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|-------------------------------| | EDDY (TM) | | File and Directory Editor | | Copyright(C) 1987 thru 1993 | | by John Scofield | | All rights reserved | | CompuServe:70162,2357 | |-------------------------------| What's new in version 7g (highlights): Now you can keep track of changes made to your directories (by installation programs -- even under Windows! --, by other people, by virii or whatever) with EDDY's new SNAPSHOT feature. A description of some of the other neat stuff you can do with EDDY is found in the "Why Use EDDY?" section further down in this file. To reduce the number of files in the EDDY package, the details of the "revision history", formerly in the file EDDY_HST.DOC, are now at the end of this file. FIND the string "++" (without the quotes, and not counting the one in this sentance) to get to the history information. (Press [/] if you're using EDDY to read this). ================================================================== If you have registered an earlier version of EDDY, please see the EDDY.DOC file, Section 26.4. There you will find instructions for converting your copy of this new version to a registered copy. ================================================================== EDDY is ALL of these: Full-screen directory editor Disk and directory manager Sector editor File finder (by name, attributes and/or timestamp) File viewer/patcher/comparer File backup utility Data recovery utility String finder/replacer (hex and/or ASCII) Disk image copy/restore utility RAM editor DOS shell ...and MUCH more! EDDY requires MS-DOS 2.0 or newer, and uses about 180 KB memory. The complete EDDY package includes the following files: 1. EDDYREAD.ME - This file 2. EDDY.COM - The main program 3. EDDY.AUX - Overlays for LOOK, Update, HELP, and menus 4. EDDY.USE - Sample file to illustrate Point-and-Shoot commands 5. EDDY.DOC - User's Manual (ASCII text, 59 lines max. per page) 6. EDDY_BBS.DOC - Conditions for commercial distribution 7. EDDY_REG.BAT - Batch file to print the registration form 8. FILE_ID.DIZ - Text description for posting on BBSs 9. SNAPSHOT.{.} - Sample 'snapshot' of all of the above files The EDDY files distributed in either of two packages: Package 1 contains all files in ready-to-use form. About 600 KB disk space required, including documentation files. Package 2 has the the User's Manual, "EDDY.DOC", stored as a compressed, self-extracting file, EDDY_DOC.EXE, created using the compression utility LHA, Copyright Haruyasu Yoshizaki. EDDY.DOC will occupy about 290K bytes of disk space when decompressed. Package 2 is used for distributing EDDY on 360 KB, 5-1/4" disks. All other distributions use package format 1. Installation ------------ 1. Copy all files to the disk/directory you'll use to execute EDDY. If one of the files you just copied was EDDY.DOC, the installation is now complete. Note: One of the files in the package -- FILE_ID.DIZ -- may overwrite a file already on your disk from other products, so you may want to put EDDY in its own directory. Alternatively, copy "EDDY*.*" rather than "*.*". 2. If your set of files includes the file EDDY_DOC.EXE, you have the EDDY distribution package 2. If you have a hard disk, just type EDDY_DOC and [Enter] to decompress the User's Manual. The decompressed EDDY.DOC file won't fit on one 360K floppy if that floppy also contains the other EDDY files. If your system has no hard drive, but two floppy drives: a. Copy EDDY_DOC.EXE to a separate, blank, formatted diskette (say, in drive A:). b. Place another blank, formatted diskette in drive B:, and make B: the DOS default drive. b. To decompress the User's Manual (in the EDDY.DOC file), execute EDDY_DOC from drive A:. This will decompress the User's Manual Manual, requiring about 280K bytes on drive B:. Once EDDY is installed, the simplest way to get familiar with it is to just type "EDDY" and [Enter]. Menus and context-sensitive HELP are available as needed. Conditions of Use ----------------- Near the beginning of the file "EDDY.DOC", you will find a complete disclaimer of responsibility for anything that EDDY may or may not do. Please read that information carefully. EDDY is shareware. It is not free, and it is not in the public domain. If you find EDDY to be useful and satisfactory after a reasonable trial period, and you continue to use EDDY, you should register your copy ("reasonable" means something on the order of 30 days trial use). To register, you may use the form provided by PRINTing the last page of the file EDDY.DOC, or by running the "EDDY_REG.BAT" file; both methods produce the same form (on most printers). Why Use EDDY? ------------- With EDDY around, you can eliminate many of the small, special-purpose utilities which are so indispensable to the non-EDDY user. So as a bonus, you get to free up some disk space -- or at least, get back some of what installing EDDY consumes. The current EDDY is a greatly-improved version of the program reviewed in "Computer Language", "PC Sources" and "MicroCornucopia" magazines. Some quotes from those reviews... "The interface ... is elegant." "...clean, easy-to-use, well-written program." "...quality of product we've seen from Peter Norton." "the commands are extensive, the written documentation is excellent" "EDDY ... offers some uncommon features" EDDY has an intuitive, convenient interface for the common operations, such as disk/directory/file management, file viewing, etc. Most of the things you frequently need to do take only a keystroke or two. But EDDY also addresses a number of problems which arise less often but are more difficult to solve, if possible at all, with other utilities. EDDY has the latest, up-to-date, "buzzword" features, too: - Pull-down menus - Context-sensitive HELP - Mouse support - "Prune and Graft" - "Point and Shoot" - Configurability - LAN support - (and of course, "user friendliness" and "ease of use") Complete understanding of the examples below may require using EDDY, or (horrors!) reading some of the User's Manual. However, I hope these will interest you enough that you'll give EDDY a try. Consider... ...If you want to keep track of changes made to your directories (by other people, installation programs, virii or whatever), use EDDY's "snapshot" feature. Press [Shift+F5] on the top line to create a snapshot, and [Shift+F3] on the same line to see what changes have been made after the snapshot. ...Have you ever installed a new package and wondered what it was doing to your disk (watching the "busy" light blink), and then been unable to find the new or changed files? (You didn't use the "snapshot" feature first, did you?). Many programs create "hidden" files, in directories of their choice, on your disk. You can find them by using EDDY's "Where's That File?" function combined with attribute filtering. Enter: "eddy/w +H", and EDDY will search the whole disk for hidden files. ....Or maybe you'd like to know whether any new files were created or any of your files were changed by the program you just ran at (say) 9 PM on Sep. 14, 1993. If you enter: eddy/w/h c:\ ">09/14/93 08:59p" EDDY will find the files, whatever directory they're in, hidden or not. ...Would you like to organize your disk directory structure differently? Maybe move some directories to a different disk or partition? Or just copy a directory to a floppy to take to the office (or home from there)? EDDY will copy or move entire directories (and their subdirectories) to different parts of their current disk, OR TO ANY OTHER DISK. ....You don't have to worry whether you should be copying files from A: to B:, or from B: to A:, nor whether there's room for all the files you want to copy. EDDY will tell you if there's not enough room before starting the copying, and warn you before copying a newer file over an older one. ....Did you ever lose a file because your only copy was on a disk that somehow developed a "bad spot", and couldn't be read? With EDDY's COPY ([F5]) command, you can at least save all the GOOD data that's left, leaving out only the part of the file that's actually in the "bad" sector. So you don't have to key in all that data or text again! ....Want to know the differences between two directories? EDDY will TELL you (not just display the directories for you to compare to one another), if you press [Shift+^F3]. EDDY will report whether a file is in the other directory or not; if it is, the relation between the timestamps -- newer, older, same, or even same timestamp but different size -- will be displayed as well. You can stop to look at either file's contents, compare the data in the two files, copy, move, patch or delete them, and then continue on with the next file. ....You can also do the directory comparisons, and file copying, deleting, etc., based on the results of those comparisons, in batch mode. Great for routine backups and directory cleanups! ....EDDY's string-finding capabilities are powerful and easy to set up. You can find strings in one or more files (including binary files) -- even hyphenated words continued from one line to the next -- and you can use strings with a mixture of hex and ASCII if you want. There's also a similarly powerful "FIND and REPLACE" capability. You can even find what ASCII strings may be lurking in a binary file: use a FIND for "??????", for example, and EDDY will show you all text strings of 6 bytes or longer. ....Are you annoyed by the extra command line prompt generated by DOS when you run a batch file? You can use EDDY's PATCH function to truncate the batch file, deleting the final, line-terminating bytes (usually 3: carriage return, line feed and "right arrow") at the end of the file. With these bytes gone, the extra prompt won't be generated. With big batch files, who knows? You might even save a "K" or so of disk real estate, if your file was just over a cluster size boundary. You can chop bytes off the front or back of any file and you can add bytes -- for example, ^Zs -- at the end of any file. Or you can expand all TAB characters in a file to the equivalent number of spaces (0 - 8, as you choose). ....Have you ever wanted to read or modify a file of text that was created by WordStar (tm), but that's not the word processor you use? Hard to work with, wasn't it? Well, with EDDY, you can not only read it easily on the screen, but you can convert it to pure ASCII, so you can use your favorite editor or word processor on it if you want. ....Would you like to send entire disks by modem, rather than just files? EDDY lets you copy an entire disk -- boot sector, FAT, directories and all -- to a file. You can then compress the file, send it, and the receiver can recreate an exact copy of that disk (if he has a copy of EDDY, too!). ....If you're running short of space on disk, even the amount of space used by the subdirectories themselves can be significant. A directory always keeps all space that was ever allocated to it, even if all the files have been deleted. EDDY will tell you how much space your directories occupy, if you turn on option /D. ....When you have a long list of files that you want to process (say, you want to MASM most -- but not all -- the .ASM files), and you don't want to type in the commands one-by-one, the normal thing to do is build a multi-line batch file (or one with "FOR" statements) and execute it. With EDDY it's easier; just display the directory containing the files, (press [Alt+w], and enter "*.asm"). Then "Ignore" the ones you don't want ([Alt+F7]) and use the "Point-n-Shoot" capability ([Shift+F9]). Have a look at the EDDY.USE file included with this package to get a better picture of the power and potential of "Point-n-Shoot". ============================== If you know of programs that do things easier or better than EDDY, please let me know, so I can stop making dubious claims (or maybe improve EDDY). On the other hand, if you find some more neat things to do with the program, or have any ideas for enhancements, I'd like to hear about them. ++ REVISION HISTORY ++ Since the first public release of EDDY, many intermediate versions have been produced, but they had very limited distribution. There does not seem to be any useful purpose in detailing the history of all of them. This section describes functionality changes other than minor bug fixes. Changes in the current version of EDDY are described first. Changes to versions prior to 6a have been deleted from this file, as there seems to be little interest in ancient history among the user base. If you have one of the older versions, and feel that you need this information, I'll be glad to send it to you. Just ask. Version 7g ========== 1. You can record the contents of a directory (a "snapshot") by pressing [Shift+F5] on either the top ("DIR of...") line or the "." line of the display. This creates a file -- SNAPSHOT{.} -- which EDDY may later use (if you press [Shift+F3] on one of those same lines) to compare with the current directory, and tell you of any changes which have occurred since the snapshot was taken. 2. In LOOKing at text files, line numbers up to 999,999 are displayed; before, the displayed line number "wrapped" at 65,535. Version 7f ========== The main reason for this version is to correct some problems that have crept in, appearing only to users of XT-class systems. My own XT went south a few months ago, and I have failed to test new releases on that platform. However, a good proportion of my user base is using XTs, and their complaints are coming in! Anyway... I've found another XT, and I'll test all future releases on it. I think the platform-related bugs are all fixed now -- the worst was a "red-button" hang on some machines as soon as the initial display came up. There was also a lot of unnecessary re-displaying that made EDDY virtually unusable for anyone using a slower screen, such as a CGA. Other changes: 1. [Alt+0] thru [Alt+8] previously tagged a file for COPY with TAB removal; now only [Alt+0] is used for this, and EDDY will ask you to provide the desired TAB interval separately. Version 7e ========== 1. Data error ("bad spot") recovery is improved: When copying or moving files that have read errors, you may choose to skip the bad data, copy it as is, or replace the bad data with "#"s (or other character, if you customize EDDY). 2. Some of the files have been renamed, so that they once again all begin with "EDDY", and so won't overwrite files from other packages when you copy them (except for FILE_ID.DIZ - no choice on that). Version 7d ========== 1. Registration info is available by pressing [Alt+z]. 2. You can copy and move directories, with all their files and sub- directories, from any disk to any other disk. 3. The COPY/MOVE/DELETE Controls are now called "Synchronization Controls". Their function remains the same, but the description of their use (in EDDY.DOC) has been expanded and (hopefully) clarified. 4. If you rename a file, even before you update to make the new name permanent, the new name will be used in any comparisons made (e.g., [Shift+F3], [Alt+Shift+F3]). Thus you may type the new name over the old to do comparisons between files and directory entries which have different names, and then UNDO the rename if you don't really want to make the change. The new name will also be used for comparing timestamps for copy and move operations, according to the settings of the Synchronization Controls. 5. Disk image copying has been changed. The name of the file in which a full disk image will be stored is now "DRIVE.{C}" (if you're copying from drive C:). If you mark and then copy selected portions of a disk, the data will be written to a file named "SECTORS.{C}". You may now copy all or part of the disk's system area -- boot sector, FAT, root directory -- without copying the entire disk. 6. EDDY no longer restricts you from patching sectors on a compressed disk (Stacker, et al). Now, after a warning, you may proceed if you really want to. 7. Volume labelling capabilities are expanded. A label may contain ANYTHING you want -- even "\", ":", etc. It may even be set to all spaces if you wish. Labels may also be deleted. 8. When using the default point-n-shoot command -- [Shift+F8] or [Shift+^F8] -- you may now choose whether to pause after the command is executed or not, and whether the command should execute only on files with the same extension as the current file or on any file. 9. The Synchronization Control setting of "C" is now used in batch mode as well as interactively. See EDDY.DOC, Section 24.3 for more info. 10. Some users have complained that their mice move erratically, especially when using the menus. Although unable to reproduce this problem, I have changed EDDY to reduce the horizontal mouse sensitivity by half when working with menus. I hope this helps. Version 7c ========== 1. Now you can register your copy of EDDY by credit card! Please see details in EDDY.DOC, Section 27.2. 2. Directory sorting can now be made permanent. You can also arrange your directories in any arbitrary sequence you wish. See Section 22 of EDDY.DOC. 3. Option /H has been added (or as some long-time users will realize, reinstated). By default now, EDDY does not include files with "hidden" or "system" attributes in the display. Using the attribute filtering mechanism displays ONLY those files. If you want to show all files together, use option /H. 4. When the DOS system files (IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM, or some such name) are included in the display of the root directory, they will be at the top, to emphasize their importance -- i.e., if you mess with them, you probably won't be able to boot your system! 5. Disk-image copying and restoring are both used by pressing [Shift+F5]. If the cursor is on the "Drive" line of the display, disk-image copying is started; if it is on a file, disk-image restoring is used (and the file is now tagged "Copy image", rather than "Copy(!)" as previously). Thus, [^m], previously used as the "Mark all" command, is no longer used. If you press it by mistake, it acts just like [Alt+m]: "Jump to first mark". 6. If EDDY is started from a floppy, the necessary overlays to handle UPDATE and LOOK/PATCH operations are pre-loaded automatically, so that the diskette may be changed and that same drive may be used as working or target directory if desired. Previously, you had to use option /3 to do this. 7. You can set the date and time to all zeros (both, not separately). If you do this, the timestamp will not be displayed at all when you use the DOS "DIR" command. Useful to call attention to entries in the "DIR" listing. 8. When you LOOK at a disk, the initial display will be the sector of the current working directory, rather than the boot sector. 9. EDDY attempts to identify "compressed" or "extended" disks that are produced by products such as Stacker (tm) or DoubleDisk (tm). Some of the things (e.g., sector patching, directory moving) you can do with EDDY are unsafe to do with these disks. If EDDY can't automatically determine the disk type, you will be asked before anything potentially unsafe is attempted. 10. In answer to requests from European users, the margins of EDDY.DOC have been changed slightly, to accommodate printing on A4-size paper. Version 7b ========== 1. A number of bugs had crept in over time, having to do with incompat- ibilities between DOS versions. These had made some of EDDY's features (in some cases, ALL of EDDY's features) unusable with versions earlier than DOS 3.2. These bugs have been resolved, and EDDY should again be usable with DOS 2.0 and all later versions. 2. In recognition of the growing number of EDDY users who are not from the USA, EDDY will display file timestamps in the format you choose. If your system is set up (usually via the "COUNTRY=" command in CONFIG.SYS) to use dates of the form "dd/mm/yy" or "yy-mm-dd", rather than the USA-style "mm-dd-yy", EDDY will use that format. 3. EDDY's display has been made more helpful. More of the function key uses are shown on the bottom line, and the area to the right of the files display has some "boxes" showing more key uses; these boxes may also be "clicked" on with a mouse to get the indicated action. 4. Redirection is supported for "Point-n-Shoot" and EDDY.USE commands. 5. The "Exit directory" functionality has been expanded, and renamed as "Directory Recall". As before, [Shift+F10] selects the current working directory as the directory that will become the default when you quit EDDY. To acknowledge the selection, the message "Directory recall set" is displayed. The new capability is that having set directory recall, pressing [Shift+^F10] uses the selected directory as the new working directory. 6. Editing a file's timestamp has no effect on the file's attributes. Previously, timestamp edits turned on the "archive" attribute. 7. When a repeating command such as [^F5], [^F6], etc. is executed, a message is displayed telling how many files have been tagged for the corresponding action. 8. Some error and warning messages have been changed, but also more thoroughly documented (Appendix C of EDDY.DOC). When these messages are displayed, a reference to Appendix C also appears. Version 7a (changes since 6c2) ============================== 1. EDDY's "Disk Jockey" functions (see Section 20 of EDDY.DOC) now work with any size disk (including RAM disks). Earlier versions were restricted to disks of 32 megabytes or less. 2. With the cursor on the '..' entry in the display, and display sequence is... ...not inverted: pressing [home] moves to next higher directory ...inverted: pressing [end] moves to next higher directory just as though you had pressed [F3]. 3. In addition to interrupting repeating commands such as [^f], [^F5], etc., pressing [^c] will also terminate a "where's that file?" scan, as well as the directory scanning process that calculates the net sizes of files involved in an impending update. 4. If there are no changes pending, pressing [Enter] will have the same effect as pressing [F3] if you are positioned on a file, directory or "drive" entry in the display; i.e., you will LOOK at that entry. On other display lines, you'll get the usual "Nothing to update" message. If you don't like this use of [Enter], you may customize EDDY accordingly; see Section 26.3.4 of EDDY.DOC. [Enter] still initiates an UPDATE if changes are pending. 5. When LOOKing at RAM, directory entries found there may be displayed in EDIT-mode ("DIR") format. Just as when LOOKing at a disk, move the directory data to the top of the screen, and press [Alt+d]. 6. Some administrivia: 1) EDDY now (gently) reminds you if you are using an unregistered copy. Upon registering, you will receive the latest version, personally registered to you. 2) After more than two years of significant changes and the ravages of inflation, EDDY's registration fee is increased to $25.00. Version 6c2 (changes since 6c) ============================== 1. If you press and hold down the [Scroll] key, all processing stops until you release the key. 2. [NumLock] state (ON/OFF) is always ignored by EDDY -- i.e., treated as OFF, unless [NumLock] is pressed while EDDY is running. Once it has been pressed, its state is recognized and treated accordingly. 3. Disk-image copying, formerly referred to as "disk-to-file", can now be done from EDIT mode, by pressing [Alt+F5]. No need to go to LOOK mode, mark all clusters, and then copy. The no. of bytes of control information prefixed to a disk-image file has increased, from 4 to 6. However, if you have backup disks created with earlier versions of EDDY, these may still be used; EDDY recognizes the difference and acts appropriately. 4. When LOOKing at a disk (the "Drive" line in the display), you may "mark" clusters to be copied even though you have not selected a target directory previously. If there is no target, EDDY will ask for one, without requiring an exit to EDIT mode. 5. [BackSpace] may be used to terminate a repeating operation, as well as [^c]. This is to avoid traumatic experiences for long-time EDDY users who have problems adjusting to change no. 7 of version 6b. 6. If you go to PATCH immediately after a successful FIND, the patching cursor will be placed on the character at the start of the "found" string. The cursor will be in the same mode (hex/ASCII) as the mode used to enter the search string when you did the FIND. If you press any key except [F4] after the FIND, the cursor will be placed on the first character of the display if you subsequently do press [F4] to PATCH. Version 6c (changes since 6b2) ============================== 1. If tree directory selection method is used, and an EDDYTREE file exists, the file will be updated automatically if it is found to be inaccurate. 2. If files are excluded from the working directory display because attribute or timestamp filters are in use, an asterisk will appear next to the file count field in the heading. 3. Numeric option /3 is introduced. If this option is used, the modules needed for updating and for LOOK mode operation will be loaded from EDDY.AUX when the program starts, and will be locked in memory until EDDY terminates. This option is primarily useful for running EDDY from a floppy. Using /3 ensures that EDDY's basic functionality is always available, even if the diskette containing EDDY.AUX is removed. 4. When comparing files -- [Alt+Shift+F3] -- the values of the bytes where differences are found are now displayed along with the file offset. Version 6b2 (changes since 6b) ============================== 1. Point-n-shoot and the DOS Gateway features sometimes caused systems which have no expanded memory to "hang", requiring a red-button reboot. This is fixed. Version 6b ========== 1. Directories may be selected from a tree diagram, rather than typing in the directory names. This involves lots of new functions and commands; certainly too much to describe here. See Sections 5.1 - 5.3 of EDDY.DOC for more information. 2. Empty (zero-length) files may be copied and moved. 3. After executing EDDY interactively (rather than in batch mode), ERRORLEVEL will always be set to zero. 4. Option /L means "Set top of LIST to current cursor position" (for use with repeating commands. This was formerly option /T. 5. When customizing, a list of customizable features is provided for review just before the new EDDY.COM is written. 6. Mouse sensitivity is adjustable - press [Alt+Shift+m]. 7. [^c] is used to terminate a repeating command - formerly [BackSpace]. 8. When building commands for "point-n-shoot' (EDDY.USE file or [F8]), the extension for the program file involved is no longer required. 9. The "speed search" facility for directories and filenames has been modified slightly. It is described in EDDY.DOC Section 4.1. Version 6a (changes since 5.53) ================================= 1. With this release, EDDY begins his move into the modern world. There is now support for mice (Microsoft-compatible variety, since that's all I've got to test with). Details are in Section 2.1.2 of EDDY.DOC. 2. Another major addition to user-friendliness (and without which a mouse wouldn't be all that useful) is pull-down menus. Menus are described in Section 2.2.2 of EDDY.DOC. In the following paragraphs, you may note that some command keys are now used in different places with different meanings. In the past, I've tried to avoid this, to maintain consistency and reduce complexity. With the addition of the menus, however, there's not nearly so much to remember in order to use EDDY efficiently. Overloading certain keys seems to simplify operations in some cases. 3. After an UPDATE, any files moved or deleted from the working directory will be shown grouped together at the end of the directory display, rather than in their original locations before the UPDATE. If there are more files in the directory than can be displayed by EDDY (currently, about 400), files deleted or moved will not be shown; instead, additional files from the working directory will be displayed. 4. Point-n-shoot capabilities are improved in 3 major ways: a. When you select a .COM, .EXE or .BAT file to execute ([Alt+F9]), you may edit the command line first, to add filenames, switches, or whatever is appropriate for the file involved. b. Commands from EDDY.USE ([Shift+F9]/[Shift+^F9]) may also be edited before they are used. c. You may specify a default command, which may be executed when there is no command found in EDDY.USE for the current file, or if you have no EDDY.USE file. The default command may be edited, made permanent (by customizing EDDY), or executed directly (by pressing [Shift+F8]). 5. You may UNDO the COPY, MOVE, DELETE and DESTROY commands without affecting other changes that may be pending for the file. Just press the key for the same command again; i.e., if a file is tagged for COPY, and you decide not to COPY, press [F5] and the tagging will disappear, but any other changes will remain. 6. When the copy/move confirmation window is displayed (as when the file in the target is newer than the one in the working directory), [Alt+a], [Alt+c] and [Alt+o] are accepted as valid responses. 7. After using the DOS Gateway - with [F9], [Alt+F9] or [Shift+F9] - the working directory will be reprocessed to insure that any changes made outside of EDDY will be reflected properly in the display. 8. You may tag a file for copy with TAB expansion and/or bit-stripping directly, by pressing [Alt+number] or [Alt+b]. No need to tag the file first by pressing [F5]. 9. The treatment of the archive attribute for files copied has changed slightly. If option /A is on, the archive attribute on the new copy of the file will be the same as the original file. If option /A is off, the archive setting depends on the type of disks involved: a. Floppy to floppy - copy set same as original b. Hard disk to hard disk - copy set same as original c. Floppy to hard disk - archive attribute in copy turned off, original unchanged d. Hard disk to floppy - archive attribute in copy turned on, original turned off 10. [Alt+r] from EDIT or LOOK modes displays a "FIND & REPLACE" dialog box directly. Before, you first had to press [Alt+f], then [Alt+r]. 11. When LOOKing at a text-format display with lines longer than 80 characters, moving to the left or right edge of the display may be done by pressing [Home] or [End], respectively. [^Left] and [^Right] are still available for this, as well. 12. Pressing [Home] twice in a row has the same effect as [^Home] - i.e., in EDIT mode, the cursor moves to the top of the directory display, and in LOOK the display moves to the start of the file. Similarly, [End][End] is the same as [^End]. 13. Pressing [s] in LOOK toggles [Up] and [Down] between their normal scrolling speed of one-line-per-keypress and half-page-per-keypress. A half page is defined by the number of text lines in the display, not the physical lines available on your screen. Thus, the speed of scrolling will vary, depending on the data you're LOOKing at. 14. In PATCH mode, press [Alt+a], to truncate a file after the cursor, or [Alt+b], to truncate before the cursor. Previously, you pressed [Alt+y] to truncate, and then answer the "Before or After" question. You can still use [Alt+y], too. 15. With path string displays, such as those resulting from [Alt+w] or [Alt+t], the displayed string may be edited before use. 16. The "pause" indicator for commands defined in EDDY.USE is changed. It is now "|" (the DOS piping symbol) instead of a hyphen. 17. The HELP screens and menus have their own color attributes, not tied to those used for other EDDY screens (but HELP colors are the same as menu colors). These colors may be customized as desired. 18. Volume serial number display and update are now supported. Press [^v] for these functions. 19. You may enter a FIND string containing all "?"s. This will match with strings containing all LETTERS. 20. When a batch mode execution finishes, "ERRORLEVEL" will be set according to the results - 0 for successful update, 255 for no matching files, other values corresponding to DOS error codes. 21. The files making up the EDDY distribution package have been changed. EDDYHELP.COM and EDDYLOOK.COM are now combined, along with the new MENU functions and UPDATE processing, into the single EDDY.AUX file. EDDY.HST, EDDY.WHY and EDDY.REG are now called EDDY_HST.DOC, EDDY_WHY.DOC and EDDY_REG.DOC, respectively.