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DOCUMENTATION: FOCO
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"FoCo" means "Format-Controller" and was developed for three reasons,
1. Workbench won't give you all formatting options (see CLI),
2. my comp should be intelligent enough to guess that I want to
format an unformatted disk (see Mac) and
3. I wanted to exercise some 2.0 programming.
3. is the essential reason... therefore FoCo will only operate on
AmigaDOS 2.0. The source is a little confused but will do as a (bad :-)
example.
PD vendors: FoCo is just Public Domain. No restrictions.
Starting
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You must start FoCo from Workbench, either directly via double click or
during startup by placing it in the WBStartup drawer.
A second start will pop up the control window (supposing that's what you
want to have at that moment).
Operation
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When you insert a disk that DOS marks as 'BAD' or 'NDOS', FoCo will ask if
you would like that disk to be formatted. If you answer 'no', nothing more
will happen. Answering 'yes' will pop up FoCo's control window.
You can also pop up the control panel by pressing the hotkey (see
'ToolTypes') or by clicking on the "Show" gadget in the "Exchange" program.
Now set all formatting options. The disk drive will be set automatically.
Clicking on the close gadget will terminate FoCo while "Cancel" will just
put it back to sleep.
If you start the formatting, it will output to its own window and run
asynchronously to the FoCo process, so you can format more than one disk at
a time.
ToolTypes
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The tool types control FoCo's initial options, hotkey and language. Use
workbench's "Info" menu to set any or all of these:
DRIVE=n default drive (of those connected!)
NAME=... default name for the disk
FLAGS=FFS|NOICONS|QUICK default flags
SHOWWINDOW=ON show control panel immediately
HOTKEY=... hotkey to pop up the control panel
(follows commodities conventions)
LANGUAGEFILE=... the file containing the texts
(Attention: has to be in the same
drawer, e.g. WBStartup, if you don't
provide the full path)
FoCo won't start with an illegal hotkey description. All tool types are
optional, the default settings are:
DRIVE=0, NAME=Empty Disk, FLAGS=FFS|NOICONS,
SHOWWINDOW=OFF, HOTKEY=lcommand f
and no language file (means english text). B.t.w.: The texts in the language
file must remain in their order and must be seperated by ASCII 0.
Commodities
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FoCo is fully compatible to the commodities standard. You can control FoCo
from the workbench tool "Exchange".
The gadgets "Show" and "Hide" are routed to the control panel, "Disable"
detaches FoCo from the input event queue until "Enable" and "Kill"
terminates FoCo completely.
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Ok, cut it now, enough chatter. Already too much documentation for such a
mini tool. Send flames to HELL: (a soon to be released dos handler, just
waiting for HEAVEN: to be finished :-) and comments to
balzer@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
or
M.BALZER@AWORLD.ZER
or
Michael Balzer
Wildermuthstr. 18
W-5828 Ennepetal 14
GERMANY