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1 Mar, 1991
Name: Dialing Directory Editor for ProComm Plus 2.0
Version 1.0
David A. Gersic
gersic@mp.cs.niu.edu Internet
gersic@nirvana.acs.niu.edu Internet (alternate)
A10DAG1@NIU.BITNET Bitnet
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Purpose: To allow the dialing directory for ProComm Plus 2.0 to be
selectively rearranged.
Format: dde
Remarks: ProComm Plus 2.0 is a very powerful communications tool. It's
Dialing Directory is missing one feature, however, and that is the
ability to move an entry to another spot in the directory. This
makes arranging the entries into a convenient order very
difficult. I wrote this program to rectify this situation, and to
provide an opportunity to test IDC's TCXL C library with a "real
world" type application.
Operation: Using dde is fairly straight-forward. After starting dde, an
opening menu will appear. This will allow you to pick a dialing
directory (*.dir) file to edit. Select a file either with the <up-
arrow> and <down-arrow> keys, or by clicking on it with the mouse
(left button). If you are using the keyboard, highlight the
filename and press <return>. This will open the selected dialing
directory for modification.
Once a directory is selected, the file-pick window will close and
two new windows will open, labeled "Source" and "Destination". The
Source window will be the directory you selected, and the
Destination window will be blank. The directory can be modified
using either the keyboard or a mouse.
To use the keyboard, the keys are <up-arrow>, <down-arrow>, <page-
up>, <page-down>, <return>, and <escape>. The <up-arrow>, <down-
arrow>, <page-up> and <page-down> keys move the highlight bar in
the current window, the <return> key selects the current entry,
and the <escape> key exits. By selecting entries from the left
(Source) and putting them on the right (Destination), you can re-
arrange your directory to whatever order you want. Any entries NOT
selected on the right (Destination) window will be copied
automatically from the left (Source) window.
Mouse operation is similar, but the up and down scroll arrows are
used to scroll the windows, and the left button is used to select
entries in either window. Left-clicking in the Source window will
select an entry (highlight it). Left-clicking in the Destination
window will put the selected entry from the Source window into the
Destination window. The right button is the same as the <escape>
key, and will end the editing session.
When you have moved all of the entries that you want in new
places, either the <escape> key or right mouse button will exit
from the edit windows. The two edit windows will close, and you
will be prompted for a file name to save the changes into. Type in
a legal DOS file name ->without<- the extension. For example, a
file name of "new" will be saved as "new.dir" because the
extension is added automatically. If you type an extension, it
will be stripped off and the ".dir" extension will be added in its
place, so "new" or "new.fil" or "new.new" will all be saved as
"new.dir". If you want to abort the changes you have made,
pressing the <escape> key or right mouse button will end without
saving. After typing in the filename and pressing <return>, your
new directory will be saved in the directory from which you
started dde with the name you typed in.
After either saving your work or aborting it with <escape>, you
will be returned to the file selection menu. If you do not want to
edit another directory, press <escape> or the right mouse button
to exit to DOS.
Notes: This is a "quick and dirty" program to fill a need. It was written
in about a week of part-time programming to test a shareware
library and to make my life a little easier. While I have tried
to eliminate all bugs, I make no warrantee that it will do anything
at all for you. I am releasing the source code to it, do with it
what you will. If any of it is used in your own program(s), please
give credit where credit is due.
David Gersic
1 March 1991