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LWed - Windows INI file editor.
Version 2.2.3 of 1996-09-01, Copyright 1996 (C) Laszlo Radanyi
TABLE OF CONTENTS____________________________________________________________
1. LICENSE AGREEMENT
2. INTRODUCTION
3. USER'S MANUAL
3.1 Basic functions
3.2 Advanced functions
3.3 The built-in help
4. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
1. LICENSE ISSUES____________________________________________________________
This version of LWED is distributed as SHAREWARE. You may use the
program unlimitedly for 21 days at which time you have to decide
to eighter discard the program or register it. You are encouraged
to distribute the unregistered version of LWED as long as the
package is not modified.
The registration fee is 5 USD, which is best sent via snail mail
after contacting the author via email.
By registering LWED, you gain a single user license to the product
and you help the author to make even better products. Registered
users also have life-time support for the product via email. All
registered users have right to all new versions of lwed as long as
the license is valid.
Upon registering, the user receives a registered version of the
program which has different license conditions.
THIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE HOPE THAT IT WILL BE USEFUL,
BUT WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; WITHOUT EVEN THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
THE USER SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE RISKS OF MANIPULATING THE
WINDOWS INITIALIZATION FILES. CARELESS CHANGES TO SOME INI FILES
MAY RENDER THE SYSTEM UNUSABLE. THE AUTHOR OF LWED ACCEPTS NO
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS OF FUNCTIONALITY OR LOSS OF DATA
AS RESULT OF THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT.
Windows is the registrated trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
4DOS is owned by JP software Inc.
1. INTRODUCTION______________________________________________________________
Lwed is a utility for manipulating Windows(TM) INI files from
DOS. Its history is simple; its function may be simple too, but
over the years, LWED has grown to be able to do most of what a
power user should want from a program of this kind.
The program is started with a flag for the desired operation and
parameters for this operation. Each action has a more or less
verbose name, which may make them easier to remember. Most of
the functions have a shorter, one character name too.
There is a built-in help system, which is kept simple; the most
used functions are shown on one side and the more advanced
operations are described on a second page while a few functions
that do not manipulate INI files are described on a third page.
Clearly, there are so many functions, that it would have impos-
sible to squeeze together descriptions for all of them on one
page. This is why I made pages, but it was too technocratic
to call them page '1' through '3'.
Rather than writing a command for changing one value at a time
in an INI file, LWED can MERGE two INI files. This is done in a
somewhat unintelligent way; see the section about '--merge'.
You are very welcome with comments about this program; I am
particulary interested in comments about how the program fits
different needs.
Although there are a lot of other INI file manipulating utilities
on the Internet, I sincerely believe that this is THE one you
need.
3. USER'S MANUAL_____________________________________________________________
LWED is a DOS command-line mode program, and it is aimed at batch use
that is, it needs command-line arguments to complete a function.
Switches - or modes - can be forward slashes '/' which is very common
under DOS, and you can also use a dash '-'. You need two switch
characters for a verbose switch, like '--' or '//'. Any other switches
or switch combinations will cause LWED to exit and leave a short message
on the standard error stream.
The arguments used by the program are referenced between less-than and
greater-than signs. The names used are as follows:
<ini file name> The target INI file name. If this file is in the
same directory as LWED, only the file name is
necessary, otherwise the full path needs to be
given.
<section> The target section, that is, the INI value
starting after a string enclosed in brackets as
in [section] and until the next such section
name is encountered.
<key> The string before the first equal sign on one line
in the given section.
<value> The string after the first equal sign on one line
in the given section.
<variable> The name of the environment variable to use for
the '-e' function.
3.1 Basic functions__________________________________________________________
The basic functions are the most used or oldest functions; they are
probably what you would expect from a program like this.
-h or --help
This launches the built-in help system. Read more about it in
section 3.3.
-v or --version
Prints version information along with registration data to the
standard output stream. The version information is necessary
when communicating with the author. This can also help you to
see if there is a newer version distributed. Newer versions
are generally better since the reported bugs are always
corrected before new functionality is added.
-r or --read
Prints <value> of <key> to the standard output stream.
-w or --write
Changes an existing <key> <value> as specified; if the key doesn't
exist, a new key is created.
-a or --append
Appends <value> to the current value of <key>. If the key doesn't
exist, a new key is created.
-i or --insert
or --prepend
Inserts <value> immediately after the equal sign '=' of <key>. If
the key doesn't exist, a new key is created.
-d or --delete
Removes <key> from <section>.
-m or --merge
Writes the contents of <source file> into <target file> just as you
would write value for value. Please pay attention to that MERGE does
NOT handle SYSTEM.INI/[386Enh] very well, since it uses standard
INI write operations; that is, for each [section], for each key
in the source file, it writes [Section]/key=value into the target
file. This means that the first device= statement could be over
written several times !
-e or --read_to_environment
Reads <value> into <variable> in the master environment. If the
variable is not set, a new is written. WARNING: This function
relies on Int2E. 4DOS users should be particulary careful with
this function, see the 4DOS manual for more information.
3.2 Advanced functions_______________________________________________________
-c or --comment
Inserts a comment character ';' before the entry.
-q or --write_quoted
Writes <value> inside of double quotes. For example :
LWED -q TEST.INI section key quotedValue
results in the following entry written into the file
TEST.INI in the same directory as LWED.EXE:
[section]
key="quoted value"
--write_blind
Writes <key>=<value> as first entry in <section> without
search for an already existing value.
--write_pair
Searches for <key>=<value> under <section> and creates the
key if it doesn't exist. This is essentially the same
function as write, but this one also looks for the supplied
value.
** NOTE **
The pair functions all are primarily intended to deal with
the [386Enh] section in SYSTEM.INI, since this section
contains a lot of keys named 'device' but different values.
--comment_pair
Searches for <key>=<value> under <section> and places a
comment character before the key. This is the same function
as 'write_comme