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Documentation For 'Bites' Version 1.3
It's smaller, and better.
Introduction
Bites is a program written at the request of Mike VDS
by Robert W. Albrecht. It is designed to display disk space
available on all mounted volumes.
How to use Bites...
Run the program by double clicking on it's icon or typing:
'RUN Bites' from the CLI prompt.
Bites needs at least a 2500 byte stack.
A small window will appear in the title bar with the Bites icon at the
left. When you click on the Bites icon the program terminates. The
window can be dragged around like any other intuition window. The
standard 'to back' and 'to front' system gadgets appear at the right of
the window. There are two other gadgets to the left of the system
gadgets that control the behaviour of Bites.
When Bites first comes up it will cycle through all of the mounted
volumes and display the number of bytes available on each volume every
three seconds. To stop cycling through the volumes click on the 'up and
down arrow' gadget. The next time you click on the 'up and down arrow'
gadget the next volume in the list will be displayed. To return to
cycling mode click on the 'circle arrow' gadget.
The Bites window can be 'iconified' by clicking the right mouse button
while it's window is active. The window will reduce to a 24x10 Bites
icon that takes a minimum amount of screen space. To 'un-iconify' the
Bites window just activate the window by clicking on the icon with the
left mouse button, then click the right mouse button.
Bites can also be terminated by use of the Amiga DOS Break command.
First type 'Status' at the CLI and get the Process ID of Bites then type
'Break <Process ID>'.
Enhancements Made for Version 1.1
You can now control the position and size of the Bites window through
command line switches or icon 'Tool Types'. You may also display free
'blocks' instead of free bytes.
CLI command line switches:
-l<Left Edge> Left edge of Bites window in pixels
-t<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
-w<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
-b Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
EXAMPLE: RUN BITES -l0 -t20 -w640 -b
Icon Tool Types:
LEFTEDGE=<Left Edge> Left Edge of Bites window in pixels
TOPEDGE=<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
WIDTH=<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
SHOWBLOCKS=ON Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
EXAMPLE:
LEFTEDGE=0
TOPEDGE=20
WIDTH=640
SHOWBLOCKS=ON
Bug Fixes Made for Version 1.1
There was a bug where if you had an 'ASSIGN' to a disk that was no
longer in the drive a system requester would come up and not go away.
This has been fixed. Now when this situation exists the volume name will
be given and instead of bytes free or blocks free the message 'Not
Installed' will be displayed. This way you will be clued into assigns
that are just flopping around.
Bug Fixes made for version 1.2
The command line arguments for width and left-edge and top-edge are now
checked for correctness. The width has to be greater than 24, and the
left-edge and top-edge have to be greater than zero.
Enhancements for version 1.3
Bites now uses CClib.library which is a shareable C library. This has
reduced the size of the executable to 5288 from 6420 bytes. For bites
version 1.3 to work you MUST have CClib.library installed in your LIBS:
directory. You can find the binary only version of CClib.library under
the name USRCCLIB.ZOO on many BSS's and on Fred Fish #260.