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MAIN HELP MENU - WHERE_IS_K
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 Delphi 516 485-3380 or any Delphi telephone number
c/o KenMc
Warning!!!!!!!!!
LIB VER ROUTINE REQUIRES WORKBENCH 3.0 OR HIGHER FOR LIST OPTION, HOWEVER
SEEMS TO WORK FINE FOR LISTING INDIVIDUAL LIBRARY VERSIONS.
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
WHERE_IS_K PROGRAM
WHERE_IS_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, File Size in Bytes, Protection Bits, Date & Time Saved.
However you can customize this file using the options available.
INSTALLATION
MOVE THE DRAWER NAMED WHERE_IS_K_3 TO YOUR WORKBENCH ON THE HARD DRIVE.
FLIPING BETWEEN WHERE_IS_K AND CLI, TEXT EDITORS
OR WORKBENCH - USE LEFT 'A'MIGA KEY + 'A'
THIS PROGRAM CONTAINS FULL KEY EQUIVLENTS OF BUTTON PRESSES AND
MENU SELECTIONS. PRESS 'K' TO SEE KEY MACROS.
USING THE HIDDEN MENU:
PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON TO REVEAL THE 'NEEDFULLTHINGS' MENU.
MENU ITEMS:
1. CHANGE TEXT EDITOR
2. OPEN CLI
3. DELETE FILE
4. PRINT WHERE_IS
5. DIRECTORY UTILITY
6. RUN UTILITY
7. LOAD DISK DATA BASE
8. ABOUT
CHANGE TEXT EDITOR - WHERE_IS_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 PERFER SEVERAL OF THE
EDITORS THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
OPEN CLI - MAKES THE COMPLETE CLI ENVIRONMENT AVAILABLE TO
YOU. SEE AMIGA DOS IN YOUR AMIGA MANUAL.
DELETE FILE - ALLOWS YOU TO DELETE ANY FILE FROM HARD DRIVE OR
DISK. BEWARE ONCE DELETED THE FILE IS LOST UNLESS
YOU USE AN UNDELETE UTILITY IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE
BLOCKS ARE WRITTEN OVER.
LIBRARY VERSIONS - GIVES YOU THE VERSIONS OF ALL THE LIBRARIES IN
THE LIBS DIRECTORY OF YOUR STARTUP PARTITION ON
YOUR HARD DRIVE. YOU CAN ALSO SELECT '1' AND GET
THE VERSION OF ANY LIBRARY ON A DISK OR THE HARD
DRIVE. VERSIONS CAN BE PRINTER FOR EASIER USE.
WB & KICK VERSIONS - GIVES THE VERSION OF THE WORKBENCH AND KICKSTART
CURRENTLY IN USE.
PRINT WHERE_IS - PRINTS THE WHERE_IS FILE
DICECTOY UTILITY - ALLOWS QUICK SEARCHES OF DRIVES ETC.
RUN UTILITY - THIS ALLOWS YOU TO RUN MANY OF THE EXCELLENT
PD OR COMMERCIAL UTILITIES AVAILABLE. AN EXAMPLE
OF ONE IS 'SUPERDUPER'. WHERE_IS_K WILL CONTINUE
TO RUN IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE YOU CAN FORMAT
DISKS AND USE ALL THE OTHER UTILITIES ON THIS
GREAT PROGRAM.
LOAD DISK DATABASE - LOADS YOUR SAVED DISK DATA BASE TO RAM:. AFTER
IT IS LOADED TO RAM: YOU MUST RENAME IT
'DDBASE_K'
BEFORE YOU CAN ADD FILES TO IT. USE THE RENAME
BUTTON TO DO THIS.
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".
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 TEMPOARY 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.
DEFAULT READER - PRESSING THE BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO ACCESS THE
AMOS DEFAULT TEXT READER. THERE IS NO SEARCH
FACILITY ON THIS READER BUT IT IS SMALL AND
SAVES MEMORY. IF YOU HAVE USED THE CREATE
TEMPORARY LIST AND HAVEN'T PRESSED THE CREATE
PERMENANT LIST BUTTON AFTER IT THE DEFAULT
READER WILL AUTOMATICALLY GO TO THE RAM: DISK
DIRECTORY WHERE YOU CAN LOAD YOUR TEMPORARY
FILE OR YOUR DISK DATABASE. ANY TEXT FILE
CAN BE LOADED BY CLICKING ON THE DEVICE WHERE
IT IS SUCH AS DF0: ETC. SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON
USING THE FILE SELECTOR.
TEXT EDITOR / OTHER - AS DISCUSSED ABOVE YOU MUST FIRST HAVE USED THE
MENU ITEM 'CHANGE TEXT EDITOR' TO LINK YOUR
FAVORITE TEXT EDITOR OR TEXT READER. IF LINKED
A PRESS OF THIS BUTTON WILL PRODUCE A FILE
REQUESTOR WHICH WILL ASK YOU TO FIND THE
PATH FILE AND CLICK ON IT. THE PATH FILE IS
CALLED 'FINDTXED'. THE NEXT PROMPT WILL BE
TO LOCATE THE 'WHERE_IS' FILE AND CLICK ON IT.
THE 'WHERE_IS' FILE WILL NOW BE LOADED INTO
THE TEXT EDITOR FOR EXAMINATION.
ALTERNATE USE - PRESS THE LEFT SHIFT KEY AND
CLICK ON THIS BUTTON TO MULTITASK A PROGRAM.
YOU CAN'T RUN 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.
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?
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 'DIR'. 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.
SAVE - SAVE THE LIB VERSION FILE (Vlibs), THE CATALOG
CATALOG FILE (DDBASE_K) AND/OR THE HARD DRIVE
LIST FILE (WHERE_IS).
HELP KEY - THATS HOW YOU GOT HERE.
EXIT - EXITS PROGRAM AND ERASES ALL PROGRAM FILES
FROM RAM:
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USING THE FILE REQUESTOR
O.K. = DO IT
CANCEL = DON'T DO IT
PARENT = MOVE UP 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. IT 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.
NEXT 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
DATAFILE CALLED FILENAME ON DISK DF1: IN DIRECTORY PROGRAMS
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TEMPORARY FILE CREATION SPEED
THIS SPEED RATE DOEN 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 REMOVEABLE 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 V3.0 OF WHERE_IS_K ?
ADDED:
FIXED THE DISK CATALOGER SO IT IS NOW FULLY OPERATIONAL
(SORRY ABOUT THE BUG.)
IMPORVED THE MEMORY MONITOR FOR MORE ACCURACY
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.
THANKS FRANCOIS LIONET AND EUROPRESS FOR MAKING THIS PROGRAM HAPPEN, ITS
ALL AMOS PROFESSIONAL.
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OTHER PROGRAMS I HAVE WRITTEN LATEST VERSIONS AS OF 9/4/93:
VAULTKV1.01 - ENCRYPT AND DECRYPT FILES THE EASY WAY.
AMOS-ASSISTANTK_V2_8.ACC - A HELPFUL UTILITY TO BE USED WITH
AMOS PROFESSIONAL
RENAMEDISKS - A DISK RENAMING UTILITY THAT WILL NEVER REPEAT A NAME.
USEFUL TO PROGRAMMERS FOR RENAMES ON THE FLY.
FETCH-IT_K - MULTITASKING CONTROL CENTER. RUNS UP TO 20 PROGRAMS.
CAN STORE UNLIMITED PROGRAM NAMES.
SOLAR_SMASHERK - UNUSUAL SPACE GAME.
DISK_ICONS_WB2.0+ - 8 COLOR ICONS FOR USE ON WORK BENCH 2.0 OR BETTER.
WHEREISK - THIS PROGRAM
EXPLODE DIRECTORIES V1.0 - CREATE UNLIMITED DIRECTORIES & THEIR ICONS.
MY OTHER PROGRAMS AVAILABLE FROM THE FOLLOWING BBS:
SAFE HARBOR 414 548-8155
DELPHI 516 292-2820
A.M.U.G. 516 234-6046
AMOS NTSC 219 874-0367