 File Watch Help Contents

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About File Watch

What it is!

How it works

Registration Information

Removing File Watch


 About File Watch: What it is!

File Watch monitors your hard disk, looking for files you specify and renaming them to any location you indicate.


Setup file: FWATCH.INI
 FWATCH.INI settings

The following information is saved to the [File Watch] section of the FWATCH.INI file:

FWATCH.INI:

[File Watch]

Interval

Oldfilespec

Newfilespec


 Pause/Start button

Clicking on the Pause button will cause File Watch to stop inspecting your hard disk until you explicitly tell it to resume, by clicking the Start button.  (There is actually a single button, whose label changes depending on the state of File Watch.)


Interval

The number of seconds for File Watch to wait between periodic inspections of your hard disk.


Oldfilespec

The file specification of the file or files to be renamed.  This may contain wild cards in the file name or extension.


Newfilespec

The file specification of the destination file or files.  This may contain wild cards in the file name or extension.


 How it works

File Watch periodically checks your hard disk for the existence of the files you specified during setup.  If files matching your description are found, they are renamed to the location and file specification you selected during setup.


 Registration Information

File Watch is shareware, subject to all the usual restrictions.  Single-user licenses are available from Jumping Cholla Software via CompuServe's Software Registration Forum (GO SWREG), Reg ID 1827.  Send replies, comments, suggestions, complaints and arcana to CompuServe ID 70572,211.


 Registration Details

For the low, low price of only $9.95, you can obtain a single-user license for File Watch that includes these fabulous features:

·Free upgrade to V2.0

·Technical support for one year via CompuServe mail

·No sales of your name, address, phone number or CompuServe ID to junk marketeers


 How to uninstall

To remove File Watch from your system, delete any icons from your program manager groups and delete the following files from your Windows directory:

FWATCH.INI

FWATCH.EXE

FWATCH.HLP

Optionally, you may also choose to delete the following files, if you are certain they are being used by no other applications:

VBRUN300.DLL (in the Windows system directory)

MONITR01.BMP

SPIN.VBX (in the Windows system directory)

INICON2.VBX (in the Windows system directory)


The file where File Watch settings are saved between sessions.


The File Watch program.


The File Watch help file.


The Visual Basic 3.0 dynamic link library, required to run File Watch and any other programs written using Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0.


The bitmap file containing the monitor image displayed in File Watch help.


The Spin Button custom control, used by File Watch to increment and decrement the hard-disk inspection interval.


The Visual Basic custom control IniCon, used for maintaining Windows .INI files.


IniCon was written by James Shields.  Inquiries can be sent to 71231,2066 on CompuServe, or mabry@halycon.com on Internet.


 Saving the current settings

To save the current settings, use the File|Save settings menu option.  The scanning interval, old file specification, and new file specification will be saved in the FWATCH.INI file.


Close File Watch
 Close

Use the Close button to shut down File Watch, thereby stopping all inspection activities.


Exit File Watch
 Exit

Use the File|Exit menu option to shut down File Watch, thereby stopping all inspection activities.


 Coming in V2.0

The industrious folks at Jumping Cholla Software are currently adding the following features to File Watch V2.0:

DDE support for communication with other Windows applications

Support for multiple file scans

Support for user-specified activities other than Rename

Activity logging


File specification examples
 Old and new file specification examples

The old and new file specifications should include disk and directory information, as well as file name and type fields.  The file name and type can be literals or wildcards:

Rename all files matching:  c:\ql2faxw\inbox\*.rec

                                    ...to:  c:\ql2faxw\inbox\*.qfx

Rename all files matching:  c:\cserve\download\*.mid

                                     ...to: c:\sbpro\playmidi\*.mid

Rename all files matching:  c:\windows\read.me

                                    ...to:  c:\trash\*.*