ShowMan - Disk Utilisation Pie-Chart

The ShowMan utility was written to help you keep disk space under control.
It does this by presenting a pie chart of what is on your hard disk or 
network drive, and allowing you to drill down into different sub-
directories.  In this way, you can quickly identify what is taking up 
most space on your hard disk, and decide what to delete.  ShowMan is 
purely a read-only tool, quite deliberately it does not include any way 
of deleting files or folders!  You could consider my WinTidy program for
removing backup and other temporary files.  ShowMan knows about hard disk 
cluster sizes, and will normally report the actual space occupied on the 
disk, rather than the nominal file size.  In this way, the full penalty of 
having a large number of small files is clearly visible.

Usage:

Extract ShowMan.exe from the zip file to a convenient location, and run it!
ShowMan will automatically scan the current directory, and most likely if
you've extracted all the files in this archive to one directory, ShowMan.exe
itself will be the biggest file.  Try using the Open menu or toolbar button
to select another directory.  Please note that the file specification is 
ignored, it is only the directory that matters.  Also note that all files 
are found, even those marked with the hidden or system attributes.  While
you shouldn't delete such files unless you *really* know what you are 
doing, that's no reason for not being aware of the space they occupy.

ShowMan uses no other DLLs, or registry entries.  Optionally, if you make an
icon or shortcut for ShowMan, you can have one parameter which causes the 
initial directory to be set to that parameter.

Notes:

The program is written with Borland's Delphi 2.0, and full source is 
included.  You do not need access to Delphi 2.0 to run ShowMan.  You will
need my PieChart unit in order to re-compile ShowMan.  The program runs 
on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51/4.0.

Contacting the author:

This program is placed in the public domain, but remains copyright of
David Taylor, Edinburgh, 1996.  This program is provided "as is", without 
any support.  Whilst I cannot answer queries relating to the use of this 
program, I'd welcome any comments or suggestions for improvements you may 
have.


david.taylor@gecm.com
1996 May 26