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Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1995
INTERCD(1) USER COMMANDS INTERCD(1)
Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
The Bible, Matthew 7:7
(King James version)
** CONTENTS
NAME KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS BUGS
OPTIONS TEXT EDITING AUTHOR
EXAMPLES ERROR CODES SEE ALSO
USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT STATUS
SEARCH ENGINE HISTORY
** NAME
intercd
A graphical user interface program for CD-ROM disks. This version
especially written for InfoMagic to be used with their excellent
CD-ROM containing the x2ftp.oulu.fi game programming archives.
You need an IBM compatible computer with 8086 compatible CPU
(prosessor), a standard VGA compatible video card and monitor
(640x480x16 resolution) and CD-ROM disk drive with MSCDEX 2.0
compatible driver. A mouse is supported, but not required.
** OPTIONS
intercd < CD-ROM disk drive < target disk > >
CD-ROM disk drive
The CD-ROM disk drive you want to use
target disk
The disk drive where you want to copy files from CD-ROM
** EXAMPLES
intercd
If no command-line parameters are given, the first found
CD-ROM disk drive will be selected as CD-ROM drive and the
current disk as the target disk drive.
intercd e:
Disk drive E: is selected as the CD-ROM drive and current
disk drive as the target disk. The drive E: has to be a
CD-ROM disk drive and have a disk inside and available.
intercd e: c:
Disk drive E: is selected as the CD-ROM disk drive and C: as
the target disk drive. Both have to exists and be usable.
** USER INTERFACE
InterCD has a Graphical User Interface to make using the CD-ROM
disk easy. All necessary status information is presented on-screen
and user operations are available via both mouse and keyboard.
At the top of the screen is the name and version of the program.
At the second line is the CD-ROM disk drive letter and full path of
the currently selected directory on it. This line will always tell
you where you are wandering in the depths of the CD-ROM disk.
In the middle of the screen there are two windows presenting file
listings of two different disk drives. At the left is your CD-ROM
disk drive, at the right side is some other disk (by default the
startup disk). The left window is called Source and the right as
Target. The Target disk drive letter and current directory on it is
shown just above the Target window.
Each window presents an alphabetic directory listing of the current
directory so that directories are shown first in uppercase followed
by normal files in lowercase. The line highlighted by red is the
current selection in that directory. The selection can be changed
either by mouse or by cursor keys. At the right edge of the window
is a scrollbar that can be used to view lines currently not visible.
Please note that also PageUp, PageDown, Home and End keys can be
used to view the full directory listing.
Only one of the windows is active at a time. You can identify the
selected window with the line just between the Source and Target
windows (see below) or by the highlighted line in the directory
listing. You can change the windows either by pressing TAB key or
clicking inside the window with the mouse.
>> Copy Source window is selected (you can copy files)
Copy >> Target window is selected (you cannot copy files)
Between Source and Target windows there are three buttons that can
be used to copy files from Source to Target ie. from the CD-ROM to
your own disk. You cannot copy files from Target to Source.
Selecting the first button "Copy" copies just the highlighted item,
either one file or a directory with everything under it, the second
button "Files" copies all files in the current Source directory and
the last button "All" everything, also including subdirectories.
If the Source file or directory already exists on the Target disk,
you will be asked whether you wish to overwrite it. If the Source
is a directory, you can choose between Yes/No/All/Cancel choises.
If you select All and are copying a directory, the directory with
all subdirectories is first removed from the Target disk. Beware!
Under the Target window there are 4 buttons supporting the basic
file management operations. With "Disk drive" you can change the
target disk, with "Make directory" you can create new directories
on the target disk, with "New name" you can rename both files and
directories and with "Remove" you can remove either directories or
files. Please note that directories with subdirectories really are
removed. Make sure you know what you're doing!
Under the Source and Target windows there is the Search Engine. For
more information please read the SEARCH ENGINE later in this manual.
At the bottom of the screen there are four buttons providing some
basic operations:
Info
will tell you about this program. Press any key to continue.
View
can be used to view ascii text files (current selection). You
can use either mouse or arrow keys to scroll the text. The
PageUp, PageDown, Home and End keys can also be used.
Shell
enables you to make a shell escape into DOS. Type exit at DOS
command line to return to InterCD. Please note that during shell
escape you still are using InterCD and must return and exit
normally to quit InterCD.
Exit
exit InterCD. The one and only way to stop using this program.
** SEARCH ENGINE
Search engine can be found under the Source and Target windows and
above the four buttons at the botton of the screen. There are four
parts and following is a description how to use them:
1) Click once with mouse on the Search String area (by default it
has text "Enter search string"). If you do not have mouse, press
key "L" to select the "Locate" button.
You are presented a dialog, where you can edit the current text
string used in the Search operation. Press ENTER once you're done.
2) Select "Locate" button to start the search. The search is case
insensitive, based on the information found in 00index.txt files and
done only on the current CD-ROM disk directory and all subdirectories.
You might want to change into the root of the CD-ROM disk beforehands.
3) When a 00index.txt line containing your search string is found, the
current directory on the CD-ROM disk drive is changed into appropriate
subdirectory and the found item is highlighted in the file listing.
Also the full 00index.txt line is presented under the Search String
area.
4) Next you can do anything: you can view texts, copy files, change
directories or run programs. When you wish to continue the search you
only have to select the "Go next" button and the search will continue
in the place and directory, where it ended last time.
Once everything is checked and nothing more found, you are returned
into the startup directory. You can start a new search anytime by
selecting "Locate" button or by writing a new search string.
** KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
F1
Short online help for the basic keyboard shortcuts.
ESC
Exit InterCD. You will be presented a dialog to verify, if you
really want to exit. Select "Yes" button to quit, "No" button
to continue.
TAB
Change the active window ie. Source <-> Target window. You can
identify the current active window either with the highlighting
in the file listing or with the ">> copy" text between the two
windows: "greater than" characters are closer to the active one.
Backspace
Change into the parent directory of the current directory.
\
Change into root of the current disk.
RETURN
ENTER
Change directory, run an executable or view an ASCII text
file.
Buttons
Each button has a title, where the first character is in
different color. By selecting this key on the keyboard you
can select the button and its operation.
Arrow keys
With arrow keys you can change the currently selected item
in the file listings of the Source and Target windows.
Home
You select the first item in file listing.
End
You select the last item in file listing.
PageUp
You scroll up the file listing by one screenful.
PageDown
You scroll down the file listing by one screenful.
** TEXT EDITING
In several places you are presented with a dialog, where you can
enter text. In all cases you can type text one character at a time
in either insert (default) or overwrite mode. The mode is toggled
with the Insert key and can be identified with the cursor: insert
cursor is a vertical line and any new character will be entered
between the characters left and right of it. The overwrite cursor
is a box and a new character will replace the character inside it.
With arrow keys you can change the current text enter place one
character at a time. With Home you can go directory to the head
and with End to the end of the current text string.
Backspace deletes a character to the left of the cursor, delete
to the right of the cursor. ESC will remove all the characters.
Control-Home will remove everything to left of the cursor and
control-End everything to right of the cursor.
Some emacs commands related to the operations described above are
supported.
** ERROR CODES
0 More or less controlled and desired exit. Do not remove the
CD-ROM disk from your CD-ROM disk drive while using InterCD.
1 Usage info shown, because there was too many command-line
arguments or it was especially requested (-?)
2 Could not find any CD-ROM disk drives. Either you don't have
MSCDEX driver loaded or any CD-ROM disk drives connected.
3 You have the required MSCDEX driver and one (or more) CD-ROM
disk drive online, but the MSCDEX is too old. Please update it.
4 You have specified the CD-ROM drive on the command line, but it
wasn't a CD-ROM after all.. Please check your typing.
5 Your CD-ROM disk drive is empty. Please insert the InfoMagic
CD-ROM disk.
6 You don't any CD disks in any online CD-ROM disk drive, or at
least InterCD could not find them. Please recheck your system.
7 Graphics library initialization failed (gxInit).
8 Graphics library initialization for 640x480x16 mode failed.
9 Display mode setting failed. You need standard VGA compatible
display card and monitor.
18 Graphics library initialization for 640x480x16 mode failed after
returning from Shell escape.
19 Display mode setting failed after returning from Shell escape.
You need standard VGA compatible display card and monitor.
** DEVELOPMENT
InterCD was written with the following material:
Turbo C++ 3.0 compiler.
MicroEMACS 3.11c editor.
Genus GX Kernel 3.03 graphics library.
Genus GX Graphics 3.01 graphics library.
Genus PCX Toolkit 6.01 graphics library.
SPAWNO 4.13 by Ralf Brown disk/EMS/XMS/INT15 swapping library.
Countless sleepless nights during spring 1995.
Loads of Fazer Milk Chokolate with whole hazelnuts.
Music of Bo Diddley, Muddy Water, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf et al.
** HISTORY
1.00q
The final approved and first released version.
** BUGS
No known bugs. If you find one, please contact the author right
away and describe what you suspect to be a bug.
** AUTHOR
Mr. Jouni Miettunen
Rautatienkatu 20 A 10
FIN-90100 OULU
FINLAND - EUROPE
email: jon@x2ftp.oulu.fi
jon@stekt.oulu.fi
** SEE ALSO
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi
http://www.infomagic.com
news:rec.games.programming
** STATUS
Copyright (C) 1995 by Jouni Miettunen. All Rights Reserved.
This program is furnished under a license agreement with InfoMagic,
and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of that
agreement. All other use is prohibited without the express written
permission of the copyright holder.
All brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holders.
INTERCD(1) USER COMMANDS INTERCD(1)
Jouni Miettunen * jon@stekt.oulu.fi * Oulu * Finland * Europe * 1995