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Tutorial for the HFM file manager version 4.
This document describes some examples for the efficient use of
HFM. The user interface of HFM has had a long development, and
does not conform to any one current standard. Almost all
operations can be invoked in several ways. For all commands
there exists a key combination. Many of them can be useful to
speed up things, but most of them are not necessary for normal
work. In the first line, there is a button bar to invoke the
most common operations. And 90% of your work can be achieved by
just clicking on a directory entry and moving it a little.
INSTALLATION:
HFM can be installed on any drive. But it is NOT recommended to
install HFM anywhere else than in c:\hfm.ah. If you install in
another drive, several paths have to bee changed in the ini
files and in d.bat. The best way to install is to unpack the
zip file in a temporary directory and then to run instal_d.bat
or install_e.bat, depending on the language you want to have.
CHOOSING THE WORKING DIRECTORYS.
You have at least 10 different ways to choose the working
directorys. The following describes the method, which I use
[and some variations].
1. Choose the Drive with Alt-A to Alt-Z [or click on the drive
character in line 2]
2. Go back to the root directory with BACKSPACE
3. Navigate to the required source directory with the f find
command.
For example go to hfm.ah with f h . a RETURN. If h . a
does not bring you to the right directory you can edit the
string with BACKSPACE or go to the next entry with
CursorDown.
4. Switch to the second window with Cursor_Right or Cursor_Left
[Click on the other file list]
5- Choose the target directory as above.
6. Back to the first window.
If HFM is configured correctly, the directory can be the
archive of a archiving program. (Configuration files for ARJ,
ARC, LHA, ZIP and ZOO archives are included)
HFM uses 2 windows for copy and rename operations, if you do
not specify another path, the second window is the target
directory.
MOVING IN THE FILE LIST:
PgUp or PgDown or SPACE [click on the right part of the window
frame], or use the F find command.
MARKING FILES FOR BATCH PROCESSING:
With F8 or klicking with the right mouse button you can mark
individual Files. With i [click on Inc] you can mark all files
which have a companion in the second window. With ctrl-i or tab
you can mark all files which are alone. When you press the keys
again in addtition to files the respecive subdirectories will
be marked. The sequence i i tab tab will mark everything except
of the directory entries . and .. which are allways ignored.
After marking files you can process them with ctrl-c, ctrl-r,
ctrl-d or by pressing the mouse switchen Copy Ren or Del witch
the right mouse button.
DELETING:
One file:
Click on the directory entry and drag it to the bottom of the
screen. If the file is not on the current screen use the find
command first. End finding with SPACE. A RETURN would show the
file content or start a executable file.
Several files:
Choose as above, mark the files with the F8 command. Delete all
marked files with the Ctrl-D command.
Ctrl-C and Ctrl-R work equivalent for copying and moving to the
second window.
All unaltered files from a program installation:
I have installed Borland Pascal and want to get rid of Turbo
Pascal and Turbo Pascal for windows.
1: Choose one file in the directory tree
2. Ctrl-E
3. Acknowledge that all files in the tree with the same time
should be deleted.
SYNCHRONISING OF DIRECTORYS AND BACKUPS:
I worked on HFM and want to copy the changed files to a floppy,
which has not enough room for the complete HFM directory. I
have two options:
1. Mark all changed files with F8 or the right mouse button
[they are highlighted by HFM], copy with Ctrl-C
2. Drag the . directory entry to the target window. Answer U
RETURN when asked how to copy the tree. This will copy all
files which exist in the target tree but are newer in the
source tree. The answer S RETURN would copy everything which is
not in the target tree in a up to date version.
FAST OVERVIEW FOR SEVERAL FILES:
1. Choose the first file with the mouse or the F find command
or the mouse. Look into the files with the N or L command.
[Drag the file a little bit to the right.]
START OF A MS-WINDOWS PROGRAM FROM HFM:
Choose the program or its datafile. Start the program with the
W command.
To use this function the run18 package has to be installed.
(run18.zip is included with HFM.)
The following has to be defined in c:\hfm.ah\hfm4:
[Windows Programmstart]
c:\hfm.ah\run.exe
[Programmstart durch(A,^A,W) von (1) Pfad bei (2) Extension)]
[12 von maximal 20 Programmen]
EXE
c:\hfm.ah\run c:\winword\winword
DOC
The EXE entry with no program defined (blank line over EXE) is
necessary for passing the right parameters to
c:\hfm.ah\run.exe.