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File Commando II
This file documents the changes made to File Commando II that have been made
since the manual has been written. This also lists some helpful hints that
may help you when running this program.
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SETUP
**Important** You must set the FCOMMANDO environment variable before running
File Commando or the program will not run.
The FCOMMANDO environment variable specifies the File Commando
where to create / save its data files.
To set the FCOMMANDO environment variable, add a SET command as
follows to your AUTOEXEC.BAT:
SET FCOMMANDO=drive:\path
where drive:\path is the drive & directory where File Commando
is stored.
The File Commando II install program will add the line above to
the end of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
YOU MUST reboot the computer after the install program has copied
File Commando II to your hard disk or type the above set
statement at the DOS prompt or File Commando will give you an
error message indicating that the
"FCOMMANDO environment variable is not set".
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Program Changes:
(1) FCSMALL.COM has been removed from the distribution disk. We found that
having this extra program on the disk is more confusing than useful. So,
to reduce the amount of memory used by FCII when running other programs,
toggle the Quick Run options found under the Options menu (described
under #6 below under program additions).
Program additions
(1) Quasi-mouse support has been added. If a Microsoft compatible mouse is
active, File Commando will automatically use it as an extension of the
keyboard as follows:
(a) Moving the mouse up, down, left, or right simulates the use of the
corresponding cursor keys.
(b) Pressing mouse button #1 sends a carriage return ([Enter]).
(c) Pressing mouse button #2 sends an [ESC] key.
(2) The following directory movement keys have been added. These are used when
the highlighted selection bar is shown in the file window and are only
available when the window mode is set to Tree & Files or Subdirectory mode.
(a) [CTRL][Left] - Moves up one directory.
(b) [CTRL][Right] - Moves down one directory.
(c) [CTRL][Home] - Moves to root directory.
(d) [CTRL][End] - Moves to last directory in tree.
(3) Directory search and file search is available. While the highlighted
selection bar is located within the directory tree window, pressing
[Insert] displays a prompt asking for the name of the directory to be
searched for on the disk. Once a full name, partial name, or wildcard is
entered, the first matching directory name is highlighted by the selection
bar. The quick file search works the same way when the highlighted
selection bar is located within the file window. To continue searchin the
directory or file window using the defined search pattern, press
[Ctrl][Enter].
Example: To find all batch files within the current directory, make sure
that the highlighted selection bar is located within the file
window and press the [Insert] key. At the prompt, enter the
wildcard *.BAT and press [Enter] to begin the search.
When the first matching batch file is found, the file selection
bar is moved to highlight the matching file name. To find the
next matching batch file, press [Ctrl][Enter].
(4) Three backup modes are available within the Editor for saving backup copies
of the edited file. These modes are as follows:
(a) No backup : The editor does not save a copy of the unchanged file
being edited when the edited file is saved.
(b) '.BAK' file: The unchanged version of the file is saved to a file with
the name extension of '.BAK' before the edited file is
saved to the original file. This keeps only two copies of
the file, the last two versions of the file saved to disk.
(c) Incremental: Each time the file is saved, a new backup is made. This
provides a historical record of changes made to the file.
This is also helpful when you decide that the changes made
to a file are not desired and you want to begin again from
an earlier version. Each time a file is saved, the backup
file extension is numbered. The naming of the backup files
goes like this:
FILENAME.DOC - Current file being edited
FILENAME.000 - First backup
FILENAME.001 - Second backup
FILENAME.999 - Thousandth backup
This should only be used when progress tracking is
necessary, an audit trail is needed, or when changes are
being made to a file that may or may not be kept. When
this mode is used, it is up to the you to delete unwanted
backup files.
(5) The amount of memory occupied by File Commando when running a program from
the Run or Applications menu is now controlled by a toggle found under the
Options menu. This toggle is named the Quick run toggle. When On, only the
disk and screen information is saved to a temporary disk file before the
selected program is run. When Off, File Commando is also swapped out,
leaving only 7k of memory occupied by its loader.
(6) EMS memory may now be used as a temporary storage area for program
information when File Commando runs another program. If EMS memory is
available, using it speeds up the amount of time needed to swap out File
Commando program information to begin running the selected program.
(7) Pressing [Ctrl][Shift][Delete] terminates a program run from the Run or
Applications menu and returns to File Commando. This feature does NOT
work when the Quick Run feature is ON or when a program "locks up" the
keyboard or when a program traps all keyboard information. Please note:
do not confuse this keystroke sequence with the [Ctrl][Alt][Delete] key
combination, which is used to reboot the computer.
(8) The Window menu Wildcard option has been expanded to include date, time,
and file attributes within the Include and Exclude characteristics.
Include Characteristics Exclude Characteristics
File(s): 10 file wildcards File(s): 10 file wildcards
Start date: 01/01/1980 Start date: 01/01/1980
Stop date: 12/31/2099 Stop date: 12/31/2099
Attributes: R.H.S.A.NONE.. Attributes: R.H.S.A.NONE..
Attr Mode: All attributes Attr Mode: All attributes
The above options should be self-explanatory other than the Attr Mode.
The Attr Mode determines how the selected attributes are to be used to
select files in the file window. The three attribute selection modes
are Off (which ignores the attribute list), All attributes (which
selects only those files whose attributes match the entire attribute list
exactly), and Any attribute (which selects the files whose attribute
list has any of the listed attributes).
For example, to locate all Read-Only Lotus 123 work files (.WKS) on
drives C & D for the year 1988, follow these steps.
a) Log drives C and D with the CTRL-L Log disk command.
b) Select Global option of the Window Menu to display all files on