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StupenDOS Copyright 1988,1989 By Douglas Hay All Rights Reserved Created By Douglas Hay Eclipse Technologies 1675 Berkshire Dr. Elm Grove, WI 53122 Distributed By PKWARE Inc. 7545 N. Port Washington Rd. Glendale, WI 53217 (414) 352-3670 SD.EXE is a shareware product. If you find SD.EXE to be fast and easy to use, a registration of $35.00 is suggested. With each registration of $35, you will receive the next update of SD.EXE free of charge. Please mention any features you would like added to SD, and the version you are currently using. Send registrations to: Eclipse Technologies 1675 Berkshire Dr. Elm Grove, WI 53122 You can leave a message for me on the PKWARE BBS. The PKWARE BBS phone number is 414-352-7176 (1200/2400 N81). You can order SD with Mastercard or Visa from the PKWARE BBS. My most current versions will be on the PKWARE BBS and EXEC-PC BBS. EXEC-PC's number is 414-964-5160. The PKWARE BBS is free. Feel free to distribute SD.EXE to other BBS's, but please distribute the self extracting .EXE file that includes SD.DOC. Registered users of SD will receive an update of this version as soon as all the bugs are ironed out. Thanks to Phil Katz for all of his programming tips, and to Dennis Meilicke for helping me beta test the software. PKWARE will be offering a menu driven interface for PKZIP/PKUNZIP with many more features. You can contact PKWARE at (414) 352-3670. StupenDOS Shortcut list Function Key -------- -------- copy F1 or C or Alt D,C move F2 or M or Alt D,C delete tagged D or Alt F4 (no confirmation) delete global *.bak Alt D,G delete local *.bak Alt D,L specified delete Alt D,S change drive F5 or V type highlighted F8 or Y type all tagged Alt D,T edit highlighted E or Alt D,E edit all tagged Alt D,I mkdir Alt D,K rmdir Alt D,R rename Alt D,N sort by name S,N or Alt S,N sort by extension S,E or Alt S,E sort by date/time S,D or Alt S,D sort by size S,S or Alt S,S sort - unsorted S,U or Alt S,U tag all files Alt T,T clear all tags Alt C or Alt T,C batch tag Alt T, B batch clear Alt T, L tag today's files Alt T, D find a file Alt F or Alt O,F change attribute Alt A or Alt O,A change filespec Alt O,C dos call Alt O,D os shell Alt O,O locate file / or Alt O,L execute file X or Alt O,X new dir N or Alt O,N change colors Alt O,H make list a file @ or Alt O,T unzip files Alt U or Alt O,U zip files Alt Z or Alt O,Z view a zip file Alt V or Alt O,V display a GIF file ALT G or Alt O,G Print files P or Alt O,P turn mouse on Alt O,M help screen H, F10 about sd Alt H,A display tree T or Alt R,T reread tree R or Alt R,R exit to current dir Alt X,Alt X exit to start dir Ctrl X Page 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Basics .................................................. 2 Alt key combinations used ............................... 3 Ctrl key combinations used ...............................3 Quick key combinations used ............................. 3 Setup ................................................... 4 Mouse usage ............................................. 5 Pull down menu usage .................................... 5 Copy files .............................................. 6 Move files .............................................. 6 Delete files ............................................ 7 Change drive / directory ................................ 8 Sort files .............................................. 9 Tree display of disk ................................... 10 Type, view, edit a file (see setup) .................... 10 Make a directory ....................................... 11 Remove a directory ..................................... 11 Dos call ............................................... 11 OS shell ............................................... 11 Change search argument ................................. 11 Find a file ............................................ 11, 12 Rename a file .......................................... 11 Help screen ............................................ 11 Change attributes ...................................... 12 Clear file tags ........................................ 12 Reread file list ....................................... 12 Tag all files .......................................... 12 Tag todays files ....................................... 12 Display .GIF pictures .................................. 12 Exit to DOS ............................................ 13 Delete files immediately ............................... 13 Change screen colors ................................... 13 Make a LIST file ....................................... 13 Unzip a PKWARE .ZIP file ............................... 13 Print tagged files ..................................... 13 Page 2 BASICS Use UPARROW, DOWNARROW, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn to browse through the files. To tag or untag a file, press Enter. You can also press SPACE. Pressing Enter on a subdirectory will change to that subdirectory. To tag a subdirectory (the only reason to do this is to change its attribute or name) you must press the SPACE bar. To select an option such as DELETE or HELP simply press the appropriate function key. If no mouse is installed, the column to the right of where the files are displayed contains helpful information. The highlighted letter is the shortcut key for that function. From DOS, you may type SD or you may specify the filespec. To display only .BAT files, you would type SD *.BAT. To use the Pull Down Menus, press the TAB key, LEFTARROW, RIGHTARROW, or ALT + the capital letter on the top of the screen. Arrow to the desired item, and press Enter to execute that option. If you wish to toggle the value (like in the sort menu), press the Space bar. Use the Esc key to exit from pop up windows or sub menus. Press F10 to display the SD help screen for quick help. You can tell SD which files you want to see when you run the program. To view only the *.DOC files in the C:\WORD directory, run SD c:\word\*.doc. MOUSE To tag a file, locate the mouse on top of that file and press the leftmost mouse button. The leftmost mouse button always acts the same as Enter. The rightmost mouse button always acts as Esc. If you have a 3 button mouse, the middle button acts the same as the rightmost button. To change to a different subdirectory, locate on top of that subdirectory and click the leftmost button. When a mouse is installed, a mouse menu appears to the right of where the files are displayed. Clicking on one of these items is the same as pressing the appropriate function key(s). To use the pull down menus, click on the menu item desired on the top row of the screen. Once a menu is displayed, click on the item you wish to change. Page 3 To display the available CTRL and ALT options, hold down the ALT or the CTRL key for about 2 seconds. A menu will appear. ALT KEYS Alt A - Change the tagged file(s) attributes. Alt C - Clear all file(s) tags. Alt D - Tag file(s) with today's date. Alt F - Find File(s) on the current disk. Alt G - Display tagged Graphics files with .MAC and/or .GIF extensions. Alt H - Display a help screen. Alt N - New directory. (Refind if a new floppy was inserted.) Alt O - Display mOre pull down menu. Alt P - Display setuP pull down menu. Alt R - Display tRee pull down menu. Alt S - Display Sort pull down menu. Alt T - Display Tag pull down menu. Alt U - Unzip a zip file. Alt V - View a zip file or self extracting zip file. Alt X - Display Exit pull down menu. Alt Z - Make a ZIP file. Alt F4 - Delete tagged files without confirmation. CTRL KEYS Ctrl C, Ctrl Break - Exit to dos. QUICK KEYS C - Copy the tagged file(s). D - Delete the tagged file(s). H - Help screen. M - Move the tagged file(s). N - New directory. (Refind if a new floppy was inserted) O - Display the mOre submenu. R - Reread the tree structure of the hard disk. S - Sort files. T - Display the tree structure of the hard disk (Use SD.CFG file). V - Change drive and/or directory. X - Execute the highlighted file. Y - tYpe the highlighted file. Z - unZip menu, for extracting PKWARE's .ZIP files. / - Locate a file. @ - Make a list file. Page 4 SETUP The setup is very important to the operation of SD. Press TAB to bring up the pull down menus. Use the RIGHT ARROW key to move to the SETUP window. You then use UP ARROW and DOWN ARROW to highlight the item you want to change. Every line of each pull down menu has one capital letter. You can also press this letter to move to this item instead of using the arrow keys. To change the "filespec" or the "display file" items, press Enter, then enter the desired text, and press Enter again. To toggle other items, press Enter. To save your changes, highlight the "save to disk" option and press Enter. File search options Filespec : You may select the files SD is to display. The default is *.* (All files). sUbdirs : If yes is selected, subdirectories will be displayed. Hidden : If yes is selected, hidden files will be displayed. sYstem : If yes is selected, system files will be displayed. Read only : If yes is selected, read only files will be displayed. Sort : Select the default sort. Monitor : Select color, b & w, EGA 43 or VGA 50 line (if available). sOund : Turn the sound on or off. dir reTurn : If yes is selected, return to the original drive & directory when exiting the program. Display file: TYPE is used if no other program is selected. You can change TYPE to any program you like. If you want to use DISP.COM to display your files, press Enter, then type in DISP, then press Enter again. Edit file: TYPE is used if no other program is selected. You can change TYPE to any program you like. If you want to use your favorite editor you press Enter, then type in the name of your editor, and press Enter again. auto sense : If you have a mouse installed, SD tries to see what hard disks you have installed. This can cause problems with networked computers. If you have problems, turn this option off. reread tree : When invoking the Tree command, SD will read the SD.CFG file off of your disk, if it exists. Turning this option ON, will force SD to scan the disk looking for directories instead of reading the .CFG file. Gif viewer : Specify the program you wish to use to display .GIF files. Zip ext dir : Specify where to place extracted files from zip files. overWrite : When copying or moving files, if the destination file exists and overWrite is turned on, you will be asked if the file should be overwritten or skipped. err Checking: Checks to see if the destination disk will be able to hold all the tagged files before copying / moving the files. cLear tag : After a copy or move, the files tags will be cleared. saVe to disk: After you have set all your options, saving them makes them the new defaults the next time you use SD. MOUSE Click on the word "setuP". Click on the item you wish to change. Don't forget to save the setup if you want these changes to be permanent. Page 5 SPECIAL MOUSE ITEMS The mouse works just about everywhere. The "mouse menu" is located to the right of the file list. You can click on any of these items instead of using the pull down menus. To go to the top of the file list (HOME), click on "home" in the mouse menu, or click on the bar immediately above the file list. To go to the end of the file list (END), click on "end" in the mouse menu, or click on the bar immediately below the file list. To go to the middle of the file list, click on the vertical bar to the left of the file list, near the middle of the screen. You can quickly view the file list by clicking on different spots to the left of the file list. Be sure the mouse is in column zero. Clicking near the bottom of the screen will locate you near the bottom of the file list. PULL DOWN MENUS Use the RIGHT ARROW, LEFT ARROW, or TAB key to pop up the pull down menus. You may also use Alt + D,S,T,O,H,R,P,X to bring up a specific menu. The menu displayed at the top of the screen has one capital letter in each word. Press Alt + the capital letter to pop up that menu. If you have a mouse, click on the word on the top of the screen, and that menu will pop up. Once a menu is displayed, click on the item you would like to modify. In the setup window, the items are toggled. In most other windows, the item you click on will be executed. Page 6 COPY - F1, C Copy works similarly to the DOS copy command. The copy function key (F1) will only appear if there are files tagged. Pressing F1 will ask you where you want to copy the tagged files to. To copy the tagged files to drive A:, press F1 or C and then type "A:" and press Enter. To copy the tagged files to the \WORD directory, press F1 or C and then type "\WORD" and press Enter. If you are going to copy the tagged files to a different directory, on the same disk drive, you may use the tree function. After tagging the desired files, press F1 or C. Then press ALT T to display the tree structure of the current drive. Arrow to the directory where you want to copy the files to, and press Enter. If the destination disk is full, SD will ask you if you would like to continue copying the remaining files. You may insert a different disk at this time if you wish. Pressing Esc will abort the copy process. If you wish to abort a copy, press Esc. MOUSE If you want to copy the tagged files to a floppy disk drive, simply click on the desired item in the mouse menu (COPY A: etc.). To copy to a certain subdirectory, click on "Dos" in the pull down menu, click on "Copy", and then type in the desired drive and/or directory to copy to, and press Enter. To use the tree function, instead of typing in the directory to copy to, click on the lower right portion of the screen, "Alt T = tree" and then click on the directory to copy to in the tree display. MOVE - F2, M Move works the same as copy, except that after the files are copied, they are deleted. If you wish to abort a move, press Esc. Page 7 DELETE - F4, D Delete erases tagged files. Inside the DOS MENU you can also specify to erase ALL .BAK files from the entire hard disk. You can also select DELETE ANY, which asks you for the filespec to delete. If you wanted to delete all files with .TMP extensions, you would type in *.TMP as the filespec. To delete all the tagged files, press F4. A submenu will appear. Press F1 to invoke the delete procedure. This will only delete the tagged files. Press F3 to invoke deleting all .BAK files. This deletes *.BAK files from the ENTIRE DISK. If you only want to delete .BAK files from the current directory, select the "delete *.bak - Local" option. To abort the delete process, press Esc at any time. SHORTCUTS Pressing ALT F4 deletes the tagged files without asking for confirmation. MOUSE Click on "Dos" in the pull down menu. Click on "Delete tagged" or the desired item. Page 8 CHANGE DRIVE and DIRECTORY - F5, V To change the drive and or directory SD is currently in, press F5 or V. A window will open and ask what drive and directory to change to. Enter the information the same way that you would from the DOS prompt. If you have been to other drives or directories while running SD, a menu will appear with the directories you have previously been in. You can then modify these items. SHORTCUTS If the subdirectory you wish to change to is a subdirectory of the directory you are currently in, you may use the arrow keys to highlight that subdirectory. Then press Enter to change to that subdirectory. You may also use the tRee command to quickly change directory. Press T to invoke the tRee command. A listing of all the subdirectories on the disk will appear. Highlight the subdirectory you would like to change to and press Enter. MOUSE To change to a subdirectory of the current directory, click on the subdirectory you wish to change to. If you want to change to a different disk drive, you may click on that selection in the mouse menu, if it exists. Click on the "tRee" entry in the pull down menu. Click on "display Tree". Click on the subdirectory you would like to change to. Page 9 SORT - S The files can be displayed 9 ways. By Name, Extension, Size, Date and Time, or they can be displayed Unsorted. To sort by size, press F6, then press the function key of the sort type you would like. To reverse the direction of the sort, press the space bar. You can select the default sort in the setup window. This is the sort method used when SD is first run. SHORTCUT There are several shortcuts built into the sort function. Command Shortcut Key Invoke SORT S (ort) Sort by Name N (ame) Sort by Extension E (xtension) Sort by Size S (ize) Sort by Date and Time D (ate) Do not sort U (nsorted) To sort by size, you press S and then S again to Sort by Size. PULL DOWN To toggle the sort order in the pull down menu, press the SPACE bar. To actually change the sort order, highlight the desired sort method, and press Enter. MOUSE Click on "Sort" in the pull down menu. If you click on the sort direction (A-Z, Z-A, 0-9, 9-0), the direction will change. If you click on Name, Extension, Date / time, Size, or Unsorted, this will re-sort the files. Page 10 TREE - F7, R, T The tree function displays the layout of your hard disk in graphics form. You may then use the arrow keys to move up and down in the display. Pressing Enter will change directories to the highlighted directory. Up to 15 disk drives are supported. The tree structure is saved to a file called SD.CFG. This file is saved in the same directory as SD.EXE if you have DOS >= 3.0. Drives A and B are not saved in the .CFG file. If you change your hard disks directory structure, you must press 'R'eread tree to redo the .CFG file. Use PgUp, PgDn, Home, End, UPARROW and DOWNARROW to move thru the display. Press Enter to change to the highlighted subdirectory. Press Esc to stop viewing the tree structure. MOUSE Click on "tRee", and then "display Tree" from the sub menu. You may change directories by clicking on a directory. You can scan other drives by clicking on the drive letters shown in the center column on the screen. TYPE FILE - F8, Y This option "TYPE"s the highlighted file. This is the same as the DOS TYPE command. TYPE is not the best program ever written for displaying files. If you have a better program, you may enter this in the SETUP window. Your program will then be invoked instead of TYPE. (See setup) MOUSE Click on the "Dos" pull down menu. Then click on "tYpe file". Page 11 MORE - F9 MORE options contains: 1. F1 - mKdir - Make directory. Works the same as DOS does. 2. F2 - Rmdir - Remove directory. Enter the directory to remove or highlight it and press Enter. You can also point at the directory and click the mouse button. 3. F3 - Dos call. You can format a disk, or run a program from this. 4. F4 - Os shell. This allows you to exit to dos. Type in EXIT to return to SD. 5. F5 - Change search. If you wish to display only a certain group of files, you may select them here. For example, *.BAT will only display your batch files. This can also be done when SD is first called. SD *.BAT will display all batch files. Currently, you cannot specify other disk drives or directories. For example, SD C:\PROCOMM\*.CMD would not currently be supported. 6. F6 - ALT F - Find file. This option finds the matching files anywhere on your disk. 7. F7 - reName file. Allows you to rename the highlighted file. MOUSE These items appear in different areas in the pull down menus. Click on the proper area, "Dos" or "Misc" and then click on the desired item. HELP - F10, H Press F10 or H to give a basic HELP screen. MOUSE Click on "Help" and then on "display Help screen". Page 12 SPECIAL ALT key functions CHANGE ATTRIBUTES - ALT A A pop up menu will appear. Toggle YES/NO for the attributes you want set. Press 'C' to confirm changing the attributes. MOUSE Click on "mOre" in the pull down menu. Click on "change Attribute". A window will pop up. Click on the row to toggle the attributes. The YES/NO will toggle. Click on "Confirm" to change the attributes. CLEAR ALL TAGS - ALT C Press ALT C to clear all file tags. MOUSE Click on "taG" in the pull down menu. Then click on "Clear all tags". TAG TODAY'S FILES - ALT D Tag all files with today's date. FIND FILE - ALT F Find a file anywhere on your disk. Press ALT F, and then enter the filename to search for. You can press Esc to abort the find. DISPLAY GRAPHICS - ALT G Display tagged pictures with .GIF extensions. SD will call another program that will display these pictures. You can specify the program to call in the setup pull down menu. NEW DIRECTORY - ALT N, N If you are working off floppy disks, you may want to switch disks. Since the file list displayed is from the old disk, you will want a new list to be displayed. Press ALT N or N to reread the file list. MOUSE Click on "new dir" in the mouse menu. Page 13 DELETE TAGGED FILES WITHOUT CONFIRMATION - ALT F4 Press ALT F4 to immediately delete the tagged file(s). If no files are tagged, the highlighted file will be deleted. CHANGE SCREEN COLORS In the mOre pull down menu, you must select "cHange colors". A window will pop up. Use the arrow keys to select. Press Enter to change that color. Don't forget to save the colors after you are done making changes. Press Esc to exit the change colors window. MAKE A LIST FILE Press @ or select "make a lisT file" from the mOre pull down menu. A window will appear and ask you for the name of the LIST file. After you enter the name, press Enter. Press Esc to abort. If the file already exists, you may overwrite the file, or append to it. UNZIP A ZIP FILE Press Alt U or select Unzip from the mOre menu. Follow the directions given in the pop up window. You can specify most options available in PKUNZIP. You must have PKUNZIP in your path. PKWARE will be offering a menu driven interface for PKZIP/PKUNZIP with many more features. You can contact PKWARE at (414) 352-3670. MAKE A ZIP FILE Press Alt Z or select zip from the mOre menu. This will create a zip file containing the tagged files. You must have PKZIP in your path. PKWARE will be offering a menu driven interface for PKZIP/PKUNZIP with many more features. You can contact PKWARE at (414) 352-3670. VIEW A ZIP FILE Press Alt Z or select zip from the mOre menu. This will view the highlighted zip file or self extracting .EXE file. You must have PKZIP in your path. PKWARE will be offering a menu driven interface for PKZIP/PKUNZIP with many more features. You can contact PKWARE at (414) 352-3670. PRINT FILES Press P or select Print files from the mOre menu. You can direct the output to LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, COM1 or COM2. You can also choose to have a form feed sent to the printer between files, so that each file starts on a new page. If you have PRINT.COM installed, you can send the output to SPOOLER. This will send the tagged files to PRINT.COM, so SD can be used while the files are being printed.