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- Help for !SCSIFiler v1.00, by Jason "The Master of the Arcane" Williams
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- * Disclaimer ************************************************************
- * *
- * This program is completely PD. Copy it as much as you like, so long *
- * as you do not make any profit from such activities. *
- * Use it at your own risk. I accept no responsibility for any loss or *
- * damage caused by the use or misuse of this program. *
- * *
- * Note: This was written to work with Oak SCSI drives. It WILL NOT work *
- * with ADFS (ST506) drives. It may not work with other SCSI interfaces. *
- * *
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- Loading instructions
- ====================
-
- To replace your old filer with !SCSIFiler, just double-click the icon...
-
- To permanently replace it, if your computer automatically boots from a hard
- drive or battery-backed RAM or whatever, then you can add this application
- into your boot-up sequence.
- (RUN IT AND TEST THAT IT WORKS BEFORE PUTTING IT INTO YOUR AUTO-BOOT!)
-
-
- Description
- ===========
-
- After having my brand new Oak SCSI card for 3 days, I finally got fed up
- with the supplied filer (SCSIFiler module) so much that I wrote my own
- replacement for it. It does almost everything the old filer did, plus more.
-
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- Functions
- =========
-
- · Dismount, Verify and Free just as on the Oak Filer.
-
- · Mount a disc by clicking it's icon, just as on the Oak Filer.
-
- · Ability to display MY hard drive icon, which is higher than the default
- one.
- (If you wish to change this icon, edit the sprite "SCSIdisc" in the
- !Sprites file. (I have included my "FloppyDisc" and "RamFS" icons with the
- names "NFloppyDisc" and "NRamFS" - If you like them, rename the 'n' off
- the front of their names, and they will replace the normal icons. Note
- that for floppydisc to work correctly, it must be loaded BEFORE the
- desktop is started up.))
-
- · Mounting and dismounting the drive doesn't cause the icon to jump to the
- end of the icons on the iconbar. I CAN'T STAND having my hard disc
- 'moving', especially if you click menu over the icon with the disc
- unmounted- The icon jumps away from under the pointer! Eugh!
-
- · Display of current freespace under the drive icon (e.g. "83M" means
- approx. 83 Megabytes are free on that drive)
- Note that it doesn't try to read the free space on the drive if the drive
- is unmounted (Which would cause it to be mounted, which is not good if you
- just dismounted it so you could turn the machine off!!!). In this case,
- the last freespace reading, or 00M will appear instead.
-
- At present, I have not implemented the 'Name Disc' option- As I wrote this
- for my personal use, I didn't bother, as I don't see why anyone would want
- to change the name of their hard disc every 5 minutes, and if they really
- have to, they can still do it from the CLI...
-
- The name is no longer displayed under the icon (The free space indicator
- goes there now instead), but it is shown (if known) in the title of the menu
- that you bring up from each drive. If the name is unknown, the drive numer
- will be shown instead. Note that the name can still remain known when the
- disc is dismounted, unlike the Oak filer. (I don't know why... I do the same
- as the Oak filer to read the name!!!)
-
- When run, !SCSIFiler kills the current SCSI Filer module (Which is copied
- into RAM from the podule when you turn your computer on) and takes over it's
- functions.
-
- !SCSIFiler can be killed from the Task Manager window, but remember that
- this leaves you without any way of mounting your hard drive!! (Apart from
- resorting to the CLI). The 'old' filer will NOT reappear if you kill
- SCSIFiler.
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