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- Quick Review Guide for File_Handle
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- Try the next few examples in the order they are shown here, to get a
- quick impression of File_Handle's unsurpassed power.
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- Install File_Handle by unpacking the archive (if any) into a tempo-
- rary directory. To demonstrate File_Handle's executer, you may need
- to edit FH_EXEC.ARF. Its defaults, however, may work for now if your
- unarchivers, editors and other executables are in your PATH.
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- Start FH.EXE and choose a video system (once only, after install).
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- Example 1: Show tree
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- Press Tree (F7) and the tree of the current drive will be shown. If
- no logfile exists, it's built directory-by-directory on your screen.
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- Example 2: Build/Update trees for all non-removable drives
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- Press Alt+Space to open up the combined menu/hotkey list, position
- the bar on BldAll (in the F4 column) with the UP/DOWN cursor keys
- and press F4. File_Handle is now building trees (and logfiles) for
- all existing non-removable drives. If you have a slow device like a
- large network drive, you can halt the process with Escape. CD-ROM's
- and MO's are only scanned if you explicitly ask for them to be scan-
- ned with Build (Ctrl+F4) or when File_Handle needs to have a tree
- for that media. Totals (Shift+F7) switches directory totals on/off.
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- Example 3: Find all archives on all non-removable drives
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- Press Alt+F, Load (F9) the ARCHIVES script, and press Accept (F3).
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- When the scanning is finished, press Sort (F9) to sort them on the
- extension. Note how the bar stays on the initial record, effectively
- grouping 'alikes' based upon the column you sort.
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- Click on the column headers to sort on Filename, Ext, Size, Date or
- Time. Reverse the sort by clicking the period in Filename.Ext. Group
- selections by clicking the space in front of 'Filename'.
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- Example 4: Find all archives created in 1995
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- Press Alt+F to pop up the Finder'e entry screen, move the cursor to
- the Date limits, and enter "1.1.95 <Tab> 31.12.95", and F3. After a
- little while only the archives of 1995 are on the screen, ready to
- be copied, moved, renamed etc, etc. The Finder can perform most
- of File_Handle's functions globally on all the drives in the system.
- For example, you could select files on different drives from within
- the Finder, and erase them with a single command.
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- Example 5: Copy some files
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- Leave the Finder by pressing Escape and go back to the File window
- by pressing Files (F7). Shift all directories up with FilesF(irst)
- (Ctrl+F6) so only files are shown, and select some files by tapping
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- (Continued) Quick Review Guide for File_Handle
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- the Space bar.
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- Press Alt+C(opy), Alt+T(agged), Alt+D(rive); choose a drive from the
- pop up with enough free space on it to receive the amount you are a-
- bout to copy - the pop up has the free space after each drive.
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- Choose a directory on the destination drive by placing the bar over
- it, or create a subdirectory at the bar with MkDir (Alt+F6).
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- Press Accept (F3) when you are satisfied.
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- The destination is inspected for duplicates. File_Handle resolves
- all problems beforehand, so all files can be copied as a single con-
- tiguous process.
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- After duplicates are tested, confirmation is asked to start copying.
- Press Accept (F3) once more. Now sit back and watch the files being
- copied, while both source and destination windows are updated after
- each copy.
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- Example 6: Remove the copied files from the destination again
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- In the destination window you see that the NEW files have '>' marks
- in front of them.
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- Go to that window by pressing Tab, press Selec(t)Q(uick) (F5) and
- Reselect the marked files. Now press Erase (Shift+F8) and Accept
- (F3) to erase the files. (Remember that Alt+Space opens the hot-key
- menu).
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- Example 7: Executing
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- Pressing Enter or clicking the left mouse button twice on a filename
- will execute it. If it is an EXE/COM/BAT/BTM it's passed on to DOS,
- anything else will be processed as per the description in the file
- FH_EXEC.ARF; unsupported files will be fed to the default viewer
- therein.
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- Example 8: Locate a file or directory by using wildcards
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- Each File and Tree window has a small Quick-Find field in the bottom
- left corner. Make sure this field has a TRAILING '*', and that it is
- in INSERT mode, or the finder will only locate EXACT matches. Enter
- any character, edit them with insert, delete or overtype until you
- find what you are after. File_Handle features so called EMBEDDED
- wildcards, meaning that more than one '*' can be used. To find any
- file with an E *and* a D, for example, enter "*E*D*". Ctrl+UP/DOWN
- arrow will locate the previous or next match, or beeps.
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- Example 9: Registration screen
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- Shift+F1 enters the registration screen. It takes care of European
- state taxes (VAT/BTW), type of license, forms of payment, surface or
- air mail etc. The user just chooses the license (s)he wants, comple-
- tes the other fields and sends or faxes it to Hasoft.
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- More
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- (Continued) Quick Review Guide for File_Handle
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- Resumé
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- Consult the files FH_MANUA.TXT and FH_QUICK.TXT (F1 and Ctrl+F1) be-
- fore giving up on File_Handle, some options might have differrent
- results than you might expect. File_Handle is very flexible and can
- be controlled in more (usualy faster) ways than described in this
- short document. For example, instead of moving a bar in menus, the
- Alt+Letter shortcut will execute an option right away; there are
- more invisible mouse Quick-spots on the screen; menus can repeat
- their last command, etc. Many more features are explained in those
- documents.
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- File_Handle will stop ANY process with Escape, and will unconditio-
- nally exit from ANYWHERE (but a running application) with Exit (F10)
- - you don't need to close menus or anything.
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