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“READ ME” for Scale, version 1.0
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Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
February 17, 1992
Font: Geneva 12
This document must go wherever Scale goes. Please do not distribute
Scale without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INFORMATION REGARDING ALIASES
---------- FURTHER IN THIS DOCUMENT.
REGISTERING SCALE AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
============================================
Scale is not free. Sites using this software in business MUST
register it. Contact the author for site licensing information. If it is for
personal use only, please send a few dollars. 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 SCALE
============
• If you use Scale, 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 Scale Do?
-------------------
• Scale, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), counts the number of files
and folders in a selection (including files and folders within the directories
you have selected), and calculates the total logical and physical size of that
group. Lets you determine the size of selections without getting info and
breaking out the calculator.
• Read further if you plan to use Scale with aliases.
Using Scale
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• Drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
style”. Scale will scan folders and disks provided, and will calculate
the required information for all contained files and folders, no matter
what their depth in side the selected directories. Drop Boxes require
Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher.
• Scale’s count may differ from the Finder’s count, since Scale includes
the sizes of invisible files in its calculations. So if you get information
on a folder with a custom icon in the Finder, that count may differ
from that obtained using Scale.
• Double-click on Scale 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.
Scale and Aliases
----------------
• Since the Finder resolves all aliases when you drop them into a Drop Box,
Scale can only think that you dropped the target (not the alias) in to be
counted. If an alias is within a directory you have dropped in, the actual
size of the alias is calculated (not the size of the target or parent file).
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 of files, directories, or disks, or any
combination of the three, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for
files of the required type and modify them accordingly. All files 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
==================
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
KØK 1LØ
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.
Scale copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.