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Hard Disk
DIRECTOR
Superior hard disk and file magement, plus a complete
hard disk menu for IBM PCs and compatibles.
Version 5.0
Canyon Software
1537 Fourth Street, suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901
(415) 453-9779
The program author, Dan Baumbach, is an active member
of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
The 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 that member directly, ASP may be able to
help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a
dispute or problem with an ASP member, but he does not
provide technical support for members' products. Please
write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road,
Muskegon MI 49442, or send a CompuServe message via
CompuServe mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
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| ____|__ | Association of
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|___|___| MEMBER
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. This is Hard Disk Director Version 5.0.
A complete set of DIRECTOR Version 5.0 should
include the following programs:
DL.EXE Hard disk directory and file manager.
DB.EXE Individual directory file manager.
DA.EXE All drive file manager.
DM.EXE Hard Disk menu.
DLVIEW.EXE ASCII and Hex file viewer.
DLWP.EXE WordPerfect 5.0 and greater file
viewer.
DLZP.EXE Zip file viewer and extracter.
DLZ.EXE Module for running PKZIP and LHA
on marked files.
DLATTR.DL Overlay for changing file attributes.
DLV.DL Overlay for viewing multiple
directories.
DLWORD.EXE MS Word, Word for Windows and
Windows Write file viewer.
DLWS.EXE WordStar 4.0 and greater file viewer.
DLBASE.EXE dBASE and compatible file viewer.
DLWKS.EXE Lotus, Quattro Pro and compatible file
viewer.
DLPX.EXE Paradox table viewer.
DLPCX.EXE PCX picture file viewer.
DCONFIG.EXE Configuration program for DL.EXE
DB.EXE DA.EXE and DM.EXE.
README.DOC Late additions and changes to
Hard Disk Director.
DIRSITE.DOC Site license information. Getting Help
Help with Hard Disk Director is available to all registered
users. My name is Dan Baumbach and I can be reached
at (415) 453-9779, Monday through Friday from 7:00
AM to 8:30 AM and from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Pacific
time and all day Saturday and Sunday. If I am not there
to receive your call, leave a message and I will call you
back.
I am also available through CompuServe. My ID # is
71320,1277
If the telephone or CompuServe are not convenient for
you, feel free to contact me through the mail at:
Canyon Software
1537 Fourth Street, suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901
Table of Contents
What is Hard Disk Director . . . . . . . . 1
Installing Hard Disk Director. . . . . . . . 2
Configuring Hard Disk Director . . . . . . . 4
DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
DB.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
DA.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
DM.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Running Programs in DM . . . . . . . 15
Adding and Changing Programs in DM . 16
Adding and Changing Sub Menus in DM. 19
Reference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
About This Program . . . . . . . . . 22
Add New Directory. . . . . . . . . . 22
Alt View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Change Directory . . . . . . . . . . 23
Change File Attributes . . . . . . . 23
Copy or Move Directories . . . . . . 24
Copy or Move Files . . . . . . . . . 25
Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Go To DOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Hide or Unhide Directories . . . . . 28
Load DM Hard Disk Menu . . . . . . . 28
Marking Files and Directories. . . . 29
Operate on the Highlighted File. . . 30
Print Directory Tree . . . . . . . . 30
Print File List. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Print File Text. . . . . . . . . . . 30
Remove Directory . . . . . . . . . . 31
Rename File or Directory . . . . . . 31
Run a Program. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Run LHA/LHARC. . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Run PKZIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Search For a File. . . . . . . . . . 32
Show Duplicate Files . . . . . . . . 32
Show File and Disk Statistics. . . . 32
Sort File List . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Split Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Util Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
View Directory Contents. . . . . . . 35
View Entire Drive. . . . . . . . . . 35
View File Contents . . . . . . . . . 35
View Marked Directories. . . . . . . 35
Write DBF, ASCII or ASCII Delimited
File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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. With DL
you can also copy, move or delete 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. Two
new features in DL are the ability to mark directories and view
the files in the marked directories in a single file list and the
ability to split the screen and display directories on one side
and files on the other side.
Because it saves a copy of the directory tree to disk, DL can
also be used for quick directory and drive changes. Enter "DL" ,
he drive specification and directory name or part of it and DL
will change directories to the first match. For instance say I'm
in E:\FILES and I enter
"dl tem". DL will change directories to my E:\FOX\TEMPLATE
directory. If I enter "dl c: do", I will find myself in my
C:\WP\DOCS directory. If you have more than one directory with
the same name, just type the number after the directory name.
For instance, since I have three DOCS directories, I can put a
"2" or "3" after "do " to get to the second or third DOCS sub
directory. For example, to get to my third DOCS sub directory, I
would enter "DL do 3".
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 Ctrl-Enter in DA 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 Ctrl-Enter.
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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 20
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.
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, and can handle directories of up
to 2,000 files. DL.EXE can handle drives with up to 1,000
directories and directories of up to 2,000 files. It can handle
paths of up to 9 directories deep. The memory DA requires
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.
INSTALLING HARD DISK DIRECTOR
If your copy of Director is on a 5 1/4" diskette, all the files
on it will be compressed into one file called DIRECTOR.EXE. Copy
DIRECTOR.EXE to any directory on you hard disk, preferably one 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".
To create the Hard Disk Director files, just type "director" and
press Enter and all the Hard Disk Director programs will be
created. When you are done, you can erase the DIRECTOR.EXE
program from your hard disk. It is not needed anymore.
If your copy of Director is on a 3 1/2" diskette, there is no
need to compress the files to fit them on the diskette. Just copy
all the files from the diskette to any directory on your hard
disk, preferably a directory that is on your path.
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Whether you had to run DIRECTOR.EXE to decompress the files or
you just had to copy them from the diskette, the files that you
should have on your hard disk when you are finished are:
DL.EXE Hard disk directory and file manager.
DB.EXE Individual directory file manager.
DA.EXE All drive file manager.
DM.EXE Hard Disk menu.
DLVIEW.EXE ASCII and Hex file viewer.
DLWP.EXE WordPerfect file viewer.
DLZP.EXE Zip file viewer and extractor. DLZ.EXE
Module for running PKZIP and LHA.
DLATTR.DL Overlay for changing file attributes.
DLV.DL Overlay for viewing multiple directories.
DLWORD.EXE MS Word, Word for Windows and Windows
Write file viewer.
DLWS.EXE WordStar 4.0 and greater file viewer.
DLBASE.EXE dBASE and compatible file viewer.
DLWKS.EXE Lotus, Quattro Pro and compatible file
viewer.
DLPX.EXE Paradox table viewer.
DLPCX.EXE PCX picture file viewer.
DCONFIG.EXE Configuration program for DL.EXE
DB.EXE DA.EXE and DM.EXE
README.DOC Late additions and changes to
Hard Disk Director.
DIRSITE.DOC Site license information.
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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, or 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 director programs and read in what options are
already set. If it can't find them, 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.
Path for Hard Disk Director
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". Director has the ability to
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operate in 43 or 50 line mode on EGA and VGA monitors. By
answering "Y" to the next question, you can have director work
that way on your monitor.
Full Screen or Split Screen for DL.EXE
The program DL.EXE is the one that you run to see a directory
tree of your hard disk. Normally, DL will take the full screen
of your monitor to show you the tree. If you want to view a list
of files in a directory, DL will no longer show the tree but
will show you a full screen with a list of the files. If you
would rather have the screen split down the middle with the
directories on the left hand side and the files on the right hand
side, choose "Y" for yes for the next question. If you want to
have a full screen for directories and a full screen for files,
choose "N" for no.
Ultra Fast or Ultra Compatible Mode for DL and DA
I have done my best to make DL and DA load faster than any other
DOS shell, but your hard disk must be 100% DOS compatible. Some
SCSI hard disks and some networks may not display correctly with
DL and DA because DL and DA can't figure out the best way to
read them. This shouldn't be happening with Banyan or Novell
networks. If DL and DA are not displaying properly, choose "Y"
for yes to the next question. They make take a little longer to
load, but it won't be noticeable on 386 and faster machines.
50 or 43 Line Mode or Adapt to Screen
All the Hard Disk Director programs come configured to adapt the
current number of rows on your monitor. You can also force them
to run in 50 line mode on VGA monitors and 43 line mode on EGA
monitors by answering "Y" to the next question.
Install Your Editor into Hard Disk Director
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.
Install Your Own View Program or Use Director's
Director comes with its own ASCII and Hex viewer program called
DLVIEW.EXE. For your convenience this viewer is already
installed for you. If you wish to install another file viewer
like Vernon Beurg's LIST, you can do so by filling in the
information in the next screen.
Install Your Copy of PKZIP into Director
In the next screen you will tell Director where your copies of
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PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE are. That way you can Zip and Unzip
programs with Director's ZIP file viewer. If you don't have a
copy of PKZIP, you can still view ZIP files but you won't be able
to extract files or Zip files.
Install Your Copy of LHA/LHARC into Director
Next, you will be asked for the path of your copy of LHA/LHARC.
If you have a copy of this program, enter the complete pathname
and program name in the space provided below, so you can run LHA
from Director to compress files.
Swap to Disk or Expanded Memory
This version of Director runs programs by swapping itself out to
expanded memory or disk. That way its overhead is cut down to
only 2k. Director comes configured to automatically swap itself
to disk. You can change this so it will use expanded memory by
specifying so in the next screen. If you specify expanded memory
but there isn't any available, then Director will swap itself to
disk.
Add Command Line Arguments when Running Programs
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.
Save Tree File to Disk for Fast Loads
After DL reads the directory tree, it saves 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 nonexistent 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".
If you don't want DL to create this tree file and you want DL to
completely reread the drive each time it is loaded, answer "N"
where DCONFIG asks you if you want DL to save tree files to disk.
Default Sort of File Lists
The file list of Hard Disk Director is normally sorted by
filename. While in Director, you can always change the current
sort through the sort menu. If you want Director to have a
different default sort, you enter the letter of your sort choice
in the next screen. Your sort choices are filename, extension,
date, size and unsorted.
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Turn Overwrite Warnings On or Off
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.
Character Set for Printing
On your computer screen, DL uses the IBM extended character set
box drawing characters ╚ ═ ╣ to display the directory tree. If
your printer cant print these characters choose to have your
printer use "+" and "=" when printing.
Send Setup String to Printer
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.
Send Form Feed When Finished Printing
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 a
sheet of paper will be wasted.
Park Hard Disk Heads and Blank Screen
Hard Disk Director's hard disk menu DM.EXE 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. In the next screen you can specify if
you want this feature on or off. You must be running DM for this
feature to work.
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. Many modern
hard disks do this automatically. If yours doesn't, there is a
head parking program provided with Director.
Modifying Screen Colors
You will now be allowed to change Hard Disk Director's colors.
The screen will display the available colors on your monitor and
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the number that represents that color. Portions of the Hard Disk
Director display are 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 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.
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.
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When DL is running, the screen of your computer will look
something like this:
EXIT│VIEW│ALL │DRIVE│REMOVE│RENAME│COPY │MAKE │MARK│SEARCH│UTIL │MENU
ESC │ ──┘│^ ─┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
C:\
╠══════ASM ░
╠══════ASP ░
║ ╚══════CATALOG ░
╠══════AUTOCON ░
╠══════BACKUP ░
╠══════BAT ░
╠══════BC ░
║ ╠══════BGI ░
║ ╠══════BIN ░
║ ╠══════CLASSLIB ░
║ ║ ╠══════EXAMPLES ░
║ ║ ╠══════INCLUDE ░
║ ║ ╠══════LIB ░
║ ║ ╚══════SOURCE ░
║ ╠══════DOC ░
║ ╠══════EXAMPLES ░
║ ║ ╠══════TCALC ░
║ ║ ╚══════WORKSHOP ░
║ ╠══════INCLUDE ░
║ ║ ╚══════SYS ░
║ ╠══════LIB
C:\BC\EXAMPLES\WORKSHOP Bytes 12798956 Marked 0
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 at
the bottom of the screen will show you what your current path is, how may
bytes the files in the highlighted directory take up, and the byte count
for the marked directories. 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. There is a scroll bar at the far right of the
screen. If you have a mouse there will be a mouse cursor in the middle of
the screen.
Clicking on the up and down arrows of the scroll bar with a mouse will work
just like pressing the up and down arrows on the keyboard. Dragging the
button on the scroll button will scroll the screen in the opposite
direction. Clicking the mouse above the scroll button is like pressing the
PgUp key, and clicking below the scroll button is like pressing the PgDn
key.
You can also highlight a directory by clicking on it with either button.
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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 directory. If you wish to see a listing of files in
multiple directories, first mark them and then choose "View Marked" from
the utility menu.
Though it can't be shown in the above illustration, the current directory
is displayed in another color. In this case it is
"C:\BC\WORKSHOP\EXAMPLES". 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 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 DL 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 two directories with the same name, you can press
the Tab key or click the mouse on the "TAB Next Match" bar and DL will
highlight the next directory that matches your entry.
If any directories in the tree are hidden, they will have an "H" after them.
DL can be used for quick directory and drive changes. Enter DL and the
drive specification and directory name or part of it, and DL will change
directories to the first match. For instance say I'm in E:\FILES and I
enter "dl tem". DL will change directories to my E:\FOX\TEMPLATE
directory. If I enter "dl c: do", I will find myself in my C:\WP\DOCS
directory. If you have more than one directory with the same name, just
type the number after the directory name. For instance, since I have three
DOCS directories, I can put a "2" or "3" after "do " to get to the second
or third DOCS sub directory. For example, to get to my third DOCS sub
directory, I would enter "DL do 3".
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 to the keys listed on the second line of the menu bar, there are
also ALT-key combinations for many of the functions. For most of the menu
choices, you'll find that there is a letter in a different color than the
other letters. Pressing the ALT key and that letter will also select that
menu item.
You can view the contents of any highlighted directory by pressing Enter or
clicking on FILES on the menu bar.
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The file list of DL looks like this:
EXIT│VIEW │EDIT │COPY │DELETE│RENAME│MOVE │SORT│MARK│RUN IT│UTIL │MENU
ESC │ ──┘ │^ ──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
DA.EXE Program 60492 9-22-1990 10:26 AM Arc
DB.EXE Program 46484 9-22-1990 10:24 AM Arc ▒
DCONFIG.EXE Program 36656 9-08-1990 3:27 PM Arc ▒
DIR1.ICO 766 7-07-1990 1:55 PM ░
DIRECTOR.DOC Document 111297 3-06-1990 9:55 AM ▒
DIRECTOR.LZH 285125 9-22-1990 10:29 AM Arc ▒
DL.EXE Program 72308 9-22-1990 10:10 AM Arc ▒
DLBASE.EXE Program 26911 2-21-1990 11:41 AM ▒
DLPCX.EXE Program 46138 9-21-1990 12:39 PM Arc ▒
DLVIEW.EXE Program 14006 9-22-1990 8:54 AM Arc ▒
DLWINW.EXE Program 14390 9-16-1990 8:07 AM Arc ▒
DLWK.EXE Program 32366 9-21-1990 11:07 AM Arc ▒
DLWORD.EXE Program 14262 9-15-1990 1:24 PM Arc ▒
DLWP.EXE Program 13066 8-03-1990 3:43 PM ▒
DM.EXE Program 38670 9-21-1990 1:12 PM Arc ▒
PARK.COM Program 6002 8-24-1989 1:31 PM ▒
READ.ME 3507 9-21-1990 1:07 PM Arc ▒
▒
E:\DIRECTOR Marked 0 Total 822582 │SHIFT MARKD
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DB.EXE
DB.EXE works just like 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 the DOS command "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
"/u" unsorted
The file list in DB is very similar to that of DL. Like in DL
you can highlight a file in DB and view it.
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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. You 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
display only duplicate files. 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
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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 add as many sub menus of 20
programs 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 ═══════════════╗
║ 01/15/1991 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 ESC-EXIT TO DOS ║
║ ║
╚═══════════════ Copyright 1989-1991 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, ESC-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 Esc key will bring you up through the sub-menus to
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the parent menu and finally to DOS. If you want to exit to DOS
directly from a sub-menu, press the F10 key.
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.
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 Esc 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
screen, you will have to press Escape again.
F1 ADD - Adding Programs: Press F1 or click on ADD and 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 titled "PATH". If want
to enter something different, just start typing and what was
previously entered will disappear.
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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.
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 where the program is
located. 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. To
activate this feature, enter "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
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of Hard Disk Director, a dialog box will pop up with a command
line that you can add or modify. 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 you in 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 │
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
ADD COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS TO WP.EXE
CU_MEMO.DOC CU_FLMO.DOC CU_FLMO.DOC
[ 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.DOC 450 2-02-1990 6:37 AM
CU_FLMO.DOC 24 2-02-1990 6:38 AM
CU_FLOAT.DOC 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 applicable if you are running DM from 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 won'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 further
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. Pressing "Escape" or
clicking on "ESC-PREV MENU" 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.
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F2 CHANGE: You can change any entry by clicking on F2 CHANGE or
pressing the F2 key. Mouse users can also highlight a particular
field to change by clicking on that field.
F3 LAST and F4 NEXT: Use these to 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 sub menu titles will be the name that 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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REFERENCE
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@View
(see Alt View)
About This Program
Being that Hard Disk Director is distributed as Shareware, I
never know where you got your copy. Therefor I have included
this option to let you know that Director is Shareware and that
you should pay for your copy if you're using it and also how you
can do that. If you want to activate this option, you can do so
by choosing this option from the UTIL menu of DL.
Add New Directory
You can easily add a new directory to any highlighted directory
in DL by choosing "MAKE" from the menu. You can do this by
pressing the F5 key, click on MAKE or press Alt-M. 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.
All
(see View Entire Drive)
Alt View
"@View" appears as the last menu item when running DA or viewing
more than one directory in DL. This shortens the display of the
file statistics to allow the display of longer pathnames. The
alternate display will only display the filename, the size and
the path. You can select Alt View by clicking on it on the menu
bar or pressing the "Tab" key. Subsequent presses will turn it
off and on.
Attributes
(To see how to change attributes, see Change File Attributes)
Besides storing the file name and creation time, each file has a
number associated with it called the file attribute. The
attribute tells DOS if the file is indeed a file, or a
subdirectory or a volume label. The attribute for a file can be
any one of four different numbers or any combination thereof. DL
and DB show each file's attribute as the last entry after the
file modification date. DA and the multiple directory view show
the attribute between the date and the path.
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The possible attributes are:
System: Abbreviated as Sys. in DL and DB and S in DA, 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 DL, DB and DA show them.
Hidden: Abbreviated as Hid. in DL and DB and H in DA, 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 in DL and DB and R in DA. 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 in DL or DB and A in DA, this
attribute 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.
Change Directory
It is very easy to change to a directory with DL. Simply
highlight the directory that you want to be in and press Ctrl-X.
Or you can choose the UTIL menu and then choose "Exit Highlighted
Dir"
You can also use DL to change directories from the DOS command
line. Just enter DL and directory name or part of it and DL will
change directories to the first match. For instance say I'm in
E:\FILES and I enter "dl tem". DL will change directories to my
E:\FOX\TEMPLATE directory. If I enter "dl c: do", I will find
myself in my C:\WP\DOCS directory. If you have more than one
directory with the same name, just type the number after the
directory name. For instance, since I have 3 DOCS directories, I
can put a "2" or "3" after "do " to get to the second or third
DOCS sub directory. For example to get to my third DOCS sub
directory, I would enter "DL do 3". If you want to change drives
as well as directories, you can enter the drive letter first and
then the directory name. For instance to change to my
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, I would enter "dl c: sys".
Change File Attributes
Hard Disk Director allows you to change a file's attributes very
easily. Choose "Attributes" from the UTIL menu or just press
Ctrl-A, and a screen will pop up showing the attributes for the
highlighted or marked file. If the attribute is turned on, an
"ON" will appear before the attribute. If the attribute is turned
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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.
Copy
(see Copy or Move Files or Copy or Move Directories)
Copy or Move Directories
To copy or move a directory, choose COPY from the menu or press
F4 or ALT-C. When copying or moving marked directories, the
marked directories become sub-directories of the directory that
you are copying or moving to. Marked directory branches are
moved intact. DL will allow you to move or copy any directory
except the root directory. First DL 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 will ask you to highlight the directory
that you want to copy or move to.
The screen will now look like this:
EXIT │CHOOSE│DRIVE │
ESC │ ──┘ │F1 │
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
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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.
Copy or Move Files
To copy a file or marked files choose COPY from the menu or press
F1 or Alt-C. To move the files, choose MOVE or press F4 or Alt-
M. When you move files, they are removed from their original
location. When you copy files, the original files are not
deleted.
Hard Disk Director will present you with a dialog box asking
where you want the files to be copied or moved. 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 you
can't 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 Director can't find it, and you are copying or
moving just a single file, Director will assume that you want to
change the filename and will copy or move the file to the new
name. If you are copying multiple files, Director will assume
that you want to create a new directory to match your entry.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, Director will copy the file to the first
part of the pathname and change the file's name to the last part
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of the pathname.
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 operation or not. You will also have the option of
turning off future warnings at this time, but only for this
copying or moving session.
If you are running DL and 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.
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. Before trying to copy a file, Director first looks to
see if the target directory or drive has enough room. If it
does, then DL copies the file to the new directory or drive. If
there isn't enough room for the file, Director will move on to
the next file. 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, then 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 Esc and Director will stop after
copying the file it's 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.
Delete
Delete Files
You can delete the highlighted file or the marked files by
clicking on DELETE, pressing F2 or pressing Alt-D. Before
deleting the files, Hard Disk Director will ask you if you are
sure. Pressing or clicking on Enter will set Director on its
work. If while deleting a group of files you decide to stop,
Press the Escape key and Director will stop.
Director will not delete hidden files. In order to do that you
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must change the hidden attribute first. For information on how
to do this, see the section on changing file attributes.
Dups
(see Show Duplicate Files)
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
Ctrl-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. In DA there is no EDIT on the menu
bar. In DA you run your editor by choosing "Edit" from the UTIL
menu.
Exit
You can exit any program in Hard Disk Director by pressing the
Esc key or clicking on "EXIT" on the menu bar. If you are in a
sub-menu or are viewing a file list or file, you will first be
brought back through the previous screens.
Exit Highlighted Directory
Exit Highlighted Dir
(see Change Directory)
File Spec
File Specification
(see Filter)
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Files
(see View File Contents)
Filter
Looking for a few files in a long list can be trying, even with
the different possible file sort options. For that reason, I've
provided a way to filter out the files you don't want to see and
display only those that you want to see. In DL and DB, choose
"Filter" from the UTIL menu or press Ctrl-L. In DA choose FILTER
from the menu or press Alt-F 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. DL and DB will use
this file spec and reread the directory displaying those files
that meet your specifications. For speed reasons, DA won't
reread the file list. It just won't show any files that don't
match the specification.
For example, if I enter the filespec "D*.EXE", DL will display
only those files that begin with the letter D and have an EXE
extension.
Go To DOS
If you want to quickly shell out to DOS and then return to Hard
Disk Director, you can choose this option from the UTIL menu.
This option will exit you out to DOS while keeping Director in
memory. To return to Director, type "EXIT" and press Enter.
Hide or Unhide Directories
With this option in the UTIL menu or DL you can turn the hidden
attribute of a directory on and off. 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. DL displays a hidden
directory with a "H" after the name.
Hilit
(see Operate on the Highlighted File)
Load DM Hard Disk Menu
You can pop up DM, the hard disk menu, while in DL or DB. You
can do this by choosing MENU from the menu bar or press the slash
key. 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.
Make
Make Directory
(see Add New Directory)
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Mark
Mark a Directory Branch
Mark All Files or Directories
Mark All
Mark Archive
Mark Branch
Mark File or Directory
Mark Files with the Archive Attribute
(see Marking and Unmarking Files and Directories)
Markd
(see Operate on the Highlighted File)
Marking Files and Directories
Most of Hard Disk Director's functions can be performed on
multiple files or multiple directories. If you want Director to
operate on more that one file or directory, you have to mark the
ones that you want to use.
You can mark a file or directory in five ways. First, highlight
the file or directory:
1. Press the Plus (+) key.
2. Press the space bar on an unmarked file.
3. Press the right arrow key.
4. Click the left mouse button on the highlighted
directory or file.
5. Use the Mark menu.
You can mark any directory except the root directory, and you can
mark any file.
To unmark a file, use the Minus (-) key or the left arrow. Or,
you can click the mouse or press the space bar on a marked file
to unmark it.
Although there are keyboard shortcuts to all the marking
functions, you can access them all from the Mark menu. You
activate the Mark menu by Pressing F5 or ALT-M or choosing the
Mark menu. A marked directory or file has a little arrow head
pointing to the file in the far left column.
You can mark all the files or directories by pressing the "Ctrl"
key and the right arrow, and you can unmark all of them by
pressing the "Ctrl" key and the left arrow.
The other marking options available through the UTIL menu are:
1. Marking a directory branch. The keyboard shortcut for this is
"*".
2. Unmarking a directory branch. The keyboard shortcut for this
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is "/".
3. Marking just some files with a file specification. The
keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl-\.
3. With DA and the multi-directory viewer of DL you can to mark
all the files with the archive bit set. The keyboard shortcut
for that is Ctrl-End.
When DL, DB and DA are finished operating on a marked file, the
arrow is changed to a little circle. The mark menus in DL, DB
and DA have a remark function that will mark all the files with
the little circle in front of them. To access that function from
the keyboard press "*".
Menu
(see Load DM Hard Disk Menu)
Move
Move Files or Directories
(see Copy or Move Files)
Operate on the Highlighted File
You can have DL and DB perform their functions on the marked
files or on just the highlighted file. Normally they will
perform operations on the marked files. However, if you press
the "Shift" key or click your mouse on the lower left of the
display that says "SHIFT MARKD", DL and DB will operate on just
the highlighted file. When DL and DB are operating on marked
files, the menu option on the lower right will say "MARKD". When
they are operating on just the highlighted file, the menu option
will say "HILIT". Successive presses of the "Shift" key or
clicking on the lower right menu will toggle between hilit and
marked files.
Operate on the Marked Files
(see Operate on the Highlighted File)
Print Dir List
Print Directory Tree
To send a send a copy of your directory tree to the printer,
choose "Print Dir List" from the UTIL menu of DL. You can also
print a copy of the directory tree from outside the UTIL menu by
pressing F8 or Ctrl-P.
Print File List
Press F8, Ctrl-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
Hard Disk Director can print any ASCII file or group of marked
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ASCII files. Choose "Print File Text" from the UTIL menu and
Director will send a copy of the highlighted or marked files to
the printer. 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.
Remove
Remove Directory
To remove a single directory or a group of marked directories,
press F2, Alt-D, or click on the REMOVE part of the menu, and
Hard Disk Director will remove the marked directories. Director
will first delete all the files in each marked directory and
then remove each directory. Before Director 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 Esc. If no directories are marked, Director will remove the
highlighted file.
Rename File or Directory
You can rename only one file or directory at a time so with this
function Hard Disk Director will operate on just the highlighted
file or directory. You are not allowed to rename the root
directory. To rename a file or directory, press F3, enter a Alt-
N or click on RENAME. You will be presented with a dialog box
prompting for a new name for the file or directory. Enter the
new name and press Enter or click on the Enter Bar and the name
will be changed and the new name will then be highlighted. If
the 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 files
and directories, and therefore it won't accept blanks or the
characters ."/\[]:|<>+=;,. DOS 2.XX does not allow renaming
directories.
Restore Screen
(see Toggle Screen)
Run a Program
Run It
You can run any highlighted program from DL and DB whether it be
an EXE, COM or BAT file. Just press F7, Alt-R, or click on "RUN
IT" on the menu bar and Director will immediately execute the
program. DL and DB swap themselves to disk or expanded memory
(as specified in DCONFIG) when running programs and leave little
as 2k of themselves in memory. When they are finished running
the program, DL and DB read themselves back from expanded memory
or disk, putting you back where you were before running the
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program.
Run LHA/LHARC
Run PKZIP
If you have your own copies of these programs, you can install
them into DL and DB through DCONFIG. Then you can mark files and
use PKZIP and LHA/LHARC to compress them. Choose the "Run PKZIP"
or "Run LHA" from the UTIL menu or press ALT-Z for PKZIP and ALT-
L for LHA/LARC. Hard Disk Director will present you with a
dialog box asking for an output file name, and will allow you to
add any extra command line arguments. Then Director will run
these programs and pass the marked files to them for compression.
You can also use this function to create a self-extraction EXE
file with LHA/LHARC. First highlight the LZH file that you want
to make self extracting. Then choose "Run Lha". In the dialog
box, put in the name of the LZH file without the extension for
the output file name. Then pop up the box for command line
arguments and enter "s /x" and press Enter twice; Director will
run LHA/LHARC and create a self-extracting EXE file for you.
Search
Search For a File
DL will let you search the whole disk for a particular file.
Press F7, click on "SEARCH" or press Alt-S, 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.
Shell To DOS
(see Go To DOS)
Show Duplicate Files
In DA and the multiple directory view of DL you can toggle on and
off the display of Duplicate files. To do this in DA, choose
DUPS from the menu or press
Ctrl-Enter. In the multiple directory view of DL, there is a
menu option on the UTIL menu that does the same thing.
Show File and Disk Statistics
To get a listing of disk and file statistics, pick "Statistics"
from the UTIL menu or press F10 or Ctrl-S. Hard Disk Director
will bring up a box showing you the file count and byte count for
the directory or drive, the free disk space, and how many
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diskettes will be needed to back up the files.
Show Long Directory Names
(see Alt View)
Sort
Sort File List
Pressing F5, Alt-S or clicking on SORT will bring up the sort
menu. In DL and DB, the sort choices are by Filename, by
Extension, by Date and Time and by Size. To those sort choices
DA also adds by Path and by Archive byte. There is a keyboard
shortcut to sort with bypassing the menu: Ctrl-F sorts by
filename, Ctrl-E sorts by extension, Ctrl-T sorts by date, Ctrl-Z
sorts by size, Ctrl-B by Path, and Ctrl-Y by Archive.
Split Screen
Normally DL shows the directory tree on the full screen and the
file list on the full screen. By choosing "Toggle Screen" from
the UTIL menu, you can have DL display directories on the left
side and files on the right side of the screen. If you like this
display format better, you can reconfigure DL to do this
permanently with DCONFIG. When DL is in this split screen mode
it will operate slightly differently. Rather than pressing Enter
and Esc to go from the directory list to the file list and back
again, you need to press the "Tab" key to switch from the
directories on the left to the files on the right. In split
screen mode the Esc key will exit to DOS from either the
directory side or the file side. When the directory side is
active, the scroll bar will be on the directory side and the top
menu will be the menu of the directory view. When the file side
is active, the scroll bar will be on the file side and the menu
bar will be the same as in the file view. As you move through
directories, if you leave the highlight on any directory for more
than 1.5 seconds, DL will read the files in that directory and
update the display on the right.
You can change back to single screen mode by again choosing
"Toggle Screen"
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DL in split screen mode looks like this:
EXIT│VIEW│ALL │DRIVE│REMOVE│RENAME│COPY │MAKE │MARK │SEARCH│UTIL │MENU
ESC │ ──┘│^ ─┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 │F9 │/
C:\ AUTOEXEC.BAT 579 12-27-91 2:24p ...A │
╠═ASM ░ CDW.MAK 329 12-27-91 2:59p ...A │
╠═ASP ░ CONFIG.SYS 379 12-21-91 9:54a ...A │
║ ╚═CATALOG ░ DA.LNK 139 10-22-90 7:27p .... │
╠═AUTOCON ░ DA.MAK 1058 11-21-90 8:19a .... │
╠═BACKUP ░ DAL_NEW.C 26717 12-16-91 10:25a ...A │
╠═BAT ░ DAL_VIEW.C 6002 11-02-91 9:35a ...A │
╠═BC ░ DB.H 4649 12-23-91 3:04p .... │
║ ╠═BGI ░ DBL.C 6143 12-23-91 2:35p ...A │
║ ╠═BIN ░ DBL_DO.C 16215 12-21-91 11:28a ...A │
║ ╠═CLASSLIB ░ DBL_NEW.C 21001 12-21-91 11:11a ...A │
║ ║ ╠═EXAMPLES ░ DBL_UTIL.C 10980 12-23-91 2:42p ...A │
║ ║ ╠═INCLUDE ░ DBL_VIEW.C 6637 12-14-91 11:22a ...A │
║ ║ ╠═LIB ░ DB_COM.C 25724 9-21-91 4:36p .... │
║ ║ ╚═SOURCE ░ DB_DO.C 24888 9-28-91 12:56p .... │
║ ╠═DOC ░ DB_UTIL.C 7563 12-23-91 3:14p .... │
║ ╠═EXAMPLES ░ DB_VIEW.C 6324 12-25-91 10:57a ...A │
║ ║ ╠═TCALC ░ DCOLORS.C 41932 11-17-91 3:24p ...A │
║ ║ ╚═WORKSHOP ░ DCONFIG.C 43799 12-23-91 3:53p ...A │
║ ╠═INCLUDE ░ DCONFIG.MAK 448 12-23-91 3:22p ...A │
║ ║ ╚═SYS ░ DEVCAPS.C 8762 12-27-91 5:05p ...A │
║ ╠═LIB DEVCAPS1.MAK 361 12-27-91 3:40p ...A │
C:\BACKUP Bytes 506965 Marked 0
Stats
(see Show File and Disk Statistics)
Toggle Screen
(see Split Screen)
Unmark
Unmark All Files or Directories
Unmark All
Unmark File or Directory
(see Marking and Unmarking Files and Directories)
Util
Util Menu
All the Hard Disk Director programs except DM have a menu bar
across the top. In all of the menu bars the next to the last
function says "UTIL". Choosing this function will pull down a
menu from which you can choose to print a file or directory tree,
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show disk statistics, or change file attributes, plus many other
functions unique to each program.
View
(see View File Contents or View Directory Contents)
View Directory Contents
To view a file list for any directory in the full screen mode of
DL, first highlight that directory. Then you can choose VIEW
from the menu, press Enter or click the right mouse button on the
highlighted directory. The directory tree screen view of DL will
be replaced with a screen listing the files in the highlighted
directory.
If DL is in split screen mode, You can either use the Tab key to
move to the file's side and back, or click the mouse on the side
that you want to be active.
View Entire Drive
Clicking on this option or pressing Ctrl-Enter 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.
View File Contents
To view a file, first hilight the file name. Then you can press
Enter, or click on View or click on the hilighted file with the
right mouse button. If the file is in one of the formats that
Hard Disk Director has viewers for, Director will display the
file with the special file viewer. If Director doesn't have a
special viewer for the file, the ASCII viewer that you specified
in DCONFIG will be used.
View Marked Directories
View Marked Dirs
To view the files of several directories in a single file list,
first mark the directories that you want to view in DL. Then
choose "View Marked Dirs" from the UTIL menu or use the keyboard
short cut, Alt-V. Then DL will show you a file listing of the
files in the marked directories in a screen similar to DA's.
Write DBF, ASCII or ASCII Delimited File
DA allows you to write a copy of the file list to disk. You have
a choice of three formats: ASCII, ASCII delimited and DBF (dBase
format). Just choose the format that you want from the UTIL menu
of DA, enter the file name that you want, and DA will do it. The
ASCII file will have an "ASC" extension. The ASCII delimited
file will have a "DEL" extension and the dBase file will have a
"DBF" extension.
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