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FOCO(1) AMIGA User's Manual FOCO(1)
1mNAME
0mFoCo - Disk Formatting Controller
1mSYNOPSIS
FoCo 0m[1mDRIVE0m=1mn0m] [1mNAME0m=...] [1mFLAGS0m=...] [1mCX0m_1mPOPUP0m=1mYES0m|1mNO0m]
[1mCX0m_1mPOPKEY0m=...] [1mCX0m_1mPRIORITY0m=1mn0m] [1mLANGUAGEFILE0m=...]
1mDESCRIPTION
0m4mFoCo0m means "Format-Controller" and has been developed for
three reasons:
1m10m. The Workbench won't give you all formatting options
(see CLI).
1m20m. My comp should be intelligent enough to guess that I
want to format an unformatted disk (see Mac).
1m30m. I wanted to exercise some 2.0 programming.
The third one is the essential reason... therefore
FoCo will only operate on AmigaDOS 2.0. The source is a
little bit confused but will do as an example - at least as
a bad one 8-).
1mLEGAL STUFF
0m4mFoCo0m 4m10m.4m20m is FreeWare and copyrighted by me, the author.
Permission is granted to Freely Distribute this program, but
you may not remove any files of this original release, nor
may you sell FoCo on a disk which costs more than twice the
actual average PD disk price. In Germany this means, that
the upper limit for the price is DM 5,-.
Permission is especially granted to Fred Fish for inclusion
of this software in his AmigaLibDisk series.
Any part of the source code may be used/recycled without
restrictions.
1mSTARTING
0mYou can start FoCo from Workbench, either directly via
double click or during startup by placing it in the
WBStartup drawer. A second start will pop up the control
window (supposing that's what you want to have at that
moment).
© by Michael Balzer -1- Version 1.2
FOCO(1) AMIGA User's Manual FOCO(1)
1mOPERATION
0mWhen you insert a disk which DOS marks as 'BAD' or 'NDOS',
FoCo will wake up and ask you whether you would like that
disk to be formatted. If you answer 'no', nothing more will
happen. Answering 'yes' will pop up FoCo's control window.
You can also pop up the control panel by pressing the hotkey
(see 'ToolTypes') or by clicking on the "Show" gadget in the
"Exchange" program (see 'Commodities').
Now set all formatting options. The disk drive will be set
automatically. Clicking on the close gadget will give you
the option to terminate FoCo, while "Cancel" will just put
it back to sleep.
You can start the formatting by either pressing the <RETURN>
key in the name field or by clicking on "Format!".
The formatting process will output to its own window and run
asynchronously to the FoCo process, so you can format more
than one disk at a time. (4mRemark0m: This is not true with
Olaf Barthel's Format replacement, as this tool has a bug
which causes the system partition to be locked during the
formatting, so you can't load anything from there.)
1mTOOLTYPES
0mThe tool types control FoCo's initial options, hotkey and
language. Use workbench's "Info" menu to set any or all of
these:
1mDRIVE0m=1mn 0m default drive number (of those
connected!)
1mNAME0m=... default name for new disks
1mFLAGS0m=... default enabled options, select from
FFS | NOICONS | QUICK | NOVERIFY |
INSTALL | EJECT
1mCX0m_1mPOPUP0m=1mYES0m|1mNO 0m show control panel immediately?
1mCX0m_1mPRIORITY0m=1mn 0m define commodity priority
1mCX0m_1mPOPKEY0m=... hotkey to pop up the control panel
(follows commodities conventions)
1mLANGUAGEFILE0m=... the file containing the texts
(Attention: has to be in the same
drawer, e.g. WBStartup, if you don't
provide the full path)
1mDONOTWAIT 0m necessary for WBStartup
© by Michael Balzer -2- Version 1.2
FOCO(1) AMIGA User's Manual FOCO(1)
FoCo won't start with an illegal hotkey description.
All tool types are optional, the default settings are:
DRIVE=0, NAME=Empty, FLAGS=FFS|NOICONS,
CX_POPUP=NO, CX_POPKEY=lcommand f
and no language file (means english text). B.t.w.: The
texts in the language file must remain in their order and
must be seperated by ASCII 0.
1mCOMMODITIES
0mFoCo is fully compatible to the commodities standard. You
can control FoCo from the workbench tool "Exchange".
The gadgets "Show" and "Hide" are routed to the control
panel, "Disable" detaches FoCo from the input event queue
until "Enable", and "Kill" terminates FoCo completely.
1mAUTHOR
0mOk, cut it now, enough chatter ;-). Already too much
documentation for such a minitool.
Send flames to HELL: (a soon to be released dos handler,
just waiting for HEAVEN: to be finished :-) and comments to
balzer@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
or
M.BALZER@AWORLD.ZER
or
Michael Balzer
Wildermuthstr. 18
W-5828 Ennepetal 14
GERMANY
Have Fun!
© by Michael Balzer -3- Version 1.2