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- Program: BLKDIR
- Author: Douglass M. Fitzsimmons
-
- BLKDIR is a speech oriented directory maintenance program. It provides
- for convenient cursor key movement through the directory tree on a file-
- by-file basis.
-
- Directories may be listed in their original order on disk or may be
- sorted by file name.
-
- The following command executes BLKDIR:
-
- BLKDIR file-spec
-
- The following command line switches follow the optional file spec. They
- are:
-
- /h Include hidden files in directory listings
- The default is not to include hidden files.
-
- /n Sort file names in order. The default is not
- to sort file names.
-
- /d Use direct memory video output for up/down arrow keys.
- This option is useful if your speech program is configured
- to read a new line after an up or down arrow key is pressed.
- Note that this option can also be set via the BLKVIDEO
- environment variable as described below.
-
-
- The environment variable BLKPROG may be set to indicate a user-specified
- program to execute upon command from within BLKDIR. Inclusion of the
- less than, greater than (<>) character string in the SET statement for the
- environment variable will cause these characters to be replaced by the
- current directory entry's file name at run time. For example, to type out
- the current file, you would enter:
-
- SET BLKPROG="TYPE <>"
-
- Note that the quotes are required due to the spaces and special characters
- in the environment variable assignment.
-
- The environment variable BLKVIDEO is used to instruct BLKDIR to use direct
- memory video output after up or down arrow keys. This is accomplished by
- the following statement:
-
- SET BLKVIDEO=DIRECT
-
- Use this option if your speech software is configured to speak the current
- line after up or down arrow keys. When not used, all video I/O occurs via
- the BIOS. The /d command line option also enables this function.
-
- Below are listed the BLKDIR commands:
-
- F or home Display first directory entry
- L or end Display last directory entry
- U or up arrow Move up through directory
- D or down arrow Move down through directory
- . Display current directory entry
- P Display current entry phoneticly
- S Display size of current file
- A Display attributes of current file
- T Display date/time of current file
- Q or escape Exit program
- R Exit program and route to directory you were
- looking at
- C Change to another directory
- Z Zap a file. You will be asked to confirm delete
- E Enter command to execute. A '<>' character sequence
- in the command string will cause replacement of these
- characters by the current file name.
- X Execute user-specified program on current entry
-