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HERMES' LoGG (Version 1.0)
Copyright (c) 1990 A. G. Kartsatos
Working Commercial Demo Program
(Please See Below Ordering Information)
This program is one of the best utility programs for the Amiga computer.
It is written by HERMES who has been writing utilities for the Amiga
computer for the past 4 years. It contains all the functions of and is much
more efficient than the author's programs: DU-HERMES and DISKoLAB.
It is geared towards the average Amiga user.
Its flexibility and the multitude of its applications make it a unique
tool for the manipulation of files. It will handle up to 1600 files in high
resolution and 800 files in medium resolution.
It has 48 built-in utility gadgets and 48 user-definable gadgets.
It provides considerable help to the user for the most important archi-
ving functions. It will recognize the 14 functions:
ARC, UNARC, LISTARC,
LHARC, UNHARC, LISTHARC,
PAK, UNPAK, LISTPAK,
ZOO, UNZOO, LISTZOO,
WARP, UNWARP
provided that the user has the appropriate archiving utilities in his/her
current "c" directory.
It has a built-in SHOW routine that will recognize all IFF pictures,
including OVERSCAN pictures and BRUSHES.
It has a built-in FILE READER. This reader is very fast and has several
menu items for browsing through a file.
It has a built-in ICON utility that allows you to view any icons. This
includes icons of any size and any number of colors up to 16 (4 planes).
It has a built-in FONT utility that allows you to see all your disk
fonts.
It has a built-in SOUND utility that allows you to play IFF sound
files.
It has a built-in CATALOGUE utility that allows you to list the contents
of an entire directory or HD partition. The files are listed with their
entire paths, their sizes and their dates of creation. You have the option
of saving the catalogue to a desirable file name.
It allows you to go back to the Workbench and work on other programs,
while it is waiting in the background reduced to a small window carrying an
icon.
It allows you to configure it so that it carries your own 4 colors
and your own 14 drives.
It will save the listing of all the files in the current directory.
It will highlight all the files in the current directory whose name
includes a user-specified pattern (string).
You can LOCATE a file via its complete name or just a string in its
name. The search includes the current directory and all of its subdirecto-
ries.
It will find the SIZE of the entire current directory in bytes. This
SIZE includes the sizes of all subdirectories.
The FIXASCII menu item is for fixing the ASCII files so that they
do not contain any binary characters. The resulting fixed file is in RAM:.
The SEARCH menu item allows the user to search through all the files
in the current directory for a user-specified string.
The DISPLAY SIZE item enables you to highlight only the files that
have sizes larger than a user-specified size. This tool allows you to
identify just those files that are big. You might want to backup them
and then delete them from the currect path. The next item will also allow
you to highlight all the files that are smaller than a given size.
There is a very simple reason for having an item like COMPLEMENT. The
choice of this menu item lets you HIGHLIGHT THE REST OF THE FILES. This
means that you can highlight just the files that are not currently high-
lighted. Suppose that you want to find all the files that do not have the
string ".ARC" in their names. What do you do? Well, just highlight the
".ARC" files and then choose COMPLEMENT. You can highlight the ".ARC" files
using the PATTERN function.
The EXTRACT ASCII menu item allows you to list in a file in RAM: all
ASCII characters in a binary file. This is a rather useful tool because
you often want to locate a string in a binary file in order to replace
it. You also want to see all the strings because you might not remember
the one(s) you are actually interested in.
YOU MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING FILES IN YOUR CURRENT "c" DIRECTORY:
ARC, CD, EDIT, ENDCLI, LHARC, LoGG.file, PAK, RUN, STACK, WARP, ZOO
for a fully operational LoGG.
You must name your respective files exactly as above. For example,
you must name your favourite editor EDIT, etc.
***The files CD, ENDCLI, LoGG.file, RUN, and STACK are absolutely necessary
for the program to run with most of its basic functions operational.***
LoGG looks for the file "LoGG.file" in your current directory as well
as your "c" directory. The program will abort if it does not locate this
file.
In what follows, CLICK means PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON.
TO RUN IT FROM THE CLI: PRESS "LoGG".
TO RUN IT FROM THE WORKBENCH: CLICK INTO LoGG'S ICON.
TO EXIT: CLICK INTO THE "EXIT" GADGET,
OR CHOOSE "QUIT" FROM THE MENU,
OR PRESS CONTROL-Q.
If you change your LoGG icon, please remember to enter the data in
the TOOL TYPES gadget in the new icon as they appear in the original one.
The icon that LoGG comes with opens a 1 pixel window on your WorkBench
just in case LoGG needs to put some output somewhere.
IMPORTANT FEATURE: TO STOP LoGG FROM A FUNCTION LIKE "DELETE"
OR "COPY", etc., JUST CLICK INTO THE "STOP" GADGET.
THIS COULD SAVE YOU A LOT OF FILES WHEN YOU
MISTAKENLY TRY TO DELETE GROUPS OF FILES OR COPY
THEM INTO THE WRONG DESTINATION PATH, etc. The
program will inform you as soon as the current
function gets aborted.
* $$$ ATTENTION $$$ *
* *
* Read below about changing the COLORS of LoGG, or its DRIVE *
* NAMES. It is all VERY SIMPLE!!! *
A) CHANGE DRIVES:
Just replace the fourteen drive names on the first two lines of
LoGG.file by the drive names of your choice. Leave one space
between two consecutive drive names. You are allowed to use the
same drive name as many times as you wish.
B) CHANGE COLORS:
The second line of LoGG.file contains the (HEX) numbers:
"0 3 5 0 F F F 8 0 9 0 0". These are the 4 colors of LoGG:
Dark blue: 035, Turquoise 0FF, Gold: F80 and Red: 9 0 0.
You use the PALETTE program on your WorkBench to modify the colors
of LoGG as follows:
Run LoGG, select PALETTE in the file listing on the left and
then click into the RUN gadget. The palette will fall on the
screen of LoGG. Change the colors as you please. Each time you
modify a color, pick up the 3 numbers representing that color.
These are the 3 numbers on the right in the palette window. For
example, if you see 3EF, the 3 numbers are 3, E, and F.
Put these 12 numbers on the third line of LoGG.file and...
voila! You've got your own colors! Put the numbers in exactly
as you see them in LoGG.file right now.
For example, change the last color "9 0 0" to an exotic green
"4 F 4". Remember to choose CONFIGURE from the menu so that LoGG
can adjust itself to the change.
After you have made any change to your LoGG.file while you are running
LoGG, just choose the CONFIGURE item of the first menu to get LoGG to adjust
itself to the change. Please note that although the entire 48 user-definable
gadgets, the 4 colors, and the 14 drives can be configured while LoGG is
running, the program will not refresh the two windows after you choose
CONFIGURE from the menu. Thus, one or even both listings in your two windows
will be obsolete if you have changed the corresponding drive(s).
If you put any drive name in the source or destination gadget and then
you press <RETURN>, the program will try to attach to that drive.
Also, if you CLICK QUICKLY TWICE INTO ANY DIRECTORY name of the listing,
you get attached to that directory.
You can execute ANY VALID COMMAND as follows: click into the EXEC-CLI
gadget. Then enter the command into the gadget provided, and press <RETURN>.
Please note that when you are running a program from EXEC-CLI, its output
(if it has any) might appear on the screen behind LoGG. So, if you expect
any such output, click into the depth gadget in the upper right corner to
see it.
You MUST CLICK OFF ALL INFORMATION WINDOWS that appear on your screen.
To get to the WorkBench from the HIRES screen, just click into the
depth gadget in the upper right corner of your screen. To return to your
HIRES screen, just press: LEFT_AMIGA-M.
It is faster to use your archiving functions in RAM:, RAD:, VD0: or
VDK:.
MENU 1:
TOGGLE FONT:
Allows you to replace the font used for the listing of
files by a built-in font. This item can be useful when one
is obliged to use the HIRES screen. This font will not be
as fast as the default TOPAZ 8 font when FastFonts is in
action. FastFonts will not speed up the operation of the
built-in fonts.
MEMORY: Displays the available FAST and CHIP memory.
MOUNTLIST: This item shows you your own MountList from memory. This
means that the LoGG file reader is used to show you
the list of the mounted devices from memory, not by reading
your Mountlist in your devs directory.
VOLUME INFO:
You use this item to get the LoGG INFO routine listed by
the file reader. This is a built-in INFO command.
VOLUME STORE:
This menu item shows you the available storage in bytes on
all your volumes. This is an important item that you
need to use when you MOVE or COPY files, etc.
WORKBENCH: This menu item can be used to practically reduce the prog-
ram to a small window with a little icon on it. This will
allow you to work comfortably in the back. When you want
LoGG back, just click into the icon on that window once
and you are back EXACTLY where you were before you closed
shop!
CONFIGURE:
Just make any changes that you want to your LoGG.file and
then select this item in order to update the MACROS and
PARMS gadgets. You will also update the colors and the
drive names of your LoGG.
ABOUT: Ordering and support information.
QUIT: Exit the program.
MENU 2:
SAVE LIST: This item allows you to save the current file listing. A
string gadget will be used for the desired destination
file name. You may omit the names of the directories by
choosing the NO DIRS subitem.
PATTERN MATCH:
Assume that you want to highlight all the files that contain
the string ".bat" in their names. Just enter ".bat" (no
quotes, of course) in the gadget. The program will check
every file in the current directory and will highlight
its name provided that it contains the string ".bat".
After having done that, you can now operate on these files
nicely. You may DELETE THEM, ARC THEM, SHOW THEM, etc.
LOCATE FILE:
This is of course a very common need. You want to find
a file in your current drive/directory. Just enter the
desired file name in the gadget and let the program search
for it. The program will search everything in this path.
The current directory and its subdirectories. It will noti-
fy you whether it has found the file. It will also exhibit
the file's exact path so that you can work with the file.
If you choose "FIND ALL", the program will actually give you
all the files in the current path with the desired name.
LOCATE STRING:
This item performs the same type of function as the previous
item: it looks for a file. However, this time you do not
know the exact name of the file. You only know part of the
name. Thus, you enter the string that you know in the
requester gadget and the program will search every file name
for this string.
PATH IN BYTES:
You may get the size of the current path in bytes by choosing
this menu item. This size includes all subdirectories.
Quite useful when you want to see how big this path is before
you try to copy it into something that cannot take it...
MENU 3:
FIXASCII: You choose this item after you highlight an ASCII file name
that you want fixed. This means that you want to eliminate
all binary characters in that file name. LoGG will try its
best to do this and will give you a copy of the corrected
file in RAM:. The corrected file will be called ASCII_OUT.
SEARCH STRING:
This useful feature allows you to search all the files in
the current directory for a given string. You need this when
you have seen something written somewhere, but you do not
remember where. If you choose FIND ALL, the program will
find all the files that contain the string. Otherwise, it
will exit this feature when it locates the the first such
file. Subdirectories are not included here. If there is
such demand from the users, we will include subdirectories in
the search in thre near future. Also, the search of a parti-
cular file terminates when the program has found the string
once in that file.
DISPLAY SIZE:
You enter a number in the gadget provided and the program
highlights all files of size >= that number. The idea be-
hind this is to highlight all files larger than a given
size in order to process them separately. The rest of the
files can of course be highlighted by using the next menu
item.
COMPLEMENT:
Choosing this menu item allows you to highlight only all
those files that are not already highlighted. For example,
if you want to highlight all the files that DO NOT CONTAIN
the string "HELLO" in their name, just highlight the ones
containing the string "HELLO" (via PATTERN, or manually),
and then choose COMPLEMENT.
EXTRACT ASCII:
You can extract all ASCII characters from a binary file by
using this item. The program will put these extracted ASCII
strings in a file in RAM: with the name EXTRACT_ASCII.
MENU 4:
CATALOGUE: Here is an important menu item. It lets you CATALOGUE the
current path. It forms an alphabetical listing of the
entire contents of the current path. The listing contains
the file names with their complete path name, their sizes
and their creation dates. The LoGG file reader is used to
bring the catalogue to your screen. You will have the option
to save the catalogue to a desirable file name. A valuable
tool when you want to look at and/or save the contents of
an entire HD partition, for example.
PLAY SOUND:
This feature is used to play IFF sound files. All you have
to do is attach to the directory with those files and high-
light the ones that you want to listen to. Click into the
STOP gadget to stop the playing of sounds.
VIEW FONT: Another strong feature of LoGG. Get to the fonts: directory,
or any other directory with fonts, click into the name of
the font (this is the directory of the font, not the ".font"
file) and highlight the font sizes that you want to view.
Click into the font window to close it and choose STOP SHOW
from the font window menu to stop the showing of fonts.
SHOW ICON: Well, after IFF pictures and sounds and fonts, it is only
natural to be able to show your icons. This feature will
show any icons (of any size and resolution up to 4 planes).
It will show the FRONT or the ALTERNATE icon. It will also
show BOTH if it can fit them in the same screen. This item
shows only a single icon. Click into the icon window in
order to close it. For a sequence of icons, you use
ICONSHOW instead.
ICONSHOW: You use this item in oder to show a sequence of highlighted
icon files. The program shows the FRONT and the ALTERNATE
image of the icon if it can fit them both on the screen,
otherwise it shows only the front icon.
Click into the icon window to close it and choose STOP SHOW
from the icon window menu to stop the showing of icons.
GADGETS:
14 DRIVES: Clicking into any one of these gadgets will list the files
in the corresponding volume in the current SOURCE window.
If you don't like the volumes used, just enter your own 14
volumes in "LoGG.file" as described above.
S: SOURCE gadget. Here you see the name of the drive/directory
you are currently attached to. Also, if you enter a path
name in this gadget and then you press <RETURN>, you get
to be attached to that path, provided it is a valid one. To
make this the DESTINATION window, just CLICK into the other
(opposite) vertical gadget. If you do this, the other window
becomes the SOURCE window.
D: DESTINATION gadget. Here you see the name of a desti-
nation drive or directory. It is used by COPY and MOVE.
Also, if you enter a path name in this gadget and then you
press <RETURN>, you get to be attached to that path, provided
that it is a valid one. In this case this gadget becomes
automatically the SOURCE gadget. In order to make this
window the SOURCE window, all you have to do is CLICK into
its vertical (proportional) gadget or anywhere inside the
window. Also, every time you click into a file name or
doubleclick into a directory on this window, you get this
window changed into the SOURCE window automatirally.
DEFAULT GADGETS:
ALL: Highlights all files on the current window except
directories.
CLEAR: Removes the highlighting from all files and directories on
the current file display window.
EDIT: Edits the file that you have highlighted in the current
window. The program will notify you if you try to EDIT
the wrong file. EDIT is of course the name of your favourite
editor residing in your current "c" directory.
BYTES: Displays the sum total of bytes of the files that have been
highlighted in the current window. No directories are
included. If you want the size in bytes of the current
path, please choose the menu item PATH IN BYTES.
PARENT: Moves up one step in the directory tree. It will stop
moving when it hits a root directory.
SHOW: Shows the pictures you have selected. A little slideshow is
possible by just highlighting the pictures that you want to
show in a sequence. Choose STOP SHOW from the SHOW menu
in order to stop the showing of pictures and click into the
picture window in order to close it.
STOP: This is an extremely important gadget. It can save you a lot
of trouble. It just stops the current file operation. It
stops the MOVE and the COPY operations. It stops the SEARCH
and LOCATE FILE operations. It stops the program from conti-
nuing with the CATALOGUE process, etc. It will NOT STOP THE
FORMAT and DISKCOPY operations. These are controlled by
the little panels on the respective windows.
READ: This is a fully operational file reader. It will list
the selected file and will scroll through it very fast. It
has 8 menu items. We will only elaborate on the items that
need some explanation. Just remember that YOU CAN SCROLL
THE TEXT UP AND DOWN BY USING THE RESPECTIVE ARROW KEYS or by
CLICKING into the upper or lower half of the reader screen.
(1) GO TO LINE: You can choose this menu item, or just
press RIGHT_AMIGA-G instead. As soon as you do that,
the GOTO-gadget clears up. Just go ahead and type
in the line number you want to see. Then press
<RETURN>. The program will then try to exhibit that line
as the top line of the page. Another way of doing this:
Just click into the GOTO-gadget, clear it up by using
the BACKSPACE key (or pressing RIGHT_AMIGA-X), enter
the line number that you wish to exhibit, and then press
<RETURN>.
The program will do nothing if the line number that you
have entered does not exist.
(2) FIND STRING: You can choose this menu item, or just
press RIGHT_AMIGA-F instead. As soon as you do that,
the FILE-gadget clears up. Just go ahead and type
in the string that you want to see. Then press
<RETURN>. The program will then try to exhibit that
string at the top line of the page. Another way of doing
this: Just click into the FILE-gadget, clear it up by
using the BACKSPACE key (or pressing RIGHT_AMIGA-X),
enter the string that you wish to exhibit, and then
press <RETURN>.
The program will do nothing if the string that you have
entered does not exist from the current line on.
(3) SEARCH AGAIN: Well, now that you have found the string,
just choose this menu item or press RIGHT_AMIGA-S to
try to find the string again. The program will try to
locate the string and exhibit it at the top line of
the page. Again, the program tries to locate the given
string starting from the secong line of your page down
to the end of the file.
COPY: Copies all the files that you have selected in the SOURCE
window into the DESTINATION Directory/Drive that you have
(or the program has) entered in Gadget "D". This includes
the highlighted directories in the SOURCE window. This
function can be stopped by use of the STOP gadget above.
When you STOP the copying process, you should note that the
last uncopied (or partially copied) file is the first of
the remaining highlighted files. It is safe to assume that
this file/directory has not been copied to the destination
path. Another important note here is that you do not have
to attach to the destination in order to copy the source to
it. Just enter the destination path in the "D" gadget. For
example, let "RAD:HELLO" be the path for the listing on
the left window. Suppose that you want to copy the high-
lighted files in "RAD:HELLO" to the directory "RAM:GOOD".
Just enter "RAM:GOOD" in the "D" gadget then click into the
COPY gadget. When LoGG finishes copiying, it will flash
the "RAM:GOOD" directory in the destination window.
If you get a system requestor with a DISK FULL message, while
you are copying, just click into the STOP button to stop the
process.
MAKEDIR: Creates a new directory with the name that you have entered
in the gadget. Paths are accepted for this name. The program
will notify you whenever it cannot create the new directory.
RENAME: Renames a selected file or directory. The new name is what
the user enters in the requestor string gadget
PRINT: Sends the files you have selected to the printer. The
process does stop if you use the STOP gadget, but please
remember that this cannot happen instantly. The routine
that prints your file reads 512 bytes before it starts print-
int. Thus, LoGG will not "hear" your STOP message until it
has printed those 512 bytes.
DELETE: This is another important and necessary gadget. You must use
it very carefully because you can delete valuable files when
you click into it. This is why we have included a safeguard.
LoGG always asks you if you "really want to delete the high-
lighted files". You can stop the deletion of files via the
STOP gadget, but do it quickly because the files get deleted
very fast. Directories are included here.
FILEINFO: LoGG has a very nice way of modifying the PROTECTION BITS
and the COMMENTS of your files. It opens an entire independ-
ent window for this job. Just highlight the files that you
are interested in and then click into this gadget to start
processing them. If you want to save the current data of
a file, just click into the "DO IT" gadget. If LoGG cannot
modify the PROTECTION BITS and/or the COMMENT of a file, it
will tell you so in a requester and it will state the reason,
if possible. If it says nothing after you press "DO IT",
the change has been saved.
The selected (highlighted) gadgets allow for the respective
operations. For example, if DELETE is selected, then the
file CAN BE DELETED. Thus, a file which the "list" command
classifies as "----rwed", will appear on your FILEINFO window
with the following gadgets selected: READ, WRITE, EXECUTE,
DELETE.
You can exhibit and manipulate the file info on any file
residing anywhere. All you have to do is get in the FILE
gadget, enter the file name (entire path), and then press
<RETURN>.
You may CANCEL all the changes you have just made on your
FILEINFO window by pressing the CANCEL button. Naturally,
we assume here that you have not pressed the "DO IT" button
after these changes were made.
The NEXT button allows you to move on to the next selected
file in your active window.
One application of this option is setting of the PURE bits
for SHELL-RESIDENT programs. Another application is getting
the actual date of creation of a file in order to identify
the most recent copy, etc.
You also need this option in order to get the full name of
a file partially listed in your two panel windows.
FORMAT: You use this gadget when you want to FORMAT a disk drive.
LoGG can format floppy disks in DF0:, DF1:, DF2:, DF3:. You
can enter the name of the resulting formatted disk in the
string gadget of the requestor. If the VERIFY gadget is not
highlighted, the formatting is naturally quite faster. If
you click into the QUIT gadget while formatting a disk, you
are given one more chance to continue before formatting
is stopped and the destination disk is probably corrupt.
The QUIT gadget is included of course because you might be
formatting ... the wrong disk. LoGG will attempt to give
you a reason as to what went wrong with the formatting of
a disk if it cannot continue the process.
DISKCOPY: You use this gadget when you want to DISKCOPY a floppy disk
in one of the drives DF0:, DF1:, DF2:, DF3: into a floppy
disk in another one of the same drives. Again, if the
VERIFY gadget is not highlighted, disk-copying is consider-
ably faster. We have never lost a disk that we formatted or
disk-copied into without the VERIFY gadget on. However, I
would like to suggest that you use the VERIFY option in both
formatting and disk-copying. LoGG will attempt to give you
good diagnostics is something goes wrong with disk-copying.
RESOL: This gadget can be used to change the resolution of your
screen to HIRES (640x400). This is actually neccessary if
you have more than 800 files and directories in a single
path. Naturally, that many files in a single path are not
suggested because of reduced safety if something goes wrong
with the hard disk. If you do not have to use the HIRES
option, it is better to work with the main panel (MEDIUM
RESOLUTION, 640x200). This is because less memory is needed
for LoGG and the program does not have to resort to sending
the screen to the background each time it needs to.
MOVE: Exerything said about COPY applies here with one exception:
MOVE WILL OVERWRITE DUPLICATE FILE NAMES. Also, MOVE will
DELETE all the files that it has copied into the destination
path. So, be careful when using this command and remember
that the STOP gadget will freeze the process. If you do use
the STOP gadget, the first highlighted file/directory is the
last one that has not been entirely copied into the desti-
nation path. As in the COPY case, you do not have to have
the destination path actually listed in the "D" window before
you copy into it. Just enter the path in the "D" gadget and
then click into MOVE.
If you get a system requestor with a DISK FULL message, while
you are moving files, just click into the STOP button to
stop the process.
STORAGE: It displays the available BYTES in the SOURCE as well as
the DESTINATION gadget.
BLUES: This is fun! Just a little play with the COPPER LISTS in
order to get those blues on the screen without changing its
depth and without slowing the program down. If you do not
like the BLUES, just click them off!
RUN: Runs any file you have selected provided that it is a runable
file. You must make sure there is enough memory to run that
program. There is no reason to run a huge program from LoGG.
You need all the memory that you can get in such a situation.
LoGG actually opens a fairly sized CLI whenever it runs a
file. It does this because the program you are running might
require a CLI to send its output to and receive its input
from. Press "ENDCLI" into the new CLI window in order to
get rid of it.
NEWCLI: LoGG opens its own NEWCLI window. It is an actual CLI where
you can work as if you were on the command line. Remember,
NEWCLI's do not remember commands that reside in assigned
paths. Only commands in the current "c" directory. You can
get rid of the NEWCLI by just pressing "ENDCLI" into it.
EXEC-CLI: It executes any CLI command that you enter in the requestor
gadget. For example, if you enter in the gadget:
"Run DH1:DELPAINT/Dpaint", you are running the program
Dpaint residing in the directory DH1:DELPAINT. Now remember!
You cannot always do this. If you enter "Run DH1:SONIX/Sonix"
instead, you are not going to be able to run Sonix. This
is because the Sonix program looks for files like Scores,
etc. If it doesn't find them, it does not load! Even if you
press: "cd DH1:SONIX" and then you come back with "Run SONIX"
it will not work! You know you are at "DH1:SONIX" but SONIX
does not know that. In this case, you should use the MACROS
gadgets as we have indicated in the LoGG.file.
CAUTION: When you run LoGG by its icon, you should include
the entire pathname for the files you might use in the
command in the requestor gadget.
EXIT: Exits LoGG permanently. You can also EXIT by choosing the
"QUIT" menu item or by just pressing "CTRL-Q".
ARCS GADGETS:
These are self-explanatory. A word of caution about UNPAK.
You might not see all unpaked files when UNPAK is done with
a ".PAK" file. Just refresh your listing in a few seconds
to see them all.
MACROS GADGETS:
In the file LoGG.file these are Entries 1 - 24. Each MACRO
is nothing else than a sequence of commands written one after
the other vertically. None of these commands accepts any
parameters. The PARMS commands are described below. Only
the first command in a MACRO should contain the "CD" command.
This "CD" command should be the first token on the corre-
sponding line. Please have a look at the examples in
LoGG.file. Each MACRO can have up to 7 commands in it.
PARMS GADGETS:
In the file LoGG.file these are Entries 25 - 48.
Each entry has a gadget title as before (see below) under
which the user can enter a command with up to 2 parameters.
For example, if you want your own gadget with the command
FIXOBJ in it, just use the title "FIXOBJ *" in the corres-
ponding position of LoGG.file and under it add "Run Fixobj
%s %s" without the quotes of course. The symbols
"%s %s" stand for the two parameters that Fixobj needs.
The first one is the filename and the second is the new
filename. The first parameter is the name of the file that
you have clicked in the table of files on the left, and the
second is a string that you must enter in the requestor
gadget. For example, to Fixobj the file "HELLO" with new
name "GOODBYE", select "HELLO" from the table of files,
click into the FIXOBJ gadget, and then enter "GOODBYE" in
in the requestor gadget.
One-parameter commands will contain only one symbol "%s"
and that can be a filename from the table of files or any
name in the requestor gadget.
It is important to note here that each PARMS command must
contain *at most 5* tokens. For example, the command
HELLO %s HERMES JULIE %s (R) (5 tokens)
is OK, but the command
HELLO %s HERMES JULIE %s GEORG (R) (6 tokens)
is wrong.
The symbol "(R)" here means that you want to have the files
refreshed after the execution of this command. The symbol
"(R)" must be placed at then of your command and at least one
space away from the last word/symbol in your command. I
suggest that you make use of this symbol only if you really
need to refresh the file listing. Otherwise, it would be
a waste of time.
If you have a command like
HELLO %s HERMES %s %s JULIE
which is illegal under the present setting of LoGG, you could
still enter it as
HELLO %s HERMES %s JULIE
and then enter two strings in the requester gadget instead of
one. This way you may be able to include many more possibi-
lities in a PARMS situation.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
1) To prepare your own command sequences, remember the following:
LoGG.file finishes always with an empty line. Each gadget name
contains exaclty 10 characters. This includes the star ("*") at the end
of the name of the gadget. The actual gadget title is up to 8 characters
long. There is always at least one space between the actual gadget title
and the "*" at the end of the entry name.
Right after each custom gadget name you may put your own commands.
Each line will contain ONLY ONE COMMAND. Do not string them together!
For MACROS, you can afford up to 7 commands under each gadget name.
However, only the first command can contain the "cd" command in it, and
when it does it is always the first token.
There is only one command line for each PARAMS gadget.
At the end of the sequence of commands under a gadget you MUST INSERT
AN EMPTY LINE.
It is possible to use PARMS commands like MACROS. However, you should
have in mind that LoGG opens always a CLI window with each PARMS command.
2) Sometimes your LoGG.file gets funny with some, possibly invisible,
characters in it. LoGG loads but does not read that file right. To correct
this problem, just run the file FIX_FILE in a directory containing your
LoGG.file. This little program will attempt to correct your LoGG.file and
put the corrected contents in a file called LoGG.file1. Just rename
LoGG.file1 as LoGG.file and continue as usual.
3) Use FastFonts with this program. The text operations become much
faster. FastFonts is on your Workbench disk.
4) Do not use the ARC, PAK, ZOO, LHARC programs with output in directo-
ries with many files. Refreshing of the windows is faster on smaller di-
rectories. Also, these ARC programs work faster when they are loaded and
have outputs in RAM:, VD0: or RAD:.
5) If you get a little confused about the exact name of a file which
is not completely listed, just select the file and click into the FILEINFO
gadget. The FILEINFO gadget contains the entire name of the file and other
file information.
(6) Whenever a CLI appears in the execution of a command or in an
archiving process, you should close it by pressing EndCLI. It is important
that you have this command included in your "c" directory.
(7) If a program like Preferences changes the colors of your LoGG
program, just select CONFIGURE from your first menu, after that program is
off, to see your default colors back.
To receive a complete, legal and unprotected copy of the program, please
send $35.00 to the following address:
A. G. Kartsatos
8524 Caladesi Island Drive
Temple Terrace, FL 33637-7310, USA
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Although this program has been tested extensively for its accuracy and
reliability, the author will accept no liability whatsoever for damage
resulting from the use, misuse, or excessive use of it.