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- D.EXE - Version 5.3
- An Alternative Directory Lister
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- Copyright 1986 - 1990 FreeLance Programming
- All rights reserved
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- Usage: D[.EXE] [FILESPEC] [/F] [/M] [/W] [/N] [/E] [/S] [/D] [/T]
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- Where:
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- FILESPEC specifies the files to be searched for, and may include
- drive and/or directory information. Wildcards are permitted
- only in the filename/extension portion(s) of the specification.
- In general, anything that the DIR command accepts, so should D.
- If omitted, the default is to search for *.* in the current dir.
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- /F - This switch controls screen flicker. If you experience "snow" on
- your display while D is running, you can use this switch to eliminate
- it. If snow suppression has been made the default (via the setup
- utility), use of this switch will turn OFF the suppression feature.
- This switch is valid ONLY for the DOS-only version of D.
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- /M - Uses monochrome attributes when displaying rather than
- color attributes. Use of this switch will override the
- default read from your system board switch settings. This
- switch changes the actual colors only; the address of the
- screen memory is determined by the operating system. If the
- setup utility has been used to make this the default, use of
- this switch will cause the color attributes to be used.
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- /W - Displays files in 1 column, including date, time, and attributes.
- The default is 4-column mode (name/size only). Note that ALT-W
- can be used to toggle displayed listings between these two modes.
- If the setup utility has been used to make this the default, use
- of this switch will cause the display to revert to 4-column mode.
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- /N - Sort files by file name
- /E - Sort files by extension
- /S - Sort files by size
- /D - Sort files by date
- /T - Sort files by time
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- The order in which a sort switch appears determines its place in
- the sort order. Sort switches should be specified in descending
- order of priority. The default is to display the files in unsorted
- order. If the same switch is specified more than once, only the
- first instance of that switch is considered. If the setup utility
- has been used to specify a default sort order, use of any of these
- switches will cause that default order to be ignored. Note that
- if a default sort order IS specified via the setup utility, there
- is no way to revert to the unsorted order (except to change the
- default with the setup utility).
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- About D.EXE:
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- When executed, D will display the indicated volume name, the (resolved)
- file specification being searched for, all matching files/directories
- (including HIDDEN, SYSTEM, and READ-ONLY files), and some statistics on
- the space in-use and available on the indicated drive.
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- At this point, you can use PgUp or PgDn to scroll thru multi-page displays,
- if there are more files than will fit on a single page. (The current page #
- and the total # of pages is displayed in brackets in the lower left corner
- of the screen.) Pressing ESC (or Q) will exit to DOS. Pressing ALT-W will
- toggle the screen between the 1-column and 4-column display versions.
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- In addition to the current and total page #s, the totals line at the bottom
- of the screen contains (in order) the # of matching files found, the # of
- matching sub-directories found, the space used by all matching files, the
- total space in use on the indicated drive, and the total space remaining on
- the indicated drive. If the total # of files or sub-directories is zero,
- the appropriate total field is omitted from the display. Note that the # of
- sub-directories found does NOT include the "." and ".." entries, if present.
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- Due to the way DOS and OS/2 allocate files, each file may contain "wasted"
- space. When run under OS/2, the number display for "total space used by
- all matching files" accounts for this "wasted" space, and thus reflects the
- actual amount of space in use. Under DOS, this total reflects only the sum
- of the file sizes shown. In either case, the total amount of space left on
- the drive is accurate.
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- When displaying files larger than 999,999 bytes, D will not display the file
- size. Instead, ****** will be displayed in its place. Also, the totals at
- the bottom of the screen may omit high-order digits if the space on the drive
- exceeds 999,999,999 bytes.
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- About SETUP.EXE:
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- Usage is: SETUP[.EXE] DIRNAME.EXE
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- Where: DIRNAME.EXE is the name of the executable file to change.
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- SETUP.EXE is capable of modifying any of the three versions of D. However,
- it will only execute under DOS; no OS/2 version of this utility is provided.
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- D is a shareware product from FreeLance Programming. If you find this
- program to be useful, you are STRONGLY URGED to register your copy. To
- register, send a contribution ($5 suggested) to the following address:
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- Washington, DC 20044-0726
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- Change Log:
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- Version Comments / Changes / Etc
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- 1.0 Initial Release. D was designed as an alternative directory
- listing utility, providing a FAST display of file names,
- extensions and sizes, and displaying more information about
- disk space usage.
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- 2.0 This really should have been a 1.1 release, as it only
- addressed correcting the 'Filespec: ' portion of the display.
- This release had a nasty bug in it, but since I use this
- program almost exclusively, it was caught and stomped within
- 24 hours.
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- 2.1 This release fixed the bug in version 2.0.
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- 3.0 This really was a major release. New features added were:
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- - A bug causing this program not to work with mono display
- adapters has (finally) been stomped.
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- - Displayed files can now be SORTED by any combination
- of file characteristics (modifiable default is unsorted)
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- - READ-ONLY files now cause the 1st char of the file name
- to be hilited.
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- - HIDDEN files cause the entire file name to be hilited
- (unless the file is also READ-ONLY, in which case both
- attributes are displayed (in different colors).
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- - SYSTEM files cause the file SIZE to be hilited.
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- - ALL colors (there are currently 13) and many default
- options can be easily changed with a simple DEBUG script.
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- - PgUp/PgDn to swap pages of multiple-page listings
- (Esc or Q to Exit. Not used if there is only 1 page.)
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- - Several other options were introduced.
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- 3.1 Two known bugs were killed in this release. They are:
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- - Not handling a variety of multi-dir path requests, such
- as "D \DIRx\DIRy" (though \DIRx\DIRy\ did & does work).
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- - Only displaying page 1 of 2 if there were exactly 84
- files in the dir being displayed (regardless of sub-dirs).
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- - Also in this release, PgUp/PgDn 'rollover' was implemented.
- PgUp from the 1st page of any listing will go to the last
- page, and vice-versa.
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- 3.2 A bug in the PgUp/PgDn rollover was fixed. This was causing
- divide overflows & system lock-ups under certain conditions.
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- Change Log - Continued:
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- 3.3 The input parsing routines were changed to prevent the current
- directory from being displayed when an invalid directory was
- requested. D now recognizes invalid drive and invalid dir
- requests, with appropriate error messages.
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- 4.0 Added OS/2 compatibility. D now runs under OS/2, the OS/2 Dos
- Box, or any Dos 3.x environment. D now always waits for a
- keystroke before exiting. Use ESC to exit, or ALT-W to switch
- between the "wide" (4 column) and "narrow" (1 column) displays.
- The "wide" display mode was changed to a single column in order
- to include a display of the file attributes (if any).
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- 5.0 The DOS-only version of D (formerly available only as version 3.3)
- was upgraded for compatibility with the 4.0 release. In addition,
- several minor bug fixes were implemented to both versions; mostly
- in the area of resolving entered filespecs. Also, the totals on
- the totals line were increased from a maximum of 99,999,999 bytes
- to 999,999,999 bytes. Finally, a setup program was added to make
- custom configuration easier.
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- 5.1 A minor bug was fixed in the OS/2 version(s). When using PgUp to
- go to a page which had only 1 file to display, the full page prior
- to he one containing the single file was actually being displayed,
- and the current page number would be incorrect. The DOS-only
- version handled this situation correctly.
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- 5.2 Another minor bug was fixed (in both versions). If a filespec was
- entered with both dir and filename info (as in: C:\UTILS\*.COM),
- the filename info was ignored, and *.* used in its place (as in:
- C:\UTILS\*.*).
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- 5.3 Yet another minor bug was fixed (in the DOS version). If there was
- insufficient memory to execute, D would display an error message,
- and promptly crash while trying to exit.
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