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Adrenal Manager v1.1
Some useful tips and information on using Adrenal Manager
Win95 and DOS -Run Modes
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- To the user the main difference in the run modes is the handling of
long filenames. Long filenames will be handled correctly only in
Win96 run mode. This will make requesters work a little
differently from the DOS run mode while renaming a file or creating a
directory. While copying or moving, the user need not worry about the
long filenames.
Long filenames
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- In DOS mode long filenames are not handled (not even in MS-DOS v7.0).
While copying or moving files/directories with long filenames, only the
alias part of the name will copied and the actual filename is
discarded. The requesters for renaming a file and creating a directory
limit the length of the name to the DOS 8+3 file name length.
- In Win95 mode only the alias part of long filenames will be displayed.
The long filename can be viewed by clicking the right mouse button
on a file. The requesters for renaming a file and creating a directory
limit the length of the name to 256 characters. Files and directories that
use the old DOS 8+3 file name format are, of course, also handled
correctly.
'Select pattern' and 'Find'
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- File selection in 'Select pattern' and 'Find' uses the same rules:
*. = Select all files
*.* = Select all files that have an extension (if you want to select
all files that do not have an extension, first select *.* and
then invert)
Examples:
a*.* = All files that begin with an 'a' and have an extension
*a*.*xe = All files that have at least one 'a' in the first part and
the extension ends with an 'xe'
*.*x* = All files that have at least one 'x' in the extension
amana*.* = All files that begin with 'amana'
All of the above examples apply to directories as well.
View and Play
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While viewing or playing multiple selected files, you can quit by
pressing the esc, q or z keys or by pressing the right mouse button.
Packers
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Packing supported with ZIP,ARJ and RAR. Unpacking also with LHA.
Screen refreshing
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By pressing R key you can refresh/resync AManager screen.
Use this if your monitor can't sync properly when changing to amanager
screen from win95 screen!
Free memory info
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Press key M. If you get some weird errors, check free memory all the time
and if amount of it drops/grows very fast, amanager is not working as it
should be. (Send email to me in that situation!)
Bugs/Problems
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- Sometimes a file can not be deleted or renamed even though the drive
is writable.
Reason #1: It is possible that the file has been opened from another
application for exclusive access. In this case the file can
only be freed by the application that opened it.
Reason #2: Windows95 likes to lock files and keep them locked even
when they are no longer in use. AManager does not attempt
to remove this kind of locks since it could be hazardous
for the system. Windows can also lock directories, but
rarely does so. Lockings are removed at next boot time.
Windows system files can only be removed from DOS.
- After running a helper application, AManager does not regain control
Reason #1: A helper application starts a new shell and stays there.
Normally, you can exit a shell by typing 'exit'.
- Windows95 format command does not work in AManager. Using it locks the
system.
Reason: Unknown - possibly a conflict between DOS/4GW and Windows 95
format.com.
- DOS/4GW errors in some computers and with some helper applications
Reason #1: An outdated version of DOS/4GW
Reason #2: An unknown conflict in hardware, DOS/4GW and/or the system
- In some computers while starting AManager the screen goes blank and
the system locks in Win95 run mode
Reason: Video hardware drivers do not support DOS-box SVGA
graphics. Get the latest drivers from the hardware
manufacturer.
If you find any bugs or other problems or if you have any suggestions
for improvemets, please contact jvuorine@it.spt.fi