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You Probably Didn't Pay For This Software, But It Really Isn't Free. DIRECTOR is being marketed as Shareware. A Shareware program can be downloaded from numerous bulletin boards around the country. It may also come on a disk with other Shareware programs, the disk usually being sold for under $5.00. The philosophy behind Shareware is simple. Good quality software can be obtained for free, or practically so, for you to try out. You are free to copy the programs and pass them on to friends. They also can use the program and see if it meets their needs. If only after trying out the product any of you decide you like the program and find yourselves using it regularly, you are required to register with the author and pay the usually low registration fee. Because Shareware authors don't have to pay the high costs of advertising and distribution, they can provide you with high quality software at very reasonable prices. However, Shareware will only exist if you register for the programs you are using. Major software companies are constantly announcing release dates of new products and then later pushing forward those release dates by many months. The reason for these delays is that good software takes a long time to develop and debug. The same is true for good Shareware. The DIRECTOR programs, DL.EXE and DB.EXE, took a long time to develop and I am constantly trying to make them run faster and add new features. It is only through your support that I'll be able to continue to do this. The registration price for DL and DB are 25.00. When you register, you will be sent the latest versions and a complete manual on disk. For $5.00 more you can also get a printed copy of the manual. I am also available by phone or on Compuserve, where my ID # is 71320,1277, to answer any questions or receive any suggestions for future releases. So, if you are using DIRECTOR and like it, please register. This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536" DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL IS SOLD "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OF MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS INTO WHICH THIS PROGRAM MAY BE PUT, NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. GOOD DATA PROCESSING PROCEDURES DICTATES THAT ANY PROGRAM BE THOROUGHLY TESTED WITH NON-CRITICAL DATA BEFORE RELYING ON IT. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK OF USING THE PROGRAM. ANY LIABILITY OF THE SELLER WILL BE LIMITED EXCLUSIVELY TO PRODUCT REPLACEMENT OR REFUND OF THE PURCHASE PRICE. This is DIRECTOR Release 1.0. A complete set of DIRECTOR Release 1.0 should include the following programs: DL.EXE Directory and file manager. DLCONFIG.EXE Configuration program for DL.EXE. DB.EXE File manager. DBCONFIG.EXE Configuration program for DB.EXE. DIRECTOR.DOC Complete manual for DIRECTOR. DIRQUICK.DOC Quick start manual. DIRREG.DOC Registration form. Using DL.EXE and DLCONFIG.EXE DL.EXE is designed to give you a sorted directory tree for any hard or floppy disk drive. Once in the directory tree, you can add, move, remove, hide and unhide, or rename directories, You can exit DL to a particular directory or view the files of any directory. You can change drives, print a copy of the directory tree or search for any file. Pressing Enter or double clicking a mouse on a highlighted directory will bring up a sorted file list of that directory. In that file list, you can mark files for copying, moving, printing, or deletion. You can easily view the contents of any file in ASCII or hexadecimal. You can also run any individual or marked group of COM, EXE and BAT programs. DLCONFIG In order to customize DL to your liking, the configuration program DLCONFIG is provided. With DLCONFIG, you can modify DL so that it runs only in black and white, install your favorite text editor or word processor, change the default sort of the file list and change the printing options. You load DLCONFIG by first changing to the directory where DLCONFIG resides and typing DLCONFIG. DLCONFIG will load DL into memory. DLCONFIG will first look for DL in its own directory. If it can't find it there, it will look for DL in the directories on your path. If it can't find DL on your path, DLCONFIG will exit with an error message. DLCONFIG will only work with DL version 3.0. If it finds another version of DL, DLCONFIG will exit saying "Wrong Version of DL.EXE". The first question asked by DLCONFIG is on what drive and in which directory does it reside. If, for instance, you copy the DIRECTOR programs to the UTIL directory of your drive C, you would enter 'C:\UTIL'. DL allows you to run a text editor or word processor to edit highlighted files. You are first asked to enter the drive and directory of the text editor and then you need to supply its name. I use the shareware program Qedit which resides in a directory on my drive D so I would enter 'D:\QEDIT ' and Q.EXE. The file list of DL is normally sorted by filename. The next question asked by DLCONFIG is if you'd like to have it sorted differently. Your sort choices are filename, extension, date, size and unsorted. Mouse users are provided with a scroll bar in the directory and file views of DL and DB. By clicking on the scroll bar, you can scroll up or down one page or one line at a time. When you are viewing the contents of files, mouse users will also have a scroll bar on the left side of their screen. Some users have complained about the loss of a full screen for viewing because the scroll bar takes up the left 2 columns. If you are one of these people, you can choose not to have the scroll bar visible by making that choice in DLCONFIG. Even if the scroll bar is not shown, you will still be able to scroll up and down by clicking on the leftmost column of your screen. On your computer screen, DL uses the high order ASCII characters '═', '║', '╠', and '╚' to display the directory tree. Some printers, can't print these characters so DL uses '+' and '=' when printing. DLCONFIG will ask you if your printer can print the high order ASCII characters and if you want your printer to use them to print the directory tree. DLCONFIG will then ask you if you want to have DL send a particular setup string to the printer before it prints the directory tree. You can enter any setup string such as bold or compressed and each time you print, DL will first send the string to the printer. When printing is finished, DL will send a reset to the printer so those setup codes will no longer be active. The last question DLCONFIG will ask you is if you want a form feed sent to the printer after printing. Some printers automatically do a form feed after printing so if DL does one also, you'll waste a sheet of paper. You can run DLCONFIG as many times as you want to change DL to your liking. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE DIRECTORY VIEW OF DL.EXE Enter : View contents of highlighted directory. F1 or ^C : Change Drive. F2 : Exit DL to the highlighted directory. F3 or ^R : Rename directory. F4 : Move directory. F5 or ^M : Make directory. F6 or ^V : Remove directory. F7 or ^H : Search disk for file. F8 or ^P : Print directory tree. F9 : Pull down Utility Menu s Show file count and disk usage. h Hide or unhide directories. d Information about DL.EXE F10 or ^S : Show file count and disk usage. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE VIEW IN DL.EXE Enter : View the highlighted file. ^Enter : Run Text Editor and load highlighted file. F1 or ^C : Copy the highlighted or marked file(s). F2 or ^D : Delete the highlighted or marked file(s). F3 or ^R : Rename the highlighted file. F4 or ^M : Move the highlighted or marked file(s). F5 : Sort Menu f sort by filename. e sort by extension. d sort by date. s sort by size. u show unsorted listing. ^F : Sort by filename. ^E : Sort by extension. ^T : Sort by date. ^Z : Sort by size. ^U : Show unsorted listing. F6 : Mark Menu. + or Right Arrow : Mark file. - or Left Arrow : Unmark file. Space Bar : Mark or Unmark file. ^Right Arrow : Mark all but the hidden files. ^Left Arrow : Unmark all files. F7 or ^X : Run marked programs. F8 or ^P : Print file list. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE VIEW IN DL.EXE @P : Print marked files. ^A : Change file attributes. ^L : File specification. F9 : Util Menu. L Print file list. T Print marked files. A Change file attributes. F Enter file specification. F10 or ^S : Display disk usage statistics. DB and DBCONFIG Like DL, DB comes with its own configuration program. It is very similar to DLCONFIG but asks you questions that are only pertinent to the file view. DB.EXE DB.EXE is the file list portion of DL.EXE. You can use DB when you are wanting to work in a specific directory and have no need for and don't want to wait for a directory tree. Most of the time, I use DB instead of typing DIR, to see what's in a directory and be able to scroll through it and view files. Like DIR, You can also specify a specific filename and wildcard combination on the command line and DB will display only those files meeting that specification. For example entering DB *.DOC will display only the files with a DOC extension. The syntax for DB is: DB [directory] [filename.ext] [/e] [/b] Using DBCONFIG.EXE In order to customize DB to your liking, the configuration program DBCONFIG is provided. With DBCONFIG, you can modify DB so that it runs only in black and white, install your favorite text editor or word processor, change the default sort of the file list and change the printing options. You load DBCONFIG by first changing to the directory where DBCONFIG resides and typing DBCONFIG. DBCONFIG will load DB into memory. DBCONFIG will first look for DB in its own directory. If it can't find it there, it will look for DB in the directories on your path. If it can't find DB on your path, DBCONFIG will exit with an error message. DBCONFIG will only work with DB version 3.0. If it finds another version of DB, DBCONFIG will exit saying "Wrong Version of DB.EXE". DB allows you to run a text editor or word processor to edit highlighted files. You are first asked to enter the drive and directory of the text editor and then you need to supply its name. I use the shareware program Qedit which resides in a directory on my drive D so i would enter 'D:\QEDIT ' and Q.EXE. The file list of DB is normally sorted by filename. The next question asked BY DBCONFIG is if you'd like to have it sorted differently. Your sort choices are filename, extension, date, size and unsorted. Mouse users are provided with a scroll bar in the directory and file views of DB. By clicking on the scroll bar, you can scroll up or down one page or one line at a time. When you are viewing the contents of files, mouse users will also have a scroll bar on the left side of their screen. Some users have complained about the loss of a full screen for viewing because the scroll bar takes up the left 2 columns. If you are one of these people, you can choose not to have the scroll bar visible by making that choice in DBCONFIG. Even if the scroll bar is not shone, you will still be able to scroll up and down by clicking on the leftmost column of your screen. DBCONFIG will then ask you if you want to have DB send a particular setup string to the printer before it prints a file list or the contents of a file. You can enter any setup string such as bold or compressed and each time you print, DB will first send the setup string to the printer. After printing, DB will send a reset to the printer thereby removing the setup information. The last question DBCONFIG will ask you is if you want a form feed sent to the printer after printing. Some printers automatically do a form feed after printing so if DB does one also, you'll waste a sheet of paper. You can run DBCONFIG as many times as you want to change DB to your liking. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR DB.EXE Enter : View the highlighted file. ^Enter : Run Text Editor and load highlighted file. F1 or ^C : Copy the highlighted or marked file(s). F2 or ^D : Delete the highlighted or marked file(s). F3 or ^R : Rename the highlighted file. F4 or ^M : Move the highlighted or marked file(s). F5 : Sort Menu f sort by filename. e sort by extension. d sort by date. s sort by size. u show unsorted listing. ^F : Sort by filename. ^E : Sort by extension. ^T : Sort by date. ^Z : Sort by size. ^U : Show unsorted listing. F6 : Mark Menu. + or Right Arrow : Mark file. - or Left Arrow : Unmark file. Space Bar : Mark or Unmark file. ^Right Arrow : Mark all but the hidden files. ^Left Arrow : Unmark all files. F7 or ^X : Execute Program. F8 or ^P : Print file list. @P : Print marked files. ^A : Change file attributes. COMMAND SUMMARY FOR DB.EXE ^L : Reread the directory with a particular file specification. F9 : Util Menu. L Print file list. T Print marked files. A Change file attributes. F Reread directory with a file spec. D Give information about DB.EXE F10 or ^S : Display disk usage statistics.