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Hard Disk
DIRECTOR
Complete program, file and directory management for
IBM PCs and compatibles.
Version 4.0
Helpware
1537 Fourth Street Suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 453-9779
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| ____|__ | Association of
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|___|___| MEMBER
This program is produced by a member of the Association of
Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that
the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to
resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by
contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help.
The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem
with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support
for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at
P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
This software and manual is sold "AS IS" and without
warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other
warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the
various hardware and software environments into which this
program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose is offered.
Good data processing procedures dictate that any program be
thoroughly tested with non-critical data before relying on
it. The user must assume the entire risk of using the
program. Any liability of the seller will be limited
exclusively to product replacement or refund of the purchase
price.
You Probably Didn't Pay For This Software, But It Isn't Free.
DIRECTOR is being marketed as Shareware. A Shareware program
can be downloaded from numerous bulletin boards around the
country. It may also come on a disk with other Shareware
programs, the disk usually being sold for under $5.00. The
philosophy behind Shareware is simple. Good quality software can
be obtained for free, or practically so, for you to try out. You
are free to copy the programs and pass them on to friends. They
also can use the program and see if it meets their needs. If
only after trying out the product any of you decide you like the
program and find yourselves using it regularly, you are required
to register with the author and pay the usually low registration
fee.
Because Shareware authors don't have to pay the high costs of
advertising and distribution, they can provide you with high
quality software at very reasonable prices. However, Shareware
will only exist if you register for the programs you are using.
Major software companies are constantly announcing release dates
of new products and then later pushing forward those release
dates by many months. The reason for these delays is that good
software takes a long time to develop and debug. The same is
true for good Shareware. The DIRECTOR programs, DL.EXE, DB.EXE,
DA.EXE and DM.EXE, took a long time to develop and I am constantly
trying to make them run faster and add new features. It is only
through your support that I'll be able to continue to do this.
The registration price for DL and DB are 30.00. When you
register, you will be sent the latest versions and a complete
manual on disk. For $ 5.00 more you can also get a printed copy
of the manual. I am also available by phone or on Compuserve,
where my ID # is 71320,1277, to answer any questions or receive
any suggestions for future releases.
DIRECTOR is constantly being improved. I've already written a
viewer for WordPerfect and dBase files. If you register, you will
get these additions plus other improvements, plus unlimited
support by phone, letter or CompuServe. The registered version
will also not have a trailer on it telling you to register.
You have 30 days to evaluate DIRECTOR and and see if you like
it. If, after that you continue to use it, you are required to
register.
This is DIRECTOR Version 4.0 A complete set of DIRECTOR
Version 4.0 should include the following programs:
DL.EXE Directory and file manager.
DB.EXE File manager.
DA.EXE Whole drive file manager
DM.EXE Hard disk menu.
DCONFIG.EXE Configuration program for DL.EXE, DB.EXE,
DA.EXE and DM.EXE.
$DM$.BAT Batch file used by DM to run programs.
DIRECTOR.DOC Complete manual for DIRECTOR.
DIRREG.DOC Registration form.
DIRSITE.DOC Site license information.
DIRREV.DOC Revision information.
READ.ME This file will be on the diskette only if
there is last minute information that didn't
make it to the manual.
Table of Contents
What is Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Installing DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Configuring DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
View Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
View All Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Change Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Remove Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rename Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Copying or Moving Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Make Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Marking Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Search for Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Util Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
View Disk and file Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Print Directory Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hide and Unhide Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
About Hard Disk Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Exit to The Highlighted Directory. . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Shell to DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Pop Up DM.EXE Hard Disk Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
DB.EXE and the File View in DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
View file contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Editing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Marking Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Unmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Mark All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Unmark all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Remark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Copy Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Move files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Changing the filename when copying or moving . . . . . . 20
Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Rename Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Sorting the File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Running Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Util Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Print File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Print File Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Changing File Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Using a File Specification Filter . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Disk Usage Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DB.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
DA.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Duplicate Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Marking Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Adding Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Writing Data Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Alternate File View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
DM.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Running Programs in DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Adding and Changing Programs in DM . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Running Programs in DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Command Summary for DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Command Summary for DB.EXE and the File View of DL.EXE . . . 35
Command Summary for DA.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
About Disks and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Registration form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
WHAT IS HARD DISK DIRECTOR
Hard Disk Director is made up of four main programs: DL.EXE,
DB.EXE, DA.EXE and DM.EXE.
DL.EXE is a full featured shell. It starts off giving you a
directory tree. From the directory tree you can add, delete, move,
hide and unhide and rename directories as well as change drives,
search for files and print a copy of the tree. DL can now move or
copy whole branches of directories.
Highlighting any directory in DL and pressing "Enter" will show you
a sorted list of the files in that directory. You can edit, view,
copy, rename, print, and resort any single file or group of marked
files. You can also run any program or batch file.
DB.EXE is a stripped down version of DL. DB gives you a sorted
file list for any directory. Pathnames, file specifications and
sort parameters can be added to the command line. I use DB instead
of "DIR" when I want to see what files are in a directory because
then I can copy move, view or edit them.
DA.EXE is like DB but shows you all the files on a particular
drive. For example, typing "DA" and pressing "Enter" on your C
drive will show you all the files in every directory on your drive
C. You can also add additional drives to the file view. Pressing
the "Tab" key will show only the duplicate files. You can also use
DA to keep track of your files. DA will write ASCII, ASCII
Delimited and DBF files of the file list. DA can be run from the
command line or from DL by pressing ^Enter. DM is a full featured
hard disk menu. You can add up to 20 entries to the main menu and
have unlimited sub menus of up to 19 entries each. DM can be run
from the command line or also popped up in DL or DB by pressing the
slash, "/", key. When running DM from DL or DB, you can run
programs and add the highlighted or marked files from DL and DB to
the command line. In this manner you can add your favorite archive
utility to DM, mark a group of files in DL or DB, and them pop up
DM and run your archive program and add the marked files to the
command line.
Hard Disk Director will run on all IBM compatible PCs running DOS
2.0 or later. This version has been made compatible with many
network drives. However Hard Disk Director does no file sharing or
locking and is not aware of other users on a network, so you will
have to determine its suitability for your network.
DL.EXE wants a minimum of 200 kilobytes of memory to run properly.
Under DOS 4.0 where you are able to have hard disk partitions of
over 32 megabytes, DL may require more memory depending on the size
of the hard disk partition. DB would like at least 128 kilobytes
of memory to run in. DL.EXE can handle drives with up to 350
directories and directories of up to 600 files. It can handle
paths of up to nine directories deep. The memory DA requires
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depends on the amount of files on the drive that it is reading. A
minimum of 300 kilobytes is recommended for a 20 megabyte drive.
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INSTALLING HARD DISK DIRECTOR
For best results, all the director programs should be copied to a
single directory on your hard disk. You can create a new directory
for Hard Disk Director or you can copy the files to an existing
directory on your hard disk. The important thing is to put the Hard
Disk Director programs in a directory that is on your path. If you
don't know what a path is, you might want to read the section at
the end of this manual titled "ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES".
Make the directory that you want to put Hard Disk Director in the
current directory and put the Hard Disk Director disk in drive A:
Type "copy a:*.*". That will copy all of the Hard Disk Director
programs to that directory on your hard disk.
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CONFIGURING HARD DISK DIRECTOR
You can start Hard Disk Director immediately and access most of its
features. However if you want to install a text editor or word
processor, change Hard Disk Director's colors and further customize
Hard Disk Director, you should first run the configuration program
DCONFIG. If your computer is running a version of DOS 2, you
should also run DCONFIG before you try to run programs from Hard
Disk Director.
Go to the directory where the Hard Disk Director programs are and
type "DCONFIG". The following menu will pop up on the screen.
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ configure all Programs │
│ configure dL.exe │
│ configure dB.exe │
│ configure dA.exe │
│ configure dM.exe │
│ change Colors │
│ Exit │
└──────────────────────────┘
You can see that you have the options of configuring each program
separately or configuring them all together. We will go through
the process as if we were going to configure all the programs. The
operation will be very similar for the other options.
To choose an option, you can either highlight it by using the arrow
keys and then press Enter, or you can press the one letter that is
capitalized in the option. For configuring all programs, that
letter would be "P". Once you've chosen an option, DCONFIG will
try to find the program and read in what options are already set.
DCONFIG will first look in the current directory to find the
program; if it can't find it there, DCONFIG will then search the
directories of your path. If it still can't find it, DCONFIG will
exit with the error message "Can't find [program name]." Likewise,
if you have an earlier version of Hard Disk Director, DCONFIG will
exit with the message "Wrong Version of [program name]".
You can move forwards and backwards through DCONFIG using the down
arrow or Enter key and using the up arrow respectively. You can
always exit from DCONFIG at any time by pressing the F10 key. You
will then be prompted if you want to save the changes you have made
and then you will return to the main menu.
The first question that DCONFIG will ask you is what drive and
directory you have Hard Disk Director installed on. For example,
my copy of Hard Disk Director resides on the Util directory of my
drive D:, so I would enter "D:\UTIL".
The second question that DCONFIG will ask you is whether your
monitor can display more than 25 lines or information. Many EGA
and VGA monitors can display 43 or 50 lines or more. Hard Disk
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Director tries to read the computer when it first loads to
determine how many lines to display. However, some computers,
especially older AT&T models, give Hard Disk Director erroneous
information. So you need to tell Hard Disk Director if your
computer can display more lines or not.
Hard Disk Director allows you to run a text editor or word
processor to edit the highlighted file. You are first asked to
enter the drive and directory of the text editor and then you need
to supply its filename. I use the shareware program Qedit which
resides in the "QEDIT" directory on my drive D:, so I would enter
"D:\QEDIT " for the path and "Q.EXE" for the filename.
You can view any file in Hard Disk Director by highlighting the
file and pressing Enter. Many users have requested the option of
installing a more featured viewing program such as Vernon Beurg's
LIST. If you want to install a separate viewing program, you can
do so by filling in the information in the next screen. If you
want to use Hard Disk Director's file view, just leave that screen
blank.
You can configure DL and DB so that a dialog box pops up for you to
add command line arguments at run time when running programs.
Answer "Y" or "N" whether you want to add command line arguments at
run time when running programs.
After DL reads the directory tree, it will save a copy of this tree
to disk, so that future loads of DL will be much faster. If you
make, rename or remove any directories in DL, this tree file will
be updated automatically. If you create a directory through the
file view of DL, by copying files to a non existent directory, the
tree file will be automatically erased so the next run of DL will
read the disk again. You can always force a reread of the drive by
pressing F2 (CHANGE DRIVE) and then pressing the "TAB" key or
clicking the mouse on "TAB REREAD DRIVE".
The next question DCONFIG will ask you is if you want DL to save
the tree information to disk. The default is "Y" (yes). If you
don't want DL configured to save the tree, press "N" (no) and press
Enter.
The file list of Hard Disk Director is normally sorted by filename.
The next question asked by DCONFIG is if you'd like to have it
sorted differently. Your sort choices are filename, extension,
date, size and unsorted.
Hard Disk Director will allow you to move and copy files even if
they overwrite files in the target directory. In the next screen
of DCONFIG you can enter whether you want to be warned before the
overwriting will take place. If you have the warnings turned on,
Hard Disk Director will also allow you to turn off the warnings
temporarily for each copy and move session.
Mouse users are provided with a scroll bar in the directory and
file views of Hard Disk Director. By clicking on the scroll bar,
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you can scroll up or down one page or one line at a time. When you
are viewing the contents of files, mouse users will also have a
scroll bar on the left side of their screen. Some users have
complained about the loss of a full screen for viewing files
because the scroll bar takes up the left 2 columns. If you are one
of these people, you can choose not to have the scroll bar visible
at this time.
Even if the scroll bar is not shown, you will still be able to
scroll up and down by clicking on the leftmost column of your
screen.
On your computer screen, DL uses the IBM extended character set box
drawing characters ╚ ═ ╣ to display the directory tree. Some
printers can't print these characters so DL uses "+" and "=" when
printing. DCONFIG will ask you if your printer can print these
characters and if you want your printer to use them to print the
directory tree.
DCONFIG will then ask you if you want to have Hard Disk Director
send a particular setup string to the printer before it prints.
You can enter any setup string such as bold or compressed; and
each time you print, Hard Disk Director will first send the string
to the printer. If your printer needs to have the Escape key in
the setup string, you can easily enter it here by pressing Escape.
DCONFIG will next ask you if you want a form feed sent to the
printer after printing. Some printers automatically do a form feed
after printing so if Hard Disk Director does one also, you'll be
wasting sheet of paper.
DM comes preconfigured to park the heads of up to 2 physical hard
disks and blank the screen after 5 minutes of no keystrokes or
mouse moves when it is popped up over DL and DB or just used alone.
Unlike some head parking programs, you can continue to use your
computer after the heads have been parked. You will now be asked if
you want to leave this feature on or not.
When the screen is blanked, it will be made completely black.
There will be no warning messages. After the screen is blanked,
entering any keystroke will restore it. It is very important to
park the heads of your hard disk when you power down or if you are
not using your computer for a period of time. For your
convenience, DM also comes with a built in head parking program.
You will now be allowed to change Hard Disk Director's colors. The
screen will display the available colors on your monitor and the
number that represents that color. Below are portions of the Hard
Disk Director display shown in their current color. You merely
have to enter the new color and press Enter and that part of the
display will change to that color. First there will be a screen
with the colors for DL, DB and DA. There next will be a screen
with the colors for DM. When you are finished changing colors,
press F10. You will then be asked if you want to save the changes.
Pressing "Y' or Enter will save them. Pressing "N" won't save the
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colors and will bring you back to the menu.
If you just want to change the colors and not do any modification
to DL or DB, the menu option "Change colors" has been added to the
DCONFIG menu. Choosing this option will just bring up the color
changing portion of the configuration program.
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DL.EXE
To run DL.EXE type "DL" at the DOS prompt and press Enter. DL will
load up and give you a directory tree for your drive. The current
directory will be highlighted. You can also specify a particular
drive at the command line and it will load up with information
about that drive. For example, to run DL on drive D: type "DL
D:"and press Enter. When DL is running, the screen of your
computer will look something like this:
EXIT │VIEW│ALL │DRIVE│REMOVE│RENAME│MOVE│MAKE│MARK│SEARCH│UTIL│MENU
ESC │──┘│^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
C:\WP
ROOT
╠══════BAT
╠══════C
║ ╚══════CDATA
╠══════CASES
╠══════CN
╠══════DOS
║ ╚══════AST
╠══════WINDOWS
║ ╚══════PIF
╚══════WP
╠══════DOCS
╚══════REG
DL shows you the tree layout of your directories. You can use the
arrow keys to move up and down the directory tree. As you do this,
the row above the directory tree will show you what your current
path is.
You can use the UP and DN arrow keys, the PGUP and PGDN keys and
the Home and End keys to scroll the highlight bar through the
directory tree. If you have a mouse and the mouse driver is
loaded, there will be a mouse cursor on the upper left hand side of
the screen just below the menu bar. The two arrows at the far left
of the screen are scroll bars.
Clicking anywhere on the top arrow with the left mouse button will
scroll down 1 directory at a time. The right button will scroll
down one page at a time. Similarly clicking anywhere on the lower
arrow with the left button will scroll up one directory at a time
and the right button, one page at a time. Holding a mouse button
down, will have the same repeat effect as holding a keyboard key
down. You can also highlight a directory by clicking on it with
either button. Clicking on a highlighted directory with the left
mouse button will mark that directory. Clicking on it with the
right button, will show the files for that particular direcory.
Though it can't be shown in the above illustration, the current
directory is highlighted. In this case it is "C:\WP". You can
have the highlight bar move to any directory by merely typing its
name. The first time that you hit any character that could be part
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of a legal DOS directory name, a dialog box will pop up in the
upper right showing that letter and the first directory with that
letter will be highlighted. Each additional letter that you type
in will highlight the file or directory that matches what you type.
If you type a name that Hard Disk Director can't find, the dialog
box will close and the last highlighted directory will remain
highlighted. Similarly pressing any key that isn't part of a valid
DOS filename such as the Space Bar or the Enter key or even
clicking the mouse, will close the dialog box. If you make a
mistake in your typing, you can also press the Backspace key and
make corrections. If you have 2 directories with the same name,
you can press the Tab key or click the mouse on the "TAB Next
Match" bar and ard Disk Director will highlight the next directory
that matches your entry.
If any directories in the tree are hidden, they will have an "(H)"
after them.
After DL reads the directory tree, it will save a copy of this tree
to disk, so that future loads of DL will be much faster. If you
make, rename or remove any directories, this tree file will be
updated automatically. If you create a directory through the
fileview of DL, by copying files to a non existent directory, the
tree file will be automatically erased so the next run of DL will
read the disk again. You can always force a reread of the drive by
pressing F2 (CHANGE DRIVE) and then pressing the Tab key or
clicking the mouse on "TAB Reread Drive" bar. If you don't want DL
to save the tree information to disk, you can turn off this option
in DCONFIG. You can use DL as a quick way to change directories by
entering DL and the directory name. For instance, if on my computer
I enter "DL template", I will go to the directory C:\FOXS\TEMPLATE.
On the top two rows of the screen you will see a menu bar naming
particular functions and the particular keys associated with those
functions. Mouse users can also click on the menu bar to activate
those functions. In addition there are a number of keyboard
commands to activate those functions. The additional keyboard
commands are accessed by entering a particular letter with the CTRL
key or the Alt key. The use of the CTRL key is indicated by
putting a "^" before the letter. For example a CTRL-C will be
indicated in this documentation by ^C. The use of the Alt key is
indicated by putting a "@" before the letter. An Alt-P is
therefore indicated by @P.
EXIT Pressing the Escape key or clicking your mouse on the ESC
part of the menu will exit DL and get you back to DOS in the
directory you started DL from.
FILES Pressing the Enter key or clicking on the FILES part of the
menu will give you a listing of files for the highlighted
directory. Also clicking with either mouse button on a highlighted
directory will get you a file list for that directory.
ALL (View All Files) Choosing this option will run the program
DA.EXE. DA will show you all the files for the drive that you are
currently on. You can also add additional drives to DA's view.
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DRIVE (Change Drive) If you press F1, enter a ^C or click on the
DRIVE part on the menu, a dialog box will appear on the screen
asking you what drive you want to change to. You can enter the
first letter of the drive or click on the drive letter and you will
get a directory tree for that particular drive. If you want to
update the tree file for the drive you are on, you can press the
Tab key and Hard Disk Director will reread the drive. When you
exit DL you will return to the drive and directory you started
from.
REMOVE (Remove Directory) If you press F2 or click on the REMOVE
part of the menu, DL will remove the marked directories. DL will
first delete all the files in each marked directory and then remove
each directory. Before DL starts deleting the files in each
directory it will pop up a warning box and ask for confirmation.
You can stop the process by pressing or clicking on escape. If no
directories are marked, DL will remove the highlighted file.
RENAME (Rename Directory) If you press F3, enter a ^R or click on
RENAME and a directory other than the root directory is
highlighted, you will be presented with a dialog box prompting for
a new name for the highlighted directory. Enter the new name and
press Enter or click on the Enter Bar and DOS willing, the
directory name will be changed and the new name will then be
highlighted. If the directory name you entered already exists or
DOS doesn't like what you entered, you will get a beep and an error
box telling you so. You can then press or click on Enter to try
again, press or click on Escape to cancel. DL uses a DOS function
to rename a directory, and therefore it won't accept blanks or the
characters ."/\[]:|<>+=;,. DOS 2.XX does not allow renaming
directories.
COPY (Copy or Move directory) This function allows you to copy or
move the marked directories to a new directory on any drive. The
marked directories become sub-directories of the destination
directory. Marked directory branches are moved intact. DL will
allow you to move or copy any directory except the root directory.
Pressing the F4 key or ^V or clicking on COPY will bring up a menu
asking you first if you want to copy or move directories. When you
move directories, the directories and files are deleted from the
old position. When you copy directories, the old directories and
files are not deleted. Once you choose copy or move, the menu bar
will change and DL ask you to highlight the directory that you want
to copy or move to.
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The screen will now look like this:
EXIT │CHOOSE│DRIVE │
ESC │──┘ │F1 │
C:\WP
ROOT ┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
╠══════BAT │ │
╠══════C │ Highlight A Path To Move To │
║ ╚══════CDATA │ │
╠══════CASES │ [Press Any Key To Continue] │
╠══════CN └──────────────────────────────────────┘
╠══════DOS
║ ╚══════AST
╠══════WINDOWS
║ ╚══════PIF
╚══════WP
If you just want to copy or move to a directory on your current
drive, you can use the arrow keys to select a directory and press
Enter. If you want to copy or move to a directory on a different
drive, you can press the F1 key and choose the drive that you want
to copy or move to and then select a directory in the same way.
Once you've selected a directory, DL will present you with a dialog
box like this:
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Copy The Branch Starting With WP to │
│ │
│ C:\DOS\AST │
│ │
│ [ Enter for OK ] [ Escape to CANCEL ] │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
If everything looks correct you can press "Enter" or click on the
Enter bar and DL will perform the copy or move. If you don't want
to copy or move press or click on "Escape". If while copying or
moving, you want to stop, click the mouse or press any key on the
keyboard and Hard Disk Director will ask you if you want to stop.
If no directories are marked, DL will act on the highlighted
directory.
MAKE (Make Directory) Press the F5 key, click on MAKE or press ^M
and you will be presented with a dialog box prompting for a new
directory name to be added to the highlighted directory. Enter the
new name and press the Enter key or click on the Enter Bar and DOS
willing, the directory will be created and the screen updated. If
the directory name you entered already exists or DOS doesn't like
what you entered, you will get a beep and an error box telling you
so. You can then press or click on "Enter" to try again, press or
click on "Escape" to cancel. A DOS function call is used to make a
directory; therefore entries with blanks or the characters
."/\[]:|<>+ =;, won't be accepted.
MARK (Mark Menu) DL will let you mark directories for copying,
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moving or deleting. You can mark any directory but the root. When
a directory is marked, a little arrow head will appear in the
column between the scroll bar and the directory tree. The Mark
Menu gives you 4 choices. Mark, which marks the highlighted
directory, Mark All, which marks all the directories, Unmark, which
unmarks the highlighted directory and Unmark all, which unmarks all
the directories. You can also mark a highlighted directory by
pressing the "Plus" key or the "Right Arrow" and unmark it by
pressing the "Minus" key or the "Left Arrow". "^Right Arrow" and
"^Left Arrow" will mark all and unmark all the directories
respectively. The "Space Bar" can also be used to toggle on
marking and unmarking.
SEARCH DL will let you search the whole disk for a particular
file. Press F7, click on "SEARCH" or press ^H and a dialog box
will prompt you for the file name to search for. If you are not
sure of the name or you want to search for files with similar
names, you can use the DOS Wild Cards * and ?. After pressing or
clicking on Enter, DL will start with the root directory and go
through the entire disk looking for a match to your entry. If a
match is found, DL will show a sorted file list with the desired
file highlighted. When it is through searching one drive, DL will
give you the options of continuing the search on other drives.
UTIL Pressing F9 or clicking on the UTIL part of the menu bar will
pull down the utility menu. From the utility menu you have the
options of printing the directory tree, hiding or unhiding
directories, showing disk statistics and shelling out to DOS. You
can use the up and down arrow keys to move the menu bar to the
desired option, press the capitalized letter of the desired option,
or click on the desired option.
STATS (Statistics) This option will bring up a box showing you the
particular file and byte statistics for the drive you are on. YOu
can also access this option by pressing F10 or ^S.
PRINT DIR LIST This option will send a copy of your directory tree
to the printer. If the printer is turned off or not on-line, DL
will give you an error message and give you the chance to try
again. You can also print a copy of the directory tree from
outside the UTIL menu by pressing F8 or ^P.
HIDE/UNHIDE While in the UTIL menu clicking on Hide/unhide or
pressing "H" will hide an unhidden directory or unhide a hidden
directory. When a directory is hidden, it won't be displayed by a
DIR command in DOS. However you can still access it with a CD
command. A hidden directory is displayed with a "(H)" after the
name.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM Hard Disk Director is shareware. It is
distributed by being passed abound on bulletin boards and shareware
libraries. In case you received a copy of Hard Disk Director
without proper documentation or didn't receive all of the Hard Disk
Director programs, this screen will let you know how to register
Hard Disk Director and receive all of the programs and
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documentation.
EXIT HIGHLIGHTED DIR This option works like DOS's change directory
command and will exit DL into the highlighted directory.
GO TO DOS You can shell out to DOS by selecting this option. Hard
Disk Director will be waiting there in memory for you to return.
Type "EXIT" and press Enter to return to DL.
/ MENU You can pop up DM, the hard disk menu while in DL or DB.
When you run programs with DM, while in DL or DB, you will always
be returned to DL or DB after the program is finished. If you pop
up DM from the file view of DL or from DB you can add the
highlighted file and the marked files as command line arguments to
the programs you are running from DM.
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The File View in DL.EXE and
DB.EXE
Highlight any directory in DL and press Enter, and a new screen
with a sorted list of files for that particular directory will pop
up. You can also obtain this file view from DB.EXE. Just type DB
at the DOS prompt and the same file view will pop up. Features
specific to DB and command line options for DB will be found in the
section "DB.EXE". The file view screen will look something like
this:
EXIT│VIEW│EDIT │COPY│DELETE│RENAME│MOVE│SORT│MARK │RUN IT│UTIL│MENU
ESC │──┘│^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
DB.EXE Program 45240 2-12-1990 2:28 PM Arc
DCONFIG.EXE Program 35586 1-12-1990 5:22 PM
DIRECTOR.DOC Document 88895 11-29-1989 6:30 PM
DIRQUICK.DOC Document 9374 11-29-1989 6:31 PM
DIRREG.DOC Document 2822 9-27-1989 8:47 AM
DIRREV.DOC Document 11867 6-26-1989 6:06 PM
DIRSITE.DOC Document 13300 11-29-1989 6:31 PM
DL.EXE Program 64512 2-12-1990 2:27 PM Arc
DLBASE.EXE Program 13348 1-07-1990 3:19 PM
DLWP.COM Program 11678 1-07-1990 3:21 PM
DM.EXE Program 30064 1-18-1990 8:08 AM Arc
PARK.COM Program 6002 8-24-1989 1:31 PM
READ.ME 6217 9-27-1989 8:40 AM
C:\DIRECTOR Marked 0 Total 338905
As you can see, this file view is similar to the directory view
with a menu bar along the top and a mouse scroll bar along the left
side.
The main body of the file view is the sorted list of files. First
there is the filename. Then if Hard Disk Director can determine
what kind of file it is, ie. program or batch file, Hard Disk
Director will say what kind it is. Then Hard Disk Director shows
the file size in bytes, the date it was last modified and the time
it was last modified. After that Hard Disk Director displays the
files attributes. "Arc" for archive. "Hid" for hidden. "R/O" for
read only. And "Sys" for system.
At the bottom of the screen you see the name of directory that you
are on as well as a byte count for the files and a byte count for
the marked files.
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Pressing PGUP or PGDN will scroll a screen's worth of files at a
time. Just like in the directory view, you can scroll through the
files by clicking your mouse on the left scroll bar. The left
button will move one file at a time and the right button will
moving one screen at a time. Home and End will take you to the
beginning and end of the file list. Holding the mouse buttons down
will have the same repeat action as the keyboard. You can click on
a file with either button to highlight it. Once a file is
highlighted, clicking the left button on the file will mark it with
a little arrow head and clicking the right button on it will show
you its contents.
Clicking with the left button on a highlighted file that is already
marked will unmark it. Just like in the directory view, you can
type a file's name and Hard Disk Director will move to it.
EXIT Pressing Escape, or clicking on ESC will exit back to the
directory view or in DB exit back to DOS.
VIEW Clicking on VIEW or pressing Enter will give you a screen
displaying the contents of the file. Binary files can be viewed
this way also. You can scroll through the file just like in a word
processor with the UP, DN, PGUP, and PGDN keys. Pressing the End
key will take you the end of the file. Hard Disk Hard Disk
Director must read the entire file to go to the end, so this may
take a while on large files. Pressing Home will take you to the
beginning of the file.
Mouse users can have a scroll bar on the far left that works just
like the one in the main screen of Hard Disk Director if they
specified it in DCONFIG. Even if you specified that you don't want
to see the scroll bar, the left-most column will act as if there
were one there if you click your mouse on it. Along the top of the
screen there is also a menu bar. Mouse users can use the HOME and
END choices to go the beginning and end of the file being viewed.
Pressing F1 or clicking on the "HEX" part of the menu bar will
allow you to view the file in hexadecimal.
If you go to view a file created with WordPerfect version 5.0 or
greater or a file created by a dBASE compatible program, Hard Disk
Director will load its own file viewer so that you can view these
files more easily. The dBASE file viewer looks just like a dBASE
browse. The WordPerfect file viewer will filter out all of WP's
formatting codes and do some crude formatting of the documents.
Pressing Escape, clicking on "EXIT", or pressing Enter will land
you back in the file list. You can print the file by clicking on
the "PRINT" portion of the menu, pressing ^P or pressing F8.
Since Hard Disk Director does no print spooling, you have to wait
while the file is being printed before doing anything else.
If you are viewing a binary file or one with particularly long
lines, you can use the left and right cursor arrows or click on the
left and right arrows on the menu bar to see more of the file. For
your convenience in viewing binary files, all lines longer than 130
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characters will be wrapped at column 130.
If you are unable to get the view function to work in Hard Disk
Director, it may be that you don't have enough available memory.
DL needs at least 200 kilobytes to run.
If you specified a particular file viewer in DCONFIG, Hard Disk
Director will attempt to load that viewer and pass it the
highlighted file. If for some reason, Hard Disk Director is unable
to load the file viewer, Hard Disk Director will tell you so.
EDIT If you've run DCONFIG and specified a text editor, you can
press the Ctrl key and the Enter key together (this is abbreviated
as ^Enter), or click on the "EDIT" choice of the menu bar. Hard
Disk Director will run your text editor and if possible, have it
load up the highlighted file.
MARKING FILES In Hard Disk Director you can mark a group of files
for copying, deleting, moving, or printing. If no files are
marked, Hard Disk Director will act only on the highlighted file.
If press the Shift key while choosing copy, move, etc, Hard Disk
Director will still only act on the highlighted file.
MARK You can mark a file in 5 ways. First, highlight the file.
1. Press the Plus (+) key.
2. Press the space bar on an unmarked file.
3. Press the right arrow key .
4. Click on the highlighted file.
5. Use the mark menu.
A marked file has a little arrow head pointing to the file in the
far left column. You access the mark menu by pressing F6 or
clicking on "MARK". From the mark menu you can also unmark files,
mark all files, unmark all files and remark previously marked
files. You can mark as many files as you like.
UNMARK Similarly you can unmark a marked file in 5 ways. First
highlight the file.
1. Press the Minus (-) key.
2. Press the space bar on an marked file.
3. Press the left arrow key .
4. Click on the highlighted and marked file.
5. Use the mark menu.
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MARK ALL Press Ctrl key and the right arrow key or use the mark
menu to mark all the files.
UNMARK ALL Press Ctrl key and the left arrow key or use the mark
menu to unmark all the files.
Hard Disk Director will not permit you to mark a hidden file. To
find out more about hidden files and how to unhide them, please
read the section on changing file attributes.
REMARK Once a file has been operated on (copied, moved, or
printed) the mark arrow is replaced by a little circle. If you
want to repeat an operation on the same files, pressing the
asterisk "*" or clicking on the on the mark menu and choosing
Remark will mark all the files with a little circle preceding it.
MARK SOME You can choose this option to specify a file spec for
marking like "*.BAT" or "D?.EXE". Each call to mark some will
leave the existing marked files marked.
COPY Clicking on COPY, pressing F1 or ^C will bring up a dialog
box asking where you want the files to be copied. You can copy to
any directory or drive. Hard Disk Director allows you to change
the filename when copying. You can also use the DOS wild cards,
"*" and "?",when you copy. You can even copy the file to the same
directory but with a different filename. The only thing Hard Disk
Director won't let you do is copy a file on top of itself. Hard
Disk Director checks the path that you've entered to see if it
exists. If Hard Disk Director can't find it, it assumes that you
want to change the filename and will do so if it can make a
pathname and filename out of your entry. Be careful, because if
the last part of your pathname is entered incorrectly, Hard Disk
Director will copy the file to the first part of the pathname and
change the file's name to the last part of the pathname. For more
information on how Hard Disk Director changes file names when
copying, see the end of the section on moving files. If you've
specified that you want to be warned before overwriting files in
DCONFIG, and you try to copy a file where a file by the same name
already exists, Hard Disk Director will pop up a Dialog box
informing you of the fact and will ask you if you want to perform
the copy or not. You will also have the option of turning off
future warnings at this time but only for this copy session.
If you are not sure of the pathname or if you want DL to enter the
pathname for you, you can press the Tab key which will switch you
back to the directory view. There you can also change drives if you
want to copy the files to another drive. You then highlight the
desired directory and click on it or press Enter. You will then be
back in the file view with the highlighted path entered in the
dialog box. This will work in DL only.
Once Hard Disk Director has copied a file, a little circle will
appear in front of the filename to let you know that it has been
copied.
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Before trying to copy a file, Hard Disk Director first looks to see
if the target directory or drive has enough room. If it does, then
Hard Disk Director copies the file to the new directory or drive.
If there isn't enough room for the file, Hard Disk Director will
move on to the next file. Hard Disk Director will go through all
the marked files and copy only those that fit. The remaining files
will stay marked. If the target disk gets full, Hard Disk Director
will stop, leaving the still uncopied files, marked. If you are
copying to a floppy diskette, you can then change diskettes and
repeat the copy procedure on the remaining marked files. You can
do this as many times as necessary until all of the marked files
are copied. If while copying a group of files, you decide that you
want to stop the operation, press Escape and Hard Disk Director
will stop after copying the file its presently working on.
Hard Disk Director will not copy hidden files. In order to do that
you must change the hidden attribute first. For information on how
to do this, see the section on changing file attributes.
MOVE Pressing F4, clicking on MOVE or pressing ^M will activate
MOVE. Move works like copy except that when the files are copied
to the new directory or drive they are removed from the current
one. If you are moving files to another directory on the same
drive, all that happens is that the file is renamed. If you are
moving files to another drive, the files will first be copied to
the new drive and then deleted from the old one.
If the file you are moving already exists on the target directory
or drive, Hard Disk Director can warn you of its presence and query
you if you want to perform the move anyway. You turn this option
on or off through using DCONFIG. If you are not sure of the
pathname or if you want DL to enter the pathname for you, you can
press the TAB key which will switch you back to the directory view.
There you can also change drives if you want to copy the files to
another drive. You then highlight the desired directory and click
on it or press F1. You will then be back in the file view with the
highlighted path entered in the dialog box. This will work in DL
only. Hard Disk Director will not move hidden files. In order to
do that you must change the hidden attribute first. For
information on how to do this, see the section on changing file
attributes.
If you've specified that you want to be warned before overwriting
files in DCONFIG, and you try to move a file where a file by the
same name already exists, Hard Disk Director will pop up a Dialog
box informing you of the fact and will ask you if you want to move
or not. You will also have the option of turning off future
warnings at this time but only for this move session.
You can also change a file's name when moving. If in addition to
specifying a path, you add a filename or a filename with wild
cards, Hard Disk Director will change the names of the moved files.
This can lead to ambiguity if, for instance, you entered an
incorrect pathname which could be mistaken for a pathname and
filename. If there is any question as to what your intentions may
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be, Hard Disk Director will query you.
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Hard Disk Director will copy and move in the following manner:
ONE FILE MARKED
What Entered What Hard Disk Director Will Do
Valid pathname Copies or moves to Path.
Valid pathname + filename Copies or moves to Path changes name
+ extension filename.
Valid pathname + filename Hard Disk Director will ask you if
and no extension you want copy or move and change the
name.
Filename entered with the Hard Disk Director will the change
wildcards "*" and "?" the name of the file by making a new
name out of the wildcards.
MANY FILES MARKED
What Entered What Hard Disk Director Will Do
Valid pathname Copies or moves to Path.
Valid pathname + filename Copies or moves to Path. Changes
+ extension name to new filename.
Valid pathname + filename Since you are copying many files,
with no extension Hard Disk Director will assume that
you entered a path that doesn't exist
and will give you the opportunity to
create it.
Filename entered with the Hard Disk Director will change the
the wildcards "*" and "?" names of the files, making new names
out of the wildcards.
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DELETE You can delete the highlighted file or the marked files by
clicking on DELETE, pressing F2 or pressing ^D. Before deleting
the files, Hard Disk Director will ask you if you are sure.
Pressing or clicking on Enter will set Hard Disk Director on its
work. If while deleting a group of files you decide to stop, Press
the Escape key and Hard Disk Director will stop.
Hard Disk Director will not delete hidden files. In order to do
that you must change the hidden attribute first. For information
on how to do this, see the section on changing file attributes.
RENAME You can only rename one file at a time, so when pressing
F3, clicking on RENAME or pressing ^R, Hard Disk Director acts only
on the file that is highlighted. Hard Disk Director uses DOS calls
to rename a file and therefore will only let you use a name that
DOS will allow. DOS doesn't like filenames with blanks or the
characters ."/ \[]:;|<>+=, in it.
SORT Pressing F5 or clicking on SORT will bring up the sort menu.
You can enter the first letter of your sort choice or you can
scroll the highlighted bar to Filename, Extension, Date, Size or
Unsorted and press Enter and the screen will be updated with the
sorted or unsorted directory. The Unsorted option gives you the
file listings in the order that they appear on your disk. You can
also click a mouse on the choice and it will work the same way.
There is also a quick way to sort with bypassing the menu. ^F
sorts by filename. ^E sorts by extension, ^T sorts by date and ^Z
sorts by size.
RUN IT You can run any highlighted program whether it be and EXE,
COM or BAT file. Just press F7 or click on "RUN IT" on the menu
bar and Hard Disk Director will immediately execute the program.
Hard Disk Director creates a batch file and then completely exits
so it won't take up any memory while you are running programs.
When you are finished, the batch file will run Hard Disk Director
again. In DOS 3 and over, Hard Disk Director uses the pathname
that you entered in DCONFIG to find itself. In DOS 2, Hard Disk
Director depends on being in a directory on your path in order to
find itself.
If you've chosen the option in DCONFIG to add command line
arguments at run time, a dialog box will pup up where you can add
command line arguments before running programs.
UTIL Pressing F9 or clicking on the UTIL part of the menu bar will
pull down the utility menu. From the utility menu you have the
options of showing file and disk statistics, printing the file
list, printing the contents of the marked files, changing the
attributes of the marked files, using a file specification to see
only some of the files and shelling to DOS. You can use the up and
down arrow keys to move the menu bar to the desired option, press
the capitalized letter of the desired option, or click on the
desired option.
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Statistics Choosing this option or pressing F10 or pressing "^S",
will bring up a box showing you the
a file count and byte count for the directory, how many diskettes
will be needed to back up these files and the free space of the
drive that you are on.
Print File List Press F8, ^P or choose print file list from the
UTIL menu and Hard Disk Director will print out a copy of the file
list just like it is displayed on the screen.
Print File Text You can print a copy of any group of marked text
files with this selection. If you have no files marked, Hard Disk
Director will just print the highlighted file. Hard Disk Director
does no print spooling, so you will have to wait for the file to be
printed before continuing. The default printer is LPT1, but this
can be redirected through DOS' mode command.
CHANGING FILE ATTRIBUTES
Every file on your disk has a directory listing. This directory
listing, contains the file name, the extension, the size in bytes,
the date of last modification and other useful information. This
directory listing also contains a number called the attribute byte.
This attribute byte tells DOS if the directory listing is that of a
file, a subdirectory or a volume label. A directory listing for a
file, can be any one of 4 different numbers or any combination
thereof. Hard Disk Director shows each files attribute as the last
entry after the file modification date.
The choices are:
System: Abbreviated as Sys. This attribute doesn't signify much,
except the DOS boot files usually have this attribute. A file with
the system attribute turned on cannot be seen by a DOS "DIR"
command and cannot be read by other files. However Hard Disk
Director will show it.
Hidden: Abbreviated as Hid. This attribute also hides a file from
normal DOS operations. However, like Sys, Hard Disk Director will
show it.
Read Only: Abbreviated as R/O. A file marked as read only cannot
be modified, or deleted by normal DOS operations. You need not
worry about this when using Hard Disk Director to delete or rename
files.
Archive: Abbreviated as Arc. This is used as an indicator in back
up operations. A file marked with the archive attribute has not
been backed up since the last modification. Hard Disk Director
allows you to change a file's attributes very easily. Choose
"Attributes" from the UTIL menu or just press ^A and a screen will
pop up showing the attributes for the highlighted file, or if only
one file is marked, the marked file. If the attribute is turned
on, an "ON" will appear before the attribute. If the attribute is
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turned off, an "OFF" will appear before the attribute. If more
than one file is marked, all the attributes in the dialog box will
be off. Pressing the first letter of the attribute or clicking the
mouse on the attribute will turn it off or on. When you have made
the desired changes, pressing Enter will change them permanently.
Pressing Escape will cancel the operation.
Hard Disk Director uses DOS function calls to perform the attribute
change. If for some reason you have a file with "illegal"
characters in it (a filename DOS doesn't consider valid) Hard Disk
Director may not be able to make the change.
File Spec Looking for a few files in a large directory can be
trying even with the different possible sorts. For that reason,
I've provided a way to filter out the files you don't want to see
and displaying only those that you want to see. Choose "Filespec"
from the UTIL menu or press ^L and a dialog box will prompt you for
a file specification. This can be a particular file name or a
combination of a filename and wild cards. Hard Disk Director will
use this file spec and reread the directory displaying those files
that meet your specifications. For example, if I enter the
filespec "D*.EXE", Hard Disk Director will display only those files
that begin with the letter D and have an EXE extension.
Go To DOS Choosing this option will exit you out to DOS while
keeping Hard Disk Director in memory. To return to Hard Disk
Director, type "EXIT" and press "Enter".
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DB.EXE
DB.EXE is the file list portion of DL.EXE. You can use DB when you
want to work in a specific directory and have no need for and don't
want to wait for a directory tree. Most of the time, I use DB
instead of typing DIR, to see what's in a directory and to be able
to scroll through it and view files.
Like DIR, You can also specify a specific filename and wildcard
combination on the command line, and DB will display only those
files meeting that specification. For example, entering "DB *.DOC"
will display only the files with a DOC extension.
The syntax for DB is:
DB [directory] [filename.ext] [/s]
The "/s" stands for what kind of sort you want. You can have DB
load up with a sort different from the one specified in DCONFIG
with this command line switch.
"/e" extension.
"/t" date.
"/s" size.
"/f" filename.
"/u" unsorted.
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DA.EXE
DA.EXE is similar to DB but whereas DB only displays the files in
one directory, DA displays all the files on your hard disk
partition. Yo can also add other partitions or drives to DA's
view.
The syntax for DA is:
DA [file spec] [/s] [/d]
You can specify a particular file specification such as "*.EXE" on
the command line. You can also do this from within DA.
The "/s" stands for what kind of sort you want. You can have DB
load up with a sort different from the one specified in DCONFIG
with this command line switch.
"/e" extension.
"/t" date.
"/s" size.
"/f" filename.
"/p" path
"/a" archive
"/u" unsorted.
You can also add a "/d" to the command line which will have DA only
display duplicate files. You can display duplicate files with
sorts other than filename but I don't believe it would make much
sense since if the files weren't sorted by filename, the duplicate
files wouldn't be displayed together. The only limitation of files
you can display with DA is your available memory.
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The DA screen looks like this:
EXIT │VIEW│DUPS │COPY│DELETE│FILTER│MOVE│SORT│MARK│DRIVES│UTIL│@VIEW
ESC │──┘│^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │TAB
$INDEX.OVR 4224 8-11-89 5:50P A D:\WS
$TOC.OVR 1536 8-11-89 5:50P A D:\WS
1-README.WQ1 4775 10-05-89 1:00A A D:\QPRO
123.MU 205349 11-01-89 8:01P A D:\QPRO
123.RF 1448 10-05-89 1:00A A D:\QPRO
1ST.WQ1 4775 10-05-89 1:00A A D:\QPRO
2BOOK.PCX 10746 9-04-88 2:16P D:\PAINT
384K.PAT 128 8-11-89 5:50P A D:\WS
3BOOK.PCX 8678 9-04-88 2:15P D:\PAINT
4ARROWS.CLP 1482 10-05-89 1:00A A D:\QPRO
64COLORS.COM 1730 6-16-89 1:20A D:\UV
ACCESS.MAI 586 2-15-90 11:56A A D:\RCOURIER
ACHKSUM.EXE 8512 4-12-89 3:11A A D:\ANYWHERE
ADJUST.COM 3464 6-16-89 1:20A D:\UV
AINSTALL.EXE 34999 4-12-89 3:11A A D:\ANYWHERE
AIRPLANE.CLP 442 10-05-89 1:00A A D:\QPRO
ALOGOFF.EXE 9607 4-12-89 3:11A A D:\ANYWHERE
ALOGVIEW.EXE 39143 5-12-89 3:11A A D:\ANYWHERE
ALQ20018.PRD 8393 4-11-89 11:48A A D:\WORD
ALQ20024.PRD 6932 4-11-89 11:48A A D:\WORD
ALTER.BAT 18 11-05-85 1:37A D:\PAINT
ALTEROLD 26 11-05-85 5:39P D:\PAINT
925 Files 15862130 Bytes 0 Marked Files 0 Marked Bytes
Like in DB, there is a menu bar at the top. The menu is a little
different and so is the display. DA displays the file list first
with the filename, then the size, date and time. Then there is an
"A" for archive, an "R" for read only, an "H" for hidden and a "S"
for system. Then the complete path for the file is displayed.
On the bottom of the screen is the amount of files, their total
size, how many marked files and how many bytes of marked files.
The menu bar is a bit different because I've assumed that you are
going to use DA differently than you use DL and DB.
Like DL and DB the first 2 options are EXIT and VIEW and they work
the same as they do in DL and DB. There is also COPY, MOVE and
DELETE like in DL and DB.
DUPS Choosing this option will toggle on and off the display of
duplicate files. Choose it once and it will display just the
duplicate files. Choose it again and it will display all the
files.
FILTER This option is just like the file spec option in DL and DB.
It was put here because I thought that you would be using file
specification filters much more in DA. Unlike DL and DB, filter
does not cause the files to be reread. If you have some marked
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files that don't appear in the current filter, they will remain
marked when you choose a filter that shows them. Because of the
way filter acts it will produce a display with all the files that
meet the file specification. If you want to use a filter and also
just show duplicates, you should choose the filter option first and
then choose the duplicates option.
SORT There are a couple of new sorts added to DA. They are sort
by path and sort by archive bit.
MARK A new option has been added to the mark menu. That is mark
archive. This option will mark only the files with the archive bit
set. You can also choose it from the keyboard by pressing "^End".
You can add additional drives to DA's display by choosing F7
DRIVES. The current file spec filter and duplicates filter will
hold for each drive you add. The only limit to the amount of files
you can display with DA is your available memory.
Some new options have been added to the UTIL menu as well as some
options previously on the main menu have been moved there. The
edit and rename functions have been moved there. The new functions
are DA's ability to write files of the information it displays.
You can use these files to keep track of the files on your drives.
The files DA writes only contain the files for the current file and
duplicate specification. You can have DA write straight ASCII
files, ASCII delimited files for importing into most data bases and
spreadsheets and "DBF" files for use in any dBASE compatible
language.
The last menu option is @VIEW which stands for alternate view. If
your paths are too long for DA's regular display, you can choose
this option. The alternate display will only display the filename
the size and the path.
DA hasn't been given the ability to run files because I assumed you
weren't going to use it that way. I know that many of my
assumptions are far from perfect, so if you feel that this
oversight detracts from DA's usefulness, please let me know. I'm
always looking for suggestions for future versions.
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DM.EXE
DM is a full featured hard disk menu program. You can enter up to
20 programs in the main menu and up 19 programs in as many sub
menus as you'd like. You can also pop up DM over Hard Disk
Director and run programs using the highlighted or marked files as
command line arguments by pressing the slash key "/".
The DM menu looks something like this:
╔═══════════════════ DIRECTOR HARD DISK MENU ═══════════════╗
║ 02/15/1990 05:52:52 ║
║ ║
║ 1 DIRECTOR DISKS F FOXPRO ║
║ A ARCHIVERS M MEMORY TEST ║
║ B BUSINESS S WINDOWS ║
║ C COMMUNICATIONS U UTILITIES ║
║ D DIRECTOR W WORD PROCESSING ║
║ ║
║ ║
║ F1-ADD/CHANGE F2-PARK HEADS F10-EXIT TO DOS ║
║ ║
╚═══════════════ Copyright 1989-1990 Helpware ══════════════╝
DM displays programs in 2 parallel columns. The first letter is
the hot key and what follows is the program that the Hot Key runs.
In order to run a program you can use the arrow keys to highlight
the program and press Enter or press the Hot Key. To run programs
with the mouse, you first click the mouse on a program once to
highlight it and then click the mouse again to run the program.
All menu selections are sorted by Hot Key. Each new menu entry
that you add will be sorted by Hot Key also. When DM has no
programs loaded in it, the only choices are:
"F1-ADD/CHANGE, F2-PARK HEADS, F10-EXIT TO DOS ".
DM is designed to park your disk heads and blank the screen after 5
minutes of no keyboard or mouse action. The head parking will work
on up to 2 physical drives. Either one of these or both can be
turned off by the configuration program DCONFIG. When DM blanks
the screen, the screen will be made black. Pressing any keystroke
will restore the screen. When DM parks the disk heads. The heads
will be moved to the last track of the disk. Unlike some parking
programs, you can still go back and use the computer after DM parks
the drive heads.
Pressing the "F10" key or clicking on "F10-EXIT TO DOS" will exit
DM and return you to Hard Disk Director or your DOS prompt,
wherever you started from. Pressing the "F2" key or clicking on
"F2-PARK HEADS", park the drive heads of your hard disk. The
screen will blank and there will be a message saying that the heads
are parked. You can now turn off your machine or press any key and
DM will pop up again.
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To add programs or sub menus to DM or to change program entries,
you press the "F1" key or click on
"F1-ADD/CHANGE". The menu will then be replaced with a data entry
form. If there are programs already entered, the first program
will be displayed in the form.
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The program entry form looks like this:
ESC EXIT │F1 ADD │F2 CHANGE│F3 LAST │F4 NEXT │F8 DELETE│F9 TITLE
Menu Entry 3
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ ║
║ MENU ENTRY BUSINESS TYPE P ║
║ ║
║ PROGRAM NAME business.exe HOT KEY B ║
║ ║
║ PATH E:\CLP\BUS ║
║ ║
║ SWITCHES ║
║ ║
║ RETURN TO MENU? Y PROMPT FOR SWITCHES? N ║
║ ║
║ ADD HIGHLIGHTED FILE? N ║
║ ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
ESC EXIT You can press escape or click on the escape portion of
the data entry screen and you will be returned to the menu. While
you are entering or changing data, pressing Escape will
automatically save the entry. If you want to return to the menu
main menu, you will have to press Escape again.
F1 ADD - Adding Programs Press F1 or click on ADD and a the space
after "MENU ENTRY" in the entry form will be displayed in reverse
video. There you enter the name of the program or sub menu just
like you want it to appear in the menu. DM starts in overstrike
mode, but you can toggle insert by pressing the insert key. If you
are running DM from the file view of DL or DB, the highlighted file
will be automatically entered in the space "PROGRAM NAME" and the
path in the space title "PATH". If want to enter something
different, just start typing and what was previously entered will
disappear.
The next field is "TYPE". There you would enter a 'P' or an "M" to
indicate if the entry is for a program or a sub menu. We'll go over
entering programs first.
The next field is the "PROGRAM NAME". Here you enter what you
would have to enter at the DOS prompt to run your program. For
Hard Disk Director, I could put "DL". For WordPerfect I would put
"WP". If you are entering the name of a COM or EXE file, you only
need enter the filename and not the extension. If you are entering
the name of a batch file, you must enter the BAT extension. You
can move through the fields with the up and down arrow keys and the
Enter key. After pressing Enter or the down arrow key in the last
field, the entry will automatically be saved and the screen will be
cleared to be ready for a new entry.
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Pressing Escape will always save the entry. Pressing Escape again
will return to the menu. If you want to return to the menu and
don't want to save the entry press or click on "F8 DELETE".
You can enter any Hot Key from "0" to "9" and "A" to "Z" in the
"HOT KEY" field. A message will appear letting you know which Hot
Keys are available. You can run any program from the DM menu by
just pressing the Hot Key. DM will also sort all the programs by
Hot Key. You don't have to add a hot key if you don't want one.
Next you need to enter the path of where the program is. If you
popped up DM over the file view of DL or DB, the path of the
highlighted program will already be there. When entering the path
just enter the drive and the directory of the program and not the
filename.
You can add command line arguments or switches to some programs.
When I load Word Perfect I use the command line switch "/m start".
This has Word Perfect execute the macro "start" immediately after
it loads . You can enter any command line arguments or switches in
the "SWITCHES" field.
DM is designed to be able to run as a stand alone menu as well.
When using DM as a stand alone menu, you have the choice of whether
to return to DM after running a program by selecting 'Y' or "N" in
the "RETURN TO MENU" field.
Besides adding permanent command line arguments to DM you can also
add your own command line arguments at run time. Just answer "Y"
in the prompt for switches field.
For example you can pop up DM in the file view of DL or DB and use
it to archive marked files. If you configure a program in DM to
prompt for switches at runtime and run it from the file view of
Hard Disk Director, a dialog box will pop up with a command line
that you can add or modify. At the beginning, only the installed
program is on the command line. You can press F1 to add the
installed switches, F2 to add the highlighted file and F3 to add
the marked files. You can also type in anything or modify
anything. To aid in you're moving back and forth on the command
line, Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow will move the cursor
back and forward a word at a time.
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The dialog box for adding files and arguments to the command line
looks like this.
ADD SWITCHES │ADD HIGHLIGHTED FILE│ADD MARKED FILES │
F1 │F2 │F3 │
ABS_READ.ASM 1034 7-21-1989 12:44 PM
ABS_READ.OBJ 294 9-16-1989 3:21 PM
AJAX 85815 8-25-1989 10:46 AM
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
BUILD COMMAND LINE
D:\UTIL\PKZIP -a CU.ZIP CU_MEMO.DBF CU_FLMO.DBF CU_FLMO.DBT
[ Enter To Run Program ] [ Escape to Cancel ]
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
CONVERT4.C 2076 1-25-1990 4:20 PM
CONVERT4.EXE Program 4480 1-25-1990 4:21 PM
CONVERT4.OBJ 1303 1-25-1990 4:21 PM
CU_FLMO.DBF 450 2-02-1990 6:37 AM
CU_FLMO.DBT 24 2-02-1990 6:38 AM
CU_FLOAT.DBF 418 2-02-1990 6:37 AM
CU_MDX.DBF 418 2-02-1990 6:39 AM
The last field in the program entry form is "ADD HIGHLIGHTED FILE".
This is only applicable if you are running DM form DL or DB and
have chosen not to add command line arguments at runtime. As a
matter of fact, If you marked "Y" in "PROMPT FOR SWITCHES", this
field will automatically be skipped.
With some programs, like a word processor for instance, you might
want to add just the highlighted file to the command line so you
can put a "Y" in this entry.
F1 ADD - Adding Sub Menus Sometimes you don't want all the
entries in the main menu. You might want to have a menu entry that
just said "GAMES" and when you chose that you would then get a menu
with all the games in it. You can do that with DM. Just enter an
"M" for menu in the type field. The only other available field
will now be "HOT KEY. There you can enter the Hot Key to take you
to the sub menu. To add programs and sub menus to the sub menu,
you will need to escape to the main menu and choose the sub menu.
From the sub menu you can choose "F1-ADD/CHANGE" and add programs
to it. You will notice there is also a new entry in the sub menu.
It is
"█ ESC PREVIOUS MENU". This will always be the last entry in the
sub menu. Pressing "Escape" or clicking on this option will always
bring you back to the previous menu. You can always exit to DOS or
Hard Disk Director from the sub menu by pressing F10.
F2 CHANGE You can change any entry by clicking on F2 CHANGE or
pressing the F2 key. Mouse users can also highlight a particular
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field to change by clicking on that field.
F3 LAST and F4 NEXT scroll through the program database.
F8 DELETE will delete any program or sub menu that is displayed.
You will first be prompted with a dialog box asking you to confirm
the deletion.
F9 TITLE The main menu title is "DIRECTOR HARD DISK MENU" and the
sum menu titles will be the namethat you entered in the previous
menu. You can add your own titles for each menu and sub menu by
choosing this entry.
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COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE
DIRECTORY VIEW OF DL.EXE
Enter: View contents of highlighted directory.
^Enter: Run the program DA.EXE which will display
all the files on your disk drive.
F1 or ^C: Change Drive.
F2: Remove marked or highlighted directories.
F3, ^R: Rename directory.
F4, ^V: Move or Copy directories.
F5 or ^M: Make directory.
F6 or ^D: Mark Menu.
M, + or Right Arrow: Mark directory.
U, - or Left Arrow: Unmark drectory.
Space Bar: Mark or Unmark directory
A or ^Right Arrow: Mark all directories.
L or ^Left Arrow: Unmark all directories.
F7 or ^H: Search disk for file.
F8 or ^P: Print directory tree.
F9: Pull down Utility Menu
s Show file count and disk usage.
p Print directory tree.
h Hide or unhide directories.
a Display information about Director.
x Exit to the highlighted directory.
g Go to DOS.
F10 or ^S: Show file count and disk usage.
/ Pop up DM.EXE program menu.
^P Print directory tree.
^X Exit DL in the highlighted driectory.
^G Shell out ot DOS.
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COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE
VIEW IN DL.EXE and DB.EXE
Enter: View the highlighted file.
^Enter: Run Text Editor and load highlighted file.
F1 or ^C: Copy the highlighted or marked file(s).
F2 or ^D: Delete the highlighted or marked file(s).
F3 or ^R: Rename the highlighted file.
F4 or ^V: Move the highlighted or marked file(s).
F5: Sort Menu
e sort by extension.
f sort by filename.
d sort by date.
z sort by size.
u show unsorted listing.
^F: Sort by filename.
^E: Sort by extension.
^T: Sort by date.
^Z: Sort by size.
^U: Show unsorted listing.
F6: Mark Menu.
M, + or Right Arrow: Mark file.
U, - or Left Arrow: Unmark file.
Space Bar: Mark or Unmark file.
A or ^Right Arrow: Mark all but the hidden files.
L or ^Left Arrow: Unmark all files.
S or ^\ Mark by file spec.
F7 or ^X: Run marked programs.
F8 or ^P: Print file list.
^F8: Print marked files.
^A: Change file attributes.
^L: File specification.
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COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE
VIEW IN DL.EXE and DB.EXE
F9: Util Menu.
s show disk usage statistics.
l Print file list.
t Print marked files.
a Change file attributes.
f Enter file specification.
g Go to DOS.
F10, ^S: Display disk usage statistics.
/ Pop up DM.EXE program menu.
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COMMAND SUMMARY FOR DA.EXE
Enter: View the highlighted file.
^Enter: Toggle on and off the display of duplicate
files.
F1 or ^C: Copy the highlighted or marked file(s).
F2 or ^D: Delete the highlighted or marked file(s).
F3: Enter a file specification filter.
F4 or ^M: Move the highlighted or marked file(s).
F5: Sort Menu
e sort by extension.
f sort by filename.
d sort by date.
z sort by size.
p sort by path.
a sort by archive byte.
u show unsorted listing.
^F: Sort by filename.
^E: Sort by extension.
^T: Sort by date.
^Z: Sort by size.
^Y Sort by path.
^ Sort by archive byte.
^U: Show unsorted listing.
F6: Mark Menu.
M, + or Right Arrow: Mark file.
U, - or Left Arrow: Unmark file.
Space Bar: Mark or Unmark file.
A or ^Right Arrow: Mark all but the hidden files.
L or ^Left Arrow: Unmark all files.
S or ^\: Mark by file spec.
A or ^End: Mark by archive byte.
F7: Add additional drives to DA's display
F8 or ^P: Print file list.
^F8: Print marked files.
^A: Change file attributes.
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COMMAND SUMMARY FOR DA.EXE
^R: Rename files.
F9: Util Menu.
s show disk usage statistics.
l Print file list.
t Print marked files.
a Change file attributes.
e run installed text editor.
g Go to DOS.
c Write ASCII file.
l Write ASCII delimited file.
d Write DBF file.
r Rename the highlighted file.
TAB Toggle on and off alternate display to show longer path
names.
F10, ^S: Display file statistics.
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ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES
When you first start out using IBM compatible PCs, there is a lot
of information that you need to know just to get started, and the
learning curve is very steep. Hard Disk Director was written to
help you bypass some of this.
There are however some basic concepts that you must learn first.
It is not easy trying to explain a complex idea and make it simple;
so if sometimes I sound condescending, please forgive me, I just
want to make sure you understand the information.
Computers use floppy diskettes and hard disks for permanent storage
of information. Anything that is stored on a hard disk or a floppy
diskette is called a file. Programs, documents and databases are
all stored in files.
All files are identified by their names, and a file name has two
parts. The first part is the filename. This can consist of any
combination of up to eight letters or numbers. The second part of
a file name is the extension. The extension is optional; many
filenames don't have them. Certain files (like programs) must have
them. An extension can consist of any combination of up to 3
letters or numbers. The only characters DOS doesn't allow in a
filename are: . " / \ { } : | < > + + ;,.
A period "." always separates a filename from an extension.
Some examples of filenames are:
WP.EXE
LOTUS.COM
DBASE.EXE
README.DOC
DL.EXE
FORMAT.COM
Programs that you run on your computer must have an extension.
This extension tells DOS that they are programs, and therefore how
they have to be loaded. The extension for programs is always
"COM", "EXE" or "BAT". You can see which files are on your hard
disk or diskette by typing "DIR" at your DOS prompt and pressing
the Enter key. Your screen will look something like this:
COMMAND COM 23612 5-15-87 3:20a
ANSI SYS 1651 5-15-87 3:20a
ASSIGN COM 1523 5-15-87 3:20a
ATTRIB EXE 8234 5-15-87 3:20a
BACKUP COM 17216 5-15-87 3:20a
CHKDSK COM 9819 5-15-87 3:20a
COMP COM 3241 5-15-87 3:20a
DISKCOMP COM 5776 5-15-87 3:20a
DISKCOPY COM 6224 5-15-87 3:20a
DRIVER SYS 1350 5-15-87 3:20a
EDLIN COM 7495 5-15-87 3:20a
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Even though DOS demands that we use a period between a filename and
extension, it conveniently forgets to do so when showing you its
file list. Instead you see the file name, a number of spaces, the
extension, the size in bytes, and date and time of the last change
to the file. By the way, a byte is a computer's unit of storage.
A byte is basically equal to one letter. Therefore if your file is
12000 bytes long, it contains the equivalent of 12000 letters,
including spaces.
Typing DIR only gives you a list of files. If there are a lot of
them, some will scroll off the screen before you can read them. If
you want to copy any of them or view their contents, you have to
use other commands. That's why Hard Disk Director was written.
Typing DB on the same disk will give you a screen like this:
EXIT │VIEW│EDIT │COPY│DELETE│RENAME│MOVE│SORT│MARK│RUN IT│UTIL │MENU
ESC │──┘│^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
DB.EXE Program 45240 2-12-1990 2:28 PM Arc
DCONFIG.EXE Program 35586 1-12-1990 5:22 PM
DIRECTOR.DOC Document 88895 11-29-1989 6:30 PM
DIRQUICK.DOC Document 9374 11-29-1989 6:31 PM
DIRREG.DOC Document 2822 9-27-1989 8:47 AM
DIRREV.DOC Document 11867 6-26-1989 6:06 PM
DIRSITE.DOC Document 13300 11-29-1989 6:31 PM
DL.EXE Program 64512 2-12-1990 2:27 PM Arc
DLBASE.EXE Program 13348 1-07-1990 3:19 PM
DLWP.COM Program 11678 1-07-1990 3:21 PM
DM.EXE Program 30064 1-18-1990 8:08 AM Arc
PARK.COM Program 6002 8-24-1989 1:31 PM
You see the filenames and the extensions separated by a period. You
see the same information that a DIR command gives you but the
information doesn't scroll off the screen. You can scroll up and
down a page at a time. There is a highlighted bar that you can
move by using the arrow keys to highlight a particular file. Once
that file is highlighted, you can press Enter and view its
contents. You can also copy it or delete it while in the program.
And if you have a mouse, you can use it to perform all of these
operations.
Since floppy disks don't have a very large capacity, you can store
all the files in one place and see them by typing DIR. However,
hard disks have a very large capacity, and it would be very
unwieldy to store all our files in one place; so we break up hard
disks into what are called directories.
Directories have names just like files. A directory name can have
an extension also just like a file (but they rarely do). Most
directory names just consist of any combination of eight letters or
numbers.
Hard disks are divided up into what is called a directory tree. At
the base of the tree is what is called the root directory and
branching out are what are called sub- directories. You can move
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from one subdirectory to another by the CHDIR or CD command and you
can create subdirectories by the MKDIR or MD command.
You can find out which subdirectories are on your hard disk with
DOS's Tree command.
However, like the DIR command with too many files, if you have too
many directories on your hard disk they will just scroll off the
screen with TREE.
DL.EXE was written to provide you with a visual display of the
layout of your hard disk. Once inside DL you can make directories,
remove directories, rename directories, view the files in any
directory as well as change directories with ease and without
having to use DOS commands.
A portion of a typical screen in DL looks like this:
EXIT │VIEW│ALL │DRIVE│REMOVE│RENAME│MOVE│MAKE│MARK│SEARCH│UTIL│MENU
ESC │──┘│^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
C:\WP\DOCS
ROOT
╠══════BAT
╠══════C
║ ╚══════CDATA
╠══════CASES
╠══════CN
╠══════DOS
║ ╚══════AST
╠══════WINDOWS
║ ╚══════PIF
╚══════WP
╠══════DOCS
╚══════REG
You can see the tree layout of your directories. You can use the
arrow keys to move up and down the directory tree. As you do this,
the row above the directory tree will show you what your current
path is. A path not only tells you what directory you're currently
in, but also the subdirectories before it. In other words, it
tells you the path you need to take to get from the main or "ROOT"
directory of your disk to the directory you're currently in. The
directory you're currently in is called the "current directory".
In this example the path says "C:\WP\DOCS". That means I am in the
"DOCS" sub directory of "WP". "WP" is a sub directory of the root
directory of drive C:.
In DL you don't need to know that. You just have to highlight the
directory you want and DL takes care of the rest. There is one
more thing you need to know before you're ready to learn about Hard
Disk Director: DOS's path command. DOS is not very smart or
intuitive so we have to give it help. When you want to run a
program you must be in the subdirectory where the program resides
in order to run it. For instance, say you wanted to run your word
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processor. To do so you normally type the name of your word
processor. The name of my word processor is "WP.EXE" so I type
"WP.EXE" or just "WP" and press Enter. However you must be in the
subdirectory where your word processor resides or you will get one
of DOS's infamous messages: "Bad command or file name". The same
holds for running DB.EXE from DL.EXE which you will want to do if
you want to see what files are in a particular directory. For that
we have the PATH command.
The PATH command tells DOS where to look to find a program that
isn't in the directory you are currently in (the current
directory). For example if you put DL and DB in a directory called
"UTILITY" on drive C:, you could tell DOS to look in the "UTILITY"
directory after the current directory by typing "PATH=C:\UTILITY;".
However most of the time you put your PATH command in a file called
AUTOEXEC.BAT. This file is always read when you start the computer
and consists of certain DOS commands. If you're using a hard disk,
chances are you already have an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in your root
directory. If it doesn't have a PATH command, you can add one or
you can modify an existing PATH command with DOS's editor EDLIN or
any text editor. The PATH command tells DOS all the different
paths where it should look for programs. Each path is separated by
a semicolon. The path command in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file is:
"PATH=C:\UTIL;C:\DOS;C:\;C:\NORT;C:\BAT"
You will find numerous references to "wild cards" in the
documentation. In poker, a wild card can be used as any card you
want, whether it be an ace or a two. Similarly a DOS wild card can
represent any letter or number in a filename. A "?" can represent
any letter and a "*" can represent any group of letters. "*.COM"
is translated by DOS to mean any file with a "COM" extension.
"??CONFIG.EXE" will be translated by DOS as any file where the last
six letters of the filename is CONFIG and the extension is "EXE".
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