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Disk Director v4.5 Helpware              Registration $ 35.00
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FILES: hddir45.sdn

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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.

Because  it saves a copy of the directory tree  to  disk,  DL
can  also  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 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".   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 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.  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 and can handle directories of up to 800 files.  DL.EXE
can  handle drives with up to 500 directories and directories
of up to 1000 files.  It can  handle  paths  of  up  to  nine
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.

This version of Director runs programs by swapping to disk or
expanded  memory  (user  configurable).  Memory overhead when
running programs is only 2kb.

Director now has file viewers for:
1. Lotus 123, Quattro, Symphony and compatible spreadsheets,
2. WordPerfect version 5 and greater files.
3. dBASE, FoxBase, FoxPro, Clipper, Quicksilver
   and compatible DBF files.
4. WordStar version 4 and greater files.
5. Microsoft Word and Windows Write.
6. Word for Windows.
7. PCX pictures.

You can have DL and DB operate on just the  highlighted  file
or the marked files.

Two new  command  line  options  have  been added to DL.  The
first allows you to use DL  to  change  directories  quickly.
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, if 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".

The second  command line option allows you to run DL, go to a
specified directory and show the  files  of  that  directory.
For  example,  say I'm still in my C:\WP\DOCS directory and I
enter "dl !", DL will load and  show  me  the  files  of  the
current directory which in this case is C:\WP\DOCS.







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