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2 P J England (me!)
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Ŵ ***** IMPORTANT NOTICE *****
This and all subsequent versions of !!DisCat and !!ReadCat can no longer handle
squeezed files. If you have saved you catalog files using the squeeze option,
you will have to convert them to unsqueezed files by loading them in via an old
version and resaving.
Vaguely sensible information for !!DisCat.
€
⇩Boring Copyright/Disclaimer message€
The application Ŵ!!DisCat€, together with the following files contained
therein, are copyright P J England, 1992.
!RunImage
TypeMod
MakeType
This application is Ŵnot€ to be distributed throughout the general Public
Domain, by any means electronic or otherwise. The program is available FREE
by sending a 3.5" ADFS formatted disc + SAE the the address at the end of
this file. This has been done so I can establish if there is any need for a
program of this sort, and if it's worth developing the idea.
The following application/modules are Public Domain and can be distributed by
any means, fair or foul, providing that no alterations have been made to the
copyright notice contained within.
!!Request
!!ReadCat
1stType (Module)
The modules ŴArcFS€ and ŴArcFSfiler€ are © Mark Smith and are available through
the general Public Domain.
The module ŴMSDOS Filer€ is © Minerva Software Ltd. With this module installed
!!DisCat allows you to catalog MSDOS discs as well as ADFS (etc).
No responsibility will be taken by myself for any loss or damage caused by
these programs, so don't say you haven't been warned.
⇩Right, that's that over, now on to: How to use !!DisCat€
Having loaded the program, oh... work it out for yourself...
☓(or double click on !!Info)€
ŴNotes:
€ Improvements:
€V1.22 Added nice new information window so you can see what's going on
while the program is cataloguing a disc. This 'sort of' multitasks,
but it's not really worth doing much else because it takes 99% of the
computers time.
Added option to change file system (ie Ram,SCSI.. CFS#ADFS..) and
select drive numbers I hadn't dreamed of. This is (was) handled in
the writeable sections of the Ŵdrive€ and Ŵfilesys€ menu(s).-☓ but it
isn't handled like this any more !
€ Jiggled about with the squeeze option, this seems to be one byte off
somewhere, quick hack added so it works, but my recommendation is ŴNOT
to use the squeeze option€ unless you really have to.
(☓If you have any files saved using the old Squeeze option.. tough
because they won't work!.. You'll need to save them (via an old
version of the program) as normal un-squeezed files..load them into
this version... etc€..)
If anyone needs a decent squeeze file option, please let me know and
I'll try and add the LZW module on..
Jiggled around slightly with the menu structure (Yes your right,
having the save option on the menu bar was a pain.. I often thought
that myself..)
V1.22c Quick (?) jiggle about with a few things. Restructured the catalog
options menu. Provided a 'prompt' option for dir's and app's.
Added a 'quick search'.. which is actually dead slow.. Use Ctrl-F to
init the search window...This needs a menu entry. (and f4 key...)
Ah! FINALLY got around to the printout option. Wrote a nice LONG
drawn-out piece of code.. tried it out.. didn't like it.. deleted it.
Page up/Page down now works, as does Ctrl-up and Ctrl-down.
Discovered some bug or another that causes archives in Applications
to be catalogued twice.. I'll try and sort the out next time...
Ŵ17th July This does seem to be a bug in ARCFS. The old versions of the program
have the same 'bug' in them. ARCFS seems to get confused with the
Ŷ offsŴet of the catalog entry using OS_GBPB.. This probably didn't
come to light before because a) all my archive's are within the root
directory, and b) the offset to the next file was done 'by hand'..
This however, doesn't work with the MSDOS filer..So much for
compatibility...
I'll have to look into this a bit more when time allows.. (Perhaps
even write some basic to do the job..)
€
Changed the colour of ARCHIVE text.. Didn't like the old idea much..
Still not tooo happy about this one.. but it's better than it was.
Got fed up.. went to bed.
Ŵ19th July€ Stuffed on a quick 'export' option on the 'select.disc' menu. This
allows you to have 2 !!DisCat programs running and export discs from
€ on to another.. (Well... it might come in useful one day!)
Re-included an old option that allows you to merge catalog files
together by dragging them onto the DisCat icon. Somewhere along the
line this had been removed. This only works with ☓catalog€ files, not
directories with ☓catalog€ files within them.
Had a quick fiddle with the redraw 'cause it was leaving lines
between archive entries on a Multi-Stink monitor! Mmm.. (Why didn't I
notice this before now ??)
***************************
Ŵ
7th Sept €Finally got around to re-writing the program. This is the 'final'
useable version of !!DisCat. Any other additions will have to wait
for more pressing matters.
ŴThe following 'improvements' have been added:€
* Re-jiggled window handling.. actually not much different but it makes
life a hell of a lot easier for the wimp.
* Slightly more user-friendly scan options. Now handled via a window
with option buttons.
* Sensible handling of 'doing' window which avoids windows popping up
and down like a pair of whores draws when using the 'prompt' scan
option(s).
* 'Quick search' (HA!) added. This is ☓dead slow€ at present. May
possibly speed this up sometime when I'm feeling bored.
You can either use the menu to start the search, or if the window has
the input focus, press f4. Searching starts from wherever the cursor
is (or was).
* File info now attempts to read some information from the files. With
BASIC programs it default to the second line if this is a REM.
* Checks are made to see if you have already catalogued a disc of the
same name when you start to catalog (..?) Options are then given to
either delete the old entry, or add the new disc on as per normal.
(.. hope that makes more sense to you than it does to me..)
* Print out option using the printer drivers is now ½ supported. To
print out a file, load your printer driver and drag a catalog file
onto the drivers icon. This will load !!DisCat and print to a file,
and then the printer driver prints the file.
This does mean that the file <Printer$Temp> must be writable. If you
get errors try Ŵ*Set Printer$Temp Adfs::0.$.TempFile€ or similar.
One small‘ €problem with this concerns the use of Elite text for the
printout. Personally I use a 15CPI text for printing out 90% of my
rubbish.. this is a sort of 'enlarged compressed' text and gives me
110 chars per line with room to spare. !!DisCat screen layout was
designed with this in mind - hence the 55 chars in the text field..
€ Unfortunataly.. not all printers can support this font size, leaving
the only options as being:
a) Use compressed font at 18CPI. This works fine but the text looks a
bit 'lost' on the page.
b) Use elite font at 12CPI. This looks great but means that the last
5 chars of the text field are spilled over onto the next
line....aghghghhg! However, this is a fairly minor problem and if
kept in mind shouldn't be tooo much of a pain.
You can set the font used by editing the '☓PtrSet€' file within
!!DisCat/!!ReadCat. Instructions are included within this file, but
it may be useful to refer to your ☓PrData€ file within your printer
driver for more help.
* Loading of files called 'Catalog' within applications via double
clicking on the application now seems to have stopped throwing up the
odd error from !StrongEd2. I'm not really sure where this error
(Unexpected DataLoad..) is coming from. !StrongEd2 seems to be mainly
to blame for it....
This is all the more confusing because the handling of filing
messages is EXACTLY the same code as the previous version and that
causes the error occasionally!.. Weird or what ?
ŴThe following are missing, presumed dead:€
* Disc Export option. This was another idea that never really got
anywhere. If you want to edit the order of discs you have to delete
what you don't want, save it, then merge it together by dragging the
file to the icon on the icon bar... very long winded I know..
* 'Squeeze' option. This has gone for good. It was proving to to be
more of a pain than it was worth. If you want to squeeze your files,
use ARCFS read/write or similar.
* Programers Brain.
ŴIts worth pointing out that the 'bug' in ARCFS mentioned above
doesn't seem to be present in ARCFSr/w. V1.09
€
ŴIt's also worth pointing out that this version of !!DisCat has been
wrote to make use of ArcFS 2. This is MUCH faster than the older
version - appears to be bug free (at least for !!DisCat's purposes)
BUT does mean that you can close an archive from ArcFS 2's menu while
!!DisCat is busy.. All I can say is.. ŵDON'T!Ŵ
€
ŴPossible Improvements: (perhaps..but you'll be lucky..)
€
Ŵ TRY€ and get the screen redraw up to some sort of speed. Possibly M/Code
it, but I don't think that'll make an enormous difference..
Improve !!Request to bring that up to some sort of standard. It's still at
the original version that was bashed out in about ½ hour.
Include an 'extra info' option so you can give a bit more information
€ about files if you want to.
* If anyone reading this knows how to tell the Printer Drivers that a file
is ready to be printed, I'd be Ŵvery€ happy to know how this is done! It
would be nice to have a ☓print€ menu option but I can't get the Printer
Drives to print the file after it's been created!.. Hmmmmm...
Any other suggestions ??
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All comments, bug reports, ideas, blank cheques, false teeth etc. should be
address to :
Paul England
38 Blackbrook Court
Durham Road
Loughborough
LE11 0UA
