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MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 1
MAssign v2.00
Copyright © 1991, 1992 Peter Stuer
All rights reserved
Release date July 7, 1992
FREEWARE
User Manual
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
MAssign software and documentation are © 1991, 1992 by Peter
Stuer. All rights reserved.
DISCLAIMER
MAssign has been thoroughly tested and is the result of a
constant process of changes and updates that started in February
1991. The program has proven to be stable in everyday use. The
author is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to
software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from
the use of this program. The author reserves the right to make
changes to the software or documentation without notice.
PREFACE
This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it
freely as long as you don't ask any more money for it than a
nominal fee for copying. If you want to distribute this program
you should keep this document with it. This program cannot be
used for commercial purposes without written permission from the
author.
Special permission is hereby granted to include MAssign in
Public-Domain collections such as Fred Fish's Amiga Library.
Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign
MAssign is a little program that allows you to make Multiple
(hence the 'M') assigns at once. For users of BindNames this may
sound familiar. It allows you to remove all the assign and
makedir commands from your startup-sequence and user-startup
files. You can keep the assigns of different programs in
different files. For example:
Assigns -> a directory in Work:
System -> contains all the system assigns
DPaint -> contains the assigns for DeluxePaint
Macro68 -> contains the assigns for Macro68
MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 2
MAssign takes the name of a directory or a file as argument.
If the argument is a directory any file in that directory will
be parsed.
The files must be in pure ASCII format. Take a look at the
following example:
; : Assigns 1.00 (7.7.92)
FOO: SYS:
FOOBAR: SYS:Devs
Temp: RAM:T Work:T add
C: Work:C Rexx:C WShell:C add
Any line that begins with a colon (;) is considered a comment
line and will be left alone. Blank lines will also be ignored.
The first argument is your normal assign name. For example the
first line would be the same as:
assign FOO: SYS:
However unlike assign MAssign first looks if the second assign
name exists yet. If it doesn't, the directory will be created.
For example:
T: RAM:T
ENV: RAM:ENV
CLIPS: RAM:CLIPBOARDS
The above example comes from my startup-sequence. I don't have
to bother with a lot of assign and makedir commands. MAssign
creates the RAM:T, RAM:ENV and RAM:CLIPBOARDS directories before
assigning them to T:, ENV: and CLIPS: respectively.
MAssign now supports all the assign the normal AmigaDOS 2.0
Assign can make. This means you can use the ADD, REMOVE, DEFER
and PATH.
1.1 System requirements
MAssign should run on any Amiga system with at least 512KB RAM
and one disk-drive. MAssign requires KickStart v2.04 or higher
to run.
Should you have any trouble running MAssign on your machine,
please write to me with the full specifications of your machine,
that is KickStart version, model, expansion boards etc...
1.2 About the program
If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if
you find any bugs, please let me know.
When sending in bug reports, please state exactly under what
MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 3
circumstances the bug occurred, what equipment was used and what
happened. If possible also try to give me enough information to
reproduce the bug. It is very difficult to find bugs when you
don't know exactly what happened.
Write to the following address:
Peter Stuer
Kauwlei 21
B-2550 Kontich
Belgium - Europe
Fido: 2:292/603.7
1.3 Usage
MAssign is for CLI usage only. Trying to run MAssign from the
Workbench may result in a system crash.
If you run MAssign without any arguments get a message similar
to the following one:
MAssign v2.00 by Peter Stuer (7.7.92 18:56:08) FREEWARE
Makes many assigns at once.
If you run MAssign with an questionmark (?) as argument you'll
get the argument template:
FROM/A/M,V=VERBOSE/S:
You can supply as many arguments as you like. If the argument
is a directory or a device all the files in that directory or
device will be examined.
If you also supply the VERBOSE switch MAssign will show you
which files and directories it's scanning and which assigns it
makes.
MAssign can be stopped at any time by pressing Control-C.
Table Of Contents
MAssign v2.00
Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign .......................... 1
1.1 System requirements ............................ 2
1.2 About the program ............................... 2
1.3 Usage ......................................... 3
© 1992 MAssign v2.00 written by Peter Stuer
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Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !