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CDAxe v1.03
-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Coded by Ray Akey (aka Heavy Metal) of Metal Software
Using the SAS/C Development System v6.55
NOTE: Although this software is not crippled, it is SHAREWARE!
If you use it for more than one week, you must REGISTER
it! Registration is only $20.00 U.S. or $25.00 Canadian.
SUPPORT AMIGA DEVELOPERS!
Send your cheque or money order for registration to:
Ray Akey
411 Bridge Ave.
Windsor, ON
Canada N9B 2M3
Changes/Bug fixes v1.03/1.02
============================
1. NOW GLOBALLY OPTIMIZED FOR SPEED!
2. (1.02) readme's are now "auto-selected" when a user selects a file that has
an existing .readme file (may be a user configurable option later).
3. (1.02) "files.bbs" is now searched for and parsed for descriptions BEFORE
.readme's. If a files.bbs description is found, no .readme is searched
for.
4. "files.txt" is now searched for and parsed for descriptions BEFORE
.readme's but after files.bbs. If a files.txt description is found, no
files.bbs or .readme is seeked for that file/dir.
5. (1.02) Added sysop feature of changing/adding a file/directory-note using
the CTRL-I key combination.
6. Added sysop feature of listing devices/volumes using the CTRL-L key
combination.
Changes/Bug fixes v1.01
=======================
1. FIXED! -> CDRom temp path enabled was not allowing selected files to be
downloaded.
2. Debug output text removed (oops!)
3. The old "AMINET" and "NOAMINET" keywords have been changed to "DIRDESC"
and "NODIRDESC", respectively.
4. New keywords "CDROM" and "NOCDROM" added for command line enable/disable
of CDROM Temp path. These are MAINT keywords. See the section of these
docs titled "Command Line Arguments" if you need to know about overriding
MAINT keywords in BBSMENU/pfile specifications.
5. Directory comments are now external. Edit SYSDATA:CDAxe.DirInfo to
add to the included aminet directory descriptions. (see the note below)
NOTE: the directory name comparison is a right-hand compare so make sure
that SHORTER dir names are placed at the bottom of the file.
You'll notice that in the included default file, "misc" is toward
the bottom while "biz/misc" is higher up.. If this were not so,
the description for "misc" may be mistaken as a description for
"biz/misc" as the last four characters on the RIGHT hand end of
the string match that directory name.
In general, you may assume that directory names with many "levels"
should be at the top, while single level directory names should be
at the bottom so that they are check last.
The FIRST match found will be the one used by CDAxe.
ALSO, you may be SURE that (for example) aminet directories only use
aminet dir names by using a more precise path.
ie. "aminet/biz/dbase" rather than "biz/dbase". The more "nodes" or
"levels" you supply, the more picky CDAxe will be about tagging on
directory comments.
If you do not have Aminet CD's or an aminet style "mirror" on your
system, you can just delete the existing default directory
descriptions and create your own. I have been told by a local beta
tester than he is going to use CDAxe as a replacement for CNet's
SCAN.. In this case, he/you would want to comment the names of your
CNet UDBases appropriately. Also note that you should not have any
"private" directories in a "CDAxe" path as there are no restrictions
on "child directory" access other than what you configure in CDAxe
Config.
PS. The term "Child directory" refers to directories that are
existent in the path that you specify to be used by CDAxe, not
directories created for children. 8-/
What is it?
===========
CDAxe is a very powerful directory/device util for CNet Amiga v3.05c.
Although CDAxe is specifically designed to provide your users with a very
easy way to traverse the many directories that exist on most CD-ROMs, it has
applications in other areas as well. Since, as is standard with MetalSoft
programs, CDAxe is so configurable, YOU decide what path it will use as it's
"startup directory".
Features:
=========
- Sysop definable number of buffered directories.
- Parent function will not recede further back than the "startup directory"
unless the user has SYSOP MAINT.
- Remembers the last position of the file/directory selector on buffered
directories so user does not lose his/her place when traversing through
directories.
- Configuration via CNet Visual Data Editor (VDE)
- Configurable access groups allowed to enter/use.
- Configurable access flags allowed to enter/use.
- Configurable minimum and maximum age allowed to enter/use.
- configurable gender allowed to enter/use.
- configurable file/byte percent charges (100% = charge byte per byte/file per
file).
- show or hide .info files.
- show or hide .readme files.
- choice to display DIRECTORY descriptions.
- read *.txt, *.doc, *.nfo, files.bbs, index files while in the CDAxe
interface.
- CNet CDRom temp path supported.
- capable of emulating "no maint" operation for sysop testing of how
CDAxe will act when a non-sysop uses it.
- CD "[N]ew directory" command to change directories internally as a SYSOP
feature, available only to maint users.
- COPY command to copy the currently highlighted file to another location.
This is a feature requiring sysop maint.
- MOVE command to move the currently highlighted file to another location.
This is a feature requiring sysop maint.
- MAKEDIR command to create a new directory. (requires SYSOP MAINT)
- DELETE command to remove files from the current directory. (requires
SYSOP MAINT)
- when the ENTER key is used to read, select or examine a file, CDAxe
performs actions based on file type.
- filetypes other than than CDAxe defined ASCII text are viewed using your
configured CNet ARCHIVERs.
Currently, the following types/extensions are recognized as readable
ASCII text and are displayed as such:
*.doc
*.nfo
*.txt
*.wri
*.readme
files.bbs
index
readme
Basic Installation
==================
1. Copy CDAxe to a suitable location. I use PFILES:.
2. Copy CDAxeCfg_VDE to sysdata:vde/.
3. Copy the contents of the HELP/ directory to SYSDATA:HELP/
3. Add the following text/command to your BBSMENU at the end of the section
titled "2; Available everywhere":
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe}
4. Logon and enter "CDAXE CONFIG" to use configure CDAxe using the CNet VDE.
"DIR" command replacement
=========================
If you wish CDAxe to replace your DIR command for Direct Exchange subboards,
do the following IN ADDITION TO the steps listed in "Basic Installation".
1. Add the following two lines to your BBSMENU at the VERY END of the
section titled "4; ud/base":
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe DIRECT}
DIR~CDAXE DIRDESC READMEDESC NOINFO NOSHOWREADME NOPROMPT
(see the section titled "CONFIG OPTIONS" for information about the
CDAxe keywords used above)
2. disable the old CNet dir command by replacing the command "DIR" (found in
the same section in BBSTEXT) with "!DIR"
3. Use the Cnet Config RELOAD TEXT menu to put these changes into effect.
Config Options
==============
This section gives some insight into some of CDAXe's configuration options.
Device/Path : The default device/directory to read.
Entry Access : The access groups allowed to enter/use CDAxe.
Entry Flags : The Files base flags that users must have set on their account.
Youngest/Oldest : The ages range that can access CDAxe.
Gender : Sex? What's sex? ;)
Byte Charge : The PERCENT of the byte size to charge the user.
100 = charge user full credit. 200 = charge user 2x the byte
size.
File Charge : The PERCENT of a file credit to charge a user. 100=1 file
credit, 200=2 file credits, etc,..
CDRom Temp : Files are copied to your CDRom temp directory as specified
by your CNet configuration.
Sort Order : Alpha = Alphabetical file/dir sort.
Chrono = sort by descending date (newest first).
Rev Chrono = sort by ascending date (newest last)
(note: a SIZE sort is available as a COMMAND LINE/argument)
Show .info files: Show or hide icon (.info) files.
Show .readme's : Show or hide description (.readme) files.
Desc from readme: If set to YES, CDAXe will attempt to extract the "SHORT"
field from aminet description files and use that as the
"filenote" that is displayed as the file comment.
Use dir descript: If enabled, uses directory comments.
(ie. comm/misc = Miscellaneous communications")
Free Download : If true, all files selected with CDAxe are free downloads.
Max disk buffers: The number of directories to buffer. if set to 10, the
last ten directories you viewed/wntered are kept in RAM to
reduce disk access and. ultimately, make CDAxe more
efficient.
NOTE: All options can be overridden by command line arguments, except for the
following:
Gender
Youngest
Oldest
Entry Access
Entry Flags
Byte Charge
File Charge
Move to CDRom temp
Command Line Arguments (* denotes an arg requiring SysOp Maint)
===============================================================
PFile specification: This term is used to differentiate between the actual
pfile DEFINE and a command alias. See below.
a pfile specification -> Mycommand |#2mycommandspec}
another ---------------> Mycommand |#2anothercommandspec <arg1> <arg2>}
a command/alias -------> DIR~Mycommand
NOTE: arguments can be specified both on the CNet command line prompts and
on BBSMENU. To FORCE a SysOp maint argument on a user that doesn't have
SYSOP MAINT, add it in the pfile specification rather than in the
CNet "replacement" command.
example 1: to force a DIRECT EXCHANGE subboard use the "DIRECT"
argument which is an argument that requires SYSOP MAINT:
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe DIRECT}
DIR~CDAXE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ pfile specification
rather than the following which does not work:
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe}
DIR~CDAXE DIRECT
example 2. to force a device/directory name other than that in the
CDAxe configuration, place the device/pathname as a command
argument in the pfile specification:
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe <path>}
DIR~CDAXE
rather than using the following (remember! the above spec works, the one
below is an example of IMPROPER use of SYSOP MAINT arguments):
CDAXE |#2pfiles:system/CDAxe}
DIR~CDAXE <path>
Argument list
=============
( + denotes a NEW/changed keyword for this release )
*CONFIG - Set CDAxe configuration options.
NOMAINT - Causes CDAxe to emulate NO MAINT operation to verify what regular
users would see.
DIRDESC - Causes descriptions to be tagged on directories.
(previously, DIRDESC was the AMINET keyword)
(define your directory descriptions in SYSDATA:cdaxe/dirinfo)
NODIRDESC - Turns off directory descriptions.
(previously, NODIRDESC was the NOAMINET keyword)
*DIRECT - used in conjunction with Direct Exchange subboards. Causes
CDAxe to use the path specified in the Subbard "EL".
*NODIRECT - Turns off Direct Exchange operation.
READMEDESC - Causes CDAxe to use the aminet "SHORT" descriptions for filenotes.
NOREADMEDESC - Turns off aminet short description capability.
INFO - Causes CDAXE to SHOW .info files.
NOINFO - CDAxe does not show .info files.
SHOWREADME - CDAxe shows .readme files.
SORTCHRONO - sorts listings by descending date (newest first)
SORTREV - sorts listings by ascending date (oldest first)
SORTSIZE - sorts listings by size (smallest first)
SORTALPHA - sorts listings alphabetically
NOPROMPT - forces CDAxe to skip the sysop "Enter a device/path" prompt.
(this prompt is only available to users with SYSOP MAINT but
this argument is provided for feature's sake ..)
*CDROM - (New for v1.01) command line enable of CD-ROM temp path.
*NOCDROM - (New for v1.01) command line disable of CD-ROM temp path.
<path> - ANY ARGUMENT given, that is not a VALID CDAxe argument, will
be assumed to be a device/path to read. This path is only
used if the user has SYSOP MAINT (OR) if the extra path
argument is specified in BBSMENU in the pfile specification.
NOTES: (1) files.bbs and/or files.txt must exist in the CURRENT directory (ie.
the directory for which the current file list is displayed) or
it will not be found.
(2) files.txt was added as a suggestion from Todd H. Knight as
it was found on a CD that contains .GIF pictures. It is
further noted that files.txt contains descriptions in the same
format as that of files.bbs. (ie filename <whitespace> description)
KNOWN BUGS/PROBLEMS
===================
This is really NOT a bug but it's quirky from the sysop side so..
If a remote user is using CDAxe and his termlength is set higher than that
of the Sysop's local screen, scrolling may APPEAR to be functioning
improperly from the Sysop side. To be sure that it is indeed operating
correctly, put your local screen in FULL LACE mode and the display should then
look ok on the sysop side. However, for the user side, fear not, the display
scrolls 100% according to the current user's TERMLENGTH setting in CNet's "ET"
settings. If your user(s) complain that the program is not operating properly
with regard to scrolling, inform them that their "ET" SCREEN HEIGHT must be
set to EXACTLY the number displayed at the top of his/her screen after CNet
does it's usual count sequence when the user changes his screen height
setting.