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Documentation for BrowserII V2.41
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If you use a previous release of ParM, and tools that makes use of
parm.library (BrowserII), you _MUST_ replace ALL theses with those given
in this release. The new parm.library version 7 is not compatable with
previous ones. It was just not possible to do it. As promised in
previous release, this new ParM only works with AmigaDOS version 37 or
higher. ParM no more needs arp nor req libraries. OS 2.0 made it
possible.
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Copyright:
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ParM and BrowserII are copyrighted; they may not be sold in or together
with commercial software without written approval by the authors. They
may be freely distributed for a fee which will not exceed the equivalent
of French Francs 15.- (this includes the cost of the diskette and the
postage); they cannot be made available for downloading from a server
which is a commercial operation. The general principle is that it is
forbidden to make a profit through the use or distribution of these
programs without our written consent.
ParM V3.5 (or higher) and BrowserII V2.0 (or higher) may NOT be duplicated
for other things than backup. Only Authors are autorized to give it to
other people.
DISCLAIMER:
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We accept no responsability for the use or misuse of these programs,
and for the damage they could produce. Use at your own risks.
Nevertheless, we think that after several month of intensive use by four
persons, they have been tested enough to say they are safe.
History:
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We wrote BrowserII after having used for 2 years the original Browser
(version 1.6A) written by Peter Da Silva. We were not fully satisfied
because of some of its limitations so, as soon as we felt capable of
writing a program which would overcome those limitations, we made a
decision to do it. So BrowserII was born ... The Return !
We felt the overall layout and display mode of Browser were very good, so
we decided to keep them, as well as the name, so that actual users of
Browser would immediately feel home with BrowserII.
As we never had the sources of Browser at hand, we rewrote it from
scratch.
Beginners claimed many times that BrowserII was difficult to use and very
complicated. Really, we don't understand that since BrowserII works
exactly like workbench. To copy files, you just have to select them and
to drag them over the destination directory. It's power is far from other
file manager tools which are able to display only to directories, and are
full of useless gadgets which cluter up more than the half of the screen
display. We think that menus are more adapted to commands not often used,
and keyboard shortcuts quicker than gadgets for regular operations.
Any way, a special window with parametrable gadgets will be taken into
consideration in a next release using gadtools.library of new OS 2.0.
Another advantage of BrowserII is that it is small (80 KBytes !). It has
the most powerfull copy process, and doesn't include text viewers,
editors, or any IFF viewers. With this phylosophy, you can use the best
tools of each kind, text viewer (we use the great MuchMorePoPa 2.7 which
can be made resident), IFF viewer (we use Mostra which is pure too). You
are not limited with the number of parametrable menus...
Finally, BrowserII is the best file manager ! Don't you think so ?
Another positive thing because other don't do it, is that all disk errors
are properly reported with a message (not an error number), files can be
individually skipped, or operation aborted. (some tools continue to write
files after a 'disk full' error. Nice isn't it!).
Installation:
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While you can put BrowserII in any directory, you must copy parm.library
and in LIBS:. If you want to take advantage of the parametrable menus of
BrowserII, don't forget to build a BrowserII.menu file, and to put it in
S:.
Since V2.10, BrowserII will recognize file types if you have the
whatis.library in your LIBS: directory. (See doc for this library).
The reqtools.library is required for customising screen colors.
Demo Version:
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The registered version and demo version are indentical. When you become a
registered user, you get a key file, and you'll be registered forever. So
you can get updates from fish disks, or BBS, without asking directly to
us. When you are not registered, the About requester appears from time to
time.
Tutorial:
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Some friends made a tutorial for unexperimented user. The french version
makes use of a lot of pictures. have a look at them, they are very
atractive. Note that both tutorials are about using Version 2.04. A few
things were added since then but the mind didn't change!
Gadgets:
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BrowserII windows now have three more gadgets. The first one is the
iconification gadget, just below the close gadget. If you press this
gadget, two things can happen:
1.
If it is the main window (the one where appears devices, volumes, and
assigns), BrowserII will be iconified, that is to say that a small window
in workbench screen will open, and all BrowserII windows and screen will
be closed. This small window has a close gadget which enables you to quit
BrowserII without uniconifying BrowserII. To uniconify BrowserII, press
right mouse button.
2.
If it is a directory window, the window will be closed, and an entry will
be added in Alien Window, whether it is open or not. Alien Window can be
open using F5 or menu 'Window->Open->Alien Window'. To uniconify an
iconified window, just double click on the corresponding entry in alien
window. You can uniconify several windows sumultaneously by selecting
several entries in alien window, and double clicking on one of them.
If one entry only is selected in Alien Window, the full path of the
directory is displayed in the bottom border of this window.
The other two gadgets are invisible. The first one is the ZOOM gadget and
is the top half of the jauges, while the second one is the UNZOOM gadget
and is the bottom half of the jauges. If you ask for a zoom while the
directory to be zoomed is currently scanning, the zoom is defered at the
end of scan.
Menus:
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* BrowserII
BrowserII -> Update menus
Reloads the parametrable menus file "S:BrowserII.menu". This file is an
ASCII file with the same syntax as the configuration file of ParM. Some
option has been added: the selected files in BrowserII will be inserted
at the [] or [:] if any, with full path calculated from current window.
Example: you have selected "S:" in the main window of BrowserII
you have defined a menu item as follows:
ITEM Sizer RUN WIN CON:0/11/400/100/Sizer/Close/Wait Sizer []
activating the menu item Sizer will be equivalent to
executing the following command in a shell:
Sizer S:
If there are no [], then the names of the selected files are simply
appended to the end of the command line.
Have a look at ParM.doc for the WBTF option in menu items to bring
workbench to front when running commands.
There is an alternative to get arguments with a full pathname, rather than
a path relative to the current directory (active window). just put [:]
instead of [] in the command line.
But be warned. In most cases, _this is not necessary_, and dangerous!
Because volume names may not be unique, files passed as parameters may not
be the ones you selecte