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- Documentation for Cheetah
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- (C) 1989,90 by Jay Jones
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- Every effort has been made to ensure that this program is safe to use and
- error free.... HOWEVER, I accept no responsibility for any damage or data
- loss that may occur from the use of this program.
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- This program is being distributed as Shareware. This means that you may
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- give this program out to your friends or post it on Bulletin Boards freely
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- as long as the program and this text file are kept together and remain
- unchanged. These files may not be distributed commercially without my
- written consent. All I ask is that if you like this program and use it,
- please send a donation ($20 Suggested?) to the address listed at the end
- of this file. The only way that I can continue to develop and support this
- program is if I receive some compensation for the MONTHS I have devoted to
- its development. Your registration also insures that you will be informed
- of any upgrades made available. Enough said.
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- Cheetah is designed as a high speed file copying utility. Hard Drive
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- users will find it the most useful, however it does fully support floppy
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- drives also. Effective transfer rates vary depending on the hardware and
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- the data being copied. Hard drive users can expect to see transfer rates
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- ranging from 6 to 14+ Mb/Min.
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- Selecting Paths: There are two ways to select your source/destination
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- paths. One is to highlight the drive letter and click in the "Select Path"
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- boxes, the other is to double click the drive letter. When double
- clicking, first the source then the destination will be selected. After
- that, you can use normal double clicks to select source or hold down the
- right button when double clicking to change destination. To go into a
- folder, either double click it or highlight it and click in the "Select
- Path" box.
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- Selecting Files: Once both source and destination paths are selected,
- files can be selected by clicking on them, or by holding down and
- dragging. "Select all" will toggle all files on/off. Also see "Auto
- Select" in the "Extras" menu below.
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- Extras Menu: From this menu you can see buffer and mem free sizes, change
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- the file sort order, choose whether or not to display the performance
- window after the copy, or go to either of the 3 submenus (Auto Select,
- Free Space or Zero Drive).
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- Auto Select Menu: This routine will go through the source path top to
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- bottom (as displayed) and select as many files as can fit into the
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- destination free space. All previously selected files are ignored. The
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- other items are for setting filtering of which files to select. The "File
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- Mask" and the two date fields are ignored if left blank.
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- Archive bit Sensitivity (In the Auto Select Menu): To enable archive bit
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- sensitivity, highlight the "Archive bit sensitive" box. If this box is
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- selected, the select routine will take into account archive bit status
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- relative to the "Select when" option. If archive bit sensitivity is
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- enabled, the directories in the main menu will display archive bit status
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- by showing a ":" if the bit is on, and a "." if it is off. Any time the
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- archive bit sensitivity is enabled and a copy is performed, the bit status
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- of the copied files is changed in memory (ie: "Select when" set ON, all
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- copied files are set to OFF). If "Write Src Dir" is ON, the modified
- source directory archive bit status will be saved to disk, otherwise it is
- changed IN MEMORY ONLY and is lost when source paths are changed or you
- exit the program.
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- Quick Keys: From the main menu, there are several "Hot Keys" to get the
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- sub-functions quickly.
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- ^A Auto Select Menu
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- ^F Free Space
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- ^Z Zero Drive
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- ^B Toggle Folder Buffering On/Off
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- Aborting: Copies can be aborted by pressing the UNDO key, the program
- will then prompt you to verify the abort. This can be done during all but
- the final stage of the copy.
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- Folder Buffering: If folder buffering is enabled the program will try to
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- load all copied folders into the main buffer. If you are having problems
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- with buffer size or errors try turning the buffering off to save memory.
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- DO NOT exceed 200 folders in a single copy with buffering on!
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- Note: If you are using a version of TOS less than 1.4 you may notice that
- the double click is a bit slow. This is due to slow return times from the
- AES. It may be easier with old TOS to make selections by using the path
- select boxes at the tops of the file windows.
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- *********************** Warning ***********************
- Cheetah does not use standard calls to its copying/deleting! This can
- cause problems when you exit the program with GEM not being updated
- properly as to the changes that have been made. Normally this is only a
- problem if you are running some sort of caching program, and can usually
- be resolved by hitting ESC on the affected drives at the desktop. If you
- are unsure as to whether GEM has been updated properly, play it safe,
- REBOOT!
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- * Changes for ver 1.1 11/15/89 *
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- Caching:
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- Routines have been added when exiting Cheetah to force GEM to re-read
- the disks even when caching programs are resident! These routines have
- been tested with CACHExxx.PRG, HDACCEL.PRG, and ICD's v4.x.x booter, and
- all seem to work fine. The ONLY thing that we have found that can still
- cause a problem is if you have a window open into a folder, then delete
- that folder from within Cheetah. If you have any problems, please let me
- know.
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- File Size,Date,Time Display
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- A new item has been added to the main menu. By clicking on the arrows
- you can shift the display left or right through File Name, Size, Date
- and Time. This can also be acomplished through pressing the left/right
- cursor keys.
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- * Changes for ver 2.0 12/16/89 *
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- Media Change:
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- New routines have been added to force a media change on any drive that
- is altered. This should help to eliminate the problem of having to reboot
- to access a newly created folder etc.. Many thanks to Don for his hours of
- work in developing and testing these routines. They have been heavily
- tested and seem to work fine, however if for any reason you are having
- problems getting the OS to recognize any changes that have been made,
- reboot IMMEDIATELY!
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- Warm Boot:
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- A new item has been added in the Extras Menu that allows you to
- automatically trigger a warm boot whenever you exit Cheetah.
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- Sort Options:
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- Sort Options have been moved into the Extras Menu. Since there is no
- longer a seperate menu for these, ^S now brings up the entire Extras Menu.
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- Load/Save Config:
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- Two new buttons in the Extras Menu now allow you to save all of your
- settings out to a file, or load them back in at any time. All of your
- on/off settings, Auto Select parameters and Source and Destination paths
- are saved. At startup the program will automatically try to load the file
- CHEETAH.CNF from the same path that the program was run, if it is not
- found, defaults will be used.
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- Refresh:
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- Hitting ESC from the main menu will force a complete refresh of both
- source and destination paths.
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- Delete Originals:
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- You are now asked for confirmation whenever you select to delete the
- originals after a copy.
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- Byte Count:
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- Displays the number of bytes selected in source directory. Note, this
- amount does not take into account any folders that may be selected.
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- RAM Disks:
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- RAM Disk compatibility has been increased. Cheetah should work fine now
- with most popular RAM Disks.
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- * Changes for ver 3.0 09/28/90 *
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- BGM Compatibility: Cheetah now supports ICD's new BGM format for both
- source and destination drives. A different aglorithm had to be
- developed to support the non standard cluster sizes. This new routine
- optimizes the files as the are being copied. The new copy method can
- also be selected to be used when copying between standard partitions.
- Progress is also displayed during the copy.
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- Main Display expanded: Main Menu now simultaneously shows filename
- and either size, date or time (saved in config). Previously you
- could scroll through filename, size, date or time, but only one
- was displayed at a time.
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- Filename Conflict (Switchable): When the copy is initiated all
- conflicts are prompted with options to copy, skip this file or
- abort the copy. In earlier versions conflicting file names were
- just replaced without warning.
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- "Not" mask in auto select: Two of the autoselect criteria (file and
- date masks) have been upgraded so that clicking on their titles
- toggles between selecting the files if the mask is true or false.
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- Free space: This display has been expanded to show bytes used and free
- space percentages as well as free and total. Also expanded the displays
- for those really big hard drives and BGM partitions.
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- Time Displays: All time displays have been converted to AM/PM format
- instead of military format.
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- Bug Fixes: Found and fixed date display bug.
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- Subdirectory links now being updated properly (For
- what thats worth...).
- Free space calculations corrected (off by 2K in places).
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- Donations, Comments, Questions or Suggestions: Please write.
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- Jay Jones
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- PO Box 6563
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- Kent, WA 98031
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- or via modem at:
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- Super 68 BBS
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- F-Net Node 596
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- (206)859-9644
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- HST - PCP WASEA
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