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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ MAIN HELP MENU - WHERE_K VERSION 9.8 APRIL 2, 1994 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ * Version 9.8 is called WhereK98.lha and decompresses as WhereK98 THIS PROGRAM WAS TESTED USING WB2.0 AND WB3.0. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY OTHER VERSIONS BUT GIVE THEM A TRY. COPYRIGHT ® September 4, 1993 by Kenneth J. McCormick. All Rights Reserved. This program and all of its files are giftware and can be distributed freely as long as the following terms are met: 1. The program is not to be modified in any way without my permission in writing. 2. Any files that are distributed with this program are to always be distributed with it and not modified without my permission in writing. This program must have the following files with it: Comp.Help Address all mail to me at PORTAL 516 292-2820 or any PORTAL telephone number c/o Kenneth McCormick. Warning!!!!!!!!! LIB VER ROUTINE TESTS FOR KICKSTART 39 OR ABOVE, WHICH IS ON WORKBENCH 3.0. YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO RUN THE 'LIST LIBRARY VERSIONS IN BULK' FEATURE UNLESS YOU HAVE WORKBENCH 3.0 OR ABOVE SINCE YOUR MACHINE WOULD CRASH, HOWEVER THE INDIVIDUAL LISTING MODE OF THE LIBRARY SEEMS TO WORK FINE ON ON WB2.0. THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE REQUIRED TO BE IN THE 'C' DIRECTORY OF YOUR STARTUP DISK OR PARTITION FOR THIS PROGRAM TO WORK PROPERLY: DIR,LIST,COPY,RUN,NEWCLI,ENDCLI,RENAME,DELETE,VERSION,JOIN,DISKCHANGE,STATUS WHERE_K PROGRAM WHERE_K IS A UTILITY FOR LOCATING FILES ANYWHERE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. WHILE THIS PROGRAM IS BASICALLY A HARD DRIVE UTILITY IT CAN BE USED FOR FLOPPY DRIVES, OPTICAL DRIVES ETC. THIS PROGRAM WILL ALLOW YOU TO CREATE A TEMPORARY FILE OR PERMANENT FILE CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILES ON YOU DRIVE: Name of File, Size of File, File status, Date saved and Time saved NEW WAY TO INSTALL MOVE THE DRAWER NAMED WHERE_K TO YOUR HARD DRIVE IN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PARTATIONS: HD0:,HD1:,DH0:,DH1 OR KEEP ON A FLOPPY IN DRIVES DF0: OR DF1: IF YOU DOWNLOADED THIS PROGRAM AND DIDN'T GET IT FROM A FRED FISH DISK AND THE DECOMPRESSION PROGRAM DIDN'T KEEP THE FILES IN THE DRAWERS USE THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE: RENAME THE EMPTY 'WHERE_K' AND 'SCRIPTS' DRAWERS TO X AND XX. MAKE A COPY OF THE DRAWER CALLED 'EMPTY' ON YOUR WORKBENCH. RENAME THE COPY TO 'Where_K'. PUT WHEREK98 INTO THE DRAWER ALONG WITH THE COMP.HELP FILE. COPY THE 'EMPTY' DRAWER AGAIN. RENAME IT AS 'Scripts'. PUT ALL THE FILES ENDING IN '.scr' INTO THE 'SCRIPTS' DRAWER (THEY HAVE NO ICONS). PUT THE 'SCRIPTS' DRAWER INTO THE WHERE_K DRAWER. YOU MAY ALSO WANT TO PUT 'READ-ME-FIRST!!!', 'SCRIPT.DOCS' AND 'SETUP' INTO THE 'WHERE_K' DRAWER BUT IT IS NOT A NECESSITY. IF YOU ARE SURE THE X AND XX DRAWERS ARE EMPTY DELETE THEM. IF THERE ARE ANY FILES IN THEM, PUT THESE FILES IN THE NEW DRAWERS WHERE THEY BELONG. YOU WILL BE CREATING AND SAVING 3 FILES AS YOU CONTINUE TO USE THE PROGRAM. THIS DRAWER IS AN IDEAL PLACE TO KEEP THEM. THE FILES WILL BE WHEREVAR - THE TINY BUTTON SETTINGS, EDINFO - THE PATH INFORMATION FOR THE EDITOR YOU HAVE YOU SELECTED TO READ YOUR TEXT FILES AND DDBASE_K - YOUR DISK DATA BASE FOR THE LISTING OF THE CATALOGED DISKS. IF YOU DON'T CATALOG DISKS YOU WON'T BE CREATING THE DDBASE_K FILE. IF YOU DON'T SET THE TINY BUTTONS YOU WON'T CREATE THE WHEREVAR FILE. IF YOU DON'T SET THE CUSTOM EDITOR YOU WON'T CREATE THE EDINFO FILE. IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO SELECT ANY OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS FOR THE PROGRAM TO RUN. IMPORTANT - - YOU MUST PUT THE DRAWER CALLED WK_ICONS IN THE WHERE_K DRAWER IN ORDER FOR THE ICON ROUTINE TO WORK. FLIPPING BETWEEN WHERE_K AND CLI, TEXT EDITORS OR WORKBENCH - USE THE '1' ON THE KEYPAD OR USE LEFT 'A'MIGA KEY + 'A' PROGRAM PRIORITY: THIS PROGRAM WILL LOOK FOR ITS LOCATION IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER: DF0:,DF1:,DH0:,DH1:,HD0:,HD1: *NOTE IF YOU HAVE WHERE_K ON A DISK IN DRIVE DF0: AND ON A HARD DISK THIS PROGRAM WILL ALWAYS USE DF0: FOR THE PROGRAM LOCATION SINCE YOU SEE BY THE ABOVE EXAMPLE THAT DF0: HAS A HIGHER PRIORITY. USING THE HIDDEN MENU: PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON TO REVEAL THE 'NEEDFULLTHINGS' MENU. MENU ITEMS: 1. CHANGE TEXT EDITOR 2. PRINT ANY TEXT FILE 3. RAM READ 4. DELETE FILE 5. ABOUT THIS PROGRAM GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO LOAD AND USE THE TEXT EDITOR OF YOUR CHOICE. ONCE THIS EDITOR IS SELECTED, AS LONG AS IT IS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IF WILL AUTOMATICALLY LOAD EACH TIME YOU USE THIS PROGRAM. CLICKING CANCEL INSTEAD OF LOADING A TEXT EDITOR WILL ACTIVATE THE DEFAULT FILE READER. CHANGE TEXT EDITOR - WHERE_K IS ABLE TO RUN ANY TEXT EDITOR OF YOUR CHOICE. SELECT MENU ITEM 1 AND FOLLOW THE EASY INSTRUCTIONS TO SELECT THE TEXT EDITOR YOU WANT TO TO USE. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE TEXT EDITOR OR FILE READER YOU SELECT SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE. IF IT IS NOT IT SHOULD BE PUT THERE. A TEXT EDITOR OR FILE READER WITH A SEARCH CAPABILITY IS INVALUABLE WHEN SEARCHING FOR A FILE. EXAMPLES OF TEXT EDITORS ARE ED IN YOU C DIRECTORY, ITS O.K. BUT THE SEARCH IS CASE SENSITIVE UNLESS YOU CHANGE IT USING 'ESC' 'UC', SEE THE USER'S MANUAL FOR THE AMIGA. I PREFER SEVERAL OF THE EDITORS THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, OR FILE READERS SUCH AS MUCHMORE AND PPMORE. *I PREFER USING A FILE READER AS THERE IS NO CHANCE OF ACCIDENTLY CHANGING A FILE. PRINT ANY TEXT FILE- PRINTS ANY TEXT FILE CREATED BY THIS PROGRAM SUCH AS WHERE_IS, DDBASE_K ETC. WILL ALSO PRINT ANY ASCII FILE. RAM READ - ALLOWS A FAST METHOD FOR SEEING WHAT FILES ARE IN RAM: DELETE ANY FILE - USE THE DELETE GADGET TO ERASE ANY FILE ANYWHERE. BE VERY CAREFUL BECAUSE THE FILE IS USUALLY LOST FOREVER UNLESS YOU HAVE AN UNDELETE UTILITY. ABOUT - THE USUAL BORING BUT NECESSARY INFO, SUCH AS VERSION NUMBER, DATE, AUTHOR ETC. LOOK FOR LATER UPGRADES IN THE FUTURE. USING THE BUTTONS: CREATE TEMPORARY LIST - FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS WILL CREATE A TEMPORARY FILE OF YOUR PARTITION OR DIRECTORY CONTENTS DEPENDING ON WHICH YOU SELECTED. THIS FILE IS IN ASCII AND CAN BE READ BY A VARIETY OF READERS. AS MENTIONED ABOVE IT IS BEST TO USE A READER OR TEXT EDITOR THAT HAS A SEARCH FACILITY. WHEN YOU EXIT THE PROGRAM THE FILE WILL BE ERASED. THE NAME OF THE FILE IS 'WHERE_IS". CREATION OPTIONS: LIST - OPT A - OPT D THESE OPTIONS ARE DOS OPTIONS. LIST IS THE STANDARD LIST COMMAND WHILE OPT A AND D ARE DIRECTORY COMMANDS.(SEE DOS COMMANDS IN YOUR AMIGA MANUAL). OPT A LISTS EVERYTHING INCLUDING ALL SUB-DIRECTORIES AND FILES. OPT D LISTS ONLY DIRECTORIES. CREATE PERMANENT LIST - SAME AS ABOVE BUT STORES THE FILE PERMANENTLY ON YOUR HARD DRIVE OR DISK. JUST PRESS THE BUTTON AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. IF YOU HAVE NOT CREATED A TEMPORARY LIST YOU CAN NOT CREATE A PERMANENT LIST. THIS MODE COPIES THE TEMPORARY LIST TO THE LOCATION OF YOUR CHOICE. RENAME - NEVER CHANGE THE NAMES OF THE FILES IN RAM:.!!! HAVING SAID THIS YOU CAN PERMANENT MODE TO SAVE YOUR 'WHERE_IS' FILE ANYWHERE AND THEN RENAME IT IF YOU SO DESIRE. REMEMBER ONLY THE LAST FILE NAMED 'WHERE_IS' IN THE SAME DIRECTORY IS SAVED. IF YOU RENAME THE 'WHERE_IS' FILE YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY DIFFERENTLY NAMED FILES IN THE SAME DIRECTORY. FOR EXAMPLE IF YOU SAVE A LIST OF THE C DIRECTORY FROM WORKBENCH YOU COULD RENAME IT C_DIR, THEN YOU COULD SAVE THE LIBS DIRECTORY AND RENAME IT LIBS_DIR ETC. READER - BRINGS UP THE TEXT EDITOR OR TEXT READER YOU SELECTED FOR READING, OR IF NONE PICKED, BRINGS UP THE AMOS FILE READER RUN - MULTITASK A PROGRAM. NOT FOR SCRIPTS, BUT MANY PROGRAMS WILL RUN THIS WAY. BEWARE IF THE PROGRAM YOU RUN DOESN'T HAVE A QUIT GADGET YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP IT. BEWARE #2 - IF YOU DON'T HAVE SUFFICIENT MEMORY YOUR MACHINE COULD CRASH. THIS PROGRAM STILL CONTINUES TO RUN IN THE BACKGROUND. ACTUALLY SAME AS RUN UTILITY. HELP - PRESSING THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU ACCESS TO THE BUTTON AND MENU HELP FILE. EACH BUTTON WHEN PRESSED AND EACH MENU ITEM WHEN SELECTED WILL SHOW ITS FUNCTION IN THE SMALL TEXT WINDOW AS LONG AS YOUR MOUSE CURSOR IS A QUESTION MARK. LIB VER GIVES AN INSTANT LIST OF ALL LIBRARY VERSIONS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IN THE LIBS DIRECTORY AND ALSO SHOWS THE WORKBENCH AND KICKSTART VERSIONS. THE LIST CAN BE PRINTED IF DESIRED. VERY HANDY WHEN YOU RECEIVE LIBRARIES AND DON'T KNOW WHICH ARE LATER VERSIONS YOURS OR THE ONES RECEIVED? CAN ALSO SHOW VERSIONS OF LIBRARIES ON DISKS. DISK CAT - HERE IT IS. THIS CATALOGER WILL CATALOG EVERYTHING ON YOUR DISK AND SAVE IT AS A FILE AND BUILD ON THAT FILE AS YOU ADD DISKS. TO OPERATE JUST PUT A DISK IN DF0:, THERE IS NO TYPING REQUIRED. SEVERAL OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THE FORM OF YOUR DATA. MY SUGGESTION HERE IS, IF YOU ARE CATALOGING PUBLIC DOMAIN PROGRAMS MAKE A DIRECTORY FOR EACH ONE ON YOUR DISK AND GIVE IT THE PROGRAM NAME AND VERSION, THEN CHOOSE 'OPT D'. THE REASON FOR THIS IS YOU WILL GET THE SMALLEST DATA FILE AND YET WILL HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. THIS CATALOGER ONLY READS 'DOS' DISKS. PRESSING THE 'ESC' KEY WILL EXIT IF CAT MODE IS REQUESTING A DISK BE INSERTED. SCRIPTS - RUNS DOS SCRIPTS IN FRONT OR BEHIND PROGRAM BOTTOM ROW 1 BUTTONS: PICTURE: LOADS AND DISPLAYS ANY IFF PICTURE. SORRY NO AGA AVAILABLE YET. MUSIC: LOADS AND PLAYS THE POPULAR 'MOD' FORMAT MUSIC. (SOUND TRACKER MODS) DDBASE_K: LOADS YOUR SAVED DISK DATA BASE TO RAM:. AFTER IT IS LOADED IT IS RENAMED DDBASE_K FOR EASY HANDELING. REMEMBER TO CHANGE THE NAME BEFORE SAVING IF YOU WANT TO SAVE IT AND ALREADY HAVE HAVE A DIFFERENT FILE THAT IS USING DDBASE_K. COMPARE: A NEW COMPARE UTILITY HAS BEEN ADDED. IT IS MUCH FASTER THAN THE OLD ONE. THE DATA BASES CREATED USING VERSIONS OF WHERE_K PRIOR TO V9.7 WILL NOT WORK WITH THIS NEW ROUTINE. THE OLD SEARCH ROUTINE IS ALSO INCLUDED. THE BUTTONS ON THIS SCREEN ARE AS FOLLOWS: HOW ? - INSTRUCTIONS DIR - ALLOWS YOU TO USE THE SELECTOR TO CHOOSE THE FILES TO COMPARE PRT - TOGGLES THE PRINTER ON AND OFF FLTR - FILTER FOR SEARCH. IF ANY PART OF THE STRING YOU ENTER IN THE FILTER APPEARS IN A FILE IN THE DATA BASE IT WON'T BE COMPARED BUT SKIPPED. DF0: - SET SELECTOR TO COMPARE FILES FROM THE FIRST DIRECTORY ON DF0: DF1: - SAME AS ABOVE BUT USED DF1: OLD - ALLOWS YOU TO USE THE OLD SEARCH ROUTINE. DO - THIS BEGINS THE PROCESS OF COMPARING USING YOUR SELECTED OPTIONS. THE FILTER IS NOT CASE SENSITIVE. TO TURN IT OFF EITHER PRESS THE 'FLTR' BUTTON AGAIN OR ENTER <RETURN> WITHOUT ANY INFORMATION IN THE FILTER INPUT WINDOW. A DATABASE WHICH WAS CREATED PRIOR TO THIS VERSION OF WHERE_K CAN BE UPDATED BY LOADING IN TO PROWRITE, SELECTING THE EDIT MENU AND ITEM SELECT ALL, NEXT SELECT CHANGE CASE, UPPER CASE IN THE SAME MENU THEN SAVE TEXT-ONLY. OTHER WORD PROCESSORS MAY WORK BUT I HAVEN'T TRIED THEM. MAKE A COPY OF THE DISK WITH YOUR DATA BASE, DON'T USE THE ORIGIONAL, WHY TAKE CHANCES? OLD COMPARE: IF YOU SAVE YOUR DOWNLOADED PROGRAMS EACH IN ITS OWN SEPARATE DRAWER AND NAME THAT DRAWER(DIRECTORY) WITH THE PROGRAM NAME AND VERSION e.g. 'ProgramnameV1.0', YOU CAN NOW COMPARE THIS DISK TO YOUR DATA BASE AFTER IT HAS BEEN LOADED TO RAM:. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE THIS PROGRAM IN YOUR DATA BASE YOU WILL BE ALERTED, THE OPERATION IS AUTOMATIC. PUT THE DISK WITH THE PROGRAMS TO BE COMPARED ON IT INTO A DRIVE. PRESS THE COMPARE BUTTON, SELECT THE DEVICE CONTAINING THE DISK AND TYPE A '*' ON THE BOTTOM LINE THEN SELECT 'OK'. THE FILES WILL NOW BE COMPARED. DIRECTORY: PRESS THE DIRECTORY BUTTON TO VIEW ANY DIRECTORY OR HARD DRIVE PARTATION. CLI: PUTS THE COMPLETE AMIGA COMMAND LINE INTERFACE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. SEE AMIGA DOS MANUAL. SOUND: VERY EASY TO USE SOUND SAMPLE PLAYER. JUST LOAD THE SAMPLE AND IT PLAYS. YOU CAN ADJUST THE SOUND FREQUENCY AND VOLUME. BOTTOM ROW 2 BUTTONS: ICONS: CLICK HERE TO ENTER THE ICON ROUTINE. USE THIS ROUTINE TO ASSIGN PRE DRAWN ICONS TO FILES THAT HAVE NONE. REMEMBER THAT AN ICON MUST BE OF THE RIGHT TYPE TO WORK WITH A FILE. IF YOU ASSIGN THE WRONG TYPE OF ICON JUST TRY AGAIN, THERE IS NO HARM DONE. YOU CAN ALSO ERASE SINGLE ICONS OR ALL ICONS IN A SPECIFIED DIRECTORY. THIS WILL NOT ERASE ANY FILES. A FILE WITH THE WRONG TYPE OF ICON ASSIGNED WILL STILL RUN THROUGH THE CLI. BLANKER:CLICK HERE TO USE THE SCREEN BLANKER PROCESS:CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PROCESSES RUNNING BEHIND WHERE_K. TO EXIT CLICK THE CLOSE GADGET ON THE PROCESS SCREEN. MULTIVIEW:IF YOU HAVE MULTIVIEW IN THE UTILITIES DIRECTORY OF DH0: OR HD0: YOU WILL DIRECT ACCESS TO IT BY PRESSING THIS BUTTON. MEM READ:READ BITS AND CHARACTERS IN BLOCKS OF 200 FROM MEMORY. JUST TYPE IN THE STARTING ADDRESS TO READ AND YOU WILL SEE THIS ADDRESS PLUS THE NEXT 200 LOCATIONS. YOU CAN PRINT OUT THIS SCREEN IF DESIRED. RESTORE:PRESS THIS BUTTON TO REGAIN MEMORY IF NEEDED. ALL UNUSED WINDOWS AND SCREENS WILL BE CLOSED, UNUSED MEMORY BANKS ERASED AND UNUSED FILES ERASED FROM RAM:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT!!! - TO ADD FILE NAMES TO AN EXISTING DATABASE YOU MUST FIRST LOAD THE DISK DATA BASE USING THE BUTTON DDBASE_K. * SEE CREATION OPTIONS ABOVE. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- + + + + PICTURE CATALOGER + + + + Q. WHAT IS THE PICTURE CATALOGER AND WHAT DOES IT DO? A. THE PICTURE CATALOGER CREATES A SCREEN THAT HOLDS 24 PICTURES IN MINITURE SIZE, THAT IT NAMES WITH THE DISK NAME THE PICTURES ARE FROM. YOU CAN HAVE HAVE AS MANY SCREENS AS NECESSARY TO HOLD THE CONTENTS OF YOUR PICTURE DISKS. YOU CAN SAVE THESE SCREENS AS IFF FILES ON THE DISK AND TO ANY FILE YOU DESIRE. THIS ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW THE PICTURE AND SEE THE CONTENTS OF THE DISK, OR KEEP THE PICTURE IN A PICTURE DATABASE. SORRY NO AGA YET. PICTURES CAT SELECTION ON THE CATALOGER LISTING OPTIONS SCREEN. SELECTING THIS OPTION ALLOWS YOU TO ENTER THE PICTURE CATALOGER MODE. CATALOG SCREEN MODE - THE SCREEN WHERE YOU CHOOSE THE TYPE OF SCREEN UPON WHICH TO SAVE YOU PICTURE DATABASE. E.G. 640X240X16. THIS IS THE DEFAULT AND SEEMS TO GIVE THE BEST BANG FOR THE MEMORY BUCK. IT IS 640 WIDE X 240 HIGH X 16 COLORS. PICK ANY RESOLUTION YOU WANT BUT REMEMBER DIFFERENT MEMORY USAGE AMOUNTS RESULT FROM DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCREENS. WHEN IN HIRES MODE ONLY 16 COLORS ARE AVAILABLE. THAT IS NOT REALLY A PROBLEM FOR THIS TYPE OF PROJECT. WHEN SATISFIED PRESS ON OK OR TO ABORT AND RETURN TO THE MAIN SCREEN PRESS ON ABORT. ACTIVE KEYS - WHEN IN PICTURE COMPRESSION MODE (THAT IS WHERE YOU ARE CREATING A PAGE TO SAVE) THE FOLLOWING KEYS ARE AVAILABLE: F1 - SAVE THE SCREEN BEFORE IT IS FULL. AFTER THE SAVE THE PAGE NUMBER WILL BE INCREASED. F2 - SHOWS PICTURE WIDTH, HEIGHT, COLORS, TYPE, AND NAME. F3 - LOAD AN IFF PICTURE TO VIEW. THIS WON'T HURT YOUR DISPLAY. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE MENU. ESC - BRINGS UP QUIT OPTIONS SCREEN. FROM QUIT OPTIONS SCREEN: ESC - GOES TO MAIN PROGRAM SCREEN. F9 - CONTINUES ON COMPRESSION MODE WITHOUT ANY CHANGES. F10 - CHANGES PAGE FOR NEXT DISK BEWARE - DF0: IS WHERE ALL YOU PICTURE DISKS ARE TO BE INSERTED. REMOVING A DISK WILL ERASE THE PAGE YOU ARE ON IN COMPRESSION MODE. WHEN IN COMPRESSION MODE CLICK THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON TO LOAD THE NEXT PICTURE TO BE REDUCED. WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED WITH A PAGE CLICK ON 'CANCEL' ON THE MENU TO BRING UP THE QUIT OPTIONS SCREEN. REMEMBER, TO SAVE A SCREEN THAT IS NOT YET FULL USE F1. TIPS - IT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER IF YOUR PICTURES ARE SAVED ON A DISK WITHOUT BEING PUT IN A DIRECTORY. IN THE FUTURE I MAY DEVELOP AN AUTOMATIC READER AND COMPRESSOR AND IF I DO IT WILL BE GEARED TO DISKS THAT HAVE PICTURES ON THEM THAT AREN'T IN DIRECTORIES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAVE - SAVE THE LIB VERSION FILE (Vlibs), THE CATALOG CATALOG FILE (DDBASE_K) AND/OR THE HARD DRIVE LIST FILE (WHERE_IS). VOICE - IF YOUR MACHINE CAN SPEAK (THE NEW MACHINES NEED A PROGRAM TO DO SO) YOU CAN SELECT VOICE FOR FOR VOICE CUES. IF MINI BUTTON IS PRESSED WHILE VOICE BUTTON IS SET ON 'ON' THE VOICE MODE WON'T CHANGE. YOU WILL HAVE TO PRESS THE VOICE BUTTON 'OFF' THEN 'ON' AGAIN FOR THE MODE CHANGE TO TAKE EFFECT. STATUS - SHOWS STATUS OF THE FOLLOWING ITEMS: MOUNTED DRIVES AND PARTATIONS DIRECTORY FILE (WHERE_IS) DISK DATA BASE FILE (DDBASE_K) LIBRARY VERSIONS FILE (VLIBS) NAME AND PATH OF CUSTOM READER(IF EXISTS) SPACE AVAILABLE ON DISKS AND MAIN 2 HD PARTATIONS MINI CONFIGURATION BUTTON STATUS HELP KEY - THATS HOW YOU GOT HERE. EXIT - EXITS PROGRAM AND ERASES ALL PROGRAM FILES FROM RAM: UNDOCUMENTED USE OF THE 'ESC' KEY: THE ESC KEY CAN BE USED FOR MANY PURPOSES. INITIALLY WHEN YOU ARE ASKED TO SELECT AN EDITOR OF YOUR CHOICE TO USE YOU CAN PRESS 'ESC' TO BYPASS THE REQUEST AND AGAIN TO BYPASS THE FILE SELECTOR. 'ESC' CAN BE USED INSTEAD OF CLICKING ON THE UPPER LEFT CORNER OF THE LIB VERSIONS AND DISK CATALOG SCREENS TO EXIT THE READERS, AND TO EXIT FILE GADGET SCREENS. MINI CONFIGURATION BUTTONS (SMALL BUTTONS ON UPPER LEFT OF MAIN BUTTONS) MINI CONFIGURATION BUTTONS MODIFY THE ACTIONS OF THE MAIN BUTTONS TEMP LIST MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET WILL READ FILE AFTER EACH CREATION PERM LIST MINI BUTTON - SAME AS ABOVE READER MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET READER ALWAYS USES DEFAULT READER RUN MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET RUNS YOUR SELECTED PROGRAM IN FRONT OF WHERE_K. LIB VER MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET ONLY ALLOWS INDIVIDUAL VERSION CHECK CATALOG MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET ALWAYS DEFAULTS TO OPT D (SEE DOS MANUAL 'DIR' COMMAND). THIS BUTTON DOESN'T EFFECT THE PICTURE CATALOGER. SAVE MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET ALWAYS SAVES TO DRIVE DF0: VOICE MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET DEFAULTS TO FEMALE VOICE. SEE VOICE BUTTON FOR MORE INSTRUCTIONS. SCRIPT MINI BUTTON - WHEN SET RUNS DOS SCRIPTS IN FRONT OF WHERE_K. HOW TO SAVE SETTINGS - - - WHEN YOU EXIT THE PROGRAM YOU WILL BE ASKED IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE SETTINGS IF ANY MINI BUTTONS ARE SET DIFFERENT THEN WHEN YOU LOADED THE PROGRAM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- USING THE FILE REQUESTOR O.K. = DO IT CANCEL = DON'T DO IT PARENT = MOVE BACK ONE DIRECTORY IF POSSIBLE DEVICES = DRIVES. E.G. DH0:, HD1:, DF0: ETC. ASSIGNS = SHOWS ALL ASSIGNMENTS MADE SORT = PUT IN ALPHA ORDER SIZES = SHOW FILE SIZES GET DIR = REFRESH DIRECTORY LISTING. VERY IMPORTANT. SINCE DIRECTORIES ARE DRAWN FROM MEMORY YOU CAN LOAD A DIRECTORY THAT DOESN'T SHOW CHANGES. BE SURE TO PRESS THIS BUTTON IF YOU HAVE ADDED OR DELETED FILES TO REFRESH AND UPDATE THE DISPLAY. STORE = STORES DIRECTORIES IN MEMORY FOR FASTER OPERATION X = ERASE STORED DIRECTORIES. BOTTOM LINE 1 = PATH LINE BOTTOM LINE 2 = FILE NAME USE SLIDER OR ARROWS TO MOVE DISPLAY UP AND DOWN. E.G. HOW TO SAVE A FILE UNDER THE 'SAVE' OPTION: CLICK ON FILE NAME TO SAVE, IT WILL APPEAR ON THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE REQUESTOR. IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES IT MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO CLICK ON 'DEVICES' FIRST THEN CLICK ON THE DEVICE CONTAINING THE FILE TO SAVE SUCH AS CLICKING ON DEVICES, THEN RAM: FILENAME. CLICK ON DEVICES AGAIN AND PICK THE DEVICE WHERE YOU WANT TO SAVE THE FILE TO. YOU CAN ALSO PICK A DIRECTORY IN THAT DEVICE AND SUB DIRECTORIES. IF YOU DO THIS RIGHT THE FILENAME WILL STILL BE ON THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE REQUESTOR. YOU MIGHT BE DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS, CLICKING ON DEVICES,DF1:PROGRAMS/ THEN CLICKING OK. THIS WILL SAVE A DATA FILE CALLED FILENAME ON DISK DF1: IN DIRECTORY PROGRAMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEMPORARY FILE CREATION SPEED THIS SPEED RATE DOES NOT APPLY TO READING FILES SINCE ONCE THEY ARE CREATED THE READ RATE IS ALMOST INSTANT. THE FOLLOWING IMPROVED RATES HAVE BEEN OBSERVED: AMIGA 500 1MEG CHIP RAM 4 MEGS FAST RAM SYQUEST 44 MEG REMOVABLE MEDIA DRIVE READ 4,580,476 BYTES IN 16 SECONDS. TEMPORARY FILE SIZE 21,852 BYTES BUFFERS SET AT STANDARD AMOUNT AMIGA 1200 2 MEG CHIP RAM 8 MEGS FAST RAM MBX1200 BOARD MAXTOR 85 MEG H.D. READ 45,246,233 BYTES IN 1 MIN 28 SECONDS. TEMPORARY FILE SIZE 228,373 BYTES BUFFERS SET AT STANDARD AMOUNT WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V4.0 OF WHERE_K ? ADDED: ABILITY TO GIVE VOICE CUES ABILITY TO AUTOMATICALLY RUN A SELECTED TEXT EDITOR AS DEFAULT ON STARTUP IMPROVED EDITOR HANDLING TAB TO SEE KEY ASSIGNMENTS INCREASED USE OF 'ESC' KEY FOR EASIER TRAVELING HISTORY WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V5.0 OF WHERE_K ADDED: MINI CONFIGURATIONS BUTTONS FOR ADDED FLEXABILITY FULL STATUS SCREEN USE OF 'ESC' TO ABORT DISK CATALOGER WHEN DISK REQUESTED WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V6.0 OF WHERE_K ADDED: MODE TO COMPARE DOWNLOADED FILES TO DATABASE TO TEST FOR DUPLICATION. WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V8.0 OF WHERE_K FIXED: STATUS SCREEN NOW SHOWS CORRECT STATUS OF TEXT READER SHIFTED KEYS NOW WORK ADDED: STATUS SCREEN DISPLAYS INFO ON LOCK FOR SAVES TO DRIVE DF0: NEW LOOK FOR COMPARE MODE. COMPARE MODE NOW LISTS BOTH FOUND AND NOT FOUND FILES IN THE DATA BASE. RAM READ FOR QUICK ACCESS TO RAM TO SEE FILES CONTAINED THEREIN. LOADING AND VIEWING OF PICTURES LOADING AND PLAYING OF MODS A PICTURE CATALOGER. YOUR ASKED FOR IT AND YOU GOT IT WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V9.0 OF WHERE_K ADDED: DOS SCRIPT CAPABILITY. YOU CAN NOW RUN ANY DOS SCRIPT FROM THE PULL DOWN MENU. A CLOSE BUTTON HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE SHELL WINDOWS WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V9.5 OF WHERE_K DELETED: KEY SHORT-CUTS ADDED: BETTER INTERFACE - DOS SCRIPT BUTTON AND MINI BUTTON ADDED & NEW ROW OF BUTTONS ADDED. MUCH EASIER USE OF BUTTONS THEN MENU ITEMS. SOUND SAMPLES - YOU CAN NOW PLAY SOUND SAMPLES WITH A VERY EARY TO USE PLAYER. WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V9.6 OF WHERE_K FIXED: SMALL BUG FOUND IN V9.5 AND FIXED. PROGRAM REQUIRED REPEATED RESETTING OF CHOSEN TEXT READER. ADDED: STATUS MONITOR - SHOWS ALL ACTIVE PROCESSES BEHIND WHERE_K NEW SEARCH ROUTINE FOR DISK DATABASE WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V9.7 OF WHERE_K ADDED: SCREEN BLANKER MOUSE OR KEY CONTINUENCES IMPROVED INTERFACE CHANGED: USE OF THE MINI BUTTON FOR RUN WHAT HAS CHANGED IN V9.8 OF WHERE_K ADDED: 1 KEY PROGRAM TO FRONT MEMORY RETURN ROUTINE READ MEMORY LOCATIONS DIRECT ACCESS TO MULTIVIEW ICON FOR FILES WITHOUT ICONS BUTTON FOR PROGRAM TO BACK CHANGED: REWORKED HELP ROUTINE BLANKER MOVED TO A BUTTON PROCESS MOVED TO A BUTTON KNOWN BUGS: NOT REALLY A BUG, BUT IF YOU EXAMINE THE LIBRARIES OF A WORKBENCH DISK IN YOUR DRIVE THOSE LIBRARIES MAY TAKE OVER YOUR SYSTEM. SOLUTION: TRY EXAMINING THEM ONE AT A TIME USING THE INDIVIDUAL MODE. THE PICTURE CATALOGER WON'T SHOW BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES. LOOK FOR THE FIX ON LATER VERSIONS. THANKS FRANCOIS LIONET AND EUROPRESS FOR MAKING THIS PROGRAM HAPPEN, ITS ALL AMOS PROFESSIONAL. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------