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- “READ ME” for Pesticide, version 1.0
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- Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
- March 5, 1992
- Font: Geneva 12
-
- This document must go wherever Pesticide goes. Please do not distribute
- Pesticide without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
-
- REGISTERING PESTICIDE AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
- ===============================================
- Pesticide 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 PESTICIDE
- ===============
- • If you use Pesticide, 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 Pesticide Do?
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- • Pesticide, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), lets you delete some
- pesky items from the selected disks and/or directories. It can be set
- up to delete all or all unresolvable aliases, empty directories, and empty
- files. It can also automatically fix files that have accidentally had their
- alias bits set (and thus are really not aliases after all). As always, you
- select what Pesticide actually does.
-
- Using Pesticide
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- • Drag sets of folders and/or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
- style”. Pesticide will scan folders and disks provided, and will
- take the actions specified in the preferences on the appropriate items
- that it finds. Drop Boxes require Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or
- higher.
-
- • Aliases are resolved by the Finder when you drop them into a drag-and-
- drop utility, so dropping an alias to a disk into Pesticide is the same
- thing as dropping in the disk itself.
-
- • Double-click on Pesticide to modify the preferences, and to see the about
- box information.
-
- • Alerts are very annoying, especially in Drop Boxes. So there aren’t any. As
- a rule of thumb: if it doesn't work, there must have been an error.
-
- • To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Files already processed
- will remain modified.
-
- Preferences
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- • 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.
-
- • If the Show alert check box is on, an alert will appear before you use
- Pesticide on the selected items, allowing you to cancel the procedure if
- you made a mistake.
-
- • Pesticide will delete empty files and folders when those preferences
- are on.
-
- • Aliases will deleted when the Delete aliases check box is on. Only aliases
- whose parent (or target) has been lost (hence the term “orphaned alias”)
- will be deleted if that option is selected. So if Delete aliases is checked
- but the Only orphaned aliases button is not, all aliases will be deleted from
- the selected directories.
-
- • If the Fix finder flag on non-alias files button is checked, Pesticide will
- check and make sure the alias bit on the file hasn’t been accidentally set,
- turning a normal file into an alias. If it finds an alias with the bit set by
- accident and this button is checked, the flag is reset and the file is set back
- to normal.
- NOTE: If you don’t have this option set, but you do choose to delete all
- aliases, you will also delete files which have had their alias bits
- accidentally set. It is wise to have this option turned on whenever you are
- deleting any aliases with Pesticide.
-
- • 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.
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- 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 Directories or disks, or any
- combination of the two, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for
- items of the required type and modify them accordingly. All items 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.
-
- Pesticide copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.