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- * User's Manual Supplement *
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- * CMFiler -- Version 5.54 *
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- The printed user's manual being sent to registered users as of the date
- of this file is current to Version 5.37b. Any registered users who wish
- to receive a copy of this latest printed manual may order by sending $5
- to NoVaSoft. This essentially covers our printing and mailing costs.
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- The following features have been added or improved since the printing of
- the CMFiler Version 5.37b user's manual:
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- TREE IMAGE FACILITY: The tree module now has a feature that captures to
- the C drive (C:\~TREES~) an image file of the tree for each drive C or
- greater when it is first accessed. This image is then available for use
- as a quick alternative to rereading the whole drive the next time the
- tree module is entered and that drive is selected. The image file loads
- the tree structure in a fraction of the time it takes to read the whole
- drive and construct the directory and file list.
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- The first time it is run in tree mode, CMFiler explains three basic setup
- options to help the user use this new feature in the best way. In one
- option, you can tell CMFiler to ask permission to reread the drive and
- refresh the tree image on file after copying a structure into the drive
- tree. It is often convenient, if you have several structures to copy, to
- wait until the last before rereading the drive and refreshing the tree
- image.
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- The tree image can also be manually updated using Shift-R (Refresh tree).
- The Tree image option menu can be brought up with Ctrl-O.
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- FULL COLOR SELECTION CAPABILITY: Press Ctrl-P to select from four
- palettes. However, each palette can now be edited by pressing E within
- the palette facility. Each of five colors in the file list display can
- be selected by arrowing around an 8x8 color array, and pressing the
- spacebar when the desired color is reached. The affect of each selection
- is shown as the arrow is moved around the color array, so no guesswork is
- required.
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- This new facility is best used with both panels open, and some files
- tagged in one of the panels, since the file tagging color and both the
- source and target path line colors are independently variable. When
- finished editing one palette, hit Enter to return to the original level
- of the palette facility, and either Enter to set that palette as the
- default choice, or another key to rotate to the next palette. The editor
- and tree displays are not independently adjustable, but take their colors
- from the current palette.
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- The palette edit routine (Ctrl-P, E) now has the option to toggle the
- high-intensity bit selectively for each color field. The command "T" in
- the color menu toggles between high- and normal-intensity foreground
- color attribute.
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- In addition, we have added to the color palette exit sequence the option
- to set an internal flag which causes a "pip" to be shown in front of the
- extension of each file with today's date stamp, and colors the extensions
- of certain "preferred" files differently from the normal file color. The
- initial setting of this flag is "on", and the "preferred" extensions
- which are specified for the special colors are the executables -- .COM,
- .EXE, .BAT and .BTM. The flag may be turned off, and the preferred
- extension colors may be edited:
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- 1. When you leave the palette menu with the Enter key, you will be
- asked if you want to flag today's files and the "preferred" files.
- executables. If you answer No, the exit sequence is complete.
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- 2. If you answer Yes, you will be given an opportunity to edit the
- colors for each of the preferred extensions in the same way as you edited
- the main palette colors. When you are finished, exit this secondary
- color facility with the Enter key.
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- The preferred extensions may themselves be edited in the Ctrl-O Order
- menu.
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- ENHANCEMENT TO FILE ORDERING: In the main module, the Ctrl-O Order menu
- has been expanded to include a switch, toggled with P, to cause the
- appearance of files with the "preferred" extensions ahead of all others
- in any file listing. The preferred extensions can be edited from this
- menu with the keystroke command E.
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- PATH ALIAS FACILITY: A "path alias" facility now exists in the main
- module. This allows assigning the commands Alt-1 through Alt-9 to your
- nine most frequently used directories, for instant navigation from any
- drive and path. To assign a path to the alias list, first go to the
- subdirectory you want to add, then press Alt-A (for Alias). The Alias
- menu shows a list numbered 1 through 9, each with a user-definable title
- and path. Pick a free number, press it and type in the title you want as
- your key for the path. Hitting Enter saves the alias.
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- To navigate to that aliased path instantly, either press Alt- and the
- number you assigned (if you remember), or press Alt-A, look over the
- list, and while still holding down the Alt-key press the number. The
- alias facility can also be used in place of pressing a drive letter after
- the New drive command, or when arrowing over to the right-hand panel when
- it is blank. The Shift- key, used with Alt-1 through Alt-9, puts the
- aliased path into the opposite panel and goes across to it, in much the
- same way as Shift-\, Shift-P and Shift-Enter on a directory name act to
- put the selected directory into the opposite path and jump across.
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- JUMP COMMAND: A new Jump facility may be used to jump to another path.
- In either panel, press J, and type in the new path, including drive if
- desired. If the path exists, CMFiler will read and display its directory
- contents and set it as the new path for that panel.
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- FILE SPLITTER: We have added to the main module a file splitter, called
- by Alt-S. With the target panel set up as the destination path for the
- split files, position the cursor on a file in the source panel and press
- Alt-S. CMFiler first asks for confirmation that you desire to split the
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- file into smaller files, with extensions .A00, .A01, ..., .A99, .B00,
- etc. The it asks for the file size for the split files, in Kb. Split
- files are created in the target path, and the original file is left
- untouched in the source. File splitter provides option to split files at
- nearest end-of-line, which is useful in splitting text files. File
- splitter also works with a single panel open.
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- SWAPPING PANELS: In the main and tree modules, you can quickly swap
- panels left-for-right and right-for-left, keeping the cursor in the same
- panel, left or right, with the new command Ctrl-W (for sWap).
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- POPUP ASCII TABLE: The editor/viewer now has a popup ASCII table, called
- with the command Ctrl-A. Navigate through the table with the Arrow keys
- or mouse to highlight a specific character, then type that character with
- Enter or the mouse left button.
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- BUG FIXES AND MISCELLANEOUS:
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- o We have added to the file display ordering options (Ctrl-O menu) a
- switch, toggled with "E", which when set causes the executable files to
- appear first in the file listings, in the order .COM, .EXE, .BAT and
- .BTM, followed by all other files, in the order specified.
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- o The new command Ctrl-K decrements the cursor height on each keypress.
- The cursor height is now a savable parameter using Shift-S.
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- o Corrected a bug in the navigation routines in the tree module that
- occasionally caused confusion when navigating using the Shift-Up/Down
- arrows in a directory level in which one or more directories had been
- deleted since the last tree refreshing operation.
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- o Revised the display routines to show the time in 12-hour format, with
- the letter "p" for post-meridian times. (Absence of a "p" implies ante-
- meridian, including the hours from 12 midnight to 1 AM.)
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- o When you select a disk containing deleted files in a ~TRASH~
- directory the first time each new day, CMFiler asks if you want to leave
- it alone, purge (hard-delete) its files, or view it. Heretofore, if you
- specified viewing ~TRASH~, you would be returned to the root directory
- when you were finished, even if some other directory had been specified,
- for example as an initial path parameter in the command line. Now
- CMFiler remembers the specified path, and returns to it after you leave
- ~TRASH~ with the \ (Root) or P (Parent) command.
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- o Corrected a bug in the file copying routine in the main module that
- was causing incorrect attributes to be assigned to the target files.
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- o File compression and extraction can now by done with only the left
- panel open. In this case, the same path serves as source and target for
- compression or extracton.
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- o When you select a disk containing deleted files in a ~TRASH~
- directory the first time each new day, CMFiler asks if you want to leave
- it alone, purge (hard-delete) its files, or view it. Heretofore, if you
- specified viewing ~TRASH~, you would be returned to the root directory
- when you were finished, even if some other directory had been specified,
- for example as an initial path parameter in the command line. Now
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- CMFiler remembers the specified path, and returns to it after you leave
- ~TRASH~ with the \ (Root) or P (Parent) command.
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- o Improved the handling of errors during floppy formatting/duplicating,
- and added self-checking "boot-through" code to the boot sector placed on
- CMFiler-formatted diskettes.
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- o In the confirmation request for file deletion, a choice has been
- added to switch deletion type between "soft" and "hard".
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- o Corrected a bug in the file copying routines that could cause
- assignment of incorrect file attributes to the copied files.
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- o Corrected a bug in the rename facility that caused failures in name
- swapping.
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