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MFM is a file area manager designed to work with MAXIMUS.
MFM is guaranteed to do nothing but take up your precious disk
space. If you use this program, you do so at your own risk. The
author assumes NO responsibility for ANY loss.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
--------------------
-a This allows you to specify the path for MFM to find the
AREAS.CTL file. Default is to look for AREAS.CTL in the
same directory as MFM.EXE
Example MFM -aC:\MAX\
-c This tells MFM where to direct it's IO. MFM defaults the
IO to CON.
-c0 Tells MFM to direct IO to CON.
-c1 Tells MFM to direct IO to COM1.
-c2 Tells MFM to direct IO to COM2.
-c9 Tells MFM to direct IO to STDIN and STDOUT.
-p This parameter tell MFM to start in the specified directory.
Example MFM -pD:\FILES\UTILITY\
AREA SELECT SCREEN
------------------
When MFM is started without the -p parameter it will present you
with a screen that will allow you select an area. Just use your cursor
keys to select an area and press enter. The only other command at this
screen is the P command, that allows you to add temporary areas.
FILES.BBS EDITING SCREEN
------------------------
This screen will show you the list of files in this area upto 22
records at a time. The following keys are presently defined.
7 [home] Moves to the top of the list.
8 [up arrow] Moves up one line.
9 [pg up] Moves up 22 lines.
1 [end] Moves to the bottom of the list.
2 [down arrow] Moves down one line.
3 [pg dn] Moves down 22 lines.
A Adopt orphans and Abandon file records.
E Edit the file description.
I Insert comment line.
N Choose new area.
C Copy current file and description to new area.
M Move current file and description to new area.
K Kill current entry.
U Unkill to current position.
F Mark first entry to be sorted.
L Mark Last entry to be sorted.
S Sort by name.
T Sort by time and date.
W Write records to FILES.BBS and erase killed entries.
R Change filename of entry.
*** NOTE ***
Push and Pop commands are used to moved lines within an area. Push
the line onto the stack, move to the new location and pop it back.
< or , Push record on to stack for moving.
. Pop record from stack to before current location.
> Pop record from stack to after current location.
[ Rotate stack to previous entry and display.
] Rotate stack to next entry and display.
; Display current stack entry.
{ Rotate kill stack to previous entry and display.
} Rotate kill stack to next entry and display.
: Display current kill stack entry.
! ReDraw screen.
D Change file date.
Search for string:
^F In file name.
^D In description.
^A In both.
<SPACE> Toggle tag.
# Mass move.
ALT-F View file with "SHEZ.EXE".
ALT-L View file with "LIST.COM".
ALT-V View file with "LIST.COM" or "SHEZ.EXE".
ALT-S Shell to DOS.
COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS AND BUGS
------------------------------
Please direct these to: Mark W. Billig Jr.
1:273/701.0
Enterprise BBS
(215) 641-0270
CREDITS
-------
MAXIMUS A wonderful BBS program written by Scott Dudley.
LIST By Vernon D. Buerg.
SHEZ By Jim Derr.
HISTORY
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1.00 17mar90 First public release.
1.01 30mar90 Added, Search for string, Tag and Mass move.
1.02 12apr90 Added view file and enhanced the move and copy.
You will need "LIST.COM" and "SHEZ.EXE" to use
the ALT-V command. Fixed bug with copy or move
not having enough space.
1.03 29apr90 Minor bug fixes.
1.04a 15may90 Removed prompt in mass move. Added checking to
make sure there is enough room for the file to be
copied and FILES.BBS to be modified on destination.
Fixed problem with mass move when entries were not
on the screen.
1.04b 19may90 Added to commands ("," and "."). Changed operation
of quit command slightly.
1.04c 24may90 Fixed bug with quit command. (NQN)
1.04d 06jun90 Increased number of columns in area display. Added
new commands in area selection.
1.05a 23jun90 Added ALT-F command, to force SHEZ on a file with
an improper extension.
1.05b 30jun90 Added *NEW* way to change areas. (Start spelling
the area)
1.05c 03jul90 Added ':' to area mask. Changed quit in area
selection to allow quick quitting.
1.05d 15aug90 Changed the save procedure to start the description
at position 14.
1.06a 20aug90 Added support for three line descriptions. Fixed
several bugs. (^Q)
1.06b 30aug90 Fixed problem with case sensitivity in area table.
1.06c 06sep90 Added ability to quote keys in description edit.
This is done with the ^Q key.
1.06d 07sep90 Fixed problem with "BuildList" properly identifying
comments.
1.06e 08sep90 Changed insert command, to only insert a blank.
1.07a 11oct90 Changed tagging to also move down. Fixed problem
with area select #1 key.
1.07b 22oct90 Fixed problem, when killing top entry the display
show the killed list over and over to fill the
screen. The TopEntry was not updated properly.
In released version 1.07, the file AREA.INC was
corrupted.
1.07c 26oct90 Fixed problem with "BuildList" properly identifying
comments. (again)
1.07d 27oct90 Fixed problem with "FreeSpace" showing 0k free.
1.07e 29oct90 Fixed problem with only filename.
1.08a 07nov90 Tick release of 1.08 in SDSMAX.
1.08b 23nov90 Added CTRL-X command to copy the description from
the record above.
1.08c 26nov90 Added ability to specify AREAS.CTL's name.
Example >>>---> -aC:\MAX\FILEAREA.CTL
Added ability to specify number of columns in area
display. From 3 to 8, default 5.
Example >>>---> -k8
1.08d 28nov90 Added new command "^A - Adopt All Orphans". Change
Find both to from ^A to ^B.
1.08e 09dec90 Changed from TP5.5 to TP6.0
1.08f 19dec90 Changed from AREAS.CTL to AREA.DAT, with the unit
MAXAREAS. Renamed all .INC files to .PAS to make
it easier to work in TP60.
1.08g 20apr91 Added CallList routine to allow viewing files
without extensions. (ALT-L)
1.09 14jun91 Added support for ARJ files. Fixed file sharing
problem. Improved copy subroutine and AREA.DAT
reading subroutine. Fixed problem with ^B (find
string in description and filename). Added MASS
COPY subroutine.
1.09a 19jun91 Fixed problem with move subroutine.
1.09b 20jun91 Fixed problem with AREA.DAT file being greater then
an integer value.