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DirWork V1.43 - Chris Hames 30/10/91. All rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------- DW Size 58716 bytes Need to get around your directories fast and simply. Force yourself to read fully this doc file and I think you will find this program of great use. What makes DirWork better than the rest ? VERY Configurable. Buttons/Button-keys/Options/ScreenMode/ ScreenColors/WindowSize/WindowPosition/PopKeys/Tools etc can be modified and the DW executable modified to have these values. External configuration editor program to make changes easier. Detaches. So when you type DW from CLI you can still use your CLI as if nothing happened. No need to Run! Paths are kept! Sleep. Can be put to sleep so it disappears completely until you select it from the workbench tools menu (kick2.0+) or press left Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D or whatever keys you configure it to. Also can be started in sleep mode so "DW -s" in your startup-sequence will have it there for when you want it later. Intelligent. Double click the left mouse button on filename of a IFF picture and it will be automatically displayed. Double click a text file to type it, press the right mouse button to edit it! Double Click a .lzh file and you see the contents, right mouse button on one extracts the contents to the destination dir and then reads in the new entries. If you have a middle button then pressing it on the .lzh will extract the files in the backgroung so you can continue doing other things. As well as many other instant actions on different types of files. A show built in that loads in the next picture while your looking at the last. You can of course set up a button to use your own show utility. Buffered directories. Press the right mouse button over the directory text gadget and you get a menu of previous directories which you can instantly go to. A completely mouse controlled type/hxtype which will automatically decrunch powerpacker crunched text files. Both memory and BootBlock virus checking. Inbuilt Diskcopy/Format/Install with multiple destinations etc. PopKeys. Define keys to start up programs. eg make Amiga-P start your paint program. Amiga-Escape start a NewShell etc etc etc Also adds these programs to DW's menu and your workbench Tools menu if using Kick2.0+. ScreenBlanker so that the phosphors on your monitor get a rest. AutoPoint option so that the window the mouse is over is selected. MouseAccelerator with selectable threshold. Copy & move cloning so that the date/protection/filenote is same. Fast and Smooth Floppy Dirs! Getting a directory off a floppy is up to 2 times faster. And your drive doesn't grind back and forward anywhere near as much as normal. Size. At less than 59K uncompressed it makes mince meat of most of those huge memory hungry utils. This program is SHAREWARE so please support the work that has gone into it. Here is my order of preference due to bank charges for contributions :- Australian Cash or Cheque Internationa Money Order or anything else that costs me nothing Foreign Cash (US, English or German prefered) The suggested contribution of $35 will get you a disk containing the next version of this program when it is available. Please send the contribution & any ideas etc to:- C Hames |Internet: Snail: 6 Pamela Crt | bytey@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au Blackburn South | ins760z@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (1991 only) VIC 3130 |FidoNet BBS: Australia | 3:633/353 And don't forget to include the version number you have! This program may be copied as long as it is accompanied by this doc file both unaltered & no money is charged(except for a reasonable copying fee such as what Fred Fish charges). All use of this program is at your own risk & I assume no responsibility or liability for any problems that occur. Future Improvements:- (When registering please tell me which ones you want) More configurable. ie Screens/ButtonPositions/Colors/Priority etc copy/move not going to fit requester Inbuilt gif viewer. Screen Grabber. More file types recognized. Faster(the need for speed!). History:- 27/ 1/90 1.00 First Release. 5/ 2/90 1.01 VMK updated to v27. Stopped title bar flashing. 12/ 2/90 1.02 Icon. Faster. Smaller. Now uses less memory(5K) if destination display is not used. 15/ 2/90 1.03 Detaches from CLI. Some Workbench problems fixed. A Show bug fixed. 22/ 2/90 1.04 CD bug fixed. Volumes button added. Dir buttons and options can be modified and saved. VMK can now automatically be executed every 10 secs. 14/ 7/90 1.10 Heaps of little improvements. Copy/Delete/Move Dirs. Now VERY configurable buttons. Sleep. Window sizing. HxType/Type/Search Esc works anytime now. Rename/ makdir/copy/move/delete add or remove from both filelists where appropriate. So many more changes that I am calling it 1.10 ! 30/ 7/90 1.11 Bug fixed when getting dirs with spaces in them. 17/ 8/90 1.12 Rare problem getting dirs with spaces at end. 10/ 1/91 1.20 More than 255 files displayed. Dirs above files option added. And too many other things to mention. 13/ 1/91 1.21 Sometimes crashed when started from cli, bug found in detach routine. Argh!! Display .info files option added. Window Pos now saved with config. 16/ 1/91 1.22 Recognition of text files improved. Other little things improved. 10/ 6/91 1.30 Wouldn't save config if started in sleep mode (-s) fixed. Didn't open some windows at same offset as window fixed. Now gets the dirs after sleep. Automatically gets info(bytes free) for dirs after a copy move or delete. MakeDir can have icon. Bootblock checking. Popkeys. ScreenBlanking. Runs programs with spaces(Dave!). Save's path of DW program with save executable. Paths other than C: recognized(Thanks Randell). Parent/root far left or right of the text gadget right mouse button over text gadget gets dir. Shells etc now have close gadgets if kick 2.0, and the N,x,u commands have been improved. Kick 2.0 looks. Heaps of other little things. 22/ 6/91 1.31 Requester kick 1.2/1.3 freeze bug hopefully gone. Crash after RMB instant getdir gone. AutoPoint for James. Screen option. Copy/move clone code better and kick 1.2/1.3 date. Filenote problem with FSDirs problem fixed. Better FileSelection. Requester bigger. FileBits/Note writting under Kick 1.2/1.3 fixed. Resizing doesn't make slide gadgets go to top. Kick 2.0+ execute window title shows path. Delete didn't request for non-empty dirs fixed. Popkey stuff gets added to tools menu in Kick2.0+ No flashing bottom line. And some other little things. 13/10/91 1.40 Middle mouse button instant actions added. Button/Instant Config strings larger & key codes. Popkey data larger & with full function defs. PopKey/tools now are in DW menu as well now. ScreenBlank bug removed. Volumes button improved. Right parent/root allows for window width not 640. Two characters are now used to show protection. Uses paths when started from workbench. PlaySS now uses rate in 8SVX files. Inbuilt Diskcopy/Format/FormaQuick/Install added. Wakeup now brings screen/window to front and activates if it is already open. Key to go to those letter entries for Michael. Bug in IFF Show with strange width pictures fixed. and some Overscan support added. CAPSLOCK qualifier is now ignored for keys. AutoPoint drag bug fixed. MouseAcceleration added. Buffered directories menu added. Added option to allow only one DW to be in memory. 21/10/91 1.41 Qualifier with selected file filebits bug fixed. FSDir bug fixed with trying to get a file. Double Click file selection update fixed. 23/10/91 1.42 Swap only refreshed one of the text gadgets. Double clicking a file that DW couldn't open bugfix. Sleep could cause dir without files to be buffered. A few other little things. 30/10/91 1.43 Fixed certain space filenames causing partial getdir. Type would do partial read of powerp file if no lib. Right mouse on little buttons sometimes did bufmenu. DiskName & BytesFree wasn't shown until after getdir. Added keyboard equiv for Type buttons. Button colors/looks now more consistant. ============================================================================ MANUAL 1. Instructions for the default DirWork 2. Options in DirWork & Options not in DW but in DWEdit 3. Hints/tips ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Instructions for the default DirWork ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The window display +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ |+| Title Bar - Chip & total memory available | | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | | +++ Buttons +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ Buttons +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | | +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | / Left Directory Al No CD << <> >> CD No Al Right Directory / |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | Left File List | || | Right File List | | |S||S| | | DirectoryName ?? |l||l| DirectoryName ?? | | OR |i||i| OR | | FileName ?? size|d||d| FileName ?? size| | ^ |e||e| ^ | | if undeletable u | || | if undeletable u | | if has filenote f |G||G| if has filenote f | | if is script s |a||a| if is script s | | if pure p |d||d| if pure p | | |g||g| | | |e||e| | | |t||t| | | | || | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |Errors and other messages Disk Names & Bytes Free as well | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Actual directory text (Left Directory or Right Directory) Pressing the Right mouse button when over the text showing the path of the dir brings up a menu of previous directories as well as a list of volumes. If you just let go over the text gadget it will read that directory into the file list. eg If DF0: was in the Left Directory text gadget you could insert a new disk into the internal disk drive DF0: and then press the right mouse button over the DF0: in the Left directory text to read in the new directory. If you move down onto one of the previous directory names and let go it will be fetched from memory (it won't read the disk to get it) since it is buffered from when you recently read that directory. If you let go on of the volumes (these are a list as if you pressed the volumes button and are indented one to the right) it will be read in from disk. Pressing the left mouse button over the far left/right of the text gadget(see the "/" in window representation above) gets the parent. Parent makes DF0:t/r become DF0:t Right button gets the root. Root makes DF0:t/r become DF0: You can press the left mouse button over the left or right directory text gadget then edit the directory to the one you want to work with and then if you press return the directory will be read in. Remember in most string gadgets right Amiga X clears the text in the gadget, and you can use shift -> or <- to go to end or start of the text. FileList(s) Press the left mouse button to select/deselect a file or directory name. Right mouse button or double click left button on a directory reads in that directory. Left mouse button to the far left or right of a file/dir will bring up a requester with information about the file/dir the Filename, FileNote and Protection bits which you can edit. As well as the size and date(only if using kickstart 2.0+). If you selected a file the title bar of this information window will tell you what instant type DW would have used if you had double clicked this file. If this instant type is ILBM (a IFF picture file) it will also tell you the Width*Height*Depth. Use the slide gadget to see files that are not displayed. Double Click of left Button on a file will try to recognize the file and automatically do something with the file(eg With default settings the quickly double clicking the left button on a text file will type it & and double clicking on a IFF picture(such as a picture from a paint program) file will show it with the internal show). Right Mouse Button on a file will try to recognize the file and automatically do something with the file. eg With default settings the Right mouse button on a text file will edit it (If you have configured your instant edit to your editor or it already is) or pressing the right mouse button on a picture file will show it with Mostra(© Sebastino Vigna) if you have that program. Middle Mouse button will also do another selectable action if you have one on your mouse. Here is a table of the default instant Operations:- File type Double Clicking Right Mouse button ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOD. Intuitracker filename Run >NIL: Intuitracker filename .ARC Arc v filename Arc xw filename .DMS DMS Write filename DMS Write filename .LZH Lharc l filename Lharc -m -x -r x filename .LHW Lhwarp Write 0 filename Lhwarp Write 0 filename .PAK filename filename .WRP UnWarp filename Run >NIL: UnWarp filename .ZIP UnZIP -v filename UnZIP -xdo filename .ZOO Zoo v filename Zoo xO// filename .GIF VirtGIF filename Run >NIL: VirtGIF filename .INFO 8SVX INTERNAL PlaySS filename PlaySS filename ANIM ShowANIM filename ShowANIM filename ILBM INTERNAL Show filename Mostra filename SMUS PlaySMUS filename PlaySMUS filename FTXT Most Most filename Run >NIL: Most filename PowPk INTERNAL Type filename PPShow filename Exect filename Text INTERNAL Type filename Run >NIL: E filename Binry INTERNAL HxType filename Run >NIL: NewZAP filename Buttons The main idea is to press the left mouse button if you are referring to the source as the file list below the pointer. So to copy from the left file list to the right list, click on the the left copy button. And to copy from the right file list to the left file list, click on the right copy button. You can also click on a button with the right mouse button to refer to the opposite file list but if this sounds confusing just ignore this paragraph. (eg Left button on left DF0: will get the directory from DF0: and put it in the left file list, but right button on left DF0: will get the directory DF0: and put it in the right file list) Below is a description of what the buttons will do when the default setup is used. You can modify button functions to do something completely different if you want. DF0: DF1: RAM: SYS: etc Just press these to get the directory of this name in the file list below the pointer. Sleep Puts the task to sleep until you press the four left keys Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D. ie The window disappears as if you quit but the program is still there waiting until you press the keys. So you don't have to load DirWork all the time. DirWork starts in Sleep mode if you type DW -s instead of the usual DW when you run it from CLI. So you can have the command DW -s in your startup-sequence then when you actually want DirWork later you just have to press the keys Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D or if running Kick2.0+ just can select DW in the Tools menu of workbench. Do what you want then press the sleep button to make DirWork disappear again. See PopKeys information for how to change the key combination that wakes DirWork up. Volms Displays all things assigned ie C: LIBS: SYS: etc Just press a button on one of them to enter the directory. Al Select all files. No Unselect all files & dirs. <> Swaps the left and right file list displays. >> & << Copies one file list to the other file list. Info Updates the info(bytes Free and name). And displays how many dirs/files/bytes are selected. Good to see if you are going to be able to fit all the file you want to copy. Copy Copys files/dirs from one dir to another. BytesFree for the source/destination is updated. See the DWEdit documentation if you want it to clone the original date/filenote/protection etc. Move Moves files/dirs from one dir to another. BytesFree for the source/destination is updated. See the DWEdit documentation if you want it to clone the original date/filenote/protection etc. Please note the DOS 1.2/1.3 bug where you lose directories if you move a directory to be a child of itself. I intercept and stop some but not all. ie Move ONE ONE/ONE !!!!IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! Delet Delete files/dirs. You are prompted before non empty dirs are deleted for confirmation but see the DWEdit documentation section if you don't like this. BytesFree for the directory is updated. Print Copies selected files text to the printer. Renam Rename files/dirs. Edit names in the requester. Please note the DOS 1.2/1.3 bug where you lose directories if you move a directory to be a child of itself. I intercept and stop some but not all. ie Rename ONE ONE/ONE !!!!IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! MakDi Make a new directory. Enter name in requester. See the configuration section if you want it to also create a icon for the directory. Prote Change delete protection of a file/dir. Lets you toggle the delete protection of a file. A file with delete protection on has a u next to the right of the filename. CD Makes the dir the current directory. Type Displays a text file to a window. Use the slide gadget on right to quickly scan and use buttons down below to move through the file or toggle between a hex or ASCII display of the file. Or use keyboard:- Return or CursDown = NextLine. CursUp = PrevLine. Space or Shift/CursDown = NextPage. BackSpace or Shift/CursUp = PrevPage. Esc = quit. The title bar shows the filename and will say "WAS POWERPACKED" if the file was crunched with powerpacker and has been decrunched. It will say "PARTIAL LOAD" if you didn't have enough memory for the file so only some of it was loaded. By default a double click on a text file will call this routine. HxType Displays a file in hexadecimal to a window. Use the slide gadget on right to quickly scan and use buttons down below to move through the file or toggle between a hex or ASCII display of the file. Or use keyboard:- Return or CursDown = NextLine. CursUp = PrevLine. Space or Shift/CursDown = NextPage. BackSpace or Shift/CursUp = PrevPage. Esc = quit. The title bar shows the filename and will say "WAS POWERPACKED" if the file was crunched with powerpacker and has been decrunched. It will say "PARTIAL LOAD" if you didn't have enough memory for the file so only some of it was loaded. By default Double click on a binary file will call this routine. Instant This performs as if you double clicked the left mouse button on the selected files. It will perform a relevent button on the file if it finds one otherwise it will assume the file is just binary and HxType it. All these things can be changed, see DWEdit documentation. Show Shows IFF files. Loads in the next pic while the last is being displayed to save a lot of time. Use Cursor keys to scroll around a picture bigger than the screen. Use the left mouse mouse button or press a key to go to next. If low on memory select one file at a time to display. By default a double click on a IFF picture file will call this routine. PlaySS Plays any file as a Sampled sound at 10000 samples/sec. Will use the correct rate if the file is a 8SVX. By default a double click on a 8SVX sound file will call this routine. Search Search files for text that you are prompted for. The prompt has a UpperCase!=LowerCase option. It will tell you at want offsets in the file the text is found. DskOp Starts up the internal floppy copy/format/install program. During operations the track(0-159) and any ERROR number is shown you can stop any operation by pressing the close gadget of the window. During any diskcopy "Non standard boot block" is shown under track if disk has a not normal bootblock. To Format a floppy:- ---------------------- Enter diskname in text gadget (defaults to "blank") Select destination(s) by pressing the drive buttons. Press Format or FormatQuick. To Install a floppy:- -------------------- Select destination(s) by pressing the drive buttons. Press Install button. To copy a floppy(You must have 2 floppies or 1Meg free):- ---------------------------------------------------------- With two or more floppies:- Select source by pressing the left drive buttons. Select destination(s) by pressing the drive buttons. Press the DiskCopy button. With one floppy:- Insert the source in DF0: Select DF0: as only source and destination. Press the DiskCopy button. Insert the destination in DF0: Press the WriteBuf button. To check a floppy for disk errors:- ----------------------------------- Select source by pressing the left drive buttons. DeSelect all destination(s). Press DiskCopy button and see if you get a error. Multiple copies:- ----------------- If you select the source as one of the destinations the complete disk will be put into ram and the WriteBuf button will be turned on. You can the just keep selecting the WriteBuf button with any destination(s). VMK My MEMORY virus detector/killer. For a simple check to see that your memory is virus free. Does checks of many memory locations etc that are used by viruses. If you get a alert use a good disk virus killer to clear up the problem. See the seperate program VMK v1.1 for docs. The following buttons require you to have a external program and/or run in your c: or similar directory. Prefs Loads up workbench preferences with kickstart 1.2/1.3. Requires Preferences to be in a command path such as c:. Kickstart 2 preferences are spread over a few programs so there isn't one program you can run. Edit Edit selected files. Requires a editor named E in a path such as c:. If you have no files selected E will be run without a file name. Pressing the right mouse button on a text file will call a simlar routine. NewZP NewZAP selected files. Requires Newzap in a path such as c:. NewZAP is a file editor © John Hodgson. If you have no files selected NewZAP will be run without a file name. By default pressing the right mouse button on a binary file will call a similar routine. Run Run selected files. You will be prompted for optional arguments. eg if you selected the file Diskcopy you might want to enter "DF0: to DF1:". If you have no files selected Run will be run so you will be requested for the program to run. By default pressing the right mouse button on a executable file will will call a similar routine. Commd Enter commands in the cli window then enter endcli to return to DW or if using Kick2.0+ or later click the close gadget. NewSh Does the NewShell command. Requires all shell type files. EScpt Allows you to execute any selected script files. LHarcA Adds file to a Lharc archive that you specify in the prompt. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Options in DirWork ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Menu Options Move the mouse pointer up to the left side of the title bar of the window and press the right mouse button. You can select if you want the last 8 directories read to be kept in memory so that they come up when you press the right mouse button over the path text gadget. This is defaulted to on. You can select whether you want Fast&SmoothFloppyDirs. Shouldn't be needed with Kick 2.0+. Note that the DirWork FSDirs does not make use of dos buffers that have been added using AddBuffers, but does very well with the two commercial diskbuffering programs. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want the directory to be updated when you change the floppy disk in one of the drives. ie If you have DF0: as either you source of destination path and insert a new disk the new directory will be automatically read in. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want every inserted floppy disk's boot block checked to see if it is normal. Note some bootblocks are not normal and are not viruses so when you insert a disk and get the requester saying this is not a normal bootblock only install if you know that the bootblock does not contain important information. See the DWEdit documentation on how to allow XCopy boot blocks. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want VMK(The virus detector) to be run every 8 seconds. You get a requester asking for options(see VMK docs). This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want the screen to blank after 8 minutes of no activity by the user. A still image on a monitor is not good for it so this blanks the screen. See the DWEdit documentation on how to set the amount of time the machine must be idle. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want Directories displayed above files. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want .info files to be displayed. This is defaulted to on. You can select if you want the close gadget box of the window to make dirwork sleep instead of quit. This is defaulted to off. You can select that DirWork is to have a screen of its own instead of using the workbench screen. This is defaulted to off. Menu Functions The SAVE function will modify a DW executable to have the setup that you currently have. You are prompted for the name of the DW which would most likey be C:DW. If you have turned on the external config option (see DWEdit documentation) the function will first save "s:DW.config" before it prompts you to save it to the executable. BUTTONS/INSTANTACTIONS/MENUOPTIONS/WINDOWSIZE/WINDOWPOSITION/ POPKEYS and heaps more are all saved with this command so set up DirWork how you like it then use this command. Use external configuration editor will execute the DWEdit program (you must have it in a valid path such as c:) and hence allow you to change the many configuration options that you can't from DW and change many the ones you can in a faster and easier way to understand. Then when you quit DWEdit you can use the SAVE function to save all your changes to the DW executable. Here are some of the things that can be changed using DWEdit:- Screen Mode/Palette/Size Window/Size/Position/Colors AutoPointOption MouseAcceleration/Threshold Position Independent Button Selection Mode ButtonsBelowOption ScreenBlankTime Number of Bufferred Dirs Task Priority XCopyBootBlocks as "standard" option AutoActivate of Text Gadget Option No Duplicates of DW option VMK Time value External config file Option Changing a button:- You can change a button to make it do something slightly different to something totally different. Just press on the button then go to the menu and select "Change last button pressed". To change an instant action you just do the instant action then select "Change last button pressed". You can also just do a binary edit of DirWork and change them that way. But the most user friendly was is to use DWEdit via the "Use external configuration editor" menu item. Here is the technical format anyway:- " , , " ||||| |||\__/ | | ||| | +------------Arguments for operation. | ||| | | ||| | | ||| | | ||| +------ Keyboard combination (qualifier/keycode) | ||| | ||| | |||+-------------- Options for certain routines. | || | || | |+--------------- What needs to be selected to operate. | | F=Selected Files. D=Selected Dirs. | | B=Selected Files &/or Dirs. | | A=All files/dirs even if not selected. | | f=special mode that allows some files or no files | | 0=irrelevent | | | +--------------- Internal routine the button uses. | A capital letter signifies that the operation does | not require selected files/dirs. A lower case | hence means the operation should require selected | files/dirs. | | +---------------------------------------- Button Name of 5 Chars This is the text that is displayed inside the button. ChangePopKey allows you to change the keys that bring DirWork out of sleep and you can define many other keys to execute other programs. If you are running kick2.0+ the programs are also added to the workbench tools menu. They are always added to the DW tools menu. Use the DWEdit program for a more user friendly way of changing these entries. By default there is a couple of entries including one to wake DW up (which must always be the first entry) and one to start a NewShell by pressing LeftAmiga-ESC. Here is the technical format anyway:- "@ , " |||\__/ | ||| | +---------Arguments for operation. ||| | Also what appears as menu text. ||| | Must have something here for PopKey/Tools ||| | ||| +------ Keyboard combination (qualifier/keycode) ||| ||| |||+-------------- Options for certain routines. || || |+--------------- What needs to be selected to operate. | F=Selected Files. D=Selected Dirs. | B=Selected Files &/or Dirs. | A=All files/dirs even if not selected. | f=special mode that allows some files or no files | 0=irrelevent (This is usually the case for PopKey/Tools | +--------------- Internal routine the button uses. A capital letter signifies that the operation does not require selected files/dirs. A lower case hence means the operation should require selected files/dirs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Hints/tips ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To have the programs added to the tools menu under kick2.0+ workbench must be loaded. So you migat have to have DW -s after loadwb and you might have to have a "wait 3" or similar command in between. If DW is launched from workbench it will have the paths that were added before the loadwb command so put all your path additions before that command in your startup-sequence. If you are a registered user just describe what sort of button you would like configured and I will give you the button configuration text for it if it is possible. For DW's text/hex viewer to decrunch powerpacked files you must have the powerpacker.library in your libs: directory. If you want to crunch DirWork use PowerPacker V3 or later as it does the correct things, other crunchers may cause DW to crash when launched from the CLI. If you are using DW crunched you probably will use the external config option (selectable with DWEdit). To do this go to DWEdit before you crunch DW and select the external config file option then quit(using quit & Save button) DWEdit and SAVE config to DirWork executable. Then you can crunch DirWork and the config will always be fetched/stored in "s:DW.config" file. Bye, Chris Hames (Available for any Amiga work)