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- This following is contained in both the on-line Help text for Look&See,
- accessed by pressing the Help/About button, and as a .TXT file contained in
- Look&See zipfiles.
-
- ------------------,
- ABOUT LOOK&SEE 1.1|
- ------------------'
- This is a small, relatively simple program which allows you to examine the
- contents of any disk drive subdirectory using Windows objects which by now
- should be familiar to everyone: a drive list box, a directory list box and a
- file list box. You may also choose to see / not see files with no attributes
- set, or with one or more of the Archive, Hidden, Read-Only and System
- attributes set. There is also a number-of-files/total-bytes-in-this-directory
- box, and a button to see the size in bytes of any file you select.
-
- WHAT YOU CANNOT DO with this program is copy, delete or move files; so
- far, it's JUST a viewer. The idea was to be able to look at subdirectories
- without invoking either the Windows standard or Threadz File Manager - both of
- these are BIG and s-l-o-w! I am planning, however, to add additional functions
- very soon - provided this doesn't slow things down too much! The ultimate goal
- of this program is to be a small, fast, quick-and-dirty replacement for the
- File Managers.
-
- Look&See was created with Microsoft's Visual Basic 1.0, which seems to require
- a separate compilation for each display type (Herc, EGA, VGA, etc.) with which
- you want the .EXE file to actually work. If the program seems to run but you
- see nothing onscreen, you likely have the wrong version. Check your source for
- zipfiles named L&SxxABC.ZIP, where xx is the version number and ABC is the
- display type.
-
- ---------------------------------,
- WHAT YOU NEED TO RUN THIS PROGRAM|
- ---------------------------------'
- The .EXE file, obviously, and also the VBRUN100.DLL run-time library; the
- latter must be placed in a directory named in your PATH (Win3 root dir
- recommended). I am not including this in the zipfiles - it's much too big -
- but if someone hasn't already done so, I will upload it as VBRUN100.ZIP. You
- need only download this file ONCE, after which it can be used by every VB 1.0-
- created program you ever obtain. Oh, yes - you'll also need the .HLP file if
- you want the Help/About button to work properly, and this must also reside in
- a directory named by your PATH.
-
- -----------------,
- Using the program|
- -----------------'
- To change drives, click on the button of the drive list box (topmost, long
- skinny one); click on any of the listed drives, using the scroll bars if
- necessary, to make it the current one. If your Win3 is network-aware, network
- drives will be included in this list. Any change here will refresh the file
- list box, as well as the "totals" box below it.
-
- You may also click the drive-list box and use the up and down arrow keys to
- highlight a drive, but you'll need to click the button again to actually
- change the drive.
-
- To change directories, DOUBLE-CLICK on any sub-, parent or root directory;
- the structure is very nicely arranged (thanks to Microsoft for supplying such
- lovely objects), and the hierarchy should be self-evident. Any change here
- will refresh the file list box, as well as the "totals" box below it.
-
- The only actions you can perform on the file list box are to either
- double-click on a filename, or to click once (select) and then hit the File
- Size button; either of these will pop up a message box containing the size of
- the selected file in bytes.
- Clicking the File Size button with no file selected produces a different
- message box - one with an attitude!
-
- The five check boxes work pretty much as you'd think they would, but might at
- first appear to be slightly screwed up. What you need to know and remember is
- that if (for example) a file has both the Arc and Read-Only attributes set,
- and the one corresponding box is checked but the other is not, the filename
- will still be displayed, 'cause the boxes are basically ignorant of each
- other. The fun really begins when you start playing around with the Normal box
- in combination with the others: the file list box may not look like it's doing
- what it should, but trust me - it is.
-
- You can set the directory mask (filter) by clicking the lower option button in
- the Select filename: box, specifying any valid DOS filename - * and ? wildcards
- included, and pressing Enter. To return to the default display of ALL files
- (*.*), click the top option button in the same box. You can switch back and
- forth as often as you like; any switching will refresh the file list box, as
- well as the "totals" box below it.
-
- Last but not least: Click Help/About to read/view/see/look at this Help File,
- and click Done to terminate the program. If it's half as useful to you as it
- has been to me, though, you'll probably want to keep it running minimized - no
- problems doing that.
-
- ----------,
- Known Bugs|
- ----------'
- The "totals" box is supposed to refreshed as the program runs, but so far it
- remains blank until you change drive or directory, or change one of the five
- check boxes. There were others, but have been fixed since version 1.0.
-
- Additionally, being a Visual Basic-created program does seem to give Look&See
- some strange behaviors. For one, if you put it in your win.ini file's LOAD=
- line, it loads - but it takes quite a while because most of the code is in
- VBRUN100.DLL, and it appears AFTER the Program Manager! For another, it
- produces two entries in the Task List - don't ask me why, I have no idea...
-
- ----------------,
- Revision History|
- ----------------'
- July 1991 - L&S predecessor called FileView - never published
- Early August 1991 - VGA version of L&S 1.0 uploaded to the
- pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS dir of Internet node
- "wuarchive.wustl.edu" (IP addr 128.252.135.4) via
- anonymous FTP. Not added to their archives, as they're
- strictly a mirror of other sites.
- Late August 1991 - Bugs from version 1.0 fixed; more functionality added.
- VGA version of L&S 1.1 uploaded (hopefully) to some
- appropriate place on Internet site "wsmr-simtel20.army.mil"
- (IP addr?), to be added (hopefully) to their archives -in some appropriate subdir.
-
- ---------------------------------,
- Comments / Criticisms / Questions|
- ---------------------------------'
- I can be reached by E-Mail at Internet mail address AD709@YFN.YSN.EDU or (for
- about a year more) as FABIFIUS@CONCOUR.CS.CONCORDIA.CA. I don't know the
- BitNet or UUCP equivalents of these, and if anybody who knows either could
- mail me, I'd be most grateful - in this age of global networks , ya can't be
- too connected!
-
- -----------------------------,
- About $$$ and Copyright Stuff|
- -----------------------------'
- This program is freeware; it is in the public domain; it may be distributed
- freely by any means provided no charge whatsoever is made for distribution
- and/or duplication, and I mean NONE! Nothing! Nada! Not even fees for the disk
- itself, if there is one! If this isn't clear to you, E-Mail me and I'll
- explain it to you in excruciating detail, OK?
-
- The executable programs L&S10ABCD.EXE, where ABCD is one of "HRC," "CGA,"
- "EGA" or "VGA," the file L&S11.ICO and this Help file (L&S11.HLP) are all
- copyright (c) 1991 Pat O'Connell.
-