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- September 30, 1991
-
- Shad Muegge
- Marcos R. Della
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- ____
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- ____| ,__| Association of
- / o \/|____/ Babble Fish
- |__, |____ Programmers
- \____|\/ o \
- | ,__| MEMBER
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- COMMOPNS is shareware, which means that you can use this program
- for 30 days to decide whether you want to use it. If you decide
- you are going to use COMMOPNS, you must send in the registration fee.
-
- Send your COMMOPNS registration fee of $10.00 US to:
-
- Shad Muegge
- P.O. BOX 4251
- Santa Rosa, CA 95402
-
- This is a LIFETIME registration fee, meaning that you will never
- have to pay for any future versions of COMMOPNS.
-
- COMMOPNS may be freely distributed in its original PKZIPed form.
-
- SUPPORT: You can either send me a letter, to which I will gladly
- respond, or you can call my BBS: The Babble Underground (707) 575-0636.
-
- Thanks to:
- Fred P. Brucker for writing {COMMO}.
- Tom Keller, for editing this file.
- And everyone else who Beta Tested COMMOPNS.
-
- BASIC CONCEPT:
-
- COMMOPNS.EXE - Displays a single directory at a time and
- allows the user to TAG files. When the program is exited,
- it writes the TAGGED files out to a specified (or default)
- file.
-
- OPERATION:
-
- An up arrow in front of a name indicates a subdirectory which will
- lead you up the directory tree. Likewise, a down arrow indicates
- a subdirectory which will lead you down the tree.
-
- COMMANDS:
- <ENTER> Change to a SUBDIR.
-
- <ARROWS> Moves selector bar around.
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- <PGUP> <PGDN> Switches file display pages. Useful if your directory
- has more than 115 files in it!
-
- <HOME> <END> Move to the first/last item on the screen.
-
- <SPACE> Toggle the tag flag, and advance to next file in the display.
- Also updates approximate upload time estimate, if the -S
- option was specified on the command line.
-
- <Any Key> Advance selector bar to filename starting with that key.
- For example: Press M to jump to filenames starting with M.
-
- <F1> Bring up a small help list.
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- <ALT-D> Change the drive.
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- <ESC> Exit and write tag file list.
-
- <ALT - F1/F2> Change colors for foreground/background main screen.
- <ALT - F3/F4> Change colors for foreground/background highligh bar.
- <ALT - F5/F6> Change colors for foreground/background status lines.
-
- <ALT-C> Save colors and display method (BIOS/Direct).
-
- <ALT-U> Toggle between BIOS and Direct screen writes.
-
- BASIC IMPLEMENTATION:
-
- DSZ, MPt, and others allow a list of files to be specified
- in a file. For example:
- DSZ sz @C:\FILE.LST
- MPt s @C:\FILE.LIST
-
- will upload all the files in C:\FILE.LST.
-
- In DSZ, the @, the drive letter and the : are all MANDATORY.
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- PAGE 1
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- Getting COMMOPNS to work with your terminal program, should be
- simple, here's a example in a psuedo-terminal program
- script language:
-
- Execute COMMONPNS C:\FILE.LST
- Execute DSZ sz @C:\FILE.LST { for ZMODEM }
- or Execute MPt s @C:\FILE.LST { for MPt }
- Execute DEL C:\FILE.LST { this is optional }
-
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- SETUP FOR {COMMO}:
-
- 1. Put COMMOPNS.EXE somewhere in your path.
-
- 2. Insert the COMMOPNS.MAC file into your COMMO.MAC
- file - using your favorite ASCII text editor.
-
- 3. Load {COMMO}.
-
- 4. Type <Ctrl-PageUp> to get COMMOPNS Upload Menu!
-
- 5. UPLOAD UPLOAD UPLOAD
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- AUTOMATIC COMMOPNS in {COMMO} with ZMODEM!
-
- In COMMO.SET file, insert the line:
- {aut=pnszup,^xB01}
- Now, whenever you do a Zmodem upload, COMMOPNS will automatically execute.
-
- SETUP IN A BATCH FILE:
-
- For Upload: Some terminal programs allow you to call external
- batches for their file transfer protocols.
-
- Example Batch File: (Zmodem or MPt Upload)
-
- @ECHO OFF
- COMMOPNS C:\FILE.LST
- DSZ sz @C:\FILE.LST
- or MPt s @C:\FILE.LST
-
- USE WITH PKZIP:
-
- This will allow you to pick files out of single or multiple
- directories and zip them together. Note that additional command
- line parameters can be added to the PKZIP line to preserve paths, etc.
-
- PNSZIP.BAT:
- @ECHO OFF
- COMMOPNS C:\FILE.LST
- PKZIP -a %1 @C:\FILE.LST
-
- Example command line:
- PNSZIP PNSSRC.ZIP
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- PAGE 2
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- PARAMETER DEFINITIONS:
-
- - if no parameters are specified, then the file list is CREATED
- in the DEFAULT drive ROOT directory.
- (i.e. if COMMOPNS is run on C:, the file would be C:\FILE.LST)
-
- COMMOPNS [DRIVE:][PATH][FILEN] [-O<N|T|E>] [-D[DRIVE:][PATH][FNAME]] [-S<bps>]
-
- DRIVE: The drive where you want the file.
- (ie. C:, D:, ... )
- PATH: The path where you want to file.
- (ie. \COMMO\)
- FILEN: The file name, you want the list to be written.
-
- An Error Level 2 is returned for invalid tag list filename.
-
- -D: Optional directory in which to begin tagging. The drive
- specifier is only necessary if you wish to start up on a
- drive other than the current drive. Will allow wildcard
- filename specifications (ie. *.pas) to choose only
- selective files
-
- -S: Modem transfer speed, in Bits Per Second. If this option is
- specified, COMMOPNS will compute and display the approximate
- time needed to transfer the tagged files.
-
- -ON: Sort in order of filename. (Default)
- -OT: Sort in order of date & time.
- -OE: Sort in order of extension.
-
- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE:
-
- Setting a COMMOPNS environment variable in DOS will tell COMMOPNS
- where to write the list of TAGGED files.
-
- For Example: SET COMMOPNS=C:\FILES.LST
-
- This will cause COMMOPNS to write the file list to C:\FILES.LST
-
- Specifing a name on the command line will override this environment
- variable.
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- PAGE 3
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- REVISION HISTORY:
- Version New Stuff/Fixes.
-
- 5.1 BIOS calls removed and DesqView calls installed to support
- virtual screens. Changed the file specification option to
- allow for wildcard specifications (ie: *.pas). Fixed small
- color problems and help file.
-
- 5.0 Major re-write of the basic code to increase speed.
- COMMOPNS enviroment variable added so you can specify the
- file to be created by the program.
- ErrorLevel 1 returned if there is an empty file list.
- Direct Video writes re-written in assembly to increase display
- speed to the screen. BIOS calls still in place for DV users.
- Alt-U added to toggle between BIOS and Direct Video writes. This
- parameter can be saved using the Alt-C (clone) option.
- F1 now brings up a help screen with the basic commands.
- Pressing a key to jump to a file
- Error level 2 returned for invalid tag file list filename.
-
- #.# These versions skipped in a cheap marketing attempt to cash in
- on the version 5.0 mania.
-
- 2.1 Bug fixes.
-
- 2.0 Added color and ability to change colors.
- -D start directory option.
- -S Bits Per Second option, so COMMOPNS can display upload time.
- Arrows for indicating directories.
- Checks memory available, instead of crashing.
-
- 1.5 Fixed up a bunch of stuff in the doc files.
- Added the current directory display to the top of the screen.
- Add BIOS/Direct screen writing for snowy CRT's and multi-taskers.
- Advance to next file after tagging a file.
-
- 1.1 Modified to use a lot less memory.
-
- BUGS: (bugz), adj. [Slang], 1. crazy; insane. 2. any crawling insect
- with sucking mouth parts and forewings thickened. 3. Problems with a
- computer program. (go figure!)
-
- - The program doesn't seem to work on the novell network. When it
- reads in the directory, it doesn't find a ".." parent directory
- file.
-
- DETAILS:
- {COMMO} is a product of Fred P. Brucker.
- DSZ is a product of Omen Technology Inc.
- PKZIP is a product of PKWARE, INC.
- MPt is a product of Matthew Thomas.
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