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- Filer Extras v2.00
- © '92 AjC of DoggySoft
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- ¤¤ {wimpext update + extra features coming soon ! -AjC}
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- This masterpiece of superb design and coding allows you to easily do all
- those things that the filer ( on RISC OS 2, anyway ) has forgotten. You can
- easily set filetypes, set the CSD, recursively access, destroy, and send to
- edit, all which previously had little PD programs written to do, simply by
- using a key and double-click - no silly icons to drag to, no silly setting
- options and opening directories. Plus there are some useful bits that have
- not been seen before in silly little PD programs. So, as well as being able
- to shift-double-click on applications to open them up rather than run them,
- we have the option of using alt-double-click. This gives a menu from which
- all features are available. Options from the menu can be quickly chosen with
- key short-cuts - for example, ctrl-double-click sets the CSD.
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- Set CSD ( Ctrl-double-click ) : If the object double-clicked on is a
- directory, the CSD ( current selected directory ) is set to inside
- that directory. If it is a file, the CSD is set to the directory
- that contains it, ie. the directory whose filer window is open.
- This is a quick way to allow you to access files more easily
- outside the desktop environment.
- Destory ( Esc-double-click ) : This deletes the object double-clicked on,
- even if it is locked against deletion. If the object is a directory
- then all objects in it are deleted, recursively. Therefore, you
- must be careful with this feature !
- Info ( Print-double-click ) : Opens a window showing various information
- about the file or directory double-clicked on. There are also two
- buttons. Pressing the grey "K" button enters the pathname of the
- object, as if typed at the keyboard. Pressing the red "f1" button
- to define function key f1 as the pathname. This feature prevents
- you from having to muck about with the Filer's display menu, and
- saves typing.
- Access ( F11-double-click ) : Once the options have been set up, you can
- recursively set the access flags of the files and directories
- from the object double-clicked on. This can be used to get rid of
- all those annoyingly locked files quickly.
- Devirus ( F10-double-click ) : Searches the object double-clicked on for
- the following viruses :
- Extend : Hides in application directories. But not very well, as
- it goes about creating new files and is very obvious.
- ModVir : Hides in modules. Very well. This is the only virus you
- should ever get, as the others are all so stupid and
- obvious to the eye. Look for nameless tasks, extra files
- appearing, *Run commands in !Boot files, etc.
- Archie : Hides in application files. This version of Filer extras
- cannot remove it, as I have no version to have a look at.
- But it can be detected, and any proper virus program
- should be able to get rid of it.
- SetType ( F1-double-click ) : Input the new file type in hex or text at the
- bottom and click OK to set the filetype. Clicking on Auto will
- attempt to find out from the contents of the file, what the type
- of the file should actually be. Filetypes currently recognised are:
- &DDC, &AF1, &400, &FF6, &695, &5A9, &D0B, &CB5, &CB6, &C56, &810,
- &400, &7FF, &FED, &FF7, &FFB, &FFA, &FEC, &FFF.
- Various ( Shift-double-click ) : BASIC files shift-double-clicked on are
- loaded into BASIC for you to have a look at. Sprite files are
- *IconSprited, to update the Wimp's sprites after you have done
- some new sprites, or something like that. Any other files are sent
- to Edit, or any other text editor you might have.
- Quit Kills Filextras. If you hold down shift and quit the task from the
- task manager window, then FileCore will be reset, so the annoying
- "FileCore in use" error stops.
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- To contact DoggySoft, for bug reports ( I know about the directory date,
- this would seem to be an unsolvable problem ), for helpful suggestions, or
- to give me some money for the Hacker, BombScare, Armonizer ( £5, I'd need
- to know 1Mb or 2Mb for BombScare ), or just for the sake of it. Or you could
- send a quid for a disc of our PD. Anyway, you will need the address...
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- 7, Blackhorse crescent,
- Amersham,
- Bucks.,
- HP6 6HP.
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