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“READ ME” for Pesticide, version 1.0
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Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
March 5, 1992
Font: Geneva 12
This document must go wherever Pesticide goes. Please do not distribute
Pesticide without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
REGISTERING PESTICIDE AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
===============================================
Pesticide is not free. Sites using this software MUST register it,
one copy per person. Contact the author for site licensing information.
Or you can consider the following.
7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities
I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until
I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will
register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and
an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good
deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it
like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way.
See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information
on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file.
Please use it to register the software.
USING PESTICIDE
===============
• If you use Pesticide, please please please send me a note. My addresses
(post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the
information in the above section on registration.
What Does Pesticide Do?
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• Pesticide, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), lets you delete some
pesky items from the selected disks and/or directories. It can be set
up to delete all or all unresolvable aliases, empty directories, and empty
files. It can also automatically fix files that have accidentally had their
alias bits set (and thus are really not aliases after all). As always, you
select what Pesticide actually does.
Using Pesticide
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• Drag sets of folders and/or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
style”. Pesticide will scan folders and disks provided, and will
take the actions specified in the preferences on the appropriate items
that it finds. Drop Boxes require Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or
higher.
• Aliases are resolved by the Finder when you drop them into a drag-and-
drop utility, so dropping an alias to a disk into Pesticide is the same
thing as dropping in the disk itself.
• Double-click on Pesticide to modify the preferences, and to see the about
box information.
• Alerts are very annoying, especially in Drop Boxes. So there aren’t any. As
a rule of thumb: if it doesn't work, there must have been an error.
• To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Files already processed
will remain modified.
Preferences
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• The first time you try to modify a file using the program, the preferences
dialog will come up, just to make sure the correct parameters have been
set up. You can modify these if you wish. If you don't want to see that
window again, just say OK. You will have to explicitly ask for for the
Preferences window the next time you wish to change anything.
• If the Show alert check box is on, an alert will appear before you use
Pesticide on the selected items, allowing you to cancel the procedure if
you made a mistake.
• Pesticide will delete empty files and folders when those preferences
are on.
• Aliases will deleted when the Delete aliases check box is on. Only aliases
whose parent (or target) has been lost (hence the term “orphaned alias”)
will be deleted if that option is selected. So if Delete aliases is checked
but the Only orphaned aliases button is not, all aliases will be deleted from
the selected directories.
• If the Fix finder flag on non-alias files button is checked, Pesticide will
check and make sure the alias bit on the file hasn’t been accidentally set,
turning a normal file into an alias. If it finds an alias with the bit set by
accident and this button is checked, the flag is reset and the file is set back
to normal.
NOTE: If you don’t have this option set, but you do choose to delete all
aliases, you will also delete files which have had their alias bits
accidentally set. It is wise to have this option turned on whenever you are
deleting any aliases with Pesticide.
• To show the Preferences dialog on-the-fly in Drop Box mode, hold down the
option key while the program is launching.
• To bypass the “check” alert that appears before anything is modified, hold
down the shift key while the program is launching, or after you hit OK to
hide the Preferences dialog.
USING DROP BOXES
=================
Drop Boxes are applications (drag-and-drop utilities) which can take advantage
of System 7.0’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application
icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory.
The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits.
You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in
just one, either. Select a whole bunch Directories or disks, or any
combination of the two, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for
items of the required type and modify them accordingly. All items in all
directories within those dropped in will be modified. Any aliases dropped
directly into a Drop Box (not inside a directory) are resolved by the Finder
and thus their target (parent) is modified.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
Robert Gibson E-Mail:
RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
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This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
include this document, unmodified.
Pesticide copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.