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CopyCon Version 5.00 December 1990 by John E. Bean, P.E. JB Technology Inc. 28701 N. Main St. Ridgefield, Wa. 98642 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Editing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Graphic Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Line Editor Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Version Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The JBT ToolBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 -1- INTRODUCTION CopyCon is a program to be used in lieu of the DOS command COPY CON. I have used COPY CON numerous times in creating batch files and miscel- laneous small text files. I have experienced many frustrating moments using COPY CON. I have ac- cidently overwritten existing files. I have mistyped commands only to notice them while entering the next line. I have also wanted to have graphic boxes in my batch files. CopyCon alleviates all of the above problems. It checks to see if the specified file exists, and if it does CopyCon provides either loading the existing file or allows the existing file to be overwritten. Copy- Con also has full screen editing capability and built in Macros which aids in creating files. CopyCon was written in Turbo Pascal 5.0 using routines from Turbo 5.0 Professional. CopyCon is so easy to use that this manual is not necessary but the following sections will briefly discuss how to use CopyCon. -2- LIMITATIONS I have designed CopyCon for typical batch files and small text files. It is not designed to be a text editor! If you need a text editor, Ez- Doss (A Dos Shell), which I have written, includes a text editor. There are two main limitations that I designed into this program. They are: * The maximum length of a text line is 80 charac- ters. * There is no word wrap. These limitations were done to distinguish the difference between Copy- Con and a text editor. -3- GETTING STARTED CopyCon is comprised of three (3) files. They are: * Copycon.exe - The executable program. * CC.hlp - The help file to CopyCon. * Copycon.doc - This documentation. Start CopyCon by issuing the following command at the DOS prompt: A:>CopyCon <filename>. As you can see this is identical to using the DOS command COPY CON ex- cept there is not a space between Copy and Con. If no file name is en- tered, a window will "pop up" with the drive/subdirectory and the de- fault file name NONAME.BAT. You will be allowed to enter/edit a new file name. (See "LINE EDITOR COMMANDS" for available keystrokes in en- tering the file name.) Once the program is loaded into memory, the program will check to see if your computer has a color graphics card. If it does the program will be displayed in color. You can force CopyCon to be displayed in black and white by typing in "/bw" For example; if you wish to create a batch file named "CPY.BAT" and have CopyCon be in black and white the following is the correct syntax. A:>CopyCon CPY.BAT /bw Next the screen will be cleared, ">CopyCon (filename)" will be dis- played in the upper left hand corner. Several other items will be dis- played to the right of the file name. They are: * F1 - Help: A help menu is available simply by de- pressing the F1 function key. The help menu provides information on editing keys and several batch file command. * F2 - Macros: Depressing the F2 function key will display the predefined Macros. * 1,1: The y,x position of the cursor. The y position is the FILE LINE position. * INS: If the insert mode is ON then INS will be displayed. * [max line]: The number displayed inside the "[ ]" is the maximum number of lines your file can have. For a 640K machine, this should be around 5000. -4- If the file entered on the command line exists, a pop up menu will ap- pear offering the following choices: * LOAD: This option will load the existing file and CopyCon can be used to modify the file. * OVERWRITE: This option will overwrite the existing file. * EXIT: This option will abort CopyCon. The cursor will be located at the left hand column of your screen. You are now ready to create/edit your file. -5- THE HELP SYSTEM The on line context sensitive help system is very easy to use, yet it has several powerful options. The help system is evoked by depressing function key F1, either a specific topic or a list of help topics will be displayed. Related topics (cross reference topics) can be chosen within a help screen. If there are any cross reference topics, the first cross reference will be highlighted. Other cross reference topics, if any, can be selected by highlighting the topic using the cursor keys. Depressing <Enter> will display the highlighted topic. The help system remembers the last nineteen (19) topics displayed. To display the previous topic simultaneously depress Alt F1. When a specific help topic is displayed the following are the valid keys: Key Action --------- ------------------------------------------------ PgUp,PgDn Display the previous or next help page. Esc Exit the help screen. Arrow Keys Move highlight bar among the cross reference topics, if any, displayed on the current page. <Enter> Select the currently highlighted cross reference topic, and display the first page of that topic. F1 Display the CopyCon's Help Topics index. Another topic can be chosen by moving the highlight bar using the cursor keys and pressing <Enter>. Alt F1 Display the help topic most recently selected. You will find that the help system is so comprehensive, that you will rarely refer to this manual. -6- EDITING COMMANDS CopyCon provides simple editing commands. These commands can be dis- played while editing through the Help Menu which is accessed by de- pressing the F1 function key. The editing commands can be broken into the following sections. CURSOR PAD KEYS: Up Arrow Key: Depressing the Up arrow key will move the cursor to the previous line. Depressing the Up arrow key while on line one will result in the display of an error message. Down Arrow Key: Depressing the Down arrow key will move the cursor to the next line. Depressing the Down arrow key while on the last line entered will result in the display of an error message. Left Arrow Key: Depressing the Left arrow key will move the cursor one position left on the current line. Depressing the Left arrow key while at the leftmost column on the screen will result in the display of an error message. Right Arrow Key: Depressing the Right arrow key will move the cursor one position right on the current line. Depressing the Right arrow key while at the rightmost column on the screen will result in the display of an error message. Home Key: Depressing the HOME key will move the cursor to the leftmost position on the current line. End Key: Depressing the END key will move the cursor to the rightmost position on the current line. Tab Key: Depressing the TAB key will move the cursor right eight (8) spaces. Shift Tab Key: Simultaneously depressing the Shift key and the Tab key will move the cursor left eight (8) spaces. -7- Ctrl Home Key: Simultaneously depressing the Ctrl key and the HOME key will move the cursor to the top of the screen. Ctrl End Key: Simultaneously depressing the Ctrl key and the END key will move the cursor to the bottom of the screen. Ctrl PgDn Key: Simultaneously depressing the Ctrl key and the PgDn key will move the cursor to the end of the file. If the cur- sor is already at the end of the file an error message will be displayed. Ctrl PgUp Key: Simultaneously depressing the Ctrl key and the PgUp key will move the cursor to the top of the file. If the cur- sor is already at the top of the file an error message will be displayed. Ins Key: Depressing the INS key will toggle the Insert Mode on and off. If the Insert Mode is on, "INS" will be dis- played on the top line in inverse video. Del Key: Depressing the DEL key will delete the character under the current cursor position. All characters to the right will move one space to the left. FUNCTION KEYS: F1: Depressing the F1 function key will display the Help Menu. The Help Menu will display screens for all the keys discussed in this section and the following Batch File commands: * Echo * Set * Rem * Pause * Shift * Goto * If * For -8- F2: Depressing the F2 function key will display a listing of all the built in Macros available in this program. F3: Depressing the F3 function key will copy the previous line. (The tutorial will show how useful this can be) F4: Depressing the F4 function key will center the current line on the screen. This feature is multifunctioned. If the line starts with "REM" or "ECHO" the centering will be offset to accommodate for those words. (The tutorial will show how this works) F6: Depressing the F6 function key will save the file and exit the program. SHIFT F6: Simultaneously depressing the SHIFT key and F6 function will save the file and allow editing to continue. F7: Depressing the F7 function key will insert a new line at the current cursor position. F8: Depressing the F8 function key will delete the current line. F9: Depressing the F9 function key will print the file. SHIFT F9: Simultaneously depressing the SHIFT key and F9 function will print the marked block. OTHER KEYS: TAB: Depress the TAB key will move the cursor eight (8) posi- tions to the right. SHIFT TAB: Simultaneously depressing the SHIFT key and the TAB key will move the cursor eight (8) positions to the left. ESC: Depressing the ESC key will abort CopyCon. Once the ESC key has been depressed, CopyCon will ask if you are sure you wish to leave CopyCon. If you do, depress the "Y" key and if you do not simply depress any other key. -9- ALT -: Simultaneously depressing the ALT key and the MINUS key, located next to the 0 key, will allow multiple lines of text to be marked as a block which can be inserted at another location in the file. Once the ALT MINUS key combination has been depressed, a "pop up" window will be displayed asking how many lines will be included in the block. Enter the proper number (0 if you do not want any) and depress <Enter>. The lines of text in the block will be displayed in a dif- ferent color. ALT +: Simultaneously depressing the ALT key and the PLUS key, located next to the BACKSPACE key, will insert the pre- viously marked block in the current line. ALT Z: Simultaneously depressing the ALT key and the letter Z will flush (unmark) the block. ALT A: Simultaneously depressing the ALT key and the letter A will pop up a window containing ASCII characters that can be inserted into your file. Use the ARROW KEYS to highlight the desired ASCII char- acter. When the desired ASCII character is highlighted, depress the <Enter> key. Another window will pop up. This will ask you how many times do you want the selected character to be repeated. Enter the number (0 for none) and depress the <Enter> key. CopyCon will insert the ASCII character at the current cursor position. ALT B: Simultaneously depressing the ALT key and the letter B will pop up the Box Builder (Registered Version Only). The Box Builder allows a box with shading and text to be inserted into your file. Enter the data and the Box Builder will do the rest. This is probably the biggest time saver of the program. -10- MACROS CopyCon has built in Macros. What are Macros? Macros are a character or a series of characters displayed on the screen when a designated key or two designated keys are simultaneously depressed. A list of Macros can be displayed during editing by depressing the F2 function key. The Macros in CopyCon can be divided into two categories. They are: BATCH FILE COMMANDS: CopyCon has assigned several of the most commonly used batch file com- mands to key combinations. They are: Alt C: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "C" key will display "copy " on the screen. Alt E: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "E" key will display "echo " on the screen. Alt F: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "F" key will display "for %% in ( ) do " on the screen. Alt G: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "G" key will display "goto " on the screen. Alt I: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "I" key will display "shift " on the screen. Alt L: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "L" key will display "cls " on the screen. Alt P: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "P" key will display "path " on the screen. Alt R: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "R" key will display "rem" on the screen. Alt S: Simultaneously depressing the Alt key and the "S" key will display "erase" on the screen. -11- GRAPHIC BOXES: Many times boxes look good in batch files. CopyCon has established Mac- ros for both single and double sided boxes. The following will describe the keys used to print the box characters on the screen. SINGLE LINED BOX: Alt F1 - Upper Left Hand Corner Alt F2 - Upper Right Hand Corner Alt F3 - Lower Left Hand Corner Alt F4 - Lower Right Hand Corner Alt F5 - Horizontal Line Alt F6 - Vertical Line Alt F7 - Upper Horizontal Cross Alt F8 - Lower Horizontal Cross Alt F9 - Left Vertical Cross Alt F10- Right Vertical Cross Alt 6 - Center Cross DOUBLE LINED BOX: Ctrl F1 - Upper Left Hand Corner Ctrl F2 - Upper Right Hand Corner Ctrl F3 - Lower Left Hand Corner Ctrl F4 - Lower Right Hand Corner Ctrl F5 - Horizontal Line Ctrl F6 - Vertical Line Ctrl F7 - Upper Horizontal Cross Ctrl F8 - Lower Horizontal Cross Ctrl F9 - Left Vertical Cross Ctrl F10- Right Vertical Cross Alt 5 - Center Cross SHADING: There are several characters that are commonly used for "shading" boxes. CopyCon provides Macros for four (4) of these characters. De- pressing Alt 1, Alt 2, Alt 3 or Alt 4 will insert a "shading" character on the screen. -12- LINE EDITOR COMMANDS The Line Editor is used when entering a new file name. The Line Edi- tor has many features which allow flexibility when entering the file name. The editing commands are: Key Description <Enter> Accept Line Esc Quit without changing line Left Arrow Cursor left one character Right Arrow Cursor right one character Ctrl Left Arrow Cursor left one word Ctrl Right Arrow Cursor right one word Home Cursor to beginning of line End Cursor to end of line Del Delete character under cursor Backspace Delete character left of cursor Ctrl End Delete to end of line Ctrl Y Delete entire line Ctrl Home Delete from beginning of line Ctrl T Delete word to right of cursor Ins Toggle insert mode Ctrl R Restore original contents of line When entering a string, if the first key you depress is any letter, or number the default string will disappear. If you wish to use part of the default string the first character must be one of the keys listed above. -13- VERSION CHANGES Version 5.00 This version is a major update. The new features are: * The Box Builder (Registered Version Only). This allows boxes to be inserted into the file by answering several questions. A real time saver. * Print File/Print Block. The file can be printed by depressing function key F9. The marked block can be printed by simultaneously depressing the SHIFT key and function key F9. * Save and continue. Simultaneously depressing the SHIFT key and function key F6, will save the file and allow editing to continue. * Content sensitive help. A whole new help system has been included in this version. I spent a lot of time preparing the help system to provide a tutorial on batch files. * GETKEY.COM, GETFKEY.COM. These two small programs can be used in batch files to get a key from the keyboard and allow the IF ERRORLEVEL batch file subcommand to branch to the appropriate area of the batch file. * STATUS.BAT, MENU.BAT. These are two sample batch files I have included with the program. STATUS.BAT will capture information from your system and then display it. MENU.BAT is a menuing system that can be modified to use with your computer. It uses GETFKEY.COM. Enhancements to existing features. * Block commands. Added better error checking. * Delete line. Will not allow a line to be deleted from an empty file. Version 4.12 * Hopefully I finally fixed the backspace bug. Version 4.10 has changed the following: * Fixed a bug in the backspace feature. * Fixed a bug when deleting the last line of the file. CopyCon WILL NOT delete a line of a one line file. Version 4.00 has changed the following: * Added the feature of entering a file name if no file name is entered on the command line. * Fixed a bug in line deletion. If you put your cursor on line 1 and deleted each line, using F8, after the last line was deleted the program would freeze. This is not good! Therefore I fixed it. -14- Version 3.60 has changed the following: * Added the "Insert ASCII Character". This will allow ASCII characters not on the keyboard to be inserted into the file. Version 3.52 has changed the following: * Fixed bug when you exit when nothing was entered in a new file. Version 3.50 has changed the following: * Fixed bugs with the delete line function. Sometimes the last line would be lost when saved. * Added "BLOCK" functions. I got so many requests that I added some minor block functions. You can now mark several lines of text, insert text and flush the buffer. You have to enter the number of lines that you want in your block. I feel that is reasonable be- cause this program is designed for small files and by doing this way, there was minimum code to be added, thus keeping the program as small as possible. Version 3.25 has changed the following: * Backup files are now created with an extension of .BAK. * Miscellaneous bugs are fixed. Version 3.10 has changed the following: * Fixed a bug in scrolling up multiple screen files. * Added color to the program. * Change the X,Y on the status line to be Y,X. Version 3.0 has changed the following: * Converted to Turbo Pascal 5.0. * The maximum length of the file is limited only to the size of RAM. * Many of the bugs in 2.0 have been corrected. Version 2.0 has changed the following: * The program was rewritten in Turbo Pascal 4.0. * A Help Menu has been include providing help on some most commonly used batch file commands. -15- Version 1.30 has changed the following: * When copying (F3) the line above, the cursor now goes next line. * Corrected an error when attempting to center (F4) a blank line. * Added cursor X and cursor Y (file line) to the status line. * Added Insert Line (Ctrl N). * Added Delete Current Line (Ctrl Y) Version 1.20 has changed the following: * Better memory allocation. * Limit file size to 500 lines maximum * CopyCon will now load existing files. -16- The JBT ToolBox The program you are using is one of several programs that I have written that are either public domain or shareware. These programs have appeared on bulletin boards, distributed by ShareWare clearing houses and are included in several of the Dvorak-Osborne series of books. Most users of these programs are not aware that the other programs that I have written exist. I have created The JBT Tools to provide an interface that allows all my programs to be used. The following is the programs included in the JBT Tools and a brief description of each program. EzDoss EzDoss is a Dos Shell. As with all Dos shells actions can be taken on multiple files. I have used many Dos shells in the past and they have many features that are great. Unfortunately, all these features are not included in one shell. Therefore, I wrote EzDoss to include the features I like the best. Some of the features are: Copying/Moving When copying or moving files and there is a file with the same name on the destination, most Dos Shells offer only "Overwrite" option. EzDoss provides several options. They are: OverWrite: This option is typical. It will overwrite any the file on the destination with the file on the source. Newer: This option will copy/move the file to the destination only if the file on the destination is OLDER than the file on the source. Copy/Rename: This option will rename the file on the destination and copy the file from the source. Rename/Copy: This option will rename the source file, then copy the file to the destination. These options provide the most flexible options when copying or moving files. -17- Tagging Files: Multiple files can be "tagged". Besides tagging individual files, all files can be tagged, files can be tagged by specifying a "pattern" or by selecting a date in which files newer, older, same or a combination will be tagged. Help System: EzDoss's manual is online. Help for the current function can be displayed by depressing function key F1. Depressing Alt F1 will display the list of help "topics". There are over fifty (50) help "topics". Zip Management: Many of public domain/shareware users access bulletin boards. Files downloaded from these boards are compressed into a "ZIP" file. EzDoss allows files to be "zipped", "zipped" files to be "unzipped" and to display files within a "zip". Those files displayed within a "zip" can be "tagged" and "unzipped", viewed on the screen or deleted from the zip file. Disk Sort: When files are displayed, they can be sorted eight (8) different ways. This does not sort the files on the disk. EzDoss DOES provide a public domain program that can be called from within EzDoss that will sort the disk. Search: EzDoss comes with EzFind. EzFind will search any non executable files for a string. This can be used to find a key word within wordprocessing files that are not ASCII. These are just a few of the many features that EzDoss has. I use this program every day, and I am sure you will find it as useful. EzEdit: EzEdit is a text editor. The file to be edited/created is displayed in a window. EzEdit can have multiple windows opened. A block of text can be copied to the "clipboard" where the text can be copied/moved into other files. -18- Windows moveable and resizeable. A pop up calculator and ASCII chart also come with the program. EzView: EzView will display an ASCII file in a window. EzView can have multiple windows opened. Windows are moveable and resizeable. EzLocate: EzLocate is a file finder program. Multiple drives can be scanned for files which meet the user specified masks. Multiple masks can be specified. EzLocate can also look inside ARC and ZIP files for the user specified masks. Find Duplicates: Find Duplicates is a program that can scan multiple disk drives and find all the files with duplicate file names. Once the drive(s) have been scanned, the duplicate files are displayed on the screen. Each file can be viewed (ASCII only), renamed, suspend to DOS in that file's subdirectory or "tagged" for deletion. Find Duplicates can list duplicate files that are stored in ARC and ZIP files. If your PC has PKZIP and ARC or PKUNPAK, those duplicate files can be deleted within the ZIP or ARC files. Back Off!: Back Off! is an utility that you will use on a weekly basis. Back Off! is a multiple file extension deletion program. It will search any and all drives for files ending with extensions matching a previously prepared list. (i.e. .BAK, .CHK, .$$$). Back Off! will show you the matching filenames and their locations, and give you the option of viewing them and/or "tagging" and deleting them. CopyCon: When I first used a MSDOS PC, I wrote small batch files using COPY CON command from the Dos prompt. If I had a dime for every time i goofed and had to start over again, I would be a rich man. I wrote CopyCon to help me write small batch files. CopyCon has grown since version 1.00 and now not only allows simple batch files to be created/edited, but allows graphic boxes, ASCII characters to be inserted and line centering. -19- One of the most important features of CopyCon is the on line help. Not only does the help provide information on how CopyCon works, but it is a reference on batch file commands including examples. Also included are two small programs that can be used in batch files and two useful batch files. They are STATUS.BAT which will read your PC and list out its status. The other batch file is MENU.BAT which is a menuing system that is all set up. You will find that these programs will increase your productivity and make using your PC easier. The following page is an INVOICE that you can order the JBT Tools from: JBT TOOLS INVOICE Remit to: From: JB Technology Inc. __________________________ 28701 N. Main St. Ridgefield, Wa. 98642 __________________________ (206) 887-3442 __________________________ __________________________ Contact Individual __________________________ __________________________ Quantity Unit Price Total _______ JBT Tools Software $35.00 ___________ _______ JBT Tools Manual $20.00 ___________ (Laser Quality) Total ___________ I want 5 1/4" _______ 3 1/2" _______ diskette. (Check One) Note that The JB Tools computer software has been delivered and accepted by the customer. Upon receipt of paid invoice, a current disk will be sent.