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#1zz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page i- MegaD! V1.01 The Best Directory Utility Yet! Written by John LaVere Jones 80 East Lennox Street Midvale, Utah 84047 U.S.A. Special thanks to: Roger Stone Gave me the original idea that MegaD grew from. Helped with suggesting and ideas though all of the stages of development. Blain Gardner and Tim Madden In the final stages of MegaD these two were excellent sources of information and ideas for enhancements and cosmetic changes. Blain and Tim both used the Amiga 3000 which at the time of this writing were Very Rare, helping this to be a 3000 friendly program. The AUSM Users Group of Salt Lake City. The biggest and warmest thanks goes to my wife Kathy, who has the right to cry "Computer Widow!" Yet still supported me though this project.z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page ii- DISCLAIMER ---------------------- No warranties are implied or expressed with regard to the fitness or merchantability of MegaD for any particular purpose. All risks and damages, incidental or otherwise, arising through the use or misuse of MegaD are entirely at the responsibility of the user. While considerable effort has been made to provide you with a reliable product, there is no guarantee that this program is 100% "bug-free". Any problems that do arise will be corrected when and if feasible. Maintenance releases will be made available in order to correct potentially hazardous malfunctions within the program. Fixes for benign problems, usually cosmetic in nature, will most likely be deferred until the next major release of MegaD. This disclaimer does not guarantee future versions of this product, only a prescribed method of dealing with possible errors, and their corrections, to this program. More Legal Stuff --------------------------------- MegaD is freely distributable as long as all of the following conditions are met: 1. All copyright notices must remain unaltered. 2. MegaD may not appear on shareware or public domain disks for which the consumers are charged more than a reasonable disk copying fee of seven dollars per disk. 3. MegaD may not appear on any electronic agency which charges more than the basic access fee to down-load MegaD. 4. MegaD may not appear on any electronic agency that claims copyrights to uploaded programs, either alone or as part of a collection. 5. MegaD may not be sold commercially alone or as a element in another product. 6. All of the files must be included in their original form without additions, deletions, or modifications of any kind. Any such modifications must appear in separate files. If you would like a variance to any of the above conditions, please contact me. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page iii- Registration Cost $15.00 US dollars ($20 outside of the USA) (the old More Or Less rule may apply) Reasons to become a Registered User. -- The registered disk contains three (3) variation of the currant version of MegaD plus the standard version. The variations of MegaD decreases the program size by removing certain LARGE options from the main program. Variation 1 removes the Copy/Format Disk option. Variation 2 removes all of the options from the OUTPUT menu. Variation 3 removes both Copy/Format Disk option and all of the options from the OUTPUT menu. The logic of this is that users with limited system memory and/or using disk drives only have a limited area to use for utilities. The standard version of MegaD is about 117,000 bytes, the smallest version of MegaD stands at 89,000 bytes, the difference between the two is about 28,000 bytes. Though the OUTPUT and Copy/Format Disk options are nice to have around they are not necessary for what MegaD is really intended to be. A good file and directory utility. While writing MegaD, the size of it has always been of great importance to me. The project originally started on a 1 Megabyte 500 with two disk drives. 88K can be digested by an Amiga with 512K of memory a lot easier then the full blown 117K program. -- Actively participate in the shaping of a product for the Amiga Computer. Suggestions and complaints are a lot of why MegaD is at the point that it is at this moment. The product is in it's first stages. It is very powerful, but there maybe something that you want that can feasibly be added to it. Registered users will have a lot to say as to what the new updates will be like. Even if your suggestion can not be added to MegaD there is a chance that the suggestion could be a stand alone utility. At any rate if you are the first to submit a suggestion that is added to MegaD you will receive a BETA version as soon as one is ready for you own personal testing and the next official version of MegaD will be mailed to you free of charge as a thankyou. -- You will be supporting a concept that allows you to test drive a program before you put any real cash out for it. A concept that gives you a program that over the counter would cost you $35 to $40 dollars for the minimal price of $15. You will be encouraging authors to continue to write quality programs and make them available at a reasonable cost. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page iv- -- Inexpensive updates. In version 1.0 I had mentioned that "Registered users will be mailed notices of future updates a month prior to the release of new versions to the shareware circuit." With a lot of thought I have decided on a little different scheme for updates. After receiving your first MegaD registered disk, if you will return a disk to my address in a mailer (The same one that I sent you if you take care while opening it) with $2.00 (One for me and one for the postman.) As soon as the next update is ready I will mail it to you, after which the cycle can start again. If serious bug fixes are made I want to get the new version out to both the registered users and the Shareware circuit as soon as possible. If an update is just new options and functions the registered user's that have returned the disk will have the version in the mail a week before the Shareware circuit will get it. If you do not want to return the mailer and disk, send $4.00 and you will get the same results.z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 1- QUICK START __________________ If you are comfortable with directory utilities and the Amiga operating system. Take this approach to start up MegaD and get used to using it. Be sure to read the ReadMeFirst file that should be accompanied with this program takeing notes of the two restrictions that apply to using the evaluation version of MegaD. Then start MegaD from the CLI by changing the active directory to the directory that contains MegaD and type RUN MegaD. If you are going to start it from the Workbench simply double click the MegaD Icon from the workbench window that contains MegaD. Once MegaD is up and running use MegaD features to locate the directory containing this file "MegaD.Doc", Select that file once with the mouse, then select View Text in the main MegaD window. MegaD will place this text file in its own Text Viewer. The View Text windows are interactive with the rest of MegaD. You will be able to keep the text window open and use the Search String option from the Cursor Menu of the text window containing MegaD.Doc. Any option found in menus or windows that you do not understand simply make the MegaD.Doc Text Window active, Select Search and type in the option you would like to read about. MegaD will search from the first line visible to bottom of the file to find where that option is described. Remember to move the slider in the proportional gadget on the right side of the text window to move the file to the first line of the text. Look at it like a Help file. One feature that cannot be access from the menus or the gadgets is the LOCK feature. Be sure to search the file for "Lock" and read that section. MegaD is different from other directory utilities in that you are not limited to two directories to work from at one moment. You are allowed an unlimited number of directories open to a screen at a time. This can be somewhat confusing if not overwhelming at first so MegaD defaults to using a custom screen and only one window per volume displayed on the screen at a time. This keep the number of windows opened to the screen at a time to a minimum, helping you to concentrate more on the features of MegaD than trying to find what window your working from. NOTE: To print this text to a printer you may use MegaD Text View option. Load MegaD.Doc into the text viewer the way describe above. Be sure your printer is set at top of page. (The doc file uses form feeds to move to the next page.) Select Print All from the text window Menu and sit back and wait, this text file is 31 pages. Ether I'm long winded or there is an awful lot options and functions to cover. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 2- GENERAL TEXT ________________ How to Start MegaD. You can start this program from either the Workbench by double clicking the MegaD icon, or from the CLI by making the directory that holds MegaD the current directory and typing "run MegaD" and hit return. Main Window Gadgets And Information. Once MegaD has been started a window will open with nine device gadgets, one string gadget and 18 control gadgets. The nine device gadgets can represent any drive, volume or assigned name that you desire. The string gadget is there just in case you want to access another drive or assigned device not covered by the nine boolean gadgets. If you enter a path to a sub-directory in this string gadget it will still open the root directory first. If an assign name is used it will open a window for that directory. If the directory is a sub-directory you will not have the ability to move to it's parent directory. Below this string gadget is displayed a little information about the status of the system. Such as CHIP (L), FAST (F), LARGEST (L) and AVAILABLE (A) memory. Below this it shows how many files and directories that have been selected for some type of work and the total number of bytes selected, these totals do not include the file selected within the active or locked directory window. The free disk space is also displayed of the volume that the active directory is from. Below this it shows the active directory at the time. At the bottom of the main window you will find 18 command gadgets. A quick study of the location of these gadgets will tell you that the gadgets are in the same configuration as the numeric key pad on latter model Amiga's. So pressing the '(' key from the keypad will have the same result as the upper left gadget in this group, which is the copy gadget. Active Directory This is important if you are copying, moving files, and when you create a new directory. The active directory becomes the destination or target directory for these functions. If no directory window is selected this will display "No Active Window." REMEMBER !!!!!! Even if the window is not active, Delete will work on any items that it finds selected within that window. None of the functions will work on a closed directory window except for the FIND function. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 3- Advantages and Disadvantages of MegaD MegaD is different from most other directory utilities in the fact that it allows an unlimited number of directory available to the user. The only limitation to how many directories can be viewed is the system's memory. All directory loaded are buffered in memory. This has it's advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are: If you are working with disk drives you may move though the buffered directory without waiting for the drive to reload a previously loaded directory. The ability to view an unlimited number of volumes on a screen at one time. If using the Find function and the search failed to find a specific file due to a misspelled or incorrect file name. The second search for the file will be though memory, saving considerable time. The ability to select files and directory names from a number of different directory for use in any of the commands available though MegaD. Even if the disk is not in the drive, items may be selected and as MegaD needs each disk a system requester will ask for that disk to be inserted into an available drive. Even if you are working with one volume files can be deleted, moved, copy etc. etc. from any number of the directories opened on that volume. You are no long trapped with two directories to work from. The disadvantages are: With the dynamic nature of the Amiga computer. Any directory can be changed by any program. So the directory you may be looking at may not be current. There is an option that will allows you to update directory anytime a directory window is reopens. And the Enter key on the keypad will force the active or locked directory to be update at the moment that it is hit. For directories to be buffered, Memory must be used. MegaD will easily handle the largest hard drive and keep track of every file and directory on it. But the memory must be available for it to do so. Systems with only 512K are limited. MegaD will refuse to open any new window after the largest system memory chunk is below 64K. MegaD will work in a low memory environment just as well as most other directory utilities that allow the use of only two directory on the screen at one time, just the unlimited number of directory on MegaD are limited greatly. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 4- Open A Directory Window Now let's open a directory window. Select a gadget that represents a drive that has a disk in it. After the directory is loaded into memory a directory window will open to the far left side of the screen below the screen title bar. A third window is now open just above the main window. This window is titled Volumes in Memory. This window functions very much like the directory windows only it keeps a list of the volumes that are in memory at the time. The directory window has a window close gadget, window depth gadgets, a window sizing gadget, and a proportional gadget on the right side of the window to slide the information in the window up and down if needed. The window can display any where between 0 to as many lines possible in the current screen. If more is available it will be shown proportionally by the knob within the proportional gadget. The names of directories will be shown first in the list in the window (if any). Then the filenames will follow (if any). Close a Directory Window To close a directory window simply use the close gadget at the top of the window. The directory window will close but the contents of the directory will be remember and retained in memory for quick access if you want that directory re-displayed. Select, Unselect items in directory windows To select a directory simply single select that item in the window. To un-select simply select that item again. You may drag select or unselect a group of directory items by pressing the select button while the mouse is over an item that you want to change and then dragging the mouse pointer up or down to change the status of the other items to the same as the first selected item. Moving to a Sub-Directory If you want to view that directory double click the directory item, the directory will load and the new window will open. Once a sub-directory is opened a new gadget can be found. The PARENT gadget. By selecting this gadget (single click) the parent window of this directory will either be opened if it was closed or moved to the front of the screen. This Gadget is always found at the top of the list of directory items in a sub-directory. It will scroll out of view if the proportional gadget is used to view unseen items. So to find this gadget if it is not visible at the time, move the proportional gadget to the top of the window. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 5- Files and Auto Boot Menu option A file can be selected or unselected from the directory window, if Auto Boot parameters are set you can double click the file and MegaD will see if that file matches one of the Auto Boot parameters, if so MegaD will execute an external program that knows how to handle the data file selected. Auto Boot will be explained later on in this document. Volumes in Memory Window The items in the Volumes in Memory window work very much the same way. Double click an item here if you want to reopen or move a root directory window to the front of the screen and click once to select that item for some type of action to be performed on that volume. The Volumes in Memory window close gadget acts differently depending on if you have selected items within this window. If no items are selected it will open a request window and ask "Remove All Volumes?" If the answer is YES the program will free all memory used by the directory windows. If the program finds a selected item in the window it will ask "Remove Selected Volumes?" If answered YES only the selected volumes will be removed from memory. If answered NO the program will ask "Remove All Volumes?" Once again, YES will remove all volumes from memory. Once all volumes are removed the Volumes in Memory window will be close until the next volume is opened. Screen Title Bar It's a good idea to keep the title bar visible at all times while using this program. The screen title bar will always show the path of an active window or "No Active Directory Window" if the main window with the drive icons is active. Active Keys In MegaD Some of the keys are active in this program. Keys 1 though 9 will have the same effect as selecting the drive gadgets in the main window. 1 though 3 control the left three gadgets 4 though 6 control the center 3 gadgets, and 7 though 9 control the right three gadgets. F10 will bring the main window to the front or send it to the back of the screen. F9 Will bring the Volumes in Memory window to the front or send it to the back of the screen. F8 will bring a text window to the front if one is open and if more than one is open the F8 key will cycle between the open text windows. F1 will cycle the color displayed in the directory windows, you must have a directory window open to see the changed in the colors. Small message or input windows with gadgets will have active keys corresponding to the first letter of the gadget. So if a window has the gadget YES in it the program will respond the same by pressing the key Y on your keyboard as appose to using the mouse to select the YES gadget. Remember if a string gadget is active the input will be directed to the string in thez MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 6- gadget. If directory windows are available the cursor keys will open or move windows to the front of the screen and make it the active directory. Left and Right cursor will move though the available volumes and the Up and Down cursor will move though the directories in the active volume. If the space bar is pressed and no other string gadget is active, the string input gadget in the main window will be activated. The complete numeric keypad on newer model Amiga's is completely hot. Each gadget in the lower part of the main window has a corresponding key. Lock a directory The L key will lock the current active directory, once locked you will be able to move though other directory window keeping the locked directory as the destination directory. This will also keep the locked directory open to the screen if the option one window per volume is used. The window can be unlocked by having the locked window active on the screen and pressing L once more to un-lock the window, or if another window is active and L is press that window will become the locked destination directory. A little message here for single drive owners When copying a group of files make use of the RAM DISK:. The program will only read one file into memory at a time. So if you are copying more than one file you will be required to swap disks for each file. If memory is sufficient you can copy these files to the RAM DISK: and then copy them to the destination disk. If only one file is to be copied, disk to disk method will be best. Disk copy will try to copy in as few passes that memory will allow. If your system is One megabyte or less, try to have as few programs running as possible before calling up this function. If any volumes are in memory remove them first. Every little bit of memory needed will be used by the disk copy to keep passes to a minimum. Get To Know MegaD The program has been made to be as intuitive as possible. So if you want, just load it up and start trying things out. Just remember this program deletes and moves files. Move is not so bad, the file or directory is always moved before the old file or directory is deleted. Delete is FINAL! Delete like most of the other function in MegaD work on any item in any open directory window. It will delete protected files but only after your answering a request that says "(file or directory name) is Protected, Delete anyway?" Answer YES and the file is gone. Delete will give you a second message if MegaD finds more than one directory with items selected in it. Also this program formats disk and copies disks. It is, as always, up to you to be sure of what you are doing. There is an option to help stop actions that are run by mistake. This is the PANIC, STOP PROCESSz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 7- menu. This will stop just about everything, from printing to processing file names for some form of action. An excellent way to get to know MegaD is to boot it up, load this text file by using the View Text option. If your not sure how to use any of the menu options or command gadgets, use the Search String option from the Cursor menu, in the View Text window that contains the MegaD.Doc file. Remember that the complete path of the directory window that is active at the time is displayed in the screen title bar. Though this is the active window it may not be the destination directory if a LOCK has been placed on an open directory window. If the Directory is locked the title will display '* LOCKED *' instead of the directory name in the window title bar. Remember that when a file is to be created by the program such as output to file or create export file. An active directory must be selected for this file to be saved to. The program always attaches the string found in the file name gadget to the path of the window that initiated the process. Wether it is rename file, export to file or output to file options. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 8- Main Window Gadget Functions ---------------------------------- Copy Alternate Numeric keypad '(' This will copy selected files and/or directories to the active directory window. If you are not sure which window is active the directory name will be displayed in the main program window under active directory. Also the active window title will be easy to read, others will be ghosted. Only one window on the Amiga can be active at one time. Also the path to get to the directory that the window holds will be displayed in the screen title bar. Note: while using this program it is a good idea to keep windows from covering the title bar. Copy will check to see if the selected file or files will fit onto the destination disk. If not it will inform you that insufficient space is available on the destination disk. You will be able to force MegaD to continue with the copy or move if necessary, you may be overwriting the same files. This check is not done when a directory is selected for copy. Before starting you will be requested with a window to be sure you want to do this. It will show the number of files and directories selected and the destination directories name that the files will be copied to. Move Alternate Numeric keypad ')' Move works identical to copy except that it will remove the old files or directories once they have been placed successfully in the new directory. If the file is to be moved from directory to directory on the same volume, it will simply rename the file or directory to the new place on the disk. Before starting you will be requested with a window to be sure you want to do this. It will show the number of files and directories selected and the destination directories name. NOTE: Copy and Move will not move a directory to a sub-directory of itself. Delete Alternate Numeric keypad '/' This will Delete all files and directories marked, whether the directory window is active or not. Before this action starts you will be given one or two last chances to stop files from being deleted. A window will pop up and ask "Delete ## Files and Directories?" Select YES or NO to continue with what ever actions are desired. If items are selected in more than one window a second window will ask "Delete Will Remove Items From ## Windows. Continue?". Once a file is deleted there is little chance to retrieve it with conventional methods!z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 9- Rename Alternate Numeric keypad '*' This will rename any file or directory name to what ever valid filename you wish to change it to. A window will open with three boolean Gadgets (OK, ABORT, and SKIP) and one string gadget. This string gadget will hold the current name of the file that was found selected in any open directory window. At this point you will have three options. Change the name of the file, Skip to the next selected item, or Abort the rename option. Set Protection Alternate Numeric keypad '7' This works much the same as the Rename option above except that it works with the protection bits of the file. There will be seven small gadgets in the center of the request window. The gadgets will be marked S P A R W E D. When the window opens the flag gadgets will reflect the way the flags are at the moment for the current selected file. By turning these gadgets off and on the bits can be changed on the file. The letters stand for S=SCRIPT, P=PURE, A=ARCHIVE, R=READABLE, W=WRITABLE, E=EXECUTE, D=DELETABLE. You will also find the gadget ALL in this window. If this gadget is used, all selected items in open directory windows will have the protection flags changes to way that the flags are set in the window. This saving the time to set each directory item one at a time. Create Directory Alternate Numeric keypad '8' This will create a new sub-directory in the active directory window. A request window will open and ask to input the name of the sub-directory to add to the active directory. OK and ABORT gadgets are available here. View Text Alternate Numeric keypad '9' This will open a new window to view any text file marked in any open directory window. It will first check to see if the marked file is a text file. If it is not sure what type of a file it is it will open a request window and ask, "Not a True Text File. Load Anyway?" If the answer is yes, the program will display the true ASCII characters of the file. If it was a true text file it will open a window with the usual array of gadgets to manipulate the position you would like to be in the file. This window will stay open until the close window option is selected. If you wish to view more that one file at a time, simply select more than one text file from any of the open directory windows, MegaD View Text is designed just like the directory windows to allow an unlimited number text files to be viewed at one time. The only limitation is available memory in the matching at the time. All of the directory options and windows are activez MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 10- even if a text window is open on the screen. So if you want to open another text window select that file in the directory window and select View Text again. There is a completely new menu to select from within the text windows. Text and background color can be selected to suit your taste. The whole file can be printed or just the part visible in the window. Page up, page down, side to side and top to bottom of file commands are here. Search for a string with or without a pattern match and repeat last search. The cursor keys will act on the file in the direction you wish to move. The Numeric Keypads Home(7), End(1), PgUp(9) and PgDn(3) will move you within the text file. Home will move you to the first of the file. End will move you to the end of the file, PgUp will move you one page (Window size) up and PgDn will move you one page (Window size) down. By using the F8 function key you will be able to bring any open text window to the front of the screen. If more than one text window is open you can toggle between the windows by using the F8 key to cycle though the text windows. Save Defaults will save the background and text color of the last closed text window and the last Search String used. Find Alternate Numeric keypad '-' This work different from the above mentioned Select, From Pattern option in that does not look in the open directory windows to find a match and it will look though all directory even if it is hidden by the Hide menu options. Find will search though volumes selected in the Volumes in Memory window. It will start from the first file in the volume and search though the volume until it ether find a match for the string entered in the string gadget or finds the last directory item on the volume. If a match is found a message will be displayed and you will be asked if you want to continue. If you answer no to the query and a directory window was previously opened that contained this match the window will be moved to the front of the screen and the found item will be selected. If a window is not available you will be able to use the information displayed in the message window to find the file. Select All Alternate Numeric keypad '4' This will select all directory items in all open directory windows, excluding the Volumes in Memory window. Select Active Alternate Numeric keypad '5' This will select only the items in an active directory window. This option also works on the Volumes in Memory window. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 11- Select Pattern Alternate Numeric keypad '6' This option will open a window with a string input gadget. You can select a directory item by name by typing the name to search for in the open directory windows. If found it will mark that item as selected. The Amiga wild cards (#? ?) are valid here, giving you the option of selecting a group of files or directory with similar characters in them. Examples: "pro#?" will select files such as "program.c", "process", "procure.c". As long as the items starts with "pro" it will be selected. "pro#?.c" will only select "program.c" and "procure.c" from the above list. ???cess will only select process. Select Auto Boot Alternate Numeric keypad '+' This option will open a window displaying all of the MegaD Auto Boot parameters available. By selecting individual Auto Boot parameters and then closing the window, MegaD will search the header information of each file in the open directory windows to see if they match the Auto Boot definitions. So if you have an Auto Boot parameter that will recognize sound samples and select that parameter, MegaD will then select all sound files in the open directory window. Clear, All Alternate Numeric keypad '1' Clear, Active Alternate Numeric keypad '2' Clear, Pattern Alternate Numeric keypad '3' Clear, Auto Boot Alternate Numeric keypad '.' These three options work the same as the Select options describe above except that they will un-select items in the directories File Comment Alternate Numeric keypad '0' This works much the same as Rename mentioned above. It works on the File Comment stored within the directory structure of the disk. If items are selected in open directory windows MegaD will open a requester to input or change the current File Comment on the selected file. If the Skip gadget is hit or a return is made on an unchanged string gadgets MegaD will not changed the file comment. If the file originally had a file not and it is desired to remove the file comment. Blanking out the string and pressing return or hitting the OK gadgets will erase the file comment on that file or directory. You will be able to tell all files that have a file comment by an '*' just after the column in the directory windows that contain the filename. The '*' is visible at all times if a file comment is attach to a file or directory. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 12- Update Directory Alternate Numeric keypad 'ENTER' Due to the dynamic nature of the Amiga computer a directory can be changed or even deleted by a number of other programs. If the velleity of a directory is in question use this to update the directory to the current state. If the directory that the window displays has been removed, the directory window will be removed from the screen. If directory items have been added or deleted the changes will be reflected. If you want to resort a directory by a different attribute, set the sort flags in the Show menu and use update. If Sort on None is used no sorting is done so little if any change will be shown. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 13- Menu Functions and options ---------------------------------- PROJECT Open Windows, All This will open all directory windows that have been opened once before and then been closed. This menu option overrides the "One Window Per Volume" in the "OPTIONS" menu. If more than five windows are available to be opened, you will be queried if you still want to open them. Open Windows, Selected Directories This works the same as the "Open Windows, All" options above, except that it will search for windows to open in the directories marked in a directory window or the Volumes in Memory window. Close Windows, All This will close all directory windows that are opened at the time. Only Text Windows, the Volumes in Memory window and the Main window will be left open on the screen. Close Windows, Selected Directories This, again will close directory windows that are open but will only close windows within marked directories of another open directory window. This option also looks for Volumes selected in the Volumes in Memory window. Add To Auto Boot The Auto Boot is a utility to allow you auto boot an executable program by selecting the data file that was created by it or that it recognizes. Auto Boot works by looking though the first few bytes of the data file that was selected and seeing if they match any of the defined Auto Boot parameters. If it can not find a match by the internal bytes of information in the file, Auto Boot will then see if the filename has an extension that it recognizes. Extensions are a few characters following a period to identify the file for some purpose. The most common one is the .info used by the Workbench, this one for obvious reason is skipped by the Auto Boot function. If Auto Boot finds a match by ether method and the menu item "Activate Auto Boot" under the "Option" menu is checked, it will run the executable and give the executable program the data filename. If all goes well you should be able to edit, view or what ever the executable program was designedz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 14- for. The process to create an Auto Boot definition is very simple. You the user will be required to select at least two data files (more is preferred,) and one executable program that is known to work on the type of files selected, the data files and executable need not be in the same directory window but the directory windows containing them do need to be open to the screen. MegaD will then look at each file selected and see if there is enough identical information at the first of the data files to see if it can distinguish the file form other types of data files. If it can not find any identical information in the file but the data files selected did have identical extensions MegaD will use this information to identify the program with. If only a few bytes of information is found identical MegaD will ask if you still want to use that information to Auto Boot with. If all goes well you will be asked if this executable requires an input channel, If you know that when this executable program is running and it request some type of input you should answer YES otherwise answer NO. (NOTE: current version 1.01 will open input channels even with the reply of NO. This is due to a large number of complaints that MegaD fails if no output channel is supplied. If you do answer NO a small CON: window will open instead of a the usual large window. This is being looked into) If the application will work with a variety of like files such as a graphic viewer you will have to create a definition for each type of file that it handles. Create a definition for each, GIF, HAM, Lo-Res etc, etc, all defining the graphic viewer as the executable. If the Definition is added MegaD will tell so in a message window. After new definitions are added you will still need to tell MegaD to save the definitions by selecting the menu item "Save Defaults" This options is described a little farther in this text. Edit Auto Boot If you find that an Auto Boot definition is not working properly or that you would like to remove it for any reason. This is the menu item to do it with. If Auto Boot definitions are available a window will open displaying the information about the different Auto Boots. The window will have a close window gadget in the upper left corner. The information displayed in the window will be in this order. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 15- In B\Ext Executable Path And Name NO 40 Workbench:GFX/viewGFX YES ss UTILITIES:Sound/playSound The first line is the title of the information displayed in the columns. "Win" if you requested an output window it will display YES if not it will display NO in this column. "B\Ext" column will ether display the number of matching bytes that it uses to identify the data file with or the extension if an extension is used. "Executable Path And Name" is just as it describes. By selecting any one or a number of the definition with the pointer from the mouse you will mark that definition for deletion, select it once more and it will become un-selected. Close the window with any item selected and you will asked if you want to delete the Auto Boot definition, if the answer is yes the items will be removed from the window. if the answer is no you will be asked if you want to abort the Auto Boot edit. If the window is close with out any items selected, it will simply close the edit window. But if any changes are made and you want to keep it that way you will have to selected Save Defaults. Set Defaults There are five user defined menu items that can be defined by the user in the UTILITIES menu. There are nine user defined gadgets and a way to define what screen to have the MegaD program work from. To set up the commands and items select this item. A window will open with nine boolean gadgets and 19 string gadgets. The boolean gadget are titled ZOO, ARC, LHARC, NEXT, PREV, ADD, DELETE, OK and CANCEL. By selecting the ZOO gadget the first six string gadget will be filled with the default Zoo commands. Selecting the ARC gadget will set the default Arc commands. Selecting the LHARC gadget will set the default LhArc commands. In the upper right hand corner of the window the name of the active Menu Set will be displayed. If these three archiving programs are not the ones you use, or the default set of commands are not to your liking, the text can be changed to your taste. The smaller string gadget on the left will be the text that will be displayed within the menu, while the larger string gadget to the right will be the actual command sent to the operating system. It will be attached to a filename or a set of filenames. If more definitions are wanted simply change the information int the Menu Text and Command Text string gadgets to what you would like the new one to be and then use the ADD gadget toz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 16- add this definition. Once a new definition is added to MegaD it will display in the top right hand corner Menu Set, 1 of 1. Each time this a new definition is added it will display the number of the active Menu Set displayed and the total number extra Menu Sets added to MegaD. DELETE will remove previously defined Menu Sets. It will not remove ZOO, ARC, or LhARC. The NEXT and PREV gadgets will step though all available Menu Sets. Remember if information is changed in any of the Menu Set strings and a new Menu Set is selected the change will be recorded and used for the changed Menu Set. CANCEL will return you to MegaD resetting the Menu to it's original state, providing that information was not changed and a new Menu Set was selected, forcing a recording of the changes. A CON: window will be opened on the workbench screen for the input and output channel. The first command works different from the other four user defined commands. I'll describe the actual processing that the program will do with this command first. When archiving a file or set of files the archive program needs a name for a file to store the archived files to. When the PACK menu option is used a request window will open and ask for a file name for the archive to save to in the active directory. Type whatever name agrees with the situation such as "PACK.zoo" if using Zoo, "PACK.arc" if you are using Arc and if you are using LhArc, "PACK.LZH. The extension .zoo, .arc, and lzh are not required by the archives themselves. They will be added if not included. But MegaD will not be able to find the file if they are omitted. If MegaD can not find the file, that directory item will not be added to the directory window though the file is there. Now that we know what the archive file name is we can start adding all the pieces together. The standard PACK command for Zoo is "Zoo a". We have requested that the file be named "PACK.zoo". These two will be added to make a string of characters "Zoo a PACK.zoo". The program will search for selected files in the open directory windows. These will be added to the end of the command string which will end up something like this. "Zoo a PACK.zoo filename1 filename2 filename3...." So what you end up with is a very long string. The string can be any size up to 255 characters long. Any file after that will be ignored. If files were not added to the command line due to too many characters, the items in the directory windows will be left marked as selected. The other four user defined commands are much easer to understand. They are found both in the PROJECT menu and the UTILITIES menu. They all work inz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 17- the very same manner. They add one filename to the command line. I will use the "Zoo LIST" command as an example. The Zoo LIST default command is "Zoo v". Once this option is selected the program will search for selected items in the directory windows. As it finds them, it will combine the two to create the command line that will be executed. So we could end up with a command line such as "Zoo v PACK.zoo". If the PACK.zoo file is a true Zoo file, Zoo will print to a CON: or CLI window the contents of the file. If you would like to use commands other than archive commands here you are free to do so. The way that you set up the user defined menus is totally up to you. But remember that some commands will not work if executed without and input channel. There is the potential of a system lockup or crash. A good option to add is a graphics file viewer and or a sound or instrument player in the UTILITIES menu. As new types of IFF files are created, new IFF readers or upgraded readers will become available. This will keep your MegaD utility up to date without rewriting the program. There are six user defined device gadgets for the Main window to selected where to get the root directory for a directory window. Any valid volume or storage devices name can be typed into the lower six string gadgets. Once changed the gadgets in the Main window will reflect the change. One more gadget can be found here. This is the screen definition gadget. By selecting this gadget you can chose between three types of screen for MegaD to run from. WORKBENCH SCREEN, CUSTOM SCREEN (640X200), and INTERLACE SCREEN (640X400). If you use an Over Scan Workbench screen, MegaD will Duplicate that type of screen when it creates it's own screen. Once the OK gadget is selected the program will use the parameters selected. NOTE: Remember to select Save Defaults to save the definitions of your menus, gadgets, windows and screens. Save Defaults Will try to write a preference file to the same directory that the program was run from. The default file will be MegaD.pf. Depending on how MegaD was started determines where this file will be saved. If MegaD is started from the CLI and the file was called by it's complete path, such as "UTILITIES:MegaD" the .pf file will be saved to the same directory that MegaD program file is stored at. If you store MegaD in your C: directory and simply call "MegaD" the .pf file will be saved to the current directory which may or may notz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 18- be the same directory that the main MegaD program file is stored at. If MegaD is called from the Workbench the .pf file will be saved to the same directory that the Workbench window represents. This file stores all information about how the user has changed the program during the run. Information such as the items checked in the menus, where the user moved message windows, and input windows during the run, the user defined commands and gadgets, the Auto Boot specifications, the extra Menu Sets specifications and a few other little details that need to be remembered to keep MegaD in the same state at start up. Iconify Iconify will replace all of the MegaD windows and the MegaD screen with one small window on the Workbench screen. The small window will have a close window gadget and the standard depth gadget. To reactivate MegaD simply selected the menu button on the mouse while the small window is active. MegaD will return with all of the loaded directories in tack. If the close window gadget is hit MegaD will end it's run and return all memory back to the system. Quit Ends run of program. Closes all windows opened by the program and returns all memory used by the program. UTILITIES User Defined PACK. See Set Defaults above. User Defined UnPACK. This function will make the active directory window become the current directory. So If you select a file on a disk to be UnPacked and then select another directory such as RAM DISK: the files will be unpacked to the RAM DISK:. Also see Set Defaults above. User Defined LIST PACK. See Set Defaults above. User Defined Cmd 1 See Set Defaults above. User Defined Cmd 2 See Set Defaults above. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 19- Copy/Format disk This will open a full screen window with a number of gadgets and options to select from depending on if you want to format one to four disk at a time. Or it will copy disks with one to four drives. If the drives are attached to your Amiga. The gadget on the left side of the window select the format options, the gadget on the right selects the disk copy options. A large box is drawn around the group of gadgets that are active at the time to show if you are in Format or Copy mode. To Select Format or Copy mode simply select anywhere by or on the gadgets assign to the mode that you want. On the format side there are four boolean gadgets to turn on and off drive DF0:, DF1:, DF2:, and DF3: for formatting disk. On the copy side there are eight boolean gadgets to select the destination drive(s) and source drive(s). Destination df0:, df1:, df2:, df3:, Source df0:, df1:, df2:, df3:. If you have more than two drives you can copy the one source disk to all other free drives if you wish, so if you have three drives you can make two copies of a disk at a time or if you have four drives you can make 3 copies of a disk at a time. If you should have four 3 1/2 drives attach to your Amiga, one more boolean gadget will be available. It will be titled "D C" for Dual Copy. This gadget will be found at the far right of the window towards the top. By selecting this gadget you will be able copy two disks at one time. Drive df0: and df1: will be match, drive df2: and df3: will be match. Each time you select the D C gadget it will toggle source and destination drives. Below the main two sets of gadgets are four string gadgets. If you are in Format mode the strings will contain default names (Empty0, Empty1...) to name the newly formatted disk. The strings can be changed to any thing that you would like. If you are in Copy mode the newly copied disk will be renamed to any strings found in the corresponding string gadget for the destination drive. If the string gadget is empty the name of the copy will be unchanged. Careful! Two identical disk will crash the operating system if inserted into the drives while the Amiga operating system has control of the drives. Only gadgets that correspond to a mounted drive will be active, all others will be disabled. Also if copy is requested on a single drive, it will show the number of passes the copy will take and if you still want to continue. Below the group of string gadgets are three more gadgets. EXIT, START, and ABORT. EXIT will return you to the main program but not before checkingz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 20- for duplicate disk still in the drives. If it finds duplicate disk it will display a message and wait until the disk are removed. START will initiate the Format(s) or Copy(s) that you have set up. The ABORT gadget is disabled until a format or Copy is started. If for some reason you want to abort the process once it is started, just select this gadget. You will be greeted with a Yes or No request to see if you really do want to abort the process. EXIT, START and ABORT can all be selected from the keyboard by pressing the first letter of the gadget. The VERIFY gadget is located at the top center of the window, it will read ON or OFF depending on the status of Verify. This will work on both Format and Copy. It is your choice, but be warned that your data is at stake if verify is off. It will not test if the disk is bad or if a write error has occurred. At the bottom of the window there will be four grids with 80 squares in each grid, this represent the cylinders on the disk. The grid will appear black if unactive, white if the disk will be read for a disk copy and orange if the disk will be written to or formatted. The above mention colors are default workbench colors. OPTIONS Open All Directories This menu item switches between two states, checked or unchecked. If it is unchecked, each directory will need to be opened manually by double clicking a directory item in a directory window. Once a directory is double clicked it will read just that directory and none of the sub-directories, if any. After the directory is in memory it will then open a new window and display the contents. If the Open All Directories is checked and a drive or directory is selected it will search the volume or directories for all sub-directories. Once it has read all directories, it will open a request window and display "Open all ## Windows?" to see if you still want to display all directories. NOTE: The operation system slows down considerably after about 20 windows are open on one screen. Long pauses are encountered during the opening and the closing of the windows. This can be annoying but the program does have the capability to keep track of as many windows as you desire open at one time and the system memory has room for. If the directory has a sub-directory with a window attached to it, (this window need not be opened at thez MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 21- time) it will not search in that sub-directory for more to open. Only once it has found a directory with no window attached will it search for more directories to attach new windows to. Select All Hide Will check Hide .INFO, Hide Amiga Directories, Hide C Directory. Clear All Hide Will un-check Hide .INFO, Hide Amiga Directories, Hide C Directory. Hide .INFO If checked this will hide .INFO files from being displayed in any of the directory windows. It will also prevent them from being used in any of the output functions. Keep in mind that if you are selecting files for copy, move or delete, the .info files will not be touched. It is a good idea to have this unchecked for the above mentioned options. Keep .Info With File menu option described lower will override this option. Hide Amiga Directories If Checked this will hide the standard Amiga directories such as DEV, SYSTEM, FONTS and so on. Hide C directory If Checked this will hide the C command directory NOTE: All Hide functions work with output options. If sending a directory to the printer and Hide .INFO is checked, none of the .info files will be printed. Filter Directory This will allow each window to have a filter added to it. The filter can ether be used to show only the items that match the filter or it will show everything except what match the filter. Pattern matching is used here. The pattern match works the same as describe above in Select Pattern. Once the pattern is entered into the request window. you will be asked Filter out (pattern) matches. If Yes is selected all items matched will be removed from the display. If No is selected only the matches will be visible. If it is desired to return the directory window to it's normal state select this item again while that window is the active directory window. The filter will be removed from the window. MegaD will remember the filter forz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 22- later use during that run. So if a filter is requested for that window again the filter string will be in that request window string gadget ready for use again or it can be changed to a new filter if necessary. One Window Per Volume While this item is checked it will only allow one window open per volume displayed at a time. This prevents the system slowdown of too many windows at a time. This is deactivated if Open Windows, All or Open Windows, Selected Directories options are used from the PROJECT menu. Keep .INFO With File If checked, this item will mark and un-mark the companion .info file associated with this file, if any. This option overrides the Hide .INFO option in this menu. The .info files are used by the Workbench. If the .info file is not copied or moved with the main file the Workbench will not be able to display the icon associated with the file. Also if the main file is deleted and the .info file is left in the directory, Workbench will think that there is a file to load or use. When using the Copy, Move, Delete, and Rename Utilities it is a good idea to keep this Menu item checked. If you do not want a particular .info file marked for some type of work, simply select that .info file to un-mark the file in the directory window. If a drag select of more than one item is used MegaD will not look for matching .info files. Keep Extension With File This works separately from the Keep .INFO With File option. If checked and a file is selected that has extension files in the same directory they will be selected or unselected with the main file. Once again if a drag select of more that one item is used MegaD will not look for matching extension files. Active Window To Front If this item is checked MegaD will attempt to move the active MegaD window except the main window to the front of the screen. By clicking any place in a window, that particular window will move to the front of the screen. This has an odd effect when a depth gadget is hit to move an unactive window to the rear of the screen. The window pops back to the front. A second try on the depth gadget will keep the window to the rear. Outside of removing the depth gadgets from the windows. I have not found a practical solution to this, and with az MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 23- large number of windows at one time on the screen the depth gadgets are a necessity. The only window that will not move to the front is the main window MegaD control window. This window will have to be moved to the front by ether using the depth gadgets on the window or by pressing F10. Activate Auto Boot If Auto Boot definitions are available and this menu item is checked, you will be able to auto boot the executable that recognizes the selected data file. This only works on data files the have had a an Auto Boot definition created to identify the files with. If MegaD finds that none of the Auto Boot definitions matched a standard text file View Text will be called up so that the selected text file can be viewed. Auto Update If this item is checked MegaD will reload directories each time a directory window is reopened or if the a device gadget is selected within the main window. This option is an advantage to Amiga users who have hard drive and the buffering of directory list is of little consequence due to the speed of the drives. It guaranties that if a directory window is reopened the information in that window will be current. Clone Copy If this option works on files that have been moved or copied by MegaD. If it is checked MegaD will keep the date and the file note of the file the same as the original file that it was copied from. If it is not checked the date of the file will become the current date that is set by the Amiga operating system, if file notes exist on a file that will be overwritten by a file of the same name the comment of the old file will become the comment of the newly copied file. SHOW All Will check Size, Date Stamp, and Protection within this menu. None Will un-check Size, Date Stamp, and Protection within this menu. z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 24- Size If checked this will display the size of the file to the right of the filename, or if the item is a directory it will display (DIR) in that place. Date Stamp If checked this will display the Date Stamp of the file or directory of when it was created. This date stamp excludes the seconds of the time to conserve space. Protection If checked this will display the status of protection flags of the file or directory. File Comment Amiga Dos has the ability to store a file comment with each directory entry. The file comment can be up 80 characters long. If MegaD finds a file comment with any file an '*' will be displayed after the directory item listed in the directory windows. By selecting this menu item MegaD will display the first 30 characters of any comment found in the directories. MegaD will show only the file name and comment if this item is checked. Size, Date Stamp, Protection will be removed from the display. Sort On MegaD will sort files by None, Name, Size, Date Stamp, Protection and File Comment. By selected the sub-items you will be able to sort by any of the above criteria. If a new sort criteria is selected and an active or locked directory window is on the screen MegaD will display the information in that window in the new order, this will work with all criteria except None. None is only effective if it was selected during loading of that directory. Newly loaded directory will be sorted by the last sub-item checked in the Sort menu. OUTPUT Printer This will print the directories names and or file names selected within an open directory window. A printer must be available to the Amiga for this option to work. If a directory is selected it will print all sub-directories and files found within that directory. File This works the same as OUTPUT, Printer except that thez MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 25- output is directed to a file. To select this option you must select a directory window to determine where the file will be stored. This is done by having the destination directory window as the active window on the system. If a directory window is found active a window with three gadgets will open. Two of the gadgets will be boolean (OK and ABORT.) The title of the window will display the path that the file will be stored to. There is a string gadget to input your filename for the text file. Remember only type in a valid filename. The path of the active directory will be appended to the name that is typed here. W/Tree Lines This is a toggle selected menu item. It will effect the way that the program output the directory items for the above two mentions menu options. Output/Printer, and Output/File. If this menu item is checked it will indent the directories and sub-directories items with vertical and horizonal dashes to make it easier to tell what directory or sub-directory the directory items are from. If it is unchecked the directories and sub-directories will be indented with spaces. Disk Label Alignment This will print two alignment dots to the printer. These are alignment points for the disk label itself. The dots are 2 7/8" apart, a standard label is 2 3/4" wide. So the dots are just a little wider than the label itself. Try to center the label between these points. Also the two dots should print just off the top edge of the label. Print This option will go one of two ways depending if it finds a volume selected in the Volumes in Memory window. OPTION 1: If it finds a selected volume, or volumes, it will print a label for a 3 1/2 disk. It will first print the two dots at the head of the label mention above in Alignment. It will then print "WRITE ENABLE ->", "WRITE PROTECT- >", for the back side of the disk. The Volume name will then be printed in condensed mode for the top of the disk. The Volume name will again be printed in standard print mode for the front of the disk. Now if any itemsz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 26- in the directory windows displaying information from this volume is selected, it will then be printed, up to 14 lines. If any of the files selected are in a sub-directory of the volume it will first print the path to reach those filenames or directories. OPTION 2: If no volume names are found selected, it will open a window to input a label manually. The information will be printed in the same manner as above except that you will have complete control of what to print. The labels used with this program should be tractor fed. The labels need to be 2 3/4" X 2 3/4" and need to be spaced 3" apart. The labels that I use are AVERY brand stock number 4241. Any label space 3" apart on tractor feed should get the job done. Another option is to print the label on your favorite paper, cut to size and paste with rubber cement. (Careful not to get sloppy with the rubber cement!) The printer needs to be capable of 8 lines per inch and condensed characters. (12 char per inch). If you are not sure if the printer is capable just run labels on a piece of paper and see if the information would fit on a disk label. Print Times This give you the option to print any number of duplicate labels. If you are printing items as describe above in OPTION 1: where MegaD uses the items selected in the directory windows to print your label. A requester will ask you to enter the number of labels desired for each volume selected in the Volumes in Memory window. You will have the option to ABORT from this option within the same requester. If you are using OPTION 2: the requester will ask for the number of desired labels after you have entered your information in the Manual Label window. Database Import File This will send the selected information using the same criteria as used for OUTPUT, Printer or File. Except that the information will be sent in a form that a Database program can import the information into a database file. This is to help manage a largez MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 27- collection of disks such as the Fred Fish collection. The information that is printed to this file is controlled by the next item in this menu. Setup Import File Once again you must select an active directory for this file to be saved to. This is done in the same manor as described in OUTPUT, File. A window will then open up with a number of gadgets in it. The screen title bar will display the path the export file will be saved to. The first gadget on the right side of the window is to input what your database needs for a field separator. This defaults to 44 which is the ASCII of a comma. This tells the database that this is the end of the field. The gadget below this is the Record Separator. This defaults to 10 which is the ASCII of a linefeed. This tells the database that this is the end of a record. Eight gadgets are on the left side of the window. These gadgets can ether be on or off, depending on how you select them. They will control what information to send for the import file. The gadgets are Filename, Volume, Path, Type, Date, Size, Blocks Used, and Protection. These gadgets also display the size in bytes of the information. The fourth to the last gadget on the right of the window is the string gadget that you will input a file name to save the import file as. Once again, do not add the path to this filename. This was done when you selected the active directory to save to. Third to the last gadget on the right side of the window is Append To File. If this is selected it will constantly append new information to an existing file or create a new one if it is not there. The second to last gadget is the OK gadget for telling the system that you are finish setting up the export utility. And finally the last gadget on the right is a CANCEL gadget. This will reset all items in the Export Utility window to the defaults loaded from the default .pf file if the .pf file exists else it will clear every thing. Then it will exit from the from this option. This information need only be set up once and will be stored in the .pf file created by selecting Save Defaults in the PROJECT menu. From then on it will ask for the disk that you first saved your export file to. You can change this information by re-selecting the Setup Import File menu option. Registration This if for printing the official registration form to order a registered version of MegaD. This menu itemz MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 28- will not be available on the registered version of MegaD. The registered version disk will have four version of MegaD included with it. The difference between the programs will be that larger options will be removed from the program to decrease the size of MegaD itself. The purpose of this is for users with 512K of memory. MegaD at its present size is 119K bytes of information, that is 23% of total memory. MegaD with all of the large options removed is about 72K in size, that is only about 14% of total memory. The smallest version will not include the Format/Copy Disk and all of the options under the Output Menu. The other two version will exclude just one of the larger options mention above. PANIC STOP PROCESS This is for stopping any process in action at the time, such as loading a directory. copying a group of files, deleting Files. etc. If something is happening and you don't want it to, select this menu item. If you are trying to stop windows from opening on the screen the menus are in a very erratic state. You have a better chance of stopping it by using the alternate key stroke RIGHT_AMIGA 'E'. NOTE: If this is selected during a directory load, the directory will be incomplete. The window will still open and all visible items will work as normal, but there is a good chance that you will not be seeing the whole directory.z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 29- MegaD.Doc Index Activate Auto Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Active Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Active Keys In MegaD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Active Window To Front . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Add To Auto Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Advantages and Disadvantages of MegaD . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Auto Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Clear All Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Clear, Active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clear, All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clear, Auto Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clear, Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clone Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Close a Directory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Close Windows, All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Close Windows, Selected Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Complaints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii, 14 Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Copy/Format disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Create Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Database Import File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 DISCLAIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii Disk Label Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 OPTION 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 OPTION 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Print Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Edit Auto Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 File Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Files and Auto Boot Menu option. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Filter Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 GENERAL TEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Get To Know MegaD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Hide .INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Hide Amiga Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Hide C directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 How to Start MegaD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Iconify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Keep .INFO With File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Keep Extension With File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Lock a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Main Window Gadget Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Main Window Gadgets And Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Menu Functions and options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 30- MegaD.Doc Index Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Moveing to a Sub-Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 One Window Per Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Open A Directory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Open All Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Open Windows, All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Open Windows, Selected Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 OUTPUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 OUTPUT, Disk Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 OUTPUT, File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 OUTPUT, Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 OUTPUT, W/Tree Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 PANIC, STOP PROCESS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Print MegaD.Doc Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 QUICK START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Quit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Reasons to become a Registered User. . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Registered disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Rename . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Save Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Screen Title Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 5 Select Active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Select All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Select All Hide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Select Auto Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Select Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Select, Unselect items in directory windows . . . . . . . . . 4 Set Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Set Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Setup Import File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 SHOW, All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 SHOW, Date Stamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SHOW, File Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SHOW, None . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 SHOW, Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 SHOW, Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Single drive owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Update Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv User Defined Cmd 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 User Defined Cmd 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 User Defined LIST PACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 User Defined PACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18z MegaD V1.01 (C) 1990 John L. Jones, All Rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Page 31- MegaD.Doc Index User Defined UnPACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 UTILITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 View Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Volumes in Memory Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 c