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CDP (Cliff's Directory Program) is Copyright (C) 1989 by Cliff Roberson
dba GoodWare, 926 Leighton Way, Sunnyvale, CA. 94087
All Rights Reserved In the United States and Worldwide
Getting Started With CDPSW
--------------------------
The main purpose of this file is to enable you to have CDPSW running
properly as fast as possible. Secondarily, it is to draw your attention to
the notice above and the stipulations at the end of this file.
Note that there are 3 versions of CDP, with the names CDP, CDPW2,
and CDPSW. Each of these must be run under its proper name. If you rename the
file to something else, it will lose its Help capability! CDPSW is shareware,
and behaves slightly differently because of the shareware screens which it
must display; but it has all the functionality of the "registered CDP.
CDP is primarily for systems with a hard disk. It is overkill for
a floppy-only system. CDP requires DOS 2.0 or higher. It requires up to 175KB
of memory when it is started. But if it is resident as a TSR and swapping to
EMS or a disk, then it effectively releases all but 9KB for use by other
programs.
-----------------------------
Special Note for the Overeager Who Have Certain Two-color Monitors:
If you have a non-color monitor that shows colors as shades of dark,
CDP may be fooled into thinking you have a color monitor. Compaqs and many
laptops behave in that way. If the cursor is all wrong, etc., add a Y to
the command line, for instance:
CDPSW Y (and CDP will use more visible monochrome colors)
Running CDP
-----------
Use The Help
The function keys F1, F2, and F3 offer voluminous help at
any time. Use them!! F1 is contextual (about whatever function the
menu cursor is on). F2 tells you all about cursors and how to navigate
the menus. F3 tells you about the hot keys (you can do it with menus
or you can do it with a single keystroke).
Use the Help Keys! There are 340 help screens!!
Installing CDPSW
----------------
If you simply unpack the CDP package to any directory (including
root), you have essentially installed it. Unlike other programs, CDP does
not require any SET statements or special paths.
If CDPSW.EXE is on your path or in your logged directory, just type:
CDPSW
If you printed this file by having CDPSW do it, we apologize for
repeating information you already have discoverd by yourself.
If CDPSW is not on your path or in your directory, just type
X:PATH\CDPSW
where X:PATH is whatever is required to get to CDPSW.
If You Can't Access the Help
----------------------------
CDP gets its help screens by reading file CDP.EXE itself. It will
usually find and read itself with no problem. It will not be able to find
itself if it has been renamed to anything else. (Similarly, CDPW2 gets its
help from CDPW2.EXE.) The only known problem occurs if CDP is run from a
network disk. CDP cannot read from a network disk.
CDPSW, because of the way the shareware screens were implemented,
must normally be run in the current directory. If you invoke it by
X:PATH\CDPSW +
it may be run from any directory. However, in that case it is more often
unsuccesful in finding itself, and thus also will not find its help. So
if you want to assure that CDPSW finds its help, you should run it from
the directory it is contained in. CDP, the "registered" version, does not
have this problem.
If the help is lost, you can access it by logging CDPSW to the disk
that CDPSW.EXE is contained on.
CDP's Command Line (If You Need It)
-----------------------------------
The full syntax of the CDP command line is:
CDP [+] [D] [Y] [Z] [0-6]
The brackets are not typed. They are a standard notation to imply
that what is enclosed is optional. As you can see, all parameters
are optional.
+ signifies that CDP is to come up immediately. It does not
make itself resident in memory at that time. It only goes
resident if you do a QUIT-QUIT (or ctrl-Q).
Before you use CDPRENAM to personalize the registered CDP,
it always goes resident.
When CDP is resident, it waits in memory, EMS, or disk,
for you to tap-tap Lshift-Lshift (strike the lshift key twice
in rapid succession -- 1/2 sec or less apart). If you tap-tap
Rshift-Rshift, CDP will come up in your currently logged DOS
directory. You should omit the + if you install CDP via a
batch file.
NOTE: CDPSW, the shareware version, reverses the use of the +.
If you omit the +, the begging (bugging??) shareware screen
comes up. You may bypass that screen by using the +, but then
CDPSW will put up a begging banner and go resident. This
allows you to run the shareware version from a batch file.
Please excuse this inconvenience; but we do want to draw your
attention to the fact that we are trying to make a living
from our software.
The double-strike hotkey is not used by any common program
that we know of. The banner shows how much memory CDP is
using! And how much free memory there was and now is.
D is the disk drive you wish CDP to work on when it first
starts. If D is not present, CDP will start up on the disk
that you were logged onto when you invoked CDP (even if from
a batch file with the + option). This option holds only if
you use Lshift-Lshift as the hot key. Rshift-Rshift always
brings up CDP in the current DOS directory, wherever it is.
Y is a special option that causes CDP to run as if your screen
were monochrome. You don't need it for a color monitor.
Z reverses the sides of the CDP screen. Normally, statistics,
etc., are on the right and the directory tree is on the left.
But typing Z allows it to be the other way around. (Note: CDP
will not log onto a network disk, so unless you are very
unusual, you will not lose access to any disk Y or Z.)
0-6 are options as to how CDP will take residency as a TSR. This
allows you to allocate your memory and hard disks as best
fits your system. 4 is the default assumption that CDP makes
if you do not type in a number (swaps to as much LIM-EMS (up
to 169K) as it can get (but must have at least 64k); uses
first hard (or RAM) disk that has room enough (up to 226K)
otherwise). Here are all the numbers:
0 ; do not swap on either EMS or disk (use memory)
1 ; swap using only 64K of EMS
2 ; swap using only 112K of EMS
3 ; swap using 176K of EMS
4 ; use as much EMS as possible; use disk if no EMS
5 ; use EMS if can get 176K; otherwise, use disk
6 ; use disk to swap -- ignore EMS
CDP's Disk Domain
-----------------
CDP shows one disk at a time on the monitor screen. CDPW2 is a 2nd
version of CDP that has a second tree that can be used toshow a 2nd disk.
CDPW2 requires an extra 5K of resident code, so CDPW2 requires 14K to be a
resident TSR. The 2nd tree can only show directories. However, it is handy
for the purpose of instant logging from a directory deep in a tree on one disk
to a deep directory on another. CDPSW, the shareware version, does not have
the 2nd tree.
CDP gathers all the information about its logged disk and keeps it
memory-resident, or swapped to EMS or disk with the code part of CDP. Most
of the space CDP takes up is used for data, disk buffers, and saving the
screen.
CDP will refuse to run on a LOGICAL disk of over 132MB. It will run
on smaller disks on the same system, so long as you do not try to log CDP to
the big one. CDP can handle up to 2800 files and 200 directories on a single
logical disk. You may have multiple physical disks of any size and multiple
logical disks.
We feel that a logical disk with more than 2800 files on it is
unwise. Likewise, more than 64 MB on a logical disk. For those of you who do
this, have fun waiting on DOS to wade through your convoluted jungle of
directories and creep through your big FAT sectors. DOS (whatever version)
does not suffer large disks gladly.
CDP cannot work wit