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² JagSpeed.ini - help and configuration file for the JagSpeed/2 program ²
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² Introduction ²
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JagSpeed/2 is a 32-bit OS/2 2.X PM file manager. Unlike OS/2's Drives
program, JagSpeed/2 looks like traditional DOS fullscreen file managers but
makes use of the advanced features of OS/2 including the Presentation
Manager user-interface and multi-tasking. In addition to all the usual
features you would expect, you are able to compare subdirectories,
calculate file sizes and interact with a commandline to minimise any typing
you might do.
The program allows a user to have two directory listings on the screen
at the same time, each in a separate window. The program allows the user
to make the most common file and program operations easily whilst still
providing the user with an ordinary commandline. The program executes DOS
and Windows programs too.
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² Requirements ²
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The program runs under OS/2 2 Presentation Manager. Current version
uses System Monospaced and Courier fonts. If these fonts are missing,
information in the file windows does not line up. The fonts can be
installed using the Selective Install program in the System Setup folder.
The program supports FAT or HPFS file systems but not long file names.
I would advise the user to set the keyboard speed to fast. This can be
done using your computer's reference disk.
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² Installation ²
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From the OS/2 Desktop, open the Templates folder, drag the Program icon
(using the right mouse button) over to the Desktop area or into another
folder. When you do this the program's settings will appear automatically.
Simply fill the Path and file name entry field with the full path name of
the jagspeed.exe file. Click on the General tab, change the Title to a
more appropriate name (eg JagSpeed/2) then double click on the top left
hand corner (system icon) to save these changes. Now double click on the
icon to start JagSpeed/2.
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² Operation ²
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The current file window, and therefore drive and subdirectory, is
presented in two ways: the colour of the window and the command line
prompt.
Clicking on either file window or the commandline gives it input focus.
If using the keyboard the Tab key switches between file windows and the Esc
key switches between the current file window and the commandline.
File operations (chosen from the Files pulldown on the menu bar)
operate on the currently selected files. Selected files are shown
hilighted. The file windows are implemented using Extended Selection List
Boxes, so selecting items and scrolling should be familiar to most
users. To summarise:
Mouse operation:
click on item to change the currently selected file
use the scroll bar to scroll the window
double click to:
change to subdirectory (if subdirectory), otherwise
execute (if .exe, .cmd, .com or .bat extension), otherwise
edit, view etc according to program associations defined below
Keyboard operation:
'', '', Home, End, Page up/down changes the currently selected file
any char to scroll window to next file beginning with that char
'enter' key to:
change to subdirectory (if subdirectory), otherwise
execute (if .exe, .cmd, .com or .bat extension), otherwise
edit, view etc according to program associations defined below
Multiple selections:
drag up/down items to select adjacent files (automatically scrolls)
Shift + single click to select all files between previous click
Ctrl + single click to toggle selection of individual files
The commandline is implemented using a Combo box. New commands may be
entered by typing them in and entering. The commandline uses basic editing
keys (insert, delete, backspace etc) and supports the clipboard. Commands
entered are stored, can be viewed and re-entered or further edited from the
drop down list box.
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² General information ²
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File operations operate on the selected files and subdirectories and
all subdirectories leading from them.
The program behaves as the os/2 'move' command, in that it will not
move files across drives. If required: copy then delete.
The program offers the same protection to read-only files as do
commands from an os/2 command prompt. For example set the 'r' attibute off
before deleting them.
File sizes listed in columns are actual file sizes - as provided by the
'dir' command. The differences between issuing a 'dir' and a window listing
is that the latter includes hidden files and excludes the '.' subdirectory.
File sizes provided along top of windows or when using the size
function are totals of disk space allocated to those files - as provided by
the 'chkdsk' command.
The compare function compares the files in each window using their date
and time stamps. Comparison on a byte by byte basis takes too long and
offers little practical benefit. Users wanting to ensure files are
identical ought to use the OS/2's 'comp' command.
A user requiring more information following an error popup can issue a
'help xxx' command, where xxx was displayed in the popup.
Programs, double clicking and typing operate only on the first of a
selected group of files.
The colours and fonts used by JagSpeed/2 can be changed, they are also
saved between program executions. From the OS/2 System folder, select the
OS/2 System Setup folder. Use the Color Palette and Font Palette programs
to configure as required. The font and colour of any item can be changed.
When a colour is dropped onto the current file window, it then becomes
the current window colour. This means that if the user then selects the
other window it will change automatically to the current window colour. A
similar principle applies when dropping a colour onto the other file
window.
If the boxes in this file don't line up, change to a monospaced font.
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² Bugs ²
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Please report bugs and suggestions for improvement to jgalvez at
crovm3.
There are no known bugs.
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² Configurations ²
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This file allows a user to configure such things as favourite programs,
file extension associations and the behaviour of some of the functions.
The program reads this configuration file on startup. By default it
assumes the file has the same path & name as the program file but with an
extension of 'ini' rather than 'exe'. Alternatively the user may provide the
full pathname of the configuration file as an argument.
The order of the items does not matter as long as you keep to the
following layout: <keyword>:<blank space><user-defined values>
Note that ALL keywords are FOUR characters long, immediately followed
by a colon AND these must be the FIRST FIVE characters on a line.
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² Favourite programs ²
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The keywords below allow the user to add programs and commands to the
Programs pulldown on the menu bar. These programs can be either OS/2 PM,
OS/2 FS, DOS or Windows. Commandline arguments to the programs can also be
provided including the currently selected file in the file window.
Full path information is not required if the program can be found using
the PATH environment variable in config.sys. When a program is invoked
JagSpeed/2 replaces the %s with the currently selected filename and
executes the command in the current window's directory. For example:
CFXX: d:\utils\almcos2 %s ha:= = b /bin
It is not necessary to provide a %s, if none is provided the command is
still executed.
The user can also specify any text (up to 20 chars in length) to
represent each of the programs in the Programs submenu. If more than 20
are used the trailing chars are ignored.
CN01: please
CF01:
CN02: read
CF02:
CN03: jagspeed.ini
CF03:
CN04: to
CF04:
CN05: configure
CF05:
CN06: these
CF06:
CN07: programs
CF07:
CN08:
CF08:
CN09: print file
CF09: print %s
CN10: display file
CF10: more < %s
CN11: edit (system editor)
CF11: c:\os2\e.exe %s
CN12: directory listing
CF12: dir/p
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² Delete key ²
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The keyword below determines whether the user is prompted before making
deletions. Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the user wishes
verification, the default behaviour.
DELE: on
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² Comparing windows ²
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The keyword below determines whether the file windows are automatically
updated before they are compared. Updating the windows first is the safest
thing to do, however there may be circumstances in which you would not want
to update the windows. An example would be if you wanted to compare the
files on two diskettes at a machine which only had one diskette drive;
(each file window would display the contents of a different diskette).
Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the user wishes
updating before comparisons, the default behaviour.
UPCO: on
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² Selecting files ²
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The keyword below determines whether the 'Select all' function selects
both files and subdirectories or just files. Anything other than off, is
taken as indicating the user wishes to select only files, the default
behaviour.
PLUS: on
The user should be aware that setting the UPCO and PLUS keywords off
will allow him to erase everything on a drive with only two keystokes, if
performed whilst in the root directory.
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² Drive information ²
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The keyword below determines how much information is given to the user
when displaying the drive selection dialog box. In addition to the drive
letter, the user can opt for label, total and free disk space information.
The info is displayed for each drive as an aid to drive selection. Drives
with removable media not present do not show full information.
A reason for opting to switch full info off would be in the case of a
system connected to many drives, particularly with removable ones, which take
some time to be read. Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the
user wishes full drive information, the default behaviour.
INFO: on
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² File extension associations ²
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The keyword below determines whether, and if so, which program is
executed when the mouse is double-clicked or the enter key is used over a
file. The program is passed the currently selected file's name as a
parameter. These programs can be either OS/2 PM, OS/2 FS, DOS or Windows.
The user may associate particular file extensions with particular
programs, giving each extension - program combination on separate lines
below. The user can also provide a default program if no file extension
association exists. The use of a default program can be switched off.
Full path information is required unless a program can be found using
the PATH environment variable. In the case of the default program
(indicated by the keyword ENTR:) anything other than off, the default, is
taken as indicating the name of the program to be executed.
For those interested, the programs listed above in the Favourite
Programs section are executed as if the text had been entered at the
command line. Operating system commands, programs and batch files can all
executed, if desired, the currently selected file can be placed on any
position on the command line.
On the other hand, only programs and batch files can be used in this
section. Programs are dealt with in the same way as program objects and
associations in the OS/2 WorkPlace Shell, ie filename extensions need to be
provided, a working directory is unnecessary since the current directory is
used and the parameters are automatically the name of the currently
selected file.
.TXT: e.exe
.BAK: e.exe
ENTR: c:\os2\e.exe
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² Default directories ²
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The keywords below determine the initial subdirectories displayed in
the file windows. DIRL and DIRR refer to the left and right windows
respectively. If used, ensure that the drive letter preceeds the
subdirectory name. If these are not set the current (or working)
subdirectory when JagSpeed/2 is executed will be used.
DIRL: c:\
DIRR: c:\
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² Default sorting method ²
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The keyword below determines if and how the subdirectories and files
are sorted in each window. Valid selections are:
unsorted - no sorting performed
name - sort by stem of filename
extension - sort by extension
size - sort by size
datetime - sort by date & time
In the last 4 cases sorting is first performed automatically by
subdirectory and file, then within that the sort choice. In case you
didn't know - subdirectories can have extensions too!
Anything other than one of the 5 valid methods above, is taken as
indicating the user wishes to sort by extension, the default behaviour.
SORT: extension
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² Displaying file names ²
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The keyword below determines whether file operations display the names
of files as they are acted upon (copied, moved etc). Although it is
reassuring to see that the program is working (not hung!) it actually
makes the operations take longer to perform.
Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the user wishes to have
the file names displayed, the default behaviour.
FILS: on
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² Presentation parameters ²
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The colours, fonts and window size information are stored between
program executions. These 'presentation parameters' are stored in the
os2.ini system file.
The keyword below determines whether when the program starts up it uses
a default set of parameters or those stored from the previous execution of
the program. In the latter case, if this is the first time the program has
been executed on a system and consequently no parameter information exists,
then the default parameters are automatically selected for the user.
Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the user wishes to use
the parameters previously set, the default behaviour.
PARA: on
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² Pausing after programs / commands ²
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Programs (chosen from the Programs pulldown on the menu bar) or
commands (entered from the command-line) are executed in sessions. The
keywords below determine whether when the program / command finishes, the
session is automatically closed or whether the user is first prompted to
hit a key.
Generally automatic closure is preferable, however programs / commnads
that use stdio for output (ie non-PM programs or operating system commands
such as chkdsk) would flash their messages and dissapear before the user
could read them. In such cases the user would want to pause before the
session was destroyed.
Anything other than off, is taken as indicating the user wishes to
pause the session. off is the default behaviour for programs, on the
default for commands.
PPRO: off
PCOM: on