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UPDATE DOCUMENTATION FOR
QFILER, Version 3.x
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QFILER version 3.x (QF3), is a major upgrade to previous
versions of the program -- the last version being 2.3F,
released in the late summer of 1987. All of the features of
the earlier versions have been retained or improved, plus
some major new features added. The changes are summarized
below, separated into two groups; Minor - things that are
slightly different, and Major - those features that are
either new or substantially different from previous versions.
MINOR CHANGES
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MARK / UNMARK is now TAG and UNTAG. This change was made to
allow the use of [M] to be used for Move. You will have to
get used to pressing [T] instead of [M] to tag-all-files. To
ease the confusion somewhat, when selecting an option that
operates on either current or tagged files, you may press
either [T] or [M] to select all-tagged-files. For example to
copy all tagged files you could press the sequence [C]-
[T]/[M]-[Y] meaning "copy all tagged files -- yes, do it".
HELP is now displayed on the non-active side of the screen,
and is contained in two screens. When the first screen is
displayed (showing function key assignments), press [N] to
see the next screen (alt- and control-key assignments) or
[ESC] to return to the normal display. When the next, or
second screen is displayed, press [P] to view the previous
screen. Prompts are at the bottom of the help screen.
YES/NO questions now have a default value which may be
accepted by pressing [ENTER]. The default will be indicated
by the bracketed letter, for example [Y]/N which will be
interpreted as YES if you press either [Y] or [ENTER]. To
abort an operation, press [ESC], which will be interpreted as
NO.
CURRENT FILE POINTER (the triangle with flashing cursor) is
gone and has been replaced (on a color monitor) with a moving
colored bar. Tagged files are normally shown in inverse
video. If the moving bar is placed on a tagged file, the
characters will flash -- indicating the file is both marked
and current.
ARCHIVE BIT is now shown as a small "a" next to file time.
QF3 will now set the archive bit on all copied files. In
addition, shift-F1 can be used to set the archive bit on
selected files, while shift-F2 may be used to clear the
archive bit on selected files.
"DOT" and "DOUBLE-DOT" FILES are no longed displayed as the
top two files in a subdirectory, and are replaced with a
single "PARENT DIR" entry. Selecting the "PARENT" entry and
pressing F3 or F4 will move "up" one level in your
subdirectory tree. You may move immediately to the "PARENT"
of the current directory by pressing alt-F3 (to display on
the left) or alt-F4 (on right).
COMPLETELY EMPTY directories (such as on a newly-formatted
floppy disk) will be displayed with the message "NO FILES"
displayed in the middle of that side.
DELETION of HIDDEN, READ-ONLY and SYSTEM files now require
operator confirmation before deletion. Attempted deletion of
SYSTEM files will also result in a warning and second
operator confirmation before the deletion will be performed.
(Too many folks who had never seen IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM
before, decided to "clean up" their hard drives -- with some
disastrous results!)
CRITICAL ERRORS, such as selecting a floppy drive with no
disk inserted, are now trapped more consistently and reported
as "selected drive does not respond...".
USE OF ARCE and ARCA will result in the current side being
reread and redisplayed after the ARChive utility has been run
-- the assumption being that something has now changed in the
current directory. The currently selected file will remain
selected.
ESCAPE -- pressing the [ESC] key will usually abort an
operation. You may "quit" QF3 by pressing either [Q] or
[ESC].
DRIVE/DIRECTORY COMMAND LINE CHOICES will now be immediately
displayed -- the QF3 signon screen will not be displayed and
no beep will be played. For example, invoking QF3 by entering
"QF A C:" at the DOS prompt will result in the root directory
of A: being displayed on the left side, and the current
directory of drive C: being displayed on the right side.
ALL OTHER COMMAND LINE SWITCHES have been removed. See QFINST
below for information on how to modify QF3 to fit your
favorite configuration.
SPEED of operations, especially sorts, has been improved. In
many cases, it may be done without you noticing anything has
occurred!
BOTTOM MENU OPTION-LETTERS are now highlighted (on a color
monitor). Each of the options may be selected by either
pressing the key letter, or by changing the selected option
by pressing the spacebar or tab key, then pressing [ENTER].
A FILE MAY BE COPIED TO A DIFFERENT NAME by pressing alt-C.
You will be prompted for a new file name. If a file exists
with the new name, the copy will not be performed.
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MAJOR CHANGES
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SORT CHOICES (name, extension, size, date, and unsorted) are
now "remembered" when selected and will remain in effect for
both sides of the screen until changed. The current sort
choice is displayed at the top right corner of each side to
show how that side is sorted (no display means unsorted). QF3
now defaults to sorted-by-filename instead of unsorted. If
you wish to change this default, you may -- see QFINST below.
In addition, if you change the sort option on a side, the
currently selected file will remain selected after the sort -
- and will be highlighted in the middle of the screen.
MOVE has been added to the bottom option menu. If a true move
can not be performed (where both the source and target
directories are on the same drive) then the user is given the
option to perform a "pseudo-move" -- a copy, followed by a
delete. Move has been extended to DOS 2.1 users.
DIRECTORY MASKS may be entered by pressing shift-F10. QF3
defaults to all files (*.*), but you may enter some other
mask, or return to the default (press shift-F10, then [ENTER]
without entering a new mask). If the current mask is not *.*,
then it will be displayed at the top left corner of each
side. Masks remain in effect until changed. For example, if
you wish to display only "BAK" files, press shift-F10 and
enter " *.BAK". Only those files whose extensions are "BAK"
will then be displayed until you enter a different mask.
PICK has been added to the bottom option menu. Selection of
this option will display an alpha-sorted, visual tree of
subdirectories on a drive -- displayed on the non-current
side of the screen. You may scroll through the directories,
then press [ENTER] to display the selected directory on the
opposite side of the screen. Pressing cursor-right and
cursor-left will move the tree display to the opposite side
of screen. The currently displayed directory will be
highlighted in the tree.
ARChive UTILITIES OTHER THAN BUERG'S ARCE, ARCA and ARCV may
be used by running QFINST (see below) and changing the
default, then creating QFARCE.BAT, QFARCA.BAT, and QFARCV.BAT
files with appropriate replaceable parameters to invoke your
favorite ARChive utility.
QFINST, a QF3 configuration utility, has been furnished so
that you can easily change several of QF3's defaults to your
liking. You may change:
SORT CHOICE - Select sort by file name, extension, size,
date or unsorted. Normally by file name.
FILE MASK - Normally all files (*.*).
ARChive UTILITY - Buerg's ARCA, ARCE and ARCV or Katz's
PKARC and PKXARC. QFILER optimizes it's interface with
your selected utility. Normally Buerg's utilities.
DIRECT SCREEN WRITES - Normally QF3 will write directly
to video memory, but if you wish to redirect through BIOS
calls (at a substantial loss of speed), you may.
CHECK SNOW ON CGA - Turn ON if you wish direct screen
writes to be made only during horizontal retrace
intervals (reducing "snow" on most CGA monitors).
Normally OFF (since EGA's are becoming more common).
CONFIRM EXIT - If you wish to confirm you really want to
return to DOS after pressing the [ESC] or [Q] key.
Normally quit-to-DOS is NOT confirmed.
QF3 COLORS - You may select new colors for the various
combinations of QF3 foreground/background colors --
resulting in some really garish screens, or to optimize
for your particular monitor. If you really get things
messed up, you can easily restore the original default
color combinations.
A QF3 program that has been modified by running QFINST will
have a message displayed on the second of the "help" screens
indicating that it has been user modified.
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QFILER is User-Supported and is Copyright 1986, 1987, 1988 by
Jamestown Software
2508 Valley Forge Drive
Madison WI 53719
BBS: 608-271-3685
Quantity purchase and site license information: 608-271-2090