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File Specbox
To enter, click the File button
Item: Delete
Type: Action Bar
Desc: Clicking on this brings up the
standard GEM File Selector. Choose
which file you wish to delete or else
press the 'Cancel' button to abort. If
you selected a file it will then be
deleted.
Opts: All File options (FS)
Item: File Type Selector
Type: Icon Selector
Desc: Choose which of the 14 file types
you wish to be using. All options which
use the GEM File Selector will have the
appropriate extender added to the Path
Name. For details of each of the File
Types, turn to the appropriate section
of the manual.
Opts: All File options (FS)
Item: Folder
Type: Action bar
Desc: Allows you to create a new
folder. When the File Selector appears,
type in the folder's name and press
<Return>. A folder is then created in
the Path Name at the top of the File
Selector.
Opts: All File Options (FS)
Item: Format
Type: Action Bar
Desc: This presents an Alert Box asking
whether you wish to format a single or
doulble-sided disk (or Cancel). If you
decide to format a disk, insert the
destination disk before clicking on the
Alert Box. You will then be able to
watch on the screen how far the
formatting has got as it performs! Be
careful that you do not format the
Canvas program disk by accident!
Always leave it write-protected as a
precaution.
Opts: All File Options (FS)
Item: Info
Type: Action Bar
Desc: This brings up a simple Alert Box
displaying the amount of free space on
the disk in KiloBytes (1024 bytes), and
also the current Path Name.
Opts: All File Options (FS)
Item: Load
Type: Action Bar
Desc: Presents the GEM File Selector
and allows you to Load a file of the
type specified by the File Type
Selector above.
Opts: All File Options (FS)
Item: Quit
Type: Action Bar1
Desc: If you really want to Quit Canvas
and return to the DeskTop, then click
the 'Yes' button on the Alert Box. This
results in all of the work screens
being lost as well as anything else you
may have changed since you loaded
Canvas such as palettes and 3D objects
etc.
Opts: None
Item: Rename
Type: Action Bar
Desc: Using the File Selector, and the
prompts given at the bottom of the
screen (below the File Selector), you
may rename an old file name with a new
one. Ensure that the Path Names of both
the old file and the new file are the
same or something nasty may happen to
your disk!
Opts: All File Options (FS)
Item: Save
Type: Action Bar
Desc: Similar (but opposite!?!) to the
Load option. See File section of this
manual for information of each file
type.
Opts: All File Options (FS)