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RASIS Dos File Manager
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│▒▒▒ LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SisFm, the RASIS Dos File Manager, is a part of the RASIS program
package, and as such falls under all the same Copyright, Distribution and
Disclaimer clauses as applied to RASIS.EXE
Please see the appropriate sections in RASIS.DOC for clarification
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│▒▒▒ THE FILE MANAGER ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒│
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
BEFORE BLINDLY JUMPING IN AND MANIPULATING FILES WITH THE FILE MANAGER,
MAY WE SUGGEST THAT YOU EXPERIMENT ON SOME UN-NEEDED FILES FIRST.
THAT WAY, IF WE WERE NOT IMPLICIT ENOUGH IN OUR EXPLANATION, OR YOU
MISSED AN IMPORTANT FACT, THERE WILL BE NO GREAT LOSS.
The File Manager program, SISFM.EXE must be placed in a directory that
is in your Dos PATH statement. else RASIS will be unable to find it.
Or.... you can place it in the same directory as RASIS.EXE
The File Manager is accessed from the RASIS "External" menu.
All the data entry, picklist functions are identical to those of the
RASIS main area, so we won't be redundant here.
The top two lines of the screen show the name RASIS File Manager, the
and a One line help on tagging files.
Next is the status line, current file mask, number of tagged files,
and then a display of the current action.
The current action will always mirror the Menu choice, so if you forget
whether you are Copying or Moving files, glancing at the Menu Bar or the
Action display will confirm just what it is you're attempting to do.
The center area is where all lists and message/data boxes will be
displayed.
At the bottom, is the Menu Bar, and below it the Help Line.
Pretty much the same setup as RASIS, but the menubar is at the bottom.
A help screen is available by pressing F1 from the main menu bar.
Of course, as in RASIS, a help line is displayed for each menu item
as you scroll around. The pick lists also display help in this line.
Now, lets cover the menu choices, and what they do.
┌─────────┐
│SET MASK │
└─────────┘
This allows you to specify the file mask for lists, if you were to
specify *.TXT, then ONLY files with the extension of .TXT will be
displayed in the lists.
Pressing F5 will set/re-set the mask to *.*
F5 may be used from the main menu for a quick toggle back to this
default mask.
┌───────────┐
│LIST FILES │
└───────────┘
Displays a list of all files in the current directory.
There is no tagging of files, its simply a display.
But while the file is highlighted, you may press the F5 function key,
to view the file with the internal Text Viewer, which is the same one
used in RASIS.
The display is filtered by the setting of the MASK.
Pressing ESC will exit the list.
We will cover the next menu item, COPY in detail, from that point on, we
will just cover the differences, as all functions basically use the same
methods for selecting files, prompting for destinations, names etc.
┌─────┐
│COPY │
└─────┘
Presents a picklist where you select one file, or TAG multiple files.
Once the file(s) selection is complete, press ENTER.
A Dialog box will display, and ask you for a destination.
If you are copying to another filename, enter the new filename, or the
directory and filename, if it will be copied to another directory as a
new file. (This is valid only for a single file, trying this with
multiple files will overwrite the new file for each copy processed)
If you are copying a file, or files to another directory, be SURE to
supply a trailing backslash after the directory name.....
Example: \TEMP\ (correct) \TEMP (WRONG!)
The destination can be another drive also, using the above example, you
would enter: D:\TEMP\
We will be implementing a check on this in a future version, to
determine if the destination is a directory or filename. If its a
directory then the Mgr will auto-add the backslash.
If you don't supply the backslash, you will get an error message, for
EACH file tagged!! Quite irritating if you have tagged 20 files to
move. So don't forget the backslash.
Pressing ESC will abort the Copy process, and reset the tagged files to
zero.
A message will display for each file as it's copied, something like:
Copying SELECTED-FILE => DESTINATION
There is no confirmation requested, once you enter the destination, and
press ENTER, the process begins, and goes to the end.
┌──────┐
│ MOVE │
└──────┘
Basically the same as copy, except the file(s) are deleted after it has
been placed in the new destination.
You should only specify a directory destination for this function, unless
you are processing only one file.... then the move may work with a
directory\filename, as the File Manager attempts to first RENAME the file
to the new destination, only doing a copy and delete if the rename fails.
If you are moving to another drive, then it will always be a copy/move
operation.
No confirmation requested.
┌───────┐
│RENAME │
└───────┘
The File Managers Rename function is quite a bit better than the DOS
rename, you can tag as many files as you wish, and then rename each one
individually. Each tagged file will be presented, and you will be asked
to enter the new filename.
You can include a new directory in the filename "IF" it is on the SAME
drive as the file you are renaming.... you then will MOVE AND RENAME the
file.
┌───────┐
│DELETE │
└───────┘
The Delete function is the only one that will ask for confirmation, if
you tell it to.
Once the files have been selected, and ENTER has been pressed, the File
Manager will ask you if you want to Confirm each deletion.
If you answer Yes, you will be asked for permission to delete each file.
If you answer No, File Manager will happily delete each and every file
that was tagged.
A message is displayed for each file, Deleting => FILENAME
┌─────┐
│QUIT │
└─────┘
And of course there is Quit! Returns you to RASIS.
ERRORS: Whenever there is an error during one of the file processing
commands, a message will display and ask for a key press.
The file that generated the error is skipped.