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- PCD - Pulse Change Directory ■ Lionel Delafosse
- Version 1.0a ShareWare 4 May 1992
- _________________________________________________________________
-
- The different Tree Manager.
-
- Pulse Change Directory is a French ShareWare program that helps
- you quickly and easily change between directories on your hard
- drive, like NCD or LCD. Search with prefix, float and TRUE fuzzy
- patterns (allowing typographical error). More, Pulse is a Hard
- Disk Manager with a point and shoot interface. Allow tree and
- file management, support for third party browser, editor and
- archiver. A real time-saver!
-
- PCD10A.EXE is a version that has had the default third party
- programs changed to LIST, SHEZ, and EDIT (see below). Since the
- documentation is in French, this file was created as additional
- information. Some of the titles for functions have also been
- "Americanized".
-
- Pulse has many features, such smart incremental database update,
- including:
-
- Command line mode
- ■ change between directories with partial directory name
- ■ popup interactive window if two or more names matches
- ■ change between directories with file name
-
- Interactive mode
- ■ save and restore your screen
- ■ graphical representation of directory tree (with hidden)
- ■ jumps to directory name by typing first letter(s)
- ■ can change to highlited directory
- ■ can switch across logical drives
- ■ find file and switch for directory
- ■ useful statistics relating to File and Directory Size
- ■ directory Create/Rename/Delete
- ■ kill entire branch with files for instant disk cleanup
- ■ multiple file Copy/Move/Delete/Rename
- ■ support for third party programs: LIST, SHEZ or yours
- ■ 43/50 line support on EGA/VGA
- ■ seedup your keyboard (on AT-class)
-
-
- Usage: PCD [disk] [directory] [options]
-
- PCD uses partial names for both directory and filename.
-
- From DOS, PCD [disk] directory changes to the
- directory. If a partial directory name is used, and
- the partial name is ambiguous, PCD lists all
- possibilities and prompts for a selection or additional
- name length.
-
-
- Options: /B Build (or rebuild if it exists)
- directory tree and save disk structure
- to disk root directory
- /F filename Jump to first directory in path
- containing filename
- /U Show disk space usage
- /? or /H Help
- /N Do not save disk structure to disk root
- directory when exiting.
-
-
- Setup: Default setups for a number of parameters can be
- changed using an environmental variable, i.e., SET
- PCD=parameter1;parameter2
-
- H:25 or H:43 or H:50 for number of display lines
- (25 default)
-
- SORT:NEDTS for Name, Extension, Date,
- aTtributes, Size. Default is
- unsorted
-
- ARCHIVER:name % for a viewer or other utility for
- files with extensions of .ARC, .ARJ,
- .PAK, .LZH, .ZIP or ZOO. SHEZ is the
- default name, at offset 12932. The
- '%' is a variable for the highlighted
- file.
-
- BROWSER:name % for a viewer for other files. LIST
- is the defualt at offset 12909.
-
- EDITOR:name % for an editor. EDIT is the default
- name, at offset 1295B.
-
-
- Directory: PCD creates a file, PCDINFO.DAT, in the root
- directory of each disk to use for quickly changing
- sub-directories. If this file is erased, PCD
- rereads the disk structure each time it is used.
- The file is identified at offset 128E8.
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