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“READ ME” for Router, version 1.0
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Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
March 30, 1992
Font: Geneva 12
This document must go wherever Router goes. Please do not distribute
Router without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INFORMATION REGARDING ALIASES
---------- FURTHER IN THIS DOCUMENT.
REGISTERING ROUTER AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
====================================================
Router is not free. Sites using this software MUST register it,
one copy per person. Contact the author for site licensing information.
Or you can consider the following.
7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities
I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until
I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will
register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and
an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good
deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it
like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way.
See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information
on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file.
Please use it to register the software.
USING ROUTER
=============
• If you use Router, please please please send me a note. My addresses
(post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the
information in the above section on registration.
What Does Router Do?
--------------------
• Drop files into this program and re-route them to other locations. For
example, drop a text file in and move it to a Text Files folder. Or drop a
Word document into a Word docs folder. Or a folder or disk containing
text files, Word files, and PICT files, and move them to their own separate
directories on their disk.
• Read further if you plan to use Router with aliases.
Using Router
------------
• Drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
style”. Router will scan folders and disks provided depending on your
preferences, and will move (if preferences allow, of course) each of
the selected items to a directory you have set. Drop Boxes require Apple
Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher.
• Double-click on Router to modify the preferences and links, and to see the
about box information.
• If you drag an alias directly into Router, its target (parent) will be moved
(not the alias). If the alias was inside a folder you dropped in, then it
will be moved (not the target).
• Router will not move (copy) items from one disk to another. Just between
directories on the same disk.
• To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Files already processed
will remain modified.
Preferences
-----------
• The first time you try to modify a file using the program, the preferences
dialog will come up, just to make sure the correct parameters have been
set up. You can modify these if you wish. If you don't want to see that
window again, just say OK. You will have to explicitly ask for for the
Preferences window the next time you wish to change anything.
• The Links window will not come up automatically. Make sure you press
the Links... button to set up the item to folder links.
• The preferences are fairly self-explanatory. You can choose to show an
alert before modifying anything. By choosing to modify directories, you
have decided that folders themselves can be modified. You can modify files
and folders inside those folders which you have dropped in by checking the
Modify contents box. For example, if you drop in a folder containing three files
and another folder, and have Modify contents on but Modify directories off, the
folders’ names will remain unchanged, but the names of all contained files
(including those inside the second folder) will be modified according to your
extensions.
• NOTE: If you turn on Move contents, contained folders AND items will each
go their separate ways. This can really mess you up if you don’t know this
will happen. Files always move with the directories that contain them,
so if you just want to move Folder A to Folder B, along with everything
inside it, turn Move contents off!!!
• To show the Preferences dialog on-the-fly in Drop Box mode, hold down the
option key while the program is launching.
• To bypass the “check” alert that appears before anything is modified, hold
down the shift key while the program is launching, or after you hit OK to
hide the Preferences dialog.
Links
-----
• Use the links dialog to set up item to directory links. The buttons are
fairly self-explanatory.
• If an item matches more than one entry than another, and matches
all criteria in that entry, the item will be moved to the most specific
folder (so an item matching the ‘TEXT’ criteria would be moved to
the folder with ‘TEXT’ ‘ttxt’ rather than that with just ‘TEXT’). If it
matches the same number of criteria, it is moved to the first match
in the list.
• If an item does not match any of your criteria, it is not moved.
• The ? wild card is allowed in the name extension, but not in the type
or creator. It represents only one character. So ‘TE?T’ is the same as
‘TEXT’ or ‘TEMT’.
• Make sure you select the correct folder and disk for your items. Remember
that items are not copied by Router onto other disks. Just moved into
directories on the same disk.
USING DROP BOXES
=================
Drop Boxes are applications (drag-and-drop utilities) which can take advantage
of System 7.0’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application
icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory.
The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits.
You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in
just one, either. Select a whole bunch of files, directories, or disks, or any
combination of the three, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for
files of the required type and modify them accordingly. All files in all
directories within those dropped in will be modified. Any aliases dropped
directly into a Drop Box (not inside a directory) are resolved by the Finder
and thus their target (parent) is modified.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
==================
If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
Robert Gibson E-Mail:
RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
KØK 1LØ
This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
include this document, unmodified.
Router copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.