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It has been designed in conjunction with iNSTiNCT 3.0 "Hanging Gardens", but has been tested with iNSTiNCT v1.2, and should therefore also be compatible with previous and later iNSTiNCT versions (at least up to 3.0). There have been some major changes since MGR 1.1, so read the what's new section if you've used MGR before. If you don't have the time/don't want to read through this entire document, online help is available in MGR at almost any time by pressing F1. ──[2]─ Main Screen ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ MGR by HYBRiS message │ ├──────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────┤ │ conf | file │ basic filedata │ │ or | list │ filename,uler,date,etc. │ │ area | . ├---------------------------┤ │ or | . │ FILE_ID.DIZ window │ │ dir list | . │ │ │ . | . │ │ │ . | . │ │ │ . | . │ │ ├──────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────┤ │ status bar │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ This is the second screen you'll see when you start MGR (the first is the MGR intro ANSi). ──[3]─ Conference List ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── The conference list is where (naturally) you choose the conference from which to pick files. Or, if you are transfering files, where to transfer them. MGR will automatically switch in and out of the conference list as needed when transfering files. Before you get all confused, when I write conferences I mean conferences OR areas. There is little difference between the two, except that areas are always "sub-conferences". One of the major news in MGR 1.2 is that any drive available on your system (save the floppies) can be accessed. Directories will be treated as conferences. iNSTiNCT will be treated as a virtual drive called "iTC". Files may be freely copied between any drives, of course including the iTC drive. Pressing F2 will allow you to choose a drive. If a conference has any subdirectories (called areas) there are no files in the conference (but there are in the subareas). In a directory structure, files and directories are mixed, and this reflects a major difference in the way keys are interpreted in the conference list. When browsing the iTC drive, entering an area is accomplished by pressing ENTER or arrowRIGHT. On another drive however there may be both subdirectories and files, and pressing ENTER will take you further into the directory tree. Pressing arrowRIGHT will bring you to the filelist. This can be visualised: If you press enter, you stay in the conference list, but pressing arrowRIGHT brings you to the filelist (to the right of the conference list). If you are confused after reading the above, go ahead and browse around. You will soon understand how it works, and it will hopefully make sense. There are some colors in the conference listing that ought to be mentioned. If an entry is blue, it is normal. A red entry on the other hand is defective, and the conference info will tell you what the problem was. If the problem was unidentified, an uncommon error occured. The only hint that can be given in such a case is to check the settings for that conference in iTCSETUP, although it is unlikely that a bad entry would produce an unidentifiable error. A gray conference listing is purely esthaetical, to help you keep track of whether you are in the filelist, or the conference list. ──[4]─ File List ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── In order to manage files, which, after all, is what MGR was designed for, you must be able to list files. That's where the filelist comes in. It allows you to copy/move/nuke/import/edit/search/etc. files. MGR operates primarily on tagged files. If there however are no files, MGR will operate on the file under the cursor. If tagged files are present, the position of the cursor does not affect anything (with the exception of DiZ editing). ■ Positioning the marker/cursor over a file and pressing SPACE will tag/untag depending on it's previous state. ■ Pressing '+' will allow you to tag files matching a certain criteria. ■ Pressing '-' will untag all files. ■ '*' will invert the tag. Tagged files will become untagged, and untagged will become tagged. Once you have tagged some files you can do an operation on them (if you only want to do the operation on one file, you naturally don't have to tag it). There are several operations that can be done, however they can be divided into a few groups. ■ File transfer (copy,move,nuke,import) Can be done to/from any conference, with certain exceptions (you can for natural reasons not copy to a CD, or remove files for that matter, so no move operations for instance are allowed to/from a CD). ■ Edit the filedata (edit filedata/edit DiZ) This is of course not possible if you are browsing on a disk, since there is no fileinfo that may be edited stored in an iTC listfile. There will be more on this topic later in this file. ■ Search Since the search engine only searches for data stored in iTC listfiles, you may not search for files, if you aren't searching on the "iTC drive". Certain operations require that you choose a target conference/dir, and MGR will automatically switch to the conference list. Once again there is a certain color scheme used by MGR. A blue file is normal, as with conferences. A red file is a file that was reported present in the listfile, but could not be found on your HD. Green files are tagged and purple color means that the file was detected by MGR, but was not found in the listfile. If we're dealing with a "drive" other than iTC, then files will always be marked as blue, despite the fact that they were not present in any listfile. There will be more info on importing files in the followin section. If you find a file marked as either blue (normal) or purple, then you may view it's contents. Depending on the extension, MGR will treat the file differently. There is currently support for ZIP,ARJ,RAR,LZH archive formats (see information on the arcviewer for more info on that), EXE and COM files will be ignored, and any other file will be opened as a textfile without ANSi support. If you are in "directory mode" then you can bring up the file_id.diz by standing on it for a sec. Then file_id.diz will be loaded and shown in the description window. ──[5]─ File Transfer ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── File transfer involves copy,move,nuke,import (although nuke or import don't really transfer anything). Nuke is quite straightforward and requires no further comments, but copy and move involve choosing a target conference (or directory). Simply put, you choose conference but entering it's filelist. See the section on conference list for more info about entering a filelist. Once again: If you are uncertain about the workings of this, go ahead and try it out. It's the most efficient way to learn. Import, however deserves a special mentioning. A file marked as purple may be imported into the filelist by pressing F7, with the cursor positioned on it (or you could tag several). If the file being imported is an archive, then MGR will attempt to extract FILE_ID.DIZ, and if found, it is entered as descrition. MGR will mark itself as a hidden uploader of the file, but this may of course be changed by editing the freshly imported files. WARNING: Make sure that the file is not being uploaded. It has happened more than once that a file was imported while being uploaded, producing very strange effects. ──[6]─ Edit FileData ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Suppose you've just imported a file, and now you want to give it a proper description and change the name of the uploader to your name. There are basically two keypressed that you have to make. However, know that none of these changes will affect the file itself, only the data that iTC has about the file (ie. the changes will only be written to the listfile). ■ Changing Uploader (and other stuff as well) Tag the files you want to change. Now enter the data as you want it. The little dots to the left of the input fields turn into squares when you add text. A dot (·) means that the field to the right will not be duplicated. The square (■) on the other hand, means that the field will be duplicated on all tagged files when you press enter. You can toggle between the two states with TAB. Anyway, if you turn all dots on, and press enter, then all tagged files will have exactly the same Date, Uploader, Mark, and reported Size. Remember that the size (in kb) reported in the listfile has nothing to do with the file's physical size. ■ Changing the DiZ Pressing F9 will take you to the DiZ edit ANSi. There will be a preloaded DiZ determined by the cursors position when you pressed F9. Since MGR uses tagged files primarily (only when there are no tagged files, will MGR use the file under the cursor), you can "copy" a DiZ from one file to other file (or files, if you tagged several). The DiZ editor is very well documented online, so you should have no problems running it. There are however some features which are uncommented online. When you edit a line in the DiZ (by hitting ENTER), as soon as you start typing, you'll be baffeled since two identical lines will appear. Well, the upper one has ANSi interpretation turned on, and the lower turned off. Pressing F2 while editing will bring up a menu of colors, and choosing a color will insert it's ANSi code into the line at the current cursor position. F10 will duplicate the DiZ in the window on ALL tagged files. Any numbers will be fixed, so if you plan on editing an 80 disk release and keeping all disk numbers, then you can look forward to a lot of work. Sorry... ;) ──[7]─ Search ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── This function is invoked by pressing F3. It can be called upon from both the filelist and the conflist. It is quite straightforward and doesn't need much documentation. It will search for all files matching the specified settings. If you leave any field blank, it will be completely ignored in the search. So, if you want to search for anything which has to do with iNSTiNCT then simply enter 'instinct' in the "DiZ KEYWORD" field, and leave the other blank. If you want to search for all Team iNSTiNCT releases then enter 'ti*.*' in the "FiLENAME" field (leaving the others blank, or possibly filling in 'instinct' in "DiZ KEYWORD". The search is not case sensitive. ──[8]─ Arc Viewer ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Viewing a file with extension ZIP,ARJ,LZH,RAR will activate the arcviewer. A list of files included in the archive will be shown on screen. From inside the arcviewer you can in turn view other archives or textfiles, or extract files to a directory of your choice (naturally created if non-existing). If you choose to extract files. MGR will prompt you for a directory. If the directory is invalid, MGR will create it for you. First of all, you have to be able to tag which files to extract. You do so by pressing SPACE or '+'. In the arcviewer, '+' will tag all files. Keys '-' and '*' will work the same way as they do in the filelist. After tagging the files you want, press F2. After choosing directory, MGR will ask you whether you want to overwrite any files already in the directory. If there are stored pathnames, MGR will ask you if you want to extract using full pathnames. Since it takes substantially more time to call at least ARJ with large archives, if you choose all files, MGR will extract all files in one go, thus no progress indicator will be shown. Otherwise a progress indicator will show the progress. ──[9]─ What's new ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── » Important additions to MGR 1.2 since MGR 1.1 « ■ Increased the maximum number of files to 3000. ■ Advanced search routines. ■ Support for all drives in the system. Drive "iTC" is the BBS. ■ MGR can be run with parameters (see the section on parameters). ■ Support for LZH compression. ■ Support for subdirectories in archives. ■ Fastsearch in conference and file list. Just start typing. ■ Improved error checking while reading CONFER.DAT and AREA.* ■ Support for critical errors. MGR ends in an orderly fashion. ■ MGR detects a variety of media types, identifying CDs to improve file transfer security. ■ Added progress indicators to most time consuming operations. ■ Extensive online help system. ■ More and better support for trashed listfiles. ─[10]─ Keys ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ■ Conference list F1 ................................................. Online Help F2 ................................................ Change Drive F3 ................................... Search (same as filelist) ENTER .............. Enter sub area (see conflist for more info) RIGHT .............. Go to filelist (see conflist for more info) LEFT/ESC ......................... Go to previous conference/dir UP/DOWN ..................................... Move cursor/marker ■ File list F1 ................................................. Online Help F2 ............................. Change Drive (same as conflist) F3 ................................... Search (same as conflist) F4 ............................................... Edit filedata F5 ........................................................ Copy F6 ........................................................ Move F7 ...................................................... Import F8 ........................................................ Nuke F9 .................................................... Edit DiZ F10 ...................................... Bring up the filemenu ALT F10 .................. Sort the filelist (changes NOT saved) ENTER ............................. View file or start Arcviewer SPACE ............................................. Tag one file + ............................................ Tag certain files - .............................................. Untag all files * ................................................... Invert tag ESC/LEFT ........................................ Leave filelist ■ Edit FileData ENTER ............................ Duplicate on all tagged files UP/DOWN ............................................ Move cursor ESC ................................................ Cancel edit TAB ..................................... Toggle between · and ■ ■ ArcViewer F1 ................................................. Online Help F2 .................................... Extract all tagged files UP/DOWN ............................................ Move cursor ENTER ............................... View file or new Arcviewer SPACE ............................................. Tag one file + ................................................ Tag all files - .............................................. Untag all files * ................................................... Invert tag ─[11]─ Parameters ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── You can run MGR with parameters. ■ If you specify a filename, or part of a filename, MGR will open it as if you had browsed into that directory and pressed ENTER on the file. When you press ESC, you're back in DOS again. Perfect for dearchiving files with weird names. Ex. "MGR TI!ITC" opens the file matching TI!ITC* best. ■ "MGR ." starts MGR in directory mode, with the current directory loaded. ─[12]─ Closing Words ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Although MGR has been tested, there may still be bugs. If you find any, we in Team iNSTiNCT, particulary me, would be interested in hearing about them. Feel free to fill out the bug report form, and mail it to either ■ itc@hotmail.com or ■ hybris_@hotmail.com (note the underscore). or visit our iRC channel ■ #iNSTiNCT on American EFNET or get in touch with any other instinct member and tell him about your problems. I would also be interested in feedback. What was good/bad about MGR.