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- (C) Copyright 1992 by Rainer Koppler
- version 1.0, February 24th, 1992
- This program is Freeware !
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- User Manual
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- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Usage from CLI
- 3. Usage from Workbench
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- 1. Introduction
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- Have you ever been in the situation that you have asked yourself
- on which disk you have seen a certain pretty mouse pointer or on
- which disk you saw these cool workbench colors ?
- If so, then you maybe have inserted the disk which was supposed
- to be the right one and you have rebooted your machine.
- Then you maybe have seen that it was not the right disk and you
- have inserted another one and again you have pressed CTRL+AMIGA
- +AMIGA, and so on...
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- Especially if you have a hard disk with a giant startup sequence
- (like mine) you are certainly not fascinated to reboot your
- machine so often.
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- How does "ShowPrefs" help in such situations ?
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- "ShowPrefs" allows you to view the preferences of each disk you
- want (which is of course senseful only for disk with stored
- preferences on it) without rebooting your Amiga.
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- How does "ShowPrefs" work ?
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- If you create your individual preferences for a boot disk, the
- workbench utility "Preferences" stores your configuration into
- a file called "system-configuration".
- When your boot from this disk, the system will look for this file
- in the root directory and the "devs" directory. If it can be
- found, the contents are set as the configuration. If there was no
- file, the ugly default preferences will appear (60 columns etc.).
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- When you start "ShowPrefs" (in a way as showed below) it will try
- to open the specified configuration file (like the system does).
- If "ShowPrefs" is successful, it will set the contents of the file
- as the current preferences and open a tiny window in the middle
- of the screen.
- You can now watch to the new preferences or continue your work
- with the new configuration.
- If you want to get back the old preferences, you only have to
- close "ShowPref"'s window. The configuration is then the same as
- before you have started "ShowPrefs".
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- 2. Usage from CLI:
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- Syntax: ShowPrefs [<name of configuration file> | "?"]
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- ShowPrefs accepts at most one parameter.
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- The parameter "?" gives you a short explanation of the syntax.
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- A parameter different from "?" it treated as the name of a
- system-configuration file (be careful ! There is no way to
- distinguish between a preferences file and a normal data file.
- If you specify the wrong file, the program won't crash but you
- will get a strange configuration.).
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- If you specify no parameter, "ShowPrefs" will try to open the
- files "system-configuration" or "devs/system-configuration"
- (in this order) on the current device.
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- 3. Usage from Workbench:
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- You can start "ShowPrefs" from Workbench by double-clicking the
- "ShowPrefs" icon.
- If you have specified no tool type, "ShowPrefs" will try to open
- the file "system-configuration" or "devs/system-configuration"
- (in this order) on the current device.
- "ShowPrefs" recognizes the tool type "UNIT" which can be used to
- specify the device where the preferences file will be searched.
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- Example: UNIT=df1:
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- If you start "ShowPrefs" with this tool type, the program will
- try to open the file "df1:system-configuration" or
- "df1:devs/system-configuration".
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- If you are searching for a certain preferences file on several
- disks, you can do the search in a fast way. Just set the tool type
- value to the drive you want to use and you can examine a disk
- simply by putting the disk into the drive and double-clicking the
- "ShowPrefs" icon.
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- If you find any bugs or you have any ideas for improving this
- program, then contact me:
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- /// Rainer Koppler
- /// Stelzhamerstraße 9
- \\\ /// A-4623 Gunskirchen
- \\X// Austria/Europe
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- internet: K39102J@edvz.uni-linz.ac.at
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