MODE IDS ARE SUPPORTED.SOME COMMON MODE IDS ARE
-
-
- 32768 = HIGH RES SCREEN
- 32772 = HIGH RES LACED SCREEN
- 32800 = SUPER HIGH RES SCREEN
- 32804 = SUPER HIGH RES LACED SCREEN
- 233508 = PRODUCTIVITY SCREEN
- 233509 = PRODUCTIVITY LACED SCREEN
- 266240 = A2024 10 HZ SCREEN
- 299008 = A2024 15 HZ SCREEN
-
- SCRDEPTH:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/SCREEN MODES DEPTH.THE DEPTH CAN BE 2,3,OR
- 4 BITPLANES.THAT IS THE SAME AS FOUR,EIGHT OR SIXTEEN COLOURS.
-
- SCRDEPTH DEPTH
-
- SCREENFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/SCREEN MODE.
-
- SCREENFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = USE DEFAULT SCREEN WIDTH
- 2 = USE DEFAULT SCREEN HEIGHT
- 4 = HALF-HEIGHT SCREEN
-
- SCRCLOCKFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/CLOCKS.
-
- SCRCLOCKFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = MEMORY MONITOR
- 2 = CPU MONITOR
- 4 = DATE
- 8 = TIME
- 64 = MEMORY IN BYTES
- 128 = C: AND F:
-
- SCRH:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/SCREEN MODES HEIGHT.
-
- SCRH HEIGHT
-
- SCRW
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SCREEN/SCREEN MODES WIDTH.
-
- SCRW WIDTH
-
- SEPARATEMETHOD:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/LIST FORMATS CYCLE BUTTON.
-
- SEPARATEMETHOD WIN METHOD
-
- WIN IS THE WINDOW TO ACT UPON (-1=CURRENT WINDOW, 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT).
-
- METHODS:
-
- 0 = MIX FILES AND DIRECTORIES
- 1 = DISPLAYS DIRECTORIES FIRST
- 2 = DISPLAYS FILES FIRST
-
- SHOWDELAY:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/VIEW AND PLAYS SHOW DELAY.
-
- SHOWDELAY DELAY.
-
- SHOWFREEFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/DIRECTORY FLAGS.
-
- SHOWFREEFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = BYTES FREE
- 2 = KILO/MEGABYTES FREE
- 4 = BLOCKS FREE
- 8 = PRECENTAGE OF SPACE FREE
-
- THESE BITS ARE MUTUALY EXCLUSIVE.IF MORE THAN ONE IS SPECIFIED AT
- A TIME THE RESULTS WILL BE UNPREDICTABLE.
-
- SHOWPATBITS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/SHOW PATTERNS HIDDEN BIT FLAG.
-
- SHOWPATBITS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = HIDE FILES WITH HIDDEN BIT SET.
-
- SHOWPATTERN:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/SHOW PATTERNS SHOW PATTERN
-
- SHOWPATTERN PATTERN
-
- SORTFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/LIST FORMATS SORT FLAG.
-
- SORTFLAGS FLAG
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = REVERSE SORT IN THE LEFT WINDOW
- 2 = REVERSE SORT IN THE RIGHT WINDOW
-
- SORTMETHOD:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/LIST FORMATS CHECKED SORT ITEM.
-
- SORT METHOD WIN ITEM
-
- WIN IS THE WINDOW TO ACT UPON (-1=CURRENT WINDOW, 0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT).
-
- ITEMS:
-
- 0 = NAME
- 1 = SIZE
- 2 = PROTECTION
- 3 = DATESTAMP
- 4 = COMMENT
- 5 = FILETYPE
-
-
- UPDATEFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO OPERATION/UPDATE.
-
- UPDATEFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = UPDATE FREE DISK SPACE
- 2 = SCROLL DIRECTORY WINDOW TO FOLLOW OPERATIONS
- 4 = REDRAW MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A PAGE
- 8 = DIRECTORY REFRESH USING STARTNOTIFY ()
- 16 = LEFT-JUSTIFY FILENAME IN STATUS BAR
- 32 = DISPLAY PROGRESS INDICATOR
-
- VIEWPLAYFLAGS:
-
- CORRESPONDS TO SYSTEM/VIEW AND PLAY.
-
- VIEWPLAYFLAGS FLAGS
-
- FLAGS:
-
- 1 = BLACK BACKGROUND BETWEEN PICTURES
- 2 = TURN AUDIO FILTER OFF FOR 8SVX PLAY
- 4 = 8-BITS PER GUN COLOUR
- 8 = LOOPPLAY 8SVX SOUND FILE ON DOUBLE CLICK
- 16 = TEXT VIEW BORDERS
- 32 = START ANIMATIONS PAUSED
-
- WINDOWSIZE:
-
- ADJUSTS THE PLACEMENT OF THE CENTRE BAR OF DIRECTORY OPUS DIRECTORY
- WINDOWS.
-
- WINDOWSIZE OFFSET
-
- ANY MODIFY COMMAND THAT CHANGE DISPLAY CHARACTERISTICS (SCREEN SIZE,
- MODE AND DEPTH,LIST FORMAT,ETC) WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL YOU EXECUTE
- THE REDRAW COMMAND.FOR COMMANDS THAT ONLY CHANGE DIRECTORY DISPLAY
- CHARACTERISTICS,YOU USE THE DISPLAYDIR COMMAND TO UPDATE THE DIRECTORY
- DISPLAY.SOME MODIFICATIONS (LIKE DATE FORMAT,HIDE AND SHOW PATTERNS,
- ETC) WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL THE DIRECTORY IS ACTUALLY RE-READ
- ( FOR INSTANCE,WHEN THE RESCAN COMMAND IS USED).FOR EXAMPLE,YOU COULD
- HAVE TWO BUTTONS CONFIGURED TO SWITCH BETWEEN A HIGH RES SCREEN WITH
- 8 COLOURS,AND A HIGH RES INTERLACED SCREEN WITH 4 COLOURS.THE DEFINITIONS
- FOR THESE BUTTONS MIGHT BE:
-
- LACEON -COMMAND MODIFY SCREENMODE 32772
- COMMAND MODIFY SCRDEPTH 2
- COMMAND REDRAW
-
- LACEOFF-COMMNAD MODIFY SCREENMODE 32768
- COMMAND MODIFY SCRDEPTH 3
- COMMAND REDRAW
-
- AS ANOTHER EXAMPLE,YOU MIGHT WISH TO CHANGE THE LEFT WINDOW TO BE SORTED
- BY DATE,BUT TO LEAVE THE RIGHT WINDOW ALONE.FOR THIS,YOU WOULD HAVE THE
- COMMAND:
-
- COMMANND MODIFY SORTFLAGS 0 3
- COMMAND RESCAN 0
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- MOVE:
-
- MOVE [NAME] [DESTINATION]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- DESTINATION OPTIONAL;DESTINATION PATH
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO MOVE ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES FROM THE
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW TO THE INACTIVE WINDOW.THE FILE OR DIRECTORY
- WILL BE COPIED TO THE DESTINATION,AND THE ORIGINAL WILL BE DELETED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- MOVEAS:
-
- MOVEAS [NAME] [NEW NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- NEW NAME OPTIONAL;NEW FILE NAME
-
- THIS COMMAND MOVES ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES FROM THE ACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW TO THE INACTIVE WINDOW,AND ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY A
- NEW NAME FOR EACH FILE OR DIRECTORY.THE FILE OR DIRECTORY WILL BE COPIED
- TO THE DESTINATION UNDER THE NEW NAME,AND THE ORIGINAL WILL BE DELETED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- NEWCLI:
-
- NEWCLI [HANDLE]
-
- HANDLE OPTIONAL;CLI CONSOLE HANDLE TO USE.
-
- THIS COMMAND OPENS A CLI FROM WITHIN DIRECTORY OPUS,USING THE OUTPUT
- WINDOW DEFINED IN THE CONFIGURATION.THE NEW CLI WILL BE SEPARATE FROM
- DIRECTORY OPUS,SO TO END THE CLI YOU MUST TYPE ENDCLI,AS USUAL.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- NEXTDRIVES:
-
- THIS COMMAND SIMPLY FLIPS TO THE NEXT BANK OF DRIVE BUTTONS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- NONE:
-
- THIS COMMAND DESELECTS ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFININED
-
- OTHERWINDOW:
-
- THIS IS THE SAME AS PRESSING THE SPACE BAR,AND ACTIVATES THE INACTIVE
- DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT= 0 LEFT WINDOW IS NOW ACTIVE,1 RIGHT WINDOW IS NOW ACTIVE.
-
- PARENT:
-
- PARENT [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO DO A PARENT OF
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS WILL READ THE PARENT DIRECTORY OF THE DIRECTORY OPEN IN THE ACTIVE
- OR SPECIFIED DIRECTORY WINDOW.THERE ARE ALSO TWO HIDDEN PARENT BUTTONS;
- ONE FOR EACH DIRECTORY WINDOW.THEY ARE HIDDEN IN THE OUTERMOST BORDERS
- (ON THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN AND THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN)OF THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOWS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- PATTERNMATCH:
-
- PATTERNMATCH PATTERN STRING
-
- PATTERN PATTERN STRING
-
- STRING STRING TO MATCH TO PATTERN
-
- THIS WILL RETURRN A BOOLEAN VALUE TO INDICATE WHETHER THE SUPPLIED
- STRING MATCHES THE SUPPLIED PATTERN (WHICH MAY INCLUDE FULL WILDCARDS)
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 IF STRING DOES NOT MATCH,1 IF IT DOES.
-
- PLAY:
-
- PLAY [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS WILL ATTEMPT TO PLAY EACH SELECTED FILE.IF THE FILE IS AN 8SVX
- FORMAT IFF SAMPLED SOUND (OF THE TYPE GENERATED BY AUDIO MASTER,FOR
- INSTANCE),THE SPEED AND OTHER INFORMATION FROM WITHIN THE FILE WILL
- BE USED.THE PLAY ROUTINE PLAYS BOTH MONO AND STEREO IFF 8SVX FILES.
- WHEN PLAYING A FILE THAT IS NOT IFF 8SVX,IT WILL ASSUME A SPEED OF
- 10000 SAMPLES/SECOND.THIS COMMAND ALSO PLAYS SONG MODULES.SEE PLAYST
- FOR MORE INFORMATION.EACH FILE IS PLAYED ONCE ONLY,UNLIKE THE LOOPPLAY
- COMMAND,WHICH PLAYS EACH FILE CONTINUOUSLY.IF THE SYSTEM/VIEW/PLAY/TURN
- AUDIO FILTER OFF OR FOR PLAY OPTION IS SELECTED,THE HIGH PASS FILTER
- WILL BE TURNED OFF WHILE A SOUND IS PLAYING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- PLAYST:
-
- PLAYST [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- PLAY A SONG MODULE.DIRECTORY OPUS SUPPORTS SOUND/NOISE/PROTRACKER,
- OKTALIZER AND MED MODULES.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- PRINT:
-
- PRINT [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THE PRINT ROUTINE IS A FULL FEATURED TEXT FORMATTER.
- YOU CAN HAVE A HEADER AND/OR FOOTER PRINTED AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF
- EACH PAGE IF YOU WISH.BOTH THE HEADER AND FOOTER CAN CONSIST OF THE TITLE,
- THE CURRENT DATE AND THE PAGE NUMBER.YOU MAY SELECT ANY COMBINATION
- OF TITLE,DATE AND PAGE NUMBER YOU WISH.IF NONE ARE SELECTED,THE HEADER
- OR FOOTER IS NOT PRINTED.
- YOU MAY ALSO SELECT THE TYPESTYLE OF THE HEADER AND THE FOOTER,BY CLICKING
- ON THE BUTTONS THAT INITIALLY SAY NORMAL.THESE ALLOW YOU TO CYCLE THROUGH
- THE VARIOUS TYPESTYLES AVAIABLE:NORMAL,BOLD,ITALICS,UNDERLINE,DOUBLESTRIKE
- AND SHADOW.NOTE THAT SOME PRINTERS MAY NOT HAVE ALL THESE TYPESTYLES
- AVAILABLE.
- YOU MAY ENTER A TITLE (TO BE USED IN THE HEADER AND FOOTER)IN THE TITLE
- STRING FIELD.LEAVING THIS BLANK WILL CAUSE THE NAME OF THE FILE TO BE
- USED AS A TITLE.
- THE OUTPUT FIELD ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHERE YOU WANT THE OUTPUT OF THE
- PRINT PROCESS TO GO.THIS DEFAULTS TO PRT:,BUT YOU MAY CHOOSE TO HAVE
- THE OUTPUT SENT TO A DISK FILE.IN THIS CASE,SIMPLY ENTER THE PATH AND
- THE NAME OF THE FILE YOU WISH TO PRINT TO.
- THE CYCLE BUTTON LABELED QUALITY ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY WHETHER ALL TEXT
- IS PRINTED IN DRAFT MODE OR NLQ MODE.
- THE BUTTON BELOW THAT DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT THE LAST PAGE OF THE FILE
- TO BE PRINTED IS FOLLOWED BY A FORMFEED CHARACTER,WHICH WOULD CAUSE
- IT TO BE EJECTED.
- TO START THE PRINT OPERATION,SELECT THE PRINT BUTTON.
- THIS COMMAND WILL PRINT ALL SELECTED FILES,ONE AT A TIME.IF YOU SELECT
- ONLY ONE FILE TO PRINT,THEPRINT ROUTINE WILL BE STARTED UP AS A SEPARATE
- PROCESS,ALLOWING YOU TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH DIRECTORY OPUS.TO CANCEL
- THIS TYPE OF PRINT,SELECT THE PRINT COMMAND AGAIN.A REQUESTER WILL APPEAR
- AASKING IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THE PRINT OR HALT IT.THIS REQUESTER
- WILL ALSO APPEAR IF YOU ATTEMPT TO QUIT DIRECTORY OPUS WHILE A PRINT
- OPERATION IS IN PLACE,AS YOU CANNOT QUIT UNTIL THE PRINT HAS FINISHED.
- TO CANCEL A PRINT JOB THAT HAS NOT BEEN SENT TO THE PRINTER YET,SIMPLY
- PRESS THE LEFT AND RIGHT MOUSE BUTTONS IN THE NORMAL WAY.
- EVEN IF YOU ABORT A PRINT,THE PRINTER MAY NOT ACTUALLY STOP FOR SOMETIME.
- THIS IS BECAUSE MOST PRINTERS HAVE PRINT BUFFERS,SOME QUITE LARGE ONES,
- WHICH MUST EMPTY THE DATA THEY HAVE STORED INTO THE PRINTER FIRST.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- PRINTDIR:
-
- PRINTDIR [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WIDOW TO SCAN THE BUFFER LIST INTO
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO PRINT THE DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.YOU ARE ABLE TO CHOOSE THE INFORMATION YOU WANT TO PRINT (FILE
- SIZES,PROTECTION BITS,DATES AND COMMENTS).THIS COMMAND IS NOT STARTED
- AS A SEPARATE PROCESS,UNLIKE THE PRINT COMMAND.PRINTDIR ALSO ALLOWS YOU
- TO SPECIFY THE OUTPUT FILE TO WHICH THE DIRECTORY IS TO BE PRINTED.
- THIS CAN BE PRT: (I.E.,YOUR PRINTER,THE DEFAULT)OR A DISK FILE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- PROTECT:
-
- PROTECT [NAME] [BITS]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- BITS OPTIONAL;BITS TO SET ON GIVEN FILE
-
- THE PROTECT COMMAND NOW ALLOWS YOU TO SPECIFY BIT-MASKING.THIS LETS
- YOU MASK SOME BITS AS UNTOUCHABLE.YOU CAN SELECTIVELY ADD OR REMOVE
- CERTAIN BITS WHILE LEAVING OTHER BITS IN THEIR ORIGINAL STATE.
- TO SELECT A MASK,CLICK ON THE CHARACTERS FOLLOWING THE MASK:STRING.
- IF A MASK BIT IS TURNED ON,ITS CHARACTER EQUIVALENT WILL BE DISPLAYED;
- OTHERWISE A HYPHEN (-) CHARACTER WILL BE DISPLAYED.NO MASK BITS THAT
- ARE TUNED ON WILL BE MODIFIED DURING THE PROTECTION OPERATION.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- QUERY:
-
- QUERY ITEM [WIN]
-
- ITEM CONFIGURATION ITEM TO QUERY
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW ARGUMENT THAT SOME ITEMS NEED
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- RETURNS THE CURRENT VALUE OF A SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION ITEM.THESE ITEMS
- ARE DESCRIBED IN THE MODIFY COMMAND.ANY ITEM THAT CAN BE MODIFIED CAN
- BE QUERIED.
- SEVERAL OF THE CONFIGURATION ITEMS NEED AN ADDITIONAL WINDOW ARGUMENT.
- THESE ARE LISTFORMAT,DISPLAYLENGTH,SORTMETHOD AND SEPARATEMETHOD.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=CURRENT VALUE OF THE SPECIFIED ITEM
-
- QUIT:
-
- QUIT [FORCE]
-
- FORCE OPTIONAL;DO NOT ASK USER FOR CONFIRMATION.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL EXIT DIRECTORY OPUS (PROVIDING THERE IS NOT A PRINT
- OPERATION HAPPENING AT THE TIME).IF THE CONFIGURATION HAS BEEN MODIFIED
- AND NOT SAVED,YOU ARE ASKED IF YOU WISH TO SAVE IT FIRST.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- READ:
-
- READ [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO READ SELECTED FILES.AT THE BOTTOM OF THE
- SCREEN THE NAME OF THE FILE IS DISPLAYED,ALONG WITH THE CURRENT POSITION
- WITHIN THE FILE IN LINES AND AS A PERCENTAGE,AND ALSO THE TOTAL NUMBER
- OF LINES IN THE FILE.
- THE MOUSE IS USED TO MOVE THROUGH THE FILE.PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON
- TO TURN SCROLLING ON OR OFF.THE DIRECTION OF THE SCROLL IS GOVERNED
- BY THE POSITION OF THE MOUSE POINTER IN THE WINDOW.THE MOUSE POINTER
- WILL BECOME INVISIBLE WHILE THE TEXT IS SCROLLING.
- NO SCROLLING OCCURS IF YOU HAVE THE MOUSE IN THE CENTRE OF THE WINDOW.
- TO SCROLL FORWARD,MOVE THE MOUSE DOWN UNTIL THE TEXT STARTS TO SCROLL.
- THE FURTHER DOWN YOU MOVE THE MOUSE,THE FASTER THE TEXT WILL SCROLL.
- THIS PROCEDURE IS REVERSED FOR BACKWARDS SCROLLING.
- THE BUTTONS IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT OF THE SCREEN ALSO ALLOW YOU TO MOVE
- AROUND THE FILE.MOST BUTTONS WILL REPEAT IF HELD DOWN FOR ANY LENGTH
- OF TIME.
- THE UP AND DOWN ARROWS MOVE UP AND DOWN A LINE AT A TIME.THE U AND D
- BUTTONS MOVE UP AND DOWN A PAGE AT A TIME.THE T AND B BUTTONS MOVE TO
- THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE FILE.
- YOU CAN ALSO USE THE CURSOR KEYS TO MOVE UP AND DOWN.AS BEFORE,IN
- CONJUNCTION WITH SHIFT THESE KEYS WILL MOVE A PAGE AT A TIME,AND IN
- CONJUNCTION WITH CTRL THEY WILL MOVE TO THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE
- FILE.
- TO JUMP TO A SPECIFIED LINE,CLICK ON THE NUMBER SHOWING THE CURRENT
- LINE POSITION (IMMEDIATELY TO THE LEFT OF THE WORD LINES).YOU CAN
- ALSO PRESS THE J KEY.TO JUMP TO A SPECIFIED PERCENTAGE,CLICK ON THE
- NUMBER IMMEDIATELY TO THE LEFT OF THE % SIGN.
- TO SEARCH FOR A STRING,CLICK ON THE S BUTTON OR PRESS THE S KEY.YOU
- CAN USE FULL PATTERN MATCHING IN THIS SEARCH.
- TO PRINT THE CURRENT FILE,CLICK ON THE P BUTTON (OR PRESS THE P KEY).
- TO PRINT ONLY THE CURRENT PAGE,PRESS THE C KEY (THIS HAS NO BUTTON
- EQUIVALENT).
- TO LEAVE THE TEXT VIEWER,CLICK ON THE X BUTTON,OR PRESS EITHER X,Q
- OR ESC.
- IF MORE THAN ONE FILE WAS SELECTED,THE NEXT ONE WILL BE READ WHEN YOU
- EXIT.TO EXIT WITHOUT READING THE NEXT FILE,PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE
- BUTTON.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- REDRAW:
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL COMPLETELY REDRAW THE DIRECTORY OPUS SCREEN.THE
- SCREEN IS CLOSED AND THEN RE-OPENED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- RELABEL:
-
- RELABEL [DEVICE NEWNAME]
-
- DEVICE OPTIONAL;DEVICE TO RELABEL
-
- NEWNAME NEW NAME TO GIVE SELECTED DEVICE
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE NAME (LABEL) OF THE DISK THAT
- IS OPEN IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- REMEMBER:
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO MAKE TEMPORARY CHANGES WITH THE MODIFY
- COMMAND,AND THEN RESTORE ALL THE SETTINGS LATER.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- REMOVEENTRY:
-
- REMOVEENTRY NUMBER SHOW
-
- NUMBER NUMBER OF ENTRY TO REMOVE
-
- SHOW BOOLEAN INDICATES WHETHER TO UPDATE DISPLAY
-
- REMOVES AN ENTRY BY ORDINAL NUMBER
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 ENTRY WAS NOT FOUND,1 ENTRY WAS FOUND AND REMOVED
-
- REMOVEFILE:
-
- REMOVEFILE NAME SHOW
-
- NAME OF THE FILE ENTRY TO REMOVE
-
- SHOW BOOLEAN INDICATES WHETHER TO UPDATE DISPLAY
-
- THIS COMMAND REMOVES THE SPECIFIED ENTRY FROM THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW,AND RETURNS A BOOLEAN INDICATING WHETHER THE ENTRY WAS FOUND
- AND REMOVED.SHOW IS A BOOLEAN VALUE INDICATING WETHER YOU WANT THE
- DISPLAY UPDATED OR NOT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 ENTRY WAS NOT FOUND,1 ENTRY WAS FOUND AND REMOVED
-
- RENAME:
-
- RENAME [NAME NEWNAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- NEWNAME TO GIVE TO SELECTED FILE
-
- THIS ALLOWS YOU TO RENAME ALL SELECTED FILES AND DIRECTORIES.YOU MAY
- USE A * TO SPECIFY A PATTERN.IF NO * IS USED,YOU ARE ASKED FOR A NEW
- NAME FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL FILE.
- TO ADD A PREFIX OR A SUFFIX (OR BOTH) TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES,USE *
- IN THE SECOND STRING FIELD.FOR EXAMPLE,TO ADD HIRES AS A PREFIX AND
- .PIC AS A SUFFIX TO ALL SELECTED ENTRIES,ENTER HIRES*.PIC.
- TO CHANGE A PREFIX OR SUFFIX (OR BOTH) OF ALL SELECTED ENTRIES,USE
- A * IN THE TOP STRING FIELD.FOR EXAMPLE,TO CHANGE HIRES TO MEDRES
- AS A PREFIX,AND .PIC TO .IFF AS A SUFFIX,ENTER HIRES*.PIC IN THE TOP
- STRING FIELD,AND MEDRES*.IFF IN THE BOTTOM STRING FIELD.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- REQUEST:
-
- REQUEST MESSAGE
-
- MESSAGE TEXT TO PRINT IN THE REQUESTER
-
- DISPLAYS REQUESTER WITH GIVEN MESSAGE TEXT
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 CANCEL WAS SELECTED,1 OKAY WAS SELECTED
-
- RESCAN:
-
- RESCN [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO RESCAN
-
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS CAUSES THE DIRECTORY IN THE ACTIVE WINDOW TO BE RE-READ.THIS
- HAS EXACTLY THE SAME EFFECT AAS ACTIVATING THE DIRECTORY STRING
- FIELD AND PRESSING RETURN,WITHOUT MODIFING THE DIRECTORY NAME.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- RESELECT:
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL RESELECT ALL ENTRIES THAT WERE SELECTED BEFORE THE
- LAST OPEERATION WAS INITIATED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- RESTORE:
-
- THIS COMMAND IS USED TO RESTORE THE PREVIOUSLY REMEMBERED SETTINGS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- ROOT:
-
- ROOT [WIN]
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO SCAN THE BUFFER LIST INTO
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND READS THE ROOT DIRECTORY OF THE ACTIVE OR SPECIFIED
- DIRECTORY WINDOW.
- THERE ARE TWO HIDDEN ROOT BUTTONS;ONE FOR EACH DIRECTORY WINDOW.
- THEY ARE HIDDEN IN THE OUTERMOST BORDERS (ON THE LEFT OF THE SCREEN
- AND THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN) OF THE DIRECTORY WINDOWS.WITH THE LEFT
- MOUSE BUTTON,THESE BUTTONS PERFORM THE PARENT COMMAND;WHEN SELECTED
- WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON THEY WILL LOAD THE ROOT DIRECTORY.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- RUN:
-
- RUN [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO RUN EACH SELECTED FILE IN TURN,PROVIDING
- THAT FILE IS EXECUTABLE.THIS WILL HAVE MUCH THE SAME EFFECT AS IF YOU
- HAD DOUBLE-CLICKED ON THE FILES ICON,OR RUN IT FROM THE CLI. A REQUESTER
- WILL APPEAR,ASKING FOR ARGUMENTS (SHOULD THE PROGRAM REQUIRE ANY).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SAVECONFIG:
-
- SAVECONFIG [FILENAME]
-
- FILENAME OPTIONAL;CONFIGURATION FILE TO SAVE TO
-
- THIS COMMAND SAVES THE CONFIGURATION TO THE FILE THAT IT WAS READ
- FROM INITIALLY.
-
- SCANDIR:
-
- SCANDIR PATH [WIN]
-
- PATH PATH TO READ
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO READ DIRECTORY INTO
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO READ A DIRECTORY IN MUCH THE SAME WAY AS
- THE DRIVE BUTTONS.FOR EXAMPLE:
-
- COMMAND SCANDIR DH0:WORK
- WOULD READ THE DH0:WORK DIRECTORY INTO THE CURRENT WINDOW.
- ONE USAGE OF THIS ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE AN ENTIRE BANK OF BUTTONS
- DEVOTED TO "DRIVE BUTTONS".YOU COULD THEN SET UP A BUTTON ON
- EVERY OTHER BANK THAT WOULD,USING THE MODIFY COMMAND,JUMP TO THAT
- BANK.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SCROLLH:
-
- SCROLLH CHARS [WIN]
-
- CHARS CHARACTERS TO SCROLL
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO SCROLL
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS WILL SCROLL THE DIRECTORY WINDOW HORIZONTALLY BY THE SPECIFIED
- NUMBER OF CHARACTERS (EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=NEW HORIZONTAL POSITION
-
- SCROLLTOSHOW:
-
- SCROLLTOSHOW ENTRY [WIN]
-
- ENTRY ENTRY TO MAKE VISIBLE.MAY BE EITHER A NAME OR WILDCARD
- PATTERN,OR THE ORDINAL NUMBER OF THE DESIRED ENTRY.
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO SCROLL
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO-1.
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL TRY TO SCROLL THE SPECIFIED ENTRY INTO VIEW.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 IF ENTRY WAS NOT FOUND,1 IF IT WAS FOUND.
-
- SCROLLV:
-
- SCROLLV LINES [WIN]
-
- LINES LINES TO SCROLL
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO SCROLL
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- THIS WILL SCROLL THE DIRECTORY WINDOW VERTICALLY BY THE SPECIFIED
- NUMBER OF LINES (EITHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=NEW VERTICAL POSITION
-
- SEARCH:
-
- SEARCH [NAME] [PATTERN] [UCNIC] [WILD] [BYWORD]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- PATTERN OPTIONAL;TEXT PATTERN TO SEARCH FOR
-
- UCNIC OPTIONAL;UPPERCASE CHARACTERS DOES NOT EQUAL LOWERCASE
- CHARACTERS.
-
- WILD OPTIONAL;PATTERN CONTAINS WILDCARD CHARACTERS
-
- BYWORD OPTIONAL;MATCH ONLY WHOLE WORDS
-
- THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH ALL SELECTED FILES FOR A SPECIFIED
- STRING,WHICH MAY CONTAIN WILDCARDS.IF A MATCH IS FOUND YOU ARE TOLD
- WHICH FILE CONAINS THE STRING,AND YOU ARE GIVEN THE OPTION TO ENTER
- THE TEXT VIEWER AND READ THE FILE.IF YOU OPT TO DO THIS,A SEARCH FOR
- THE STRING IS AUTOMATICALLY INITIATED ONCE THE FILE HAS BEEN READ
- BY THE TEXT VIEWER.IF ANY DIRECTORIES ARE SELECTED,ALL THE FILES
- WITHIN THOSE DIRECTORIES ARE ALSO SEARCHED.
- THE FLAGS UCNIC,WILD AND BYWORD ARE OFF BY DEFAULT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SELECT:
-
- SELECT [PATTERN] [ONLYFILES] [ONLYDIR] [NAME] [DATE] [PROTECTION]
-
- PATTERN OPTIONAL;PATTERN TO SELECT BY
-
- ONLYFILES OPTIONAL;SELECT ONLY FILES,DEFAULTS TO BOTH FILES AND
- DIRECTORIES.
-
- ONLYDIRS OPTIONAL;SELECT ONLY DIRECTORIES
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;MATCH ON NAME,(DEFAULT)
-
- DATE OPTIONAL;MATCH ON DATE
-
- PROTECTION OPTIONAL;MATCH ON PROTECTION BITS
-
- QHEN USED IN NAME MODE (DEFAULT) THIS COMMAND ALLOWS YOU TO SELECT
- FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW USING WILDCARDS.
- ALL STANDARD WILDCARDS ARE SUPPORTED #.?,|,%,(,),[,],*,~ AND `.
- WHEN USED IN DATE MODE YOU CAN SELECT ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES CREATED
- OR MODIFIED ON A CERTAIN DATE ONLY.SIMPLY ENTER THAT DATE (E.G.,28-MAR-90
- WOULD SELECT ALL ENTRIES WITH DATESTAMPS SET TO ANY TIME ON THE 28th OF
- MARCH,1990).YOU CAN ALSO USE WORDS LIKE YESTERDAY,TODAY,TUESDAY,ETC.
- YOU CAN ALSO SPECIFY A SPECIFIC TIME.SIMPLY ENTER THE TIME (IN THE
- FORMAT HH:MM:SS).IF YOU ENTER A TIME,HOWEVER,THE DATESTAMP MUST MATCH
- THAT TIME EXACTLY FOR THE ENTRY TO BE SELECTED.IF YOU ENTER A TIME BUT
- NOT A DATE IT WILL SELECT FILES CREATED TODAY THAT MATCH THAT TIME.
- YOU CAN ALSO SELECT A RANGE OF DATES.FOR INSTANCE,TO SELECT ALL ENTRIES
- CREATED OR MODIFIED BETWEEN THE 18TH OF APRIL 1989 AND THE 22ND OF
- SEPTEMBER 1991,YOU WOULD ENTER:
-
- 18-APR-89 > 22-SEP-91
-
- THE > CHARACTER DOES NOT IN THIS CASE SIGNIFY "GREATER THAN";IT SIMPLY
- INDICATES A RANGE OF DATES.IT MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE SPACE ON EITHER
- SIDE OF IT.TO SELECT ALL FILES FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME TO,FOR
- INSTANCE,THE 3RD OF JANUARY 1990,YOU WOULD ENTER: > 3-JAN-91
- TO SELECT ALL FILES FROM,FOR EXAMPLE,THE 12TH OF JULY,1983 TO THE
- CURRENT DATE (TODAY) YOU WOULD ENTER: 12-JUL-83 > YOU MAY ALSO
- SPECIFY TIMES WHEN ENTERING DATE RANGES.IF USED IN PROTECT BIT MODE
- YOU MAY SPECIFY PROTECTION BITS THAT ARE ALLOWED TO BE SET,AND BITS
- THAT ARE NOT.IF A BIT OR GROUP OF BITS IS ALLOWED TO BE SET,PRECEDE
- IT WITH A + CHARACTER.IF A BIT OR GROUP OF BITS IS NOT ALLOWED TO BE
- SET,PRECEDE IT WITH A - CHARACTER.THE INITIAL + CHARACTER IS ASSUMED.
- FOR INSTANCE,TO SELECT ALL READABLE AND WRITABLE FILES,YOU WOULD SIMPLY
- ENTER: RW OR,YOU COULD ENTER +RW. BOTH THESE WOULD HAVE THE SAME EFFECT.
- TO EXPAND UPON THIS,AND SELECT ALL READABLE AND WRITABLE FILES,BUT NOT
- THOSE THAT HAVE THE HIDDEN OR ARCHIVE BITS SET,YOU WOULD ENTER:
- RW-HA
- OR,TOSELECT FILES THAT DO NOT HAVE THE BITS SPED SET,YOU WOULD ENTER
- -SPED
- THE SELECT COMMAND IS ADDITIVE;I.E.,ENTRIES NOT MATCHING THE GIVEN
- PATTERN ARE NOT DESELECTED.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SELECTENTRY:
-
- SELECTENTRY NUMBER
-
- NUMBER ORDINAL NUMBER OF ENTRY TO SELECT
-
- STATE OPTIONAL;SELECTION STATE
- (-1=TOGGLES,0=UNSELECT AND 1=SELECT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- SHOW OPTIONAL;BOOLEAN INDICATING WHETHER TO UPDATE DISPLAY
-
- SELECTS AN ENTRY IN THE ACTIVE WINDOW
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=PREVIOUS SELECT STATUS OF ENTRY OR -1 IF IT COULD BE FOUND
-
- SELECTFILE:
-
- SELECTFILE NAME [STATE] [SHOW]
-
- NAME NAME OF ENTRY TO SELECT
-
- STATE OPTIONAL;SELECTION STATE
- (-1=TOGGLES,0=UNSELECT AND 1=SELECT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- SHOW OPTIONAL;BOOLEAN INDICATING WHETHER TO UPDATE DISPLAY
-
- THIS COMMAND WILL SELECT THE ENTRY SPECIFIED BY FILENAME,AS IF IT HAD
- JUST BEEN CLICKED ON.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=PREVIOUS SELECT STATUS OF FILE OR -1 IF IT COULD NOT BE FOUND
-
- SETWINTITLE:
-
- SETWINTITLE TITLE [WIN]
-
- TITLE TITLE STRING TO USE
-
- WIN OPTIONAL;WINDOW TO MODIFY
- (-1=CURRENT WINDOW,0=LEFT OR 1=RIGHT)
- DEFAULTS TO -1.
-
- SETS TITLE OF ACTIVE OR SPECIFIED WINDOW TO GIVEN STRING.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SHOW:
-
- SHOW [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND IS VERY VERSATILE INDEED.IT WILL DISPLAY IFF ILBM PICTURES
- AND BRUSHES,WORKBENCH ICONS AND FONTS.
- IF THE FILE IS AN IFF ILBM,IT WILL BE DISPLAYED USING INFORMATION FROM
- THE FILE.DIRECTORY OPUS WILL CORRECTLY SHOW MOST PICTURES AND BRUSHES,
- INCLUDING OVERSCAN,EXTRA HALFBRITE (EHB),HAM PICTURES (4096 COLOURS),
- AND THE NEW AGA DISPLAY MODES OF THE A4000 AND A1200,INCLUDING HAM8
- WITH 262144 COLOURS AT ONCE.IF THE PICTURE CONTAINS COLOUR CYCLING
- INFORMATION,PRESSING TAB WILL TOGGLE COLOUR CYCLING ON OR OFF.YOU CAN
- PRESS P TO PRINT THE PICTURE.SHOULD YOU WISH THE MOUSE POINTER TO BE
- VISIBLE (IN ORDER TO POINT AT SOME PART OF THE PICTURE,FOR INSTANCE),
- PRESS THE . (PERIOD) KEY.THE SHOW ROUTINE WILL ALSO DISPLAY ICONS.IF
- THE FILE HAS A .INFO SUFFIX IT IS ASSUMED TO BE AN ICON.IF THE ICON
- HAS AN ALTERNATIVE IMAGE,PRESSING RETURN WILL TOGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO.
- TO DISPLAY A FONT,YOU NEED TO ENTER THE ACTUAL FONT DRAWER,AND SHOW
- THE SIZE FILE.THAT IS,THE FILE 8,12,19,ETC,NOT THE .FONT FILE.
- IF YOU PRESS THE HELP KEY WHILE VIEWING A PICTURE,FONT OR ICON,A SCREEN
- WILL APPEAR SHOWING INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT.YOU CAN
- ALSO PRINT WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SMARTREAD:
-
- SMARTREAD [NAME]
-
- NAME OPTIONAL;NAME OF FILE
-
- THIS COMMAND INVOKES THE TEXT VIEWER IN THE SAME WAY AS THE READ COMMAND.
- HOWEVER,IT CHECKS THE FILE FOR BINARY CHARACTERS,AND IF ANY ARE FOUND,
- THE FILE IS HEXREAD INSTEAD.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- STATUS:
-
- STATUS VALUE [SET NEWVALUE]
-
- VALUE INDICATES THE TYPE OF STATUS YOU WANT
-
- SET NEWVALUE OPTIONAL;SET THE STATUS TO THE SPECIFIED VALUE
-
- THIS COMMAND RETURNS THE VALUE FOR THE SPECIFIED STATUS COMMAND (LISTED
- BELOW).IF THE SET KEYWORD IS SPECIFIED,THIS COMMAND WILL SET THE STATUS TO
- THE SPECIFIED VALUE (IF APPROPRIATE FOR THAT STATUS COMMAND).MOST STATUS
- VALUES CAN BE SET.
- SOME STATUS COMMANDS REQUIRE A SUB-NUMBER.AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS STATUS
- 4,WHICH RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES IN A SPECIFIED DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.THE DIRECTORY WINDOW MAY BE EITHER 0 (FOR THE LEFT-HAND WINDOW),
- 1 (FOR THE RIGHT-HAND WINDOW) OR -1 (FOR THE ACTIVE WINDOW).THE COMMAND
- WOULD THEREFORE BE STATUS 4 0 FOR THE LEFT-HAND WINDOW,AND STATUS 4 1
- FOR THE RIGHT-HAND WINDOW.
-
- STATUS VALUES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
-
- 1 CURRENT DIRECTORY:
-
- THIS RETURNS OR SETS THE PATHNAME OF THE CURRENT DIRECTORY
-
- STATUS 1 [SET PATH]
-
- 2 VERSION:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE CURRENT VERSION NUMBER (AS A STRING)
-
- STATUS 2
-
- 3 ACTIVE WINDOW:
-
- THIS RETURNS OR SETS THE ACTIVE DIRECTORY WINDOW (EITHER 0 OR 1).
-
- STATUS 3 [SET WIN]
-
- 4 NUMBER OF FILES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FILES IN A DIRECTORY WINDOW
-
- STATUS 4 WIN
-
- 5 NUMBER OF DIRS:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DIRECTORIES IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 5 WIN
-
- 6 NUMBER OF ENTRIES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ENTRIES IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW
-
- STATUS 6 WIN
-
- 7 NUMBER OF SELECTED FILES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SELECTED FILES IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW
-
- STATUS 7 WIN
-
- 8 NUMBER OF SELECTED DIRS:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SELECTED DIRECTORIES IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 8 WIN
-
- 9 NUMBER OF SELECTED ENTRIES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SELECTED ENTRIES IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 9 WIN
-
- 10 TOTAL BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BYTES (SUM OF THE LENGTHS OF ALL FILES)
- IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 10 WIN
-
- 11 TOTAL SELECTED BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF SELECTED BYTES (SUM OF THE LENGTHS
- OF ALL SELECTED FILES)IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 11 WIN
-
- 12 SELECT PATTERN:
-
- THIS RETURNS OR SETS THE CURRENT SELECT PATTERN (USED IN THE SELECT
- COMMAND).
-
- STATUS 12 [TYPE] [SET PATTERN]
-
- TYPES....
-
- 0=NAME,DEFAULT
- 1=DATE
- 2=BITS
-
- 13 DIRECTORY NAME:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NAME OF THE DIRECTORY THAT IS OPEN IN THE SPECIFIED
- WINDOW.SETTING THIS TO ANOTHER PATHNAME WILL READ THAT DIRECTORY.
-
- STATUS 13 WIN [SET PATH]
-
- 14 DISK NAME:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NAME OF THE DISK THAT IS OPEN IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
- THIS CANNOT BE SET (USE THE RELABEL COMMAND TO CHANGE THE DISK NAME).
-
- STATUS 14 WIN
-
- 15 DISK FREE BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NUMBER OF BYTES FREE ON THE DISK OPEN IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 15 WIN
-
- 16 DISK TOTAL BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BYTES (FREE+USED) ON THE DISK OPEN
- IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 16 WIN
-
- 17 BUFFERED DIRECTORY NAME:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE PATHNAME OF THE DIRECTORY THAT IS STORED IN A SPECIFIC
- DIRECTORY BUFFER (FROM 0 TO 255).
-
- STATUS 17 WIN BUF
-
- 18 BUFFERED DISKNAME:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE DISKNAME OF THE DIRECTORY STORED IN A SPECIFIC DIRECTORY
- BUFFER (FROM 0 TO 255).
-
- STATUS 18 WIN BUF
-
- 19 BUFFERED DISK FREE BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE FREE SPACE ON THE DISK WHOSE DIRECTORY IS STORED IN
- A SPECIFIC DIRECTORY BUFFER (FROM 0 TO 255).THIS DATA MAY NO LONGER
- REFLECT THE ACTUAL FREE SPACE ON THAT DISK.
-
- STATUS 19 WIN BUF
-
- 20 BUFFERED DISK TOTAL BYTES:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE SPACE USED ON THE DISK WHOSE DIRECTORY IS STORED
- IN A SPECIFIC DIRECTORY BUFFER (FROM 0 TO 255).
- THIS DATA MAY NO LONGER REFLECT THE SPACE USED ON THAT DISK.
-
- STATUS 20 WIN BUF
-
- 21 BUFFER DISPLAYED:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NUMBER OF THE BUFFER THAT IS DISPLAYED IN THE DIRECTORY
- WINDOW,A NUMBER FROM 0 TO 255.IF THIS IS SET TO A SPECIFIC BUFFER THAT
- BUFFER WILL BE THE ONE SHOWN IN THE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- STATUS 21 WIN [SET BUF]
-
- 22 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 23 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 24 ENTRIES PER PAGE:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NUMBER OF ENTRIES THAT CAN BE DISPLAYED PER PAGE.
-
- STATUS 24
-
- 25 CONFIGURATION CHANGED:
-
- THIS RETURNS A BOOLEAN VALUE TO INDICATE WHETHER THE CONFIGURATION
- HAS BEEN CHANGED SINCE IT WAS LAST SAVED.
-
- STATUS 25 [SET STATE]
-
- 26 OKAY STRING:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NAME OF THE OKAY STRING IN REQUESTERS.THIS ALSO ALLOWS
- YOU TO SELECT THE TEXT OF THE POSITIVE BUTTON FOR THE REQUEST AND GETSTRING
- COMMANDS.
-
- STATUS 26 [SET STRING]
-
- 27 CANCEL STRING:
-
- THIS RETURNS THE NAME OF THE CANECL STRING IN REQUESTERS.THIS ALSO ALLOWS
- YOU TO SELECT THE TEXT OF THE NEGATIVE BUTTON FOR THE REQUEST AND GETSTRING
- COMMANDS.
-
- STATUS 27 [SET STRING]
-
- 28 CURRENTLY ICONIFIED:
-
- THIS RETURNS A VALUE INDICATING WHETHER DIRECTORY OPUS IS CURRENTLY
- ICONIFIED AND IF SO WHAT TYPE OF ICONIFICATION IT IS.THIS WILL RETURN
- 0 IF NOT ICONIFIED,1 IF ICONIFIED AND 2 IF BUTTON ICONIFIED.
-
- STATUS 28
-
- 29 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 30 TOP TEXT JUSTIFICATION:
-
- THIS RETURNS A VALUE INDICATING HOW THE TEXT IN THE STATUS BAR IS RENDERED.
-
- STATUS 30 [SET TYPE]
-
- TYPES....
-
- 0=LEFT
- 1=RIGHT
- 2=CENTRE
-
- 31 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 32 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 33 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 34 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- 35 UNUSED IN DIRECTORY OPUS 4.01
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=DEPENDS ON WHICH STATUS WAS REQUESTED.
-
- STOPST:
-
- STOPS PLAYING A SONG MODULE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- SWAPWINDOW:
-
- SWAPS THE CONTENTS OF THE TWO DIRECTORY WINDOWS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- TECHSUPPORT:
-
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS SOME INFORMATION ON HOW TO CONTACT TECHNICAL
- SUPPORT.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- TOGGLE:
-
- THIS COMMAND REVERSES THE STATE OF ALL FILES AND DIRECTORIES IN THE
- ACTIVE DIRECTORY (I.E. ALL SELECTED ENTRIES ARE DESELECTED,AND VICE
- VERSA).
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- TOPTEXT:
-
- TEXT TEXT STRING TO DISPLAY
-
- DISPLAYS GIVEN STRING IN THE STATUS BAR.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- UNICONIFY:
-
- RETURNS TO MAIN PROGRAM FROM ICONIFIED STATE.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- USER1,USER2,USER3,USER4:
-
- THESE COMMANDS WILL INVOKE THE FOUR USER DEFINABLE COMMANDS
- ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR FILETYPES,IN THE DEFAULT CONFIGURATION THE
- COMMAND USER1 IS DEFINED TO EXTRACT FILES FROM ARCHIVES.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- VERIFY:
-
- VERIFY [TEXT]
-
- TEXT OPTIONAL;TEXT TO DISPLAY IN REQUESTER
-
- DISPLAYS "ARE YOU SURE?" REQUESTER.IF THIS IS INCLUDED IN A MULTI-
- COMMAND OPERATION,CANCEL WILL ABORT THE REST OF THE COMMANDS.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=0 IS CANCEL,1 IS OKAY
-
- VERSION:
-
- THIS COMMAND DISPLAYS INFORMATION ABOUT DIRECTORY OPUS,KICKSTART,
- WORKBENCH AND YOUR COMPUTER.
-
- AREXX RESULTS:
-
- RC=0
- RESULT=UNDEFINED
-
- 4.1 SIMPLE ARGUMENT FUNCTIONS:
-
- {d} DESTINATION DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH
-
- THIS WILL INSERT THE PATH OF THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- {f} FIRST SELECTED ENTRY (WITH PATH)
-
- INSERT THE PATH AND FILENAME OF THE FIRST SELECTED ENTRY.THE ENTRY WILL
- THEN BE DESELECTED.
-
- {F} ALL SELECTED ENTRIES (WITH PATHS)
-
- INSERT THE PATH AND FILENAMES OF ALL SELECTED ENTRIES.THE ENTRIES WILL
- THEN BE DESELECTED.
-
- AMIGADOS HAS LIMITED THE LENGTH OF THE COMMAND LINE TO 256 CHARACTERS.
- THEREFORE,IF THE LENGTH OF ACOMMAND LINE EXCEEDS 256 CHARACTERS BECAUSE
- OF A {F} SEQUENCE (OR FOR ANY REASON),ANOTHER COMMAND LINE WILL BE CREATED
- FOR THE NEXT LOT OF FILE ENTRIES UNTIL THERE ARE NO MORE SELECTED FILE
- ENTRIES.
-
- {fu} FIRST ENTRY (WITH PATH,DO NOT DESELECT)
-
- THE SAME AS {f} EXCEPT THAT THE ENTRY IS NOT DESELECTED.
-
- {Fu} ALL ENTRIES (WITH PATHS,DO NOT DESELECT)
-
- THE SAME AS {F} EXCEPT THAT THE ENTRIES ARE NOT DESELECTED.
-
- {o} FIRST SELECTED ENTRY (NAME ONLY)
-
- THE SAME AS {f} EXCEPT THAT ONLY THE NAME OF THE FIRST SELECTED ENTRY
- IS USED,WITHOUT THE PATHNAME.
-
- {O} ALLSELECTED ENTRIES (NAMES ONLY)
-
- THE SAME AS {F} EXCEPT THAT ONLY THE NAMES OF THE SELECTED ENTRIES
- ARE USED,WITHOUT THE PATHNAME.
-
- {ou} FIRST ENTRY (NAME ONLY,DO NOT DESELECT)
-
- THE SAME AS {o} EXCEPT THAT THE ENTRY IS NOT DESELECTED AFTER IT IS USED.
-
- {Ou} ALL ENTRIES (NAMES ONLY,DO NOT DESELECT)
-
- THE SAME AS {O} EXCEPT THAT THE ENTRIES ARE NOR DESELECTED AFTER THEY ARE
- USED.
-
- {p} AREXX PORT/PUBLIC SCREEN NAME
-
- THIS WILL INSERT THE NAME OF THE REXX PORT FOR THIS INVOCATION OF DIRECTORY
- OPUS.EVERY DIRECTORY OPUS RUNNING WILL HAVE A UNIQUE REXX PORT NAME.
- THIS IS THE SAME NAME USED FOR THE PUBLIC SCREEN NAME.
-
- {s} SCOURCE DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH
-
- THIS WILL INSERT THE PATH OF THE SCOURCE DIRECTORY WINDOW.
-
- 4.2 REQUESTER FUNCTIONS:
-
- {RdTitle:Default} DIRECTORY REQUESTER
-
- DEFAULT CAN BE ANY VALID PATHNAME.
-
- {RfTitle:Default} FILE REQUESTER
-
- DEFAULT CAN BE ANY VALID PATHNAME OR FILENAME
-
- {RFTitle:Default} MULTI-SELECT FILE REQUESTER
-
- DEFAULT CAN BE ANY VALID PATHNAME OR FILENAME
-
- {RoTitle:DEFAULT} FONT REQUESTER
-
- DEFAULT CAN BE ANY FONTNAME.A POINTSIZE CAN BE SPECIFIED WITH A SLASH
- FOLLOWED BY A NUMBER (I.E. TOPAZ/8).
-
- {RsTitle:Default} REQUESTER THAT ASKS FOR SOME TEXT
-
- DEFAULT CAN BE ANY TEXT.
-
- THE TITLE STRING THAT WILL APPEAR ON THE REQUESTER.YOU CAN JUST OMIT
- THE TITLE STRING,IN WHICH CASE A DEFAULT TITLE WILL BE USED.
-
- THE DEFAULT STRING (PRECEDED BY A COLON) IS THE DEFAULT STRING THAT
- IS TO APPEAR IN THE REQUESTER.THIS TOO CAN BE OMITTED.
- THE DEFAULT STRING CAN CONTAIN BRACKETED LETTERS.THESE TELL DIRECTORY
- OPUS WHERE TO INSERT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INTO THE REQUESTER.THE
- SUPPORTED BRACKETED LETTERS INCLUDE...
-
- [o] INSERTS THE LAST REFERRED FILENAME,ONLY THE FILENAME
-
- [f] INSERTS THE LAST REFERRED FILENAME,BOTH PATH AND FILENAME
-
- [s] INSERTS THE SOURCE DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH
-
- [d] INSERTS THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY WINDOWS PATH
-
- FOR EXAMPLE,IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE TO HAVE YOUR OWN CUSTOM RENAME BUTTON
- WITH THE FOLLOWING CALL FUNCTION:
-
- c:rename {f} {ReEnter new filename:Foo.[o]}
-
- IN THIS CASE A STRING REQUESTER WOULD OPEN WITH THE TITLE "ENTER NEW
- FILENAME"AND THE DEFAULT OF THE STRING FIELD WOULD BE "FOO." FOLLOWED
- BY THE SELECTED FILENAME.
-
- CHAPTER 5:
-
- APPENDICES:
-
- 5.1 GLOSSARY:
-
- SOME TERMS USED IN THIS MANUAL THAT YOU MAY NEED TO KNOW ARE:
-
- ACTIVE:
-
- (DIRECTORY WINDOW)
-
- DENOTED BY A HIGHLIGHTED DISK NAME.
-
- THIS IS THE SCOURCE DIRECTORY,THE DIRECTORY THAT ALL COMMANDS WILL
- ACT UPON.
-
- BUFFERS:
-
- A DIRECTORY BUFFER IS AN INTERNAL STORAGE AREA FOR DIRECTORY INFORMATION.
- WHENEVER DIRECTORY OPUS READS DIRECTORY INFORMATION FROM A DISK,IT
- STORES THE INFORMATION IN A DIRECTORY BUFFER.BY STORING THE DIRECTORY
- INFORMATION IN A BUFFER,DIRECTORY OPUS CAN AVOID UNNECESSARILY RE-READING
- THE DISK.
-
- CLICK-M-CLICK:
-
- THIS IS A DIRECTORY OPUS TERM.TO CLICK-M-CLICK IS TO CLICK ONCE WITH
- THE MOUSE BUTTON,MOVE THE MOUSE TO ANOTHER PART OF THE SCREEN,AND PRESS
- THE MOUSE BUTTON AGAIN,ALL WITHIN THE DOUBLE-CLICK TIME SET FROM
- PREFERENCES.
-
- DIRECTORY WINDOW:
-
- ONE OF THE TWO WINDOWS ON THE SCREEN IN WHICH ENTRIES ARE DISPLAYED.
-
- DOUBLE-CLICK:
-
- AN AMIGA TERM,THIS MEANS TO CLICK TWICE WITH THE MOUSE BUTTON (USUALLY
- THE LEFT BUTTON,BUT SOMETIMES THE RIGHT BUTTON) ON AN OBJECT,WITHIN A
- PRE-DETERMINED TIME.THE TIME IS SET FROM WITHIN PREFERENCES,AND YOU
- SHOULD CONSULT YOUR AMIGA MANUAL FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS.
-
- DRIVE GADGETS:
-
- THE 30 GADGETS,OF WHICH ONLY SIX ARE VISIBLE AT ONCE,THAT ENABLE YOU
- TO EASILY READ ANY DIRECTORY.
-
- ENTRY:
-
- EITHER A FILE OR A DIRECTORY.
-
- FILE TYPES:
-
- A FILE TYPE IS A SET OF USER-DEFINED TESTS TO SEE WHETHER A FILE IS
- OF A CERTAIN TYPE OR NOT.ACTIONS CAN THEN BE PERFORMED ON THE FILE,
- DEPENDING ON ITS TYPE.
-
- HIGHLIGHT:
-
- HIGHLIGHT IS THE TERM GIVEN TO THE CHANGING OR REVERSAL OF COLOURS,
- USUALLY WHEN AN OBJECT IS SELECTED.
-
- INACTIVE:
-
- (DIRECTORY WINDOW)
-
- DISK NAME IS NOT HIGHLIGHTED.THIS IS THE DESTINATION DIRECTORY,AND
- FILES MAY SOMETIMES BE WRITTEN HERE FROM THE SCOURCE DIRECTORY,
-
- MENU:
-
- A PULL-DOWN MENU IS LIKE A LIST OF GADGETS.A MENU IS ACCESSED BY
- MOVING THE MOUSE TO THE TOP OF THE SCREEN AND HOLDING THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- OPEN:
-
- A DIRECTORY THAT IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYED IS SAID TO BE OPEN.
-
- REQUESTER:
-
- A REQUESTER IS USUALLY A BOX THAT APPEARS ON THE SCREEN,SOLICITING
- A RESPONCE.SOME REQUESTERS REQUIRE A STRING INPUT,OTHERS SIMPLY
- ASK YOU TO CHOOSE YES OR NO.
-
- RMB BUTTON:
-
- A DIRECTORY OPUS TERM.THIS IS A BUTTON THAT IS SELECTED WITH THE RIGHT
- MOUSE BUTTON,INSTEAD OF WITH THE LEFT.
-
- SELECTED:
-
- ENTRIES ARE SELECTED WHEN THEY ARE HIGHLIGHTED.THIS IS USUALLY DONE
- BY CLICKING ON THEM WITH THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
-
- 5.2 HOW WE START EXTERNAL PROGRAMS:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS USES THE SMALL (4K) AMIGADOS PROGRAM.DOpusRT,TO HELP
- IT LAUNCH AMIGADOS,WORKBENCH,BATCH AND AREXX PROGRAMS.WHEN YOU
- START UP AN EXTERNAL PROGRAM A SCRIPT FILE IS CREATED IN THE T:
- DIRECTORY.THIS SCRIPT FILE CONTAINS ALL THE INITIALIZATION AND EXECUTION
- CODE NEEDED TO START UP AND MANAGE YOUR PROGRAMS.
- THE DOpusRT PROGRAM IS CALLED AT THE END OF THE SCRIPT FILE,AND
- COMMUNICATES WITH DIRECTORY OPUS TO INFORM IT WHEN THE SCRIPT FILE HAS
- FINISHED RUNNING.THIS IS NEEDED FOR FUNCTIONS THAT ARE NOT RUN
- ASYNCHRONOUSLY.IT ALSO DOUBLES AS A WAIT COMMAND,WHICH IS NEEDED FOR
- THE ADJUSTABLE CLOSE DELAY.
- TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CURRENT DIRECTORY CHANGING,ADJUSTABLE STACK,
- AND PRIORITY YOU WILL NEED THE COMMANDS CD,STACK AND CHANGETASKPRI IN
- YOUR COMPUTERS C: DIRECTORY.YOU WILL ALSO NEED THE COMMANDS RUN,EXECUTE,
- FAILAT,NEWCLI AND ENDCLI.THESE ARE ALMOST ALWAYS PRESENT IN YOUR C:
- DIRECTORY ANYWAY,SO YOU SHOULD NOT NEED TO INSTALL THEM.
- THERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHER POINTS TO BE AWARE OF.BECAUSE EXTERNAL
- PROGRAMS ARE RUN VIA A SCRIPT FILE,THEY CAN BE ABORTED LIKE ANY OTHER
- SCRIPT FILE BY PRESSING CTRL-D.THIS IS ONLY POSSIBLE IF YOU HAVE AN
- OUTPUT WINDOW SELECTED.IF THE SCRIPT FILE IS ABORTED IN THIS FASHION,
- THE OUTPUT WINDOW EFFECTIVELY TURNS INTO A CLI,SO YOU MUST TYPE ENDCLI
- TO REMOVE THE WINDOW.
- THE SECOND POINT IS THAT IF THE PROGRAM WAS NOT RUN ASYNCHRONOUSLY,
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL BE FROZEN,WAITING FOR THE SIGANL BACK FROM THE
- DOpusRT PROGRAM.IF YOU ABORT THE SCRIPT FILE BEFORE IT REACHES DOpusRT,
- DIRECTORY OPUS WILL NEVER UNFREEZE.YOU CAN FORCE DIRECTORY OPUS TO
- UNFREEZE BY ACTIVATING THE DIRECTORY OPUS WINDOW AND PRESSING SHIFT-ESC
- (THE SHIFT KEY IN CONJUCTION WITH THE ESCAPE KEY).THIS ALLOWS YOU TO
- TURN ANY NON-ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAM INTO AN ASYNCHRONOUS PROGRAM,WHILE
- THE PROGRAM IS RUNNING.
- NOTE THAT WHEN USING NEWCLI OR NEWSHELL AS THE OUTPUT COMMAND,AN ERROR
- SUCH AS UNKNOWN COMMAND WILL ABORT THE SCRIPT FILE AS WELL.YOU SHOULD
- THEREFORE MAKE SURE THAT ALL YOUR BUTTONS,FILETYPES,HOTKEYS OR MENUS
- DO NOT TRY TO RUN NONEXISTENT PROGRAMS.
-
- 5.3 WILD CARD PATTERNS:
-
- DIRECTORY OPUS CAN USE WILD CARDS TO MAKE SOME TASKS EASIER.WILD CARD
- CHARACTERS ARE EXPRESSIONS THAT TELL DIRECTORY OPUS TO MATCH (OR NOT
- MATCH,IN SOME CASES) MORE THAN JUST ONE CHARACTER.YOU MAY ALREADY
- HAVE ENCOUNTERED PATTERN MATCHING IN THE DESCUSSION OF THE RENAME
- COMMAND.
-
- ? THIS TOKEN WILL MATCH ANY SINGLE CHARACTER,BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE
- NONE.FOR EXAMPLE,FI?E WOULD MATCH FILE,FINE AND FIRE BUT NOT FIE.
-
- # THIS CHARACTER TELLS DIRECTORY OPUS TO MATCH THE FOLLOWING EXPRESSION
- 0 OR MORE TIMES.FOR INSTANCE,FRE#D WOULD MATCH FRE,FRED,FREDD,FREDDD,ETC.
- "#?" WILL MATCH ANYTHING,JUST LIKE "*" (SEE BELOW).
-
- () IS IN EFFECT AN OR (P1|P2|P3) WILL MATCH ON ANY ONE OF THE PATTERNS
- P1,P2 AND P3.FOR INSTANCE,(D*G|C*T) WOULD MATCH DOG,CAT,DIG,COT,ETC.
- YOU MAY INCLUDE AAS MANY PATTERNS INSIDE THE PARENTHESES AS YOU LIKE,
- SEPARATED BY VERTICAL BARS (|).
-
- | USE THIS TOKEN WITHIN PARENTHESES TO SEPARATE DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS
- YOU WISH TO MATCH AT THE SAME TIME.FOR EXAMPLE, "(AB|CD)" WILL MATCH
- ANY ONE OF THE ITEMS SEPARATED BY "|" (HERE,"AB AND CD).
-
- % MATCHES 0 CHARACTERS.THIS IS ALWAYS (USFUL IN AN INSTANCE LIKE
- "(FOO|BAR|%)").ANOTHER EXAMPLE: "CA(M|%)P" WILL MATCH CAMP AND CAP.
-
- * SYNONYM FOR "#?",AN ASTERISK WILL MATCH ANY NUMBER OF REPITITIONS
- OF ANY CHARACTERS,INCLUDING NONE.FOR INSTANCE,"F*" WILL MATCH F,FR,
- FRE,FRED,FREDD,FREDDY,ETC.
-
- ~ THE TILDE CAN BE USED TO NEGATE AN EXPRESSION.ANYTHING THAT WOULD
- NORMALLY MATCH,NOW WILL NOT MATCH.FOR EXAMPLE,"F~(ROG)" WILL MATCH
- FROM BUT NOT FROG. "~J*" WILL NOT MATCH ANYTHING STARTING WITH J.
-
- [] BRACKETS ENCLOSE A LIST OF CHARACTERS ( A "CHARACTER CLASS")
- THAT MATCH OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE CLASS. "[ABC]" TELLS DIRECTORY
- OPUS TO MATCH EITHER "A","B",OR "C" IN THIS POSITION.
-
- ~ A TILDE AT THE BEGINING OF A CHARACTER CLASS MATCHES ANY CHARACTERS
- THAT ARE NOT IN THE CLASS.FOR EXAMPLE,[~BC]" SAYS "MATCH ANY CHARACTER
- EXCEPT "B" OR "C".
-
- - A HYPHEN INDICATES A CHARACTER RANGE (ONLY WITHIN CHARACTER CLASSES).
- THE EXPRESSION "[a-z]" REPRESENTS ALL THE LOWERCASE LETTERS FROM "a"
- TO "z".
-
- ` (APOSTROPHE OR SINGLE QUOTE) USE THIS CHARACTER TO DECLARE THE FOLLOWING
- CHARACTER TO BE A LITERAL CHARACTER,USED AS IT STANDS INSTEAD OF AS A
- WILD CARD.THIS PERMITS YOU TO USE THE CHARACTERS #,?,|,%,(,),[,],*,~
- AND EVEN AN APOSTROPHE AS THEMSELVES RATHER THAN AS PATTERN-MATCHING
- CONTROL CHARACTERS.FOR INSTANCE,YEAR*`% WILL MATCH YEAR1989%,YEAR1990%
- BUT NOT YEAR1989 OR YEAR1990 AS WOULD NORMALLY BE THE CASE,WITH % MEANING
- MATCH ON NOTHING.NOTE THAT THIS MEANS THAT YOU MUST USE `` TO MATCH AN
- APOSTROPHE.
- NOTE "EXPRESSION" IN THE ABOVE TABE MEANS EITHER A SINGLE CHARACTER
- (EX:"#?"),OR AN ALTERNATION (EX:"#(ab|cd|ef)"),OR A CHARACTER CLASS
- (EX:"#[a-zA-Z]").
-
- 5.4 SHORTCUT KEYS:
-
- THESE ARE THE DEFAULT SHORTCUT KEYS.EACH OF THESE CAN BE REDEFINED
- USING THE CONFIGOPUS UTILITY.
-
- ADDICON: LEFT SHIFT CTRL I
-
- ALL: CTRL A
-
- ARC EXTRACT: CTRL E
-
- CHECK FIT: CTRL F
-
- CLONE: CTRL L
-
- COMMENT: LEFT SHIFT CTRL C
-
- CONFIGURE: RIGHT AMIGA C
-
- COPY: CTRL C
-
- DATE STAMP: CTRL D
-
- DELETE: LEFT SHIFT CTRL D
-
- EDIT: LEFT SHIFT CTRL E
-
- GET SIZES: CTRL G
-
- HEX READ: CTRL H
-
- HUNT: LEFT SHIFT CTRL H
-
- ICONFY: RIGHT AMIGA I
-
- ICON INFO: CTRL I
-
- MAKE DIR: CTRL M
-
- MOVE: LEFT SHIFT CTRL M
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- NONE: CTRL N
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- PARENT: CTRL P
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- PLAY: CTRL Y
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- PRINT: LEFT SHIFT CTRL P
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- PROTECT: CTRL T
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- QUIT: RIGHT AMIGA Q
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- READ: CTRL R
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- RENAME: LEFT SHIFT CTRL R
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- ROOT: CTRL O
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- RUN: CTRL U
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- SEARCH: LEFT SHIFT CTRL S
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- SHOW: CTRL S
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- 5.5 SIMPLE SHORTCUT KEYS:
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- TOGGLE HELP MODE: HELP
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- ACTIVE DIRECTORY FIELD: RETURN KEY
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- MAX RIGHT WINDOW: -
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- MAX LEFT WINDOW: \
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- CENTRE WINDOWS: =
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- CHANGE ACTIVE WINDOW: SPACEBAR
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- SCROLL WINDOW UP ONE LINE: UP ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW DOWN ONE LINE: DOWN ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW TO TOP: SHIFT UP ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW TO BOTTOM: SHIFT DOWN ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW RIGHT ONE COLUMN: RIGHT ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW LEFT ONE COLUMN: LEFT ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW TO FAR RIGHT: SHIFT RIGHT ARROW
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- SCROLL WINDOW TO FAR LEFT: SHIFT LEFT ARROW
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- ALL TYPED BY VIPER
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