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FileED - Pm-based Adept File Area Manager v0.20
THIS PROGRAM IS AN EARLY BETA! BACK UP YOUR FILES in \adept\files\ directory!
--- Installation and setup ----------------------------------------------------
First thing:
Unzip FileED and run it. You will probably get a message that will say that
there is an FSysOpen error. Ignore it. Go to Defaults Setup.
------------ Defaults Setup -------------------------------------------
1 . Enter your adept directory, put \ on the end. All paths are
referenced from this directory.
2 . Enter the path to your archivers directory, put \ on the end.
When FileED attempts to extract files or check integrity it
will add this path infront of whatever u specify in Archivers
setup.
3 . Enter temp directory. Please make sure there is NO \ on the
end. Some archivers are sensitive to this and they will fail
if u put \ on the end. Make sure that this directory actually
exists. This string will replace %2 in archivers setup strings.
4 . The default description will be used when you add files to the
system and they have no file_id.diz in them. Also when you
"clean description" and description is empty, FileED will put
in default description.
5 . Maximum number of files areas simply tells FileED to read
maximum "x" number of areas. This will speed up the program
a bit. (I set it to 100 areas, but I only have about 70.)
(Maximum number is 2000)
6 . Maximum number of files per area tells FileED to read
maximum "x" number of files. I haven't seen areas with over
1000 files so that's the default value. You can change it
though. (Maximum number is 10000)
7 . Save files.bbs as. This option will allow you to change the
file name of the export files.bbs file. This means that if
you don't trust my programming skills (and you u probably
shouldn't :) you can change this to let's say fileed.bbs.
When u run Files.bbs export FileED will create file called
fileed.bbs in the directory of the file area you are exporting.
This will avoid overwriting of old files.bbs.
SAVE SETUP! EXIT THE PROGRAM! START IT AGAIN!
Check to see if settings were saved!
Some changes don't take affect till next time you load
the program.
------------ Archivers Setup ------------------------------------------
1 . Extension: When u try to check integrity or extract file_id.diz
from a file with current extension, current command lines will
be used.
2 . Name: It's not really used anywhere.. It's just a note to
yourself. You can put version number or anything there.
3 . File_id.Diz extract line: This line must be able to extract
file_id.diz from file %1 into temp directory %2. Default
archivers path will be added infront of this string. In some
cases this string is case sensetive, so be careful.
4 . List files: This command sould be able to just list the files.
It is not used at this point.
5 . Test files: This command must be able to test file %1, testing
program must return ERRORLEVEL==0 if archive is good, anything
else is considered a screwed up archive by FileED.
You can have up to 10 archivers, if there is need for more let me know.
When u are finished editing current archiver don't forget to save. Hit
Next/Prev to change archiver. "OK" DOES NOT SAVE info in the file. So
if you don't save all changes, they will be lost when u exit FileED.
Don't forget you can use Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins to copy stuff from entry
fileds.
------------ Viewers Setup --------------------------------------------
1 . Extension: When u try to view a file with current extension,
current command lines will be used.
2 . Name: It's not really used anywhere.. It's just a note to
yourself. You can put version number or anything there.
3 . Command line: This line must provide FULL path and name of the
viewer, %1 will be translated into a full path and file name
of the file you are trying to view.
You can have up to 20 viewers, if there is need for more let me know.
When u are finished editing current viewer don't forget to save. Hit
Next/Prev to change viewer. "OK" DOES NOT SAVE info in the file. So
if you don't save all changes they will be lost when u exit FileED.
Don't forget you can use Ctrl-Ins/Shift-Ins to copy stuff from entry
fileds.
--- Purge File System ---------------------------------------------------------
This function will bring up a dialog that will allow you to purge
currently open file system. FileED will create a directory called
\Files\New. Then it will create a new file system there. It will go
through all files in your current file system and copy info to the
new system. This way you have no blank records, no commented out
descriptions. After it's done it will rename current file system
files by adding ".Old" to the name. It will then copy new files from
\Files\New directory to \Files\ dir. \Files\New directory will then
be removed.
--- Edit file areas -----------------------------------------------------------
Double click on file area name to edit files in that area. You can
click on "Export files.bbs". This will create a files.bbs file in
the Download directory for selected area. Created files.bbs is
bfsmake compatible (as far as i know) so you can back up your
descriptions.
--- Tricks --------------------------------------------------------------------
When you are editing file descriptions you can select part or whole description
and hit Ctrl-Ins. This will place selected piece in the clipboard. After you
did that, go on to the next file (I assume you are entering descriptions for
a series of files that have common description parts) and hit Shift-Ins. This
will put selected text from previous description in the current description.
Now you can go ahead and make the changes to the description and save it.
Selecting files:
"File Editor" and "Add files" list boxes support multiple file selections: this
means you can select any number of files. They do not have to be
consecutive(sp?). You need to hold down Ctrl and then click with left mouse
button on files you wanna select. After that you can use buttons that support
multiple files.(like Move, Kill Desc.,Kill File/Desc.,