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- “READ ME” for Scale, version 1.0
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- Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
- April 23, 1992
- Font: Geneva 12
-
- This document must go wherever Scale goes. Please do not distribute
- Scale without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
-
- IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INFORMATION REGARDING ALIASES
- ---------- FURTHER IN THIS DOCUMENT.
-
- REGISTERING SCALE AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
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- Scale is not free. Sites using this software in business MUST
- register it. Contact the author for site licensing information. If it is for
- personal use only, please send a few dollars. 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.
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- USING SCALE
- ============
- • If you use Scale, 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 Scale Do?
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- • Scale, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), counts the number of files
- and folders in a selection (including files and folders within the directories
- you have selected), and calculates the total logical and physical size of that
- group. Lets you determine the size of selections without getting info and
- breaking out the calculator.
-
- • Read further if you plan to use Scale with aliases.
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- Using Scale
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- • Drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
- style”. Scale will scan folders and disks provided, and will calculate
- the required information for all contained files and folders, no matter
- what their depth in side the selected directories. Drop Boxes require
- Apple Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher.
-
- • Scale’s count may differ from the Finder’s count, since Scale includes
- the sizes of invisible files in its calculations. So if you get information
- on a folder with a custom icon in the Finder, that count may differ
- from that obtained using Scale.
-
- • Double-click on Scale 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.
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- Scale and Aliases
- ----------------
- • Since the Finder resolves all aliases when you drop them into a Drop Box,
- Scale can only think that you dropped the target (not the alias) in to be
- counted. If an alias is within a directory you have dropped in, the actual
- size of the alias is calculated (not the size of the target or parent file).
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- USING DROP BOXES
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- 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.
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- 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.
-
- Scale copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.