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HERMES' LoGG (Version 1.0) Copyright (c) 1990 A. G. Kartsatos Working Commercial Demo Program (Please See Below Ordering Information) This program is one of the best utility programs for the Amiga computer. It is written by HERMES who has been writing utilities for the Amiga computer for the past 4 years. It contains all the functions of and is much more efficient than the author's programs: DU-HERMES and DISKoLAB. It is geared towards the average Amiga user. Its flexibility and the multitude of its applications make it a unique tool for the manipulation of files. It will handle up to 1600 files in high resolution and 800 files in medium resolution. It has 48 built-in utility gadgets and 48 user-definable gadgets. It provides considerable help to the user for the most important archi- ving functions. It will recognize the 14 functions: ARC, UNARC, LISTARC, LHARC, UNHARC, LISTHARC, PAK, UNPAK, LISTPAK, ZOO, UNZOO, LISTZOO, WARP, UNWARP provided that the user has the appropriate archiving utilities in his/her current "c" directory. It has a built-in SHOW routine that will recognize all IFF pictures, including OVERSCAN pictures and BRUSHES. It has a built-in FILE READER. This reader is very fast and has several menu items for browsing through a file. It has a built-in ICON utility that allows you to view any icons. This includes icons of any size and any number of colors up to 16 (4 planes). It has a built-in FONT utility that allows you to see all your disk fonts. It has a built-in SOUND utility that allows you to play IFF sound files. It has a built-in CATALOGUE utility that allows you to list the contents of an entire directory or HD partition. The files are listed with their entire paths, their sizes and their dates of creation. You have the option of saving the catalogue to a desirable file name. It allows you to go back to the Workbench and work on other programs, while it is waiting in the background reduced to a small window carrying an icon. It allows you to configure it so that it carries your own 4 colors and your own 14 drives. It will save the listing of all the files in the current directory. It will highlight all the files in the current directory whose name includes a user-specified pattern (string). You can LOCATE a file via its complete name or just a string in its name. The search includes the current directory and all of its subdirecto- ries. It will find the SIZE of the entire current directory in bytes. This SIZE includes the sizes of all subdirectories. The FIXASCII menu item is for fixing the ASCII files so that they do not contain any binary characters. The resulting fixed file is in RAM:. The SEARCH menu item allows the user to search through all the files in the current directory for a user-specified string. The DISPLAY SIZE item enables you to highlight only the files that have sizes larger than a user-specified size. This tool allows you to identify just those files that are big. You might want to backup them and then delete them from the currect path. The next item will also allow you to highlight all the files that are smaller than a given size. There is a very simple reason for having an item like COMPLEMENT. The choice of this menu item lets you HIGHLIGHT THE REST OF THE FILES. This means that you can highlight just the files that are not currently high- lighted. Suppose that you want to find all the files that do not have the string ".ARC" in their names. What do you do? Well, just highlight the ".ARC" files and then choose COMPLEMENT. You can highlight the ".ARC" files using the PATTERN function. The EXTRACT ASCII menu item allows you to list in a file in RAM: all ASCII characters in a binary file. This is a rather useful tool because you often want to locate a string in a binary file in order to replace it. You also want to see all the strings because you might not remember the one(s) you are actually interested in. YOU MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING FILES IN YOUR CURRENT "c" DIRECTORY: ARC, CD, EDIT, ENDCLI, LHARC, LoGG.file, PAK, RUN, STACK, WARP, ZOO for a fully operational LoGG. You must name your respective files exactly as above. For example, you must name your favourite editor EDIT, etc. ***The files CD, ENDCLI, LoGG.file, RUN, and STACK are absolutely necessary for the program to run with most of its basic functions operational.*** LoGG looks for the file "LoGG.file" in your current directory as well as your "c" directory. The program will abort if it does not locate this file. In what follows, CLICK means PRESS THE LEFT MOUSE BUTTON. TO RUN IT FROM THE CLI: PRESS "LoGG". TO RUN IT FROM THE WORKBENCH: CLICK INTO LoGG'S ICON. TO EXIT: CLICK INTO THE "EXIT" GADGET, OR CHOOSE "QUIT" FROM THE MENU, OR PRESS CONTROL-Q. If you change your LoGG icon, please remember to enter the data in the TOOL TYPES gadget in the new icon as they appear in the original one. The icon that LoGG comes with opens a 1 pixel window on your WorkBench just in case LoGG needs to put some output somewhere. IMPORTANT FEATURE: TO STOP LoGG FROM A FUNCTION LIKE "DELETE" OR "COPY", etc., JUST CLICK INTO THE "STOP" GADGET. THIS COULD SAVE YOU A LOT OF FILES WHEN YOU MISTAKENLY TRY TO DELETE GROUPS OF FILES OR COPY THEM INTO THE WRONG DESTINATION PATH, etc. The program will inform you as soon as the current function gets aborted. * $$$ ATTENTION $$$ * * * * Read below about changing the COLORS of LoGG, or its DRIVE * * NAMES. It is all VERY SIMPLE!!! * A) CHANGE DRIVES: Just replace the fourteen drive names on the first two lines of LoGG.file by the drive names of your choice. Leave one space between two consecutive drive names. You are allowed to use the same drive name as many times as you wish. B) CHANGE COLORS: The second line of LoGG.file contains the (HEX) numbers: "0 3 5 0 F F F 8 0 9 0 0". These are the 4 colors of LoGG: Dark blue: 035, Turquoise 0FF, Gold: F80 and Red: 9 0 0. You use the PALETTE program on your WorkBench to modify the colors of LoGG as follows: Run LoGG, select PALETTE in the file listing on the left and then click into the RUN gadget. The palette will fall on the screen of LoGG. Change the colors as you please. Each time you modify a color, pick up the 3 numbers representing that color. These are the 3 numbers on the right in the palette window. For example, if you see 3EF, the 3 numbers are 3, E, and F. Put these 12 numbers on the third line of LoGG.file and... voila! You've got your own colors! Put the numbers in exactly as you see them in LoGG.file right now. For example, change the last color "9 0 0" to an exotic green "4 F 4". Remember to choose CONFIGURE from the menu so that LoGG can adjust itself to the change. After you have made any change to your LoGG.file while you are running LoGG, just choose the CONFIGURE item of the first menu to get LoGG to adjust itself to the change. Please note that although the entire 48 user-definable gadgets, the 4 colors, and the 14 drives can be configured while LoGG is running, the program will not refresh the two windows after you choose CONFIGURE from the menu. Thus, one or even both listings in your two windows will be obsolete if you have changed the corresponding drive(s). If you put any drive name in the source or destination gadget and then you press <RETURN>, the program will try to attach to that drive. Also, if you CLICK QUICKLY TWICE INTO ANY DIRECTORY name of the listing, you get attached to that directory. You can execute ANY VALID COMMAND as follows: click into the EXEC-CLI gadget. Then enter the command into the gadget provided, and press <RETURN>. Please note that when you are running a program from EXEC-CLI, its output (if it has any) might appear on the screen behind LoGG. So, if you expect any such output, click into the depth gadget in the upper right corner to see it. You MUST CLICK OFF ALL INFORMATION WINDOWS that appear on your screen. To get to the WorkBench from the HIRES screen, just click into the depth gadget in the upper right corner of your screen. To return to your HIRES screen, just press: LEFT_AMIGA-M. It is faster to use your archiving functions in RAM:, RAD:, VD0: or VDK:. MENU 1: TOGGLE FONT: Allows you to replace the font used for the listing of files by a built-in font. This item can be useful when one is obliged to use the HIRES screen. This font will not be as fast as the default TOPAZ 8 font when FastFonts is in action. FastFonts will not speed up the operation of the built-in fonts. MEMORY: Displays the available FAST and CHIP memory. MOUNTLIST: This item shows you your own MountList from memory. This means that the LoGG file reader is used to show you the list of the mounted devices from memory, not by reading your Mountlist in your devs directory. VOLUME INFO: You use this item to get the LoGG INFO routine listed by the file reader. This is a built-in INFO command. VOLUME STORE: This menu item shows you the available storage in bytes on all your volumes. This is an important item that you need to use when you MOVE or COPY files, etc. WORKBENCH: This menu item can be used to practically reduce the prog- ram to a small window with a little icon on it. This will allow you to work comfortably in the back. When you want LoGG back, just click into the icon on that window once and you are back EXACTLY where you were before you closed shop! CONFIGURE: Just make any changes that you want to your LoGG.file and then select this item in order to update the MACROS and PARMS gadgets. You will also update the colors and the drive names of your LoGG. ABOUT: Ordering and support information. QUIT: Exit the program. MENU 2: SAVE LIST: This item allows you to save the current file listing. A string gadget will be used for the desired destination file name. You may omit the names of the directories by choosing the NO DIRS subitem. PATTERN MATCH: Assume that you want to highlight all the files that contain the string ".bat" in their names. Just enter ".bat" (no quotes, of course) in the gadget. The program will check every file in the current directory and will highlight its name provided that it contains the string ".bat". After having done that, you can now operate on these files nicely. You may DELETE THEM, ARC THEM, SHOW THEM, etc. LOCATE FILE: This is of course a very common need. You want to find a file in your current drive/directory. Just enter the desired file name in the gadget and let the program search for it. The program will search everything in this path. The current directory and its subdirectories. It will noti- fy you whether it has found the file. It will also exhibit the file's exact path so that you can work with the file. If you choose "FIND ALL", the program will actually give you all the files in the current path with the desired name. LOCATE STRING: This item performs the same type of function as the previous item: it looks for a file. However, this time you do not know the exact name of the file. You only know part of the name. Thus, you enter the string that you know in the requester gadget and the program will search every file name for this string. PATH IN BYTES: You may get the size of the current path in bytes by choosing this menu item. This size includes all subdirectories. Quite useful when you want to see how big this path is before you try to copy it into something that cannot take it... MENU 3: FIXASCII: You choose this item after you highlight an ASCII file name that you want fixed. This means that you want to eliminate all binary characters in that file name. LoGG will try its best to do this and will give you a copy of the corrected file in RAM:. The corrected file will be called ASCII_OUT. SEARCH STRING: This useful feature allows you to search all the files in the current directory for a given string. You need this when you have seen something written somewhere, but you do not remember where. If you choose FIND ALL, the program will find all the files that contain the string. Otherwise, it will exit this feature when it locates the the first such file. Subdirectories are not included here. If there is such demand from the users, we will include subdirectories in the search in thre near future. Also, the search of a parti- cular file terminates when the program has found the string once in that file. DISPLAY SIZE: You enter a number in the gadget provided and the program highlights all files of size >= that number. The idea be- hind this is to highlight all files larger than a given size in order to process them separately. The rest of the files can of course be highlighted by using the next menu item. COMPLEMENT: Choosing this menu item allows you to highlight only all those files that are not already highlighted. For example, if you want to highlight all the files that DO NOT CONTAIN the string "HELLO" in their name, just highlight the ones containing the string "HELLO" (via PATTERN, or manually), and then choose COMPLEMENT. EXTRACT ASCII: You can extract all ASCII characters from a binary file by using this item. The program will put these extracted ASCII strings in a file in RAM: with the name EXTRACT_ASCII. MENU 4: CATALOGUE: Here is an important menu item. It lets you CATALOGUE the current path. It forms an alphabetical listing of the entire contents of the current path. The listing contains the file names with their complete path name, their sizes and their creation dates. The LoGG file reader is used to bring the catalogue to your screen. You will have the option to save the catalogue to a desirable file name. A valuable tool when you want to look at and/or save the contents of an entire HD partition, for example. PLAY SOUND: This feature is used to play IFF sound files. All you have to do is attach to the directory with those files and high- light the ones that you want to listen to. Click into the STOP gadget to stop the playing of sounds. VIEW FONT: Another strong feature of LoGG. Get to the fonts: directory, or any other directory with fonts, click into the name of the font (this is the directory of the font, not the ".font" file) and highlight the font sizes that you want to view. Click into the font window to close it and choose STOP SHOW from the font window menu to stop the showing of fonts. SHOW ICON: Well, after IFF pictures and sounds and fonts, it is only natural to be able to show your icons. This feature will show any icons (of any size and resolution up to 4 planes). It will show the FRONT or the ALTERNATE icon. It will also show BOTH if it can fit them in the same screen. This item shows only a single icon. Click into the icon window in order to close it. For a sequence of icons, you use ICONSHOW instead. ICONSHOW: You use this item in oder to show a sequence of highlighted icon files. The program shows the FRONT and the ALTERNATE image of the icon if it can fit them both on the screen, otherwise it shows only the front icon. Click into the icon window to close it and choose STOP SHOW from the icon window menu to stop the showing of icons. GADGETS: 14 DRIVES: Clicking into any one of these gadgets will list the files in the corresponding volume in the current SOURCE window. If you don't like the volumes used, just enter your own 14 volumes in "LoGG.file" as described above. S: SOURCE gadget. Here you see the name of the drive/directory you are currently attached to. Also, if you enter a path name in this gadget and then you press <RETURN>, you get to be attached to that path, provided it is a valid one. To make this the DESTINATION window, just CLICK into the other (opposite) vertical gadget. If you do this, the other window becomes the SOURCE window. D: DESTINATION gadget. Here you see the name of a desti- nation drive or directory. It is used by COPY and MOVE. Also, if you enter a path name in this gadget and then you press <RETURN>, you get to be attached to that path, provided that it is a valid one. In this case this gadget becomes automatically the SOURCE gadget. In order to make this window the SOURCE window, all you have to do is CLICK into its vertical (proportional) gadget or anywhere inside the window. Also, every time you click into a file name or doubleclick into a directory on this window, you get this window changed into the SOURCE window automatirally. DEFAULT GADGETS: ALL: Highlights all files on the current window except directories. CLEAR: Removes the highlighting from all files and directories on the current file display window. EDIT: Edits the file that you have highlighted in the current window. The program will notify you if you try to EDIT the wrong file. EDIT is of course the name of your favourite editor residing in your current "c" directory. BYTES: Displays the sum total of bytes of the files that have been highlighted in the current window. No directories are included. If you want the size in bytes of the current path, please choose the menu item PATH IN BYTES. PARENT: Moves up one step in the directory tree. It will stop moving when it hits a root directory. SHOW: Shows the pictures you have selected. A little slideshow is possible by just highlighting the pictures that you want to show in a sequence. Choose STOP SHOW from the SHOW menu in order to stop the showing of pictures and click into the picture window in order to close it. STOP: This is an extremely important gadget. It can save you a lot of trouble. It just stops the current file operation. It stops the MOVE and the COPY operations. It stops the SEARCH and LOCATE FILE operations. It stops the program from conti- nuing with the CATALOGUE process, etc. It will NOT STOP THE FORMAT and DISKCOPY operations. These are controlled by the little panels on the respective windows. READ: This is a fully operational file reader. It will list the selected file and will scroll through it very fast. It has 8 menu items. We will only elaborate on the items that need some explanation. Just remember that YOU CAN SCROLL THE TEXT UP AND DOWN BY USING THE RESPECTIVE ARROW KEYS or by CLICKING into the upper or lower half of the reader screen. (1) GO TO LINE: You can choose this menu item, or just press RIGHT_AMIGA-G instead. As soon as you do that, the GOTO-gadget clears up. Just go ahead and type in the line number you want to see. Then press <RETURN>. The program will then try to exhibit that line as the top line of the page. Another way of doing this: Just click into the GOTO-gadget, clear it up by using the BACKSPACE key (or pressing RIGHT_AMIGA-X), enter the line number that you wish to exhibit, and then press <RETURN>. The program will do nothing if the line number that you have entered does not exist. (2) FIND STRING: You can choose this menu item, or just press RIGHT_AMIGA-F instead. As soon as you do that, the FILE-gadget clears up. Just go ahead and type in the string that you want to see. Then press <RETURN>. The program will then try to exhibit that string at the top line of the page. Another way of doing this: Just click into the FILE-gadget, clear it up by using the BACKSPACE key (or pressing RIGHT_AMIGA-X), enter the string that you wish to exhibit, and then press <RETURN>. The program will do nothing if the string that you have entered does not exist from the current line on. (3) SEARCH AGAIN: Well, now that you have found the string, just choose this menu item or press RIGHT_AMIGA-S to try to find the string again. The program will try to locate the string and exhibit it at the top line of the page. Again, the program tries to locate the given string starting from the secong line of your page down to the end of the file. COPY: Copies all the files that you have selected in the SOURCE window into the DESTINATION Directory/Drive that you have (or the program has) entered in Gadget "D". This includes the highlighted directories in the SOURCE window. This function can be stopped by use of the STOP gadget above. When you STOP the copying process, you should note that the last uncopied (or partially copied) file is the first of the remaining highlighted files. It is safe to assume that this file/directory has not been copied to the destination path. Another important note here is that you do not have to attach to the destination in order to copy the source to it. Just enter the destination path in the "D" gadget. For example, let "RAD:HELLO" be the path for the listing on the left window. Suppose that you want to copy the high- lighted files in "RAD:HELLO" to the directory "RAM:GOOD". Just enter "RAM:GOOD" in the "D" gadget then click into the COPY gadget. When LoGG finishes copiying, it will flash the "RAM:GOOD" directory in the destination window. If you get a system requestor with a DISK FULL message, while you are copying, just click into the STOP button to stop the process. MAKEDIR: Creates a new directory with the name that you have entered in the gadget. Paths are accepted for this name. The program will notify you whenever it cannot create the new directory. RENAME: Renames a selected file or directory. The new name is what the user enters in the requestor string gadget PRINT: Sends the files you have selected to the printer. The process does stop if you use the STOP gadget, but please remember that this cannot happen instantly. The routine that prints your file reads 512 bytes before it starts print- int. Thus, LoGG will not "hear" your STOP message until it has printed those 512 bytes. DELETE: This is another important and necessary gadget. You must use it very carefully because you can delete valuable files when you click into it. This is why we have included a safeguard. LoGG always asks you if you "really want to delete the high- lighted files". You can stop the deletion of files via the STOP gadget, but do it quickly because the files get deleted very fast. Directories are included here. FILEINFO: LoGG has a very nice way of modifying the PROTECTION BITS and the COMMENTS of your files. It opens an entire independ- ent window for this job. Just highlight the files that you are interested in and then click into this gadget to start processing them. If you want to save the current data of a file, just click into the "DO IT" gadget. If LoGG cannot modify the PROTECTION BITS and/or the COMMENT of a file, it will tell you so in a requester and it will state the reason, if possible. If it says nothing after you press "DO IT", the change has been saved. The selected (highlighted) gadgets allow for the respective operations. For example, if DELETE is selected, then the file CAN BE DELETED. Thus, a file which the "list" command classifies as "----rwed", will appear on your FILEINFO window with the following gadgets selected: READ, WRITE, EXECUTE, DELETE. You can exhibit and manipulate the file info on any file residing anywhere. All you have to do is get in the FILE gadget, enter the file name (entire path), and then press <RETURN>. You may CANCEL all the changes you have just made on your FILEINFO window by pressing the CANCEL button. Naturally, we assume here that you have not pressed the "DO IT" button after these changes were made. The NEXT button allows you to move on to the next selected file in your active window. One application of this option is setting of the PURE bits for SHELL-RESIDENT programs. Another application is getting the actual date of creation of a file in order to identify the most recent copy, etc. You also need this option in order to get the full name of a file partially listed in your two panel windows. FORMAT: You use this gadget when you want to FORMAT a disk drive. LoGG can format floppy disks in DF0:, DF1:, DF2:, DF3:. You can enter the name of the resulting formatted disk in the string gadget of the requestor. If the VERIFY gadget is not highlighted, the formatting is naturally quite faster. If you click into the QUIT gadget while formatting a disk, you are given one more chance to continue before formatting is stopped and the destination disk is probably corrupt. The QUIT gadget is included of course because you might be formatting ... the wrong disk. LoGG will attempt to give you a reason as to what went wrong with the formatting of a disk if it cannot continue the process. DISKCOPY: You use this gadget when you want to DISKCOPY a floppy disk in one of the drives DF0:, DF1:, DF2:, DF3: into a floppy disk in another one of the same drives. Again, if the VERIFY gadget is not highlighted, disk-copying is consider- ably faster. We have never lost a disk that we formatted or disk-copied into without the VERIFY gadget on. However, I would like to suggest that you use the VERIFY option in both formatting and disk-copying. LoGG will attempt to give you good diagnostics is something goes wrong with disk-copying. RESOL: This gadget can be used to change the resolution of your screen to HIRES (640x400). This is actually neccessary if you have more than 800 files and directories in a single path. Naturally, that many files in a single path are not suggested because of reduced safety if something goes wrong with the hard disk. If you do not have to use the HIRES option, it is better to work with the main panel (MEDIUM RESOLUTION, 640x200). This is because less memory is needed for LoGG and the program does not have to resort to sending the screen to the background each time it needs to. MOVE: Exerything said about COPY applies here with one exception: MOVE WILL OVERWRITE DUPLICATE FILE NAMES. Also, MOVE will DELETE all the files that it has copied into the destination path. So, be careful when using this command and remember that the STOP gadget will freeze the process. If you do use the STOP gadget, the first highlighted file/directory is the last one that has not been entirely copied into the desti- nation path. As in the COPY case, you do not have to have the destination path actually listed in the "D" window before you copy into it. Just enter the path in the "D" gadget and then click into MOVE. If you get a system requestor with a DISK FULL message, while you are moving files, just click into the STOP button to stop the process. STORAGE: It displays the available BYTES in the SOURCE as well as the DESTINATION gadget. BLUES: This is fun! Just a little play with the COPPER LISTS in order to get those blues on the screen without changing its depth and without slowing the program down. If you do not like the BLUES, just click them off! RUN: Runs any file you have selected provided that it is a runable file. You must make sure there is enough memory to run that program. There is no reason to run a huge program from LoGG. You need all the memory that you can get in such a situation. LoGG actually opens a fairly sized CLI whenever it runs a file. It does this because the program you are running might require a CLI to send its output to and receive its input from. Press "ENDCLI" into the new CLI window in order to get rid of it. NEWCLI: LoGG opens its own NEWCLI window. It is an actual CLI where you can work as if you were on the command line. Remember, NEWCLI's do not remember commands that reside in assigned paths. Only commands in the current "c" directory. You can get rid of the NEWCLI by just pressing "ENDCLI" into it. EXEC-CLI: It executes any CLI command that you enter in the requestor gadget. For example, if you enter in the gadget: "Run DH1:DELPAINT/Dpaint", you are running the program Dpaint residing in the directory DH1:DELPAINT. Now remember! You cannot always do this. If you enter "Run DH1:SONIX/Sonix" instead, you are not going to be able to run Sonix. This is because the Sonix program looks for files like Scores, etc. If it doesn't find them, it does not load! Even if you press: "cd DH1:SONIX" and then you come back with "Run SONIX" it will not work! You know you are at "DH1:SONIX" but SONIX does not know that. In this case, you should use the MACROS gadgets as we have indicated in the LoGG.file. CAUTION: When you run LoGG by its icon, you should include the entire pathname for the files you might use in the command in the requestor gadget. EXIT: Exits LoGG permanently. You can also EXIT by choosing the "QUIT" menu item or by just pressing "CTRL-Q". ARCS GADGETS: These are self-explanatory. A word of caution about UNPAK. You might not see all unpaked files when UNPAK is done with a ".PAK" file. Just refresh your listing in a few seconds to see them all. MACROS GADGETS: In the file LoGG.file these are Entries 1 - 24. Each MACRO is nothing else than a sequence of commands written one after the other vertically. None of these commands accepts any parameters. The PARMS commands are described below. Only the first command in a MACRO should contain the "CD" command. This "CD" command should be the first token on the corre- sponding line. Please have a look at the examples in LoGG.file. Each MACRO can have up to 7 commands in it. PARMS GADGETS: In the file LoGG.file these are Entries 25 - 48. Each entry has a gadget title as before (see below) under which the user can enter a command with up to 2 parameters. For example, if you want your own gadget with the command FIXOBJ in it, just use the title "FIXOBJ *" in the corres- ponding position of LoGG.file and under it add "Run Fixobj %s %s" without the quotes of course. The symbols "%s %s" stand for the two parameters that Fixobj needs. The first one is the filename and the second is the new filename. The first parameter is the name of the file that you have clicked in the table of files on the left, and the second is a string that you must enter in the requestor gadget. For example, to Fixobj the file "HELLO" with new name "GOODBYE", select "HELLO" from the table of files, click into the FIXOBJ gadget, and then enter "GOODBYE" in in the requestor gadget. One-parameter commands will contain only one symbol "%s" and that can be a filename from the table of files or any name in the requestor gadget. It is important to note here that each PARMS command must contain *at most 5* tokens. For example, the command HELLO %s HERMES JULIE %s (R) (5 tokens) is OK, but the command HELLO %s HERMES JULIE %s GEORG (R) (6 tokens) is wrong. The symbol "(R)" here means that you want to have the files refreshed after the execution of this command. The symbol "(R)" must be placed at then of your command and at least one space away from the last word/symbol in your command. I suggest that you make use of this symbol only if you really need to refresh the file listing. Otherwise, it would be a waste of time. If you have a command like HELLO %s HERMES %s %s JULIE which is illegal under the present setting of LoGG, you could still enter it as HELLO %s HERMES %s JULIE and then enter two strings in the requester gadget instead of one. This way you may be able to include many more possibi- lities in a PARMS situation. THINGS TO REMEMBER: 1) To prepare your own command sequences, remember the following: LoGG.file finishes always with an empty line. Each gadget name contains exaclty 10 characters. This includes the star ("*") at the end of the name of the gadget. The actual gadget title is up to 8 characters long. There is always at least one space between the actual gadget title and the "*" at the end of the entry name. Right after each custom gadget name you may put your own commands. Each line will contain ONLY ONE COMMAND. Do not string them together! For MACROS, you can afford up to 7 commands under each gadget name. However, only the first command can contain the "cd" command in it, and when it does it is always the first token. There is only one command line for each PARAMS gadget. At the end of the sequence of commands under a gadget you MUST INSERT AN EMPTY LINE. It is possible to use PARMS commands like MACROS. However, you should have in mind that LoGG opens always a CLI window with each PARMS command. 2) Sometimes your LoGG.file gets funny with some, possibly invisible, characters in it. LoGG loads but does not read that file right. To correct this problem, just run the file FIX_FILE in a directory containing your LoGG.file. This little program will attempt to correct your LoGG.file and put the corrected contents in a file called LoGG.file1. Just rename LoGG.file1 as LoGG.file and continue as usual. 3) Use FastFonts with this program. The text operations become much faster. FastFonts is on your Workbench disk. 4) Do not use the ARC, PAK, ZOO, LHARC programs with output in directo- ries with many files. Refreshing of the windows is faster on smaller di- rectories. Also, these ARC programs work faster when they are loaded and have outputs in RAM:, VD0: or RAD:. 5) If you get a little confused about the exact name of a file which is not completely listed, just select the file and click into the FILEINFO gadget. The FILEINFO gadget contains the entire name of the file and other file information. (6) Whenever a CLI appears in the execution of a command or in an archiving process, you should close it by pressing EndCLI. It is important that you have this command included in your "c" directory. (7) If a program like Preferences changes the colors of your LoGG program, just select CONFIGURE from your first menu, after that program is off, to see your default colors back. 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