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OCR: < < <<< DirKING v3.00 >>> > > WHAT'S NEW ? - Release : 16-Feb-94 Copyright -1990-1994 Chris P. Vandierendonck, [AmiSYS]. o Improvements : Most part of the program has been rewritten in assembler, so the code is more compact and faster! Due to the new listing formatting code, it's now much easier for the user to have full control on the listing formats. DirKing now fully supports AmigaDOS v1.2 up to v3.1. This means that multiple assigns, links and datatypes are now supported. Instead of one directory path to scan, several can now be As of AmigaDOS v2.0, directory and file links are supported. specified. (Note: since AmigaDOS v3.1 doesn't yet support soft links, I've waited to implement them until Dirking v3.10!) Circular directory links are recognized, does avoiding end less As of AmigaDOS v2.0, the full range of AmigaDOS pattern codes are supported! DirKing also includes wildcard bursting, which automatically makes the AmigaDOS code '*' available for the whole Amiga system. pattern As of AmigaDOS v2.1, ' locale' formatted values are supported. As of AmigaDOS v3.0, datatypes are supported. Generated script files (by LFORMAT) can now be directly executed from within Dirking, thus making the use of EXECUTE obsolete. Filtering on datatypes, comments and protection flags is now supported. Numerous new options and info fields have been implemented, including a HUNT mode. More information about the scanned volume/disk is given in the DiskInfoBlock header. The order of the fields has also been rearranged, making it more straightforward. Several environment variables are supported, allowing to create ones own default settings. The listing can also be outputted stripped of all print control sequences, thus pure text remains. The prompts now respond to single keypresses, making the use of an additional return obsolete. D Additional tools: As of AmigaDOS v2.0, the following tools can be used in regard of directory and file links: 'MakeLINK', 'DeleteLINK' and 'ShowLINK' . As of AmigaDOS v3.0, the following tools can be used in regard of datatypes: 'ShowLINK' As of AmigaDOS v2.0, the following tools can be used to DirKING v3.00 Update - Page 1 enable/disable the use of the AmigaDOS pattern code which has the same function as '#?' : 'BurstWILDSTAR' and 'PurgeWILDSTAR' . n Changes : The INCL/EXCL flag 'f' has been replaced by 'x'. This flag includes all default info fields, without having to specify them with the above named options. The FROM . . TO option has been renamed to "FROMTO". Instead of two single-character arguments, the keyword must be followed by one two-character argument. The NEWPAGE , HEAD, INCL , EXCL and SORT flags have been changed! See below. The responses to the MULTI prompt have been changed to RETURN, ESC, DEL and HELP! Enhancements : Besides the two filter options 'F' and 'D', a new option has been added to make sure that the filter is used on both files and dirs incase the filter should began with a capital 'F' , or 'D' . The new option is 'B', which stands for 'both' One should use this option in case DirKING could misinterprete the filter. - The conditional dates can now also be given as an offset to the current day. E.g. - 1 means yesterday, 0 today, and 1 tomorrow. Four new item codes were added to the date formatting options : - 0 : full month name - D : days since 1/1/1978 - U : minutes since 00:00 - I : ticks since last minute - Added support of Exec . RawDoFmt () like item formatting with all format options. Also implemented the formfeed control code. The NEWPAGE prompt has been enhanced and now accepts four accepts four possible responses: RETURN (next page), SPACE (next line), L (rest of listing) and ESC (quit listing). The protection flags have been expanded with two new flags: the first flag reflects if it's a file ('f' ) or a dir ('d'); the second flag reflects if it's a hardlink ('H'), a softlink ('S') or a pipe ('P'), or '-' if nothing of the above . Several new info fields have been introduced, they are accessed through the following codes: - X : replaces the F flag with INCL/EXCL - R : number of sub-dirs in a directory I : number of files in a directory - S : DOS datestamp (days, mins, ticks) - 0 : table-comment - C : line-comment - P : full path F : path relative to scanned path H : link V : datatype descriptor W : datatype basename DirKING v3.00 Update - Page 2 - Y : datatype type - G : datatype group ID - J : datatype ID - M : nakes name (without extension) - E : name extension New sort fields : - M : naked name E : extension - R : number of sub-dirs - I : number of files - Y : datatype type - B : blocks - L : bytes - C : comment Removed sort field: - S : size, use 'B' or 'L' instead. New NEWPAGE flags : - C : clear page/screen before listing output - E : eject page/screen after listing output - M : clear page/screen before each multiple assign list New HEAD flags ( !! ) : - M : equals 'HEAD dupkti' N : equals 'HEAD di' - B : equals 'HEAD i' - D : show date of scan - V : show volumename and creationdate - P : show scanned path K : show diskinfoblock T : show listing item titles I : show listing items S : show end statistics E : show end-of-dir message o New Options: SFORMAT : allows custom datestamp formatting, in the same manner as with DFORMAT and TFORMAT. TABLEFMT : allows to specify the place and with of each HUNT info field in the listing table. : allows to search for particular files/dirs in a given directory. Output can be formatted in a LFORMAT manner . DIRINFO selects information on each directory, the blocks and bytes fields will now have a value BASE instead of the 'Dir' string. : this will limit the dirinfo to the base level of the directory, thus ignoring info on sub- dirs of its sub-dirs. LISTLEVELS : limits the number of directory levels shown in the listing, independent of what levels have LOCVALS been scanned. : users of AmigaDOS v2.1 and later, can select 'locale' formatted values with this option. NOREQ : prevents a system requester from popping up when a specified volume/disk/device can't be found. ASSLATE : by default, late assigns (supported by AmigaDOS v2.0 and later) aren't read. This option forces Dirking to make this assign effective so it can DirKING v3.00 Update - Page scan it. L INKD IRS by default, no linked dirs (supported as of AmigaDOS v2.0 and later) will be scanned. Using this option will force Dirking to enter these linked dirs. NOENV : disables the use of the Dirking environment variables . TEXT : strips the listing of all print control sequences, thus leaving only pure text. EXEC : a LFORMAT generated script will be automatically executed from within Dirking, making the use of EXECUTE obsolete. DATATYPE : allows to filter files on their datatype type. COMMENT : allows filtering files/dirs on their comment. FLAGS : allows filtering files/dirs on their protection flags.