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MegaD 2.00 Copyright 1990, 1991, 1992 John L. Jones
All Rights Reserved.
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Read_Me_First
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MegaD is a very powerful and versatile directory utility. It does not play
by the rules set by the gambit of other directory utilities, available for
the Amiga. For this reason, A great deal of time has been spent on
documentation. You will find three files of documentation.
MegaD.Doc
This file is an explanation of all of the features and commands
of MegaD.
MegaD.Tutorial
This file provides a step by step approach to all of the features
and commands of MegaD. If you are total new to MegaD, this is
the best place to start.
Rambling_on
This file contains a brief discussion of how MegaD came to be and
a few commonly asked questions. It will be updated with answers
to new questions as they are asked. This file was also
compressed using Lha, this was done to allow this archive to
unpack to an OFS (Old File System) disk.
There is a file titled, "Example.dic". This file show you how a
dictionary file can be created. This file changes six titles found in the
Main Control Window. The purpose of a dictionary file can be to modify a
few titles, to suit your task or to completely translate MegaD to a new
langauge. There is also an offer of a lifetime registration to MegaD, by
providing a translated dictionary file to the author of MegaD. Further
information can be found in the MegaD.Doc file about this.
Incompatibility with the old Workbench 1.3:
MegaD is both 1.3 and 2.0 compatible. There are two problems when
using MegaD under the older 1.3 operating system.
One: the 'Relabel' command will not work.
Two: Destinations for external programs are not set properly.
Programs such as Lha will not send the archived program to
the MegaD Destination Window. It usually sends it to the
drive that the operating system was booted from.
It is very unlikely that the next version of MegaD will be 1.3 compatible.
If your not using 2.0, your missing out on a lot of great improvements. I
will not be cross developing for the two operating systems after this
release.
The shareware version of MegaD 2.00 will not read or write the preference
file. This limits the modification of MegaD to suit your want to the
current running of the program. All settings, additions and modification
done to MegaD will be lost, once you quit the program. As you will see,
MegaD was made to be changed to suit your taste.
The shareware version of MegaD 2.00 will start to disable the Keypad
Command Gadgets after running for five minutes. It will disable one gadget
each minute after the first five minutes, it will continue to do so until
all Keypad Command Gadgets become disabled.
To receive a registered version of MegaD, Read the Registration section of
the MegaD.Doc file then fill out the MegaD.Reg_Form found in this archive.
I have put much effort into providing the Amiga community with a very
powerful program. To date, over three years of my spare time has been put
into this project. I have no desire to simply, give it away. I have every
intention to support registered users to my best ability. Examples of
this:
Registered users have been using MegaD V1.10 for the last two years.
This version was never released to Shareware.
They have received letters informing them about the progress of MegaD
2.00.
I have always placed the highest priority on registered users request.
I have a number of future enhancements to add to MegaD. One of the
enhancements is ARexx. Each future Shareware version of MegaD will be
disabled more than the last version. As I have said, "I have no desire to
simply, give it away."
Overlays were originally planed to be implemented with this version. This
would have save system memory by allowed sections of MegaDs' program code
to be swaped in and out of memory, while only the necessary code would stay
in memory. A last minute bug was found that only occurs while the Overlay
Manager is being used. I have decided to release MegaD 2.00 without using
overlays.
The original MegaD 2.00 archive was released with the below listed files:
Example.dic 2,100 * MegaD.info 626 *
MDDisk 23,288 * MegaD.Reg_Form 2,279 *
MDDisk.Doc 12,567 * MegaD.Tutorial 393,943 *
MDDisk.info 626 * Rambling_On.lha 6,793 *
MegaD 228,524 * Read_Me_First 5,125 *
MegaD.Doc 156,978 *
If you have any questions, my address can be found in the MegaD_Reg_form
file and in the About window opened by selecting the 'Project, About' menu
item of MegaD.
I can also be contacted on BIX by sending E-Mail to john_jones.
John L. Jones