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- QUICK HELP FILE FOR "LoGG 1.0"
-
- A. G. Kartsatos
-
-
- 1) To run the program with most of the basic functions working, you
- will need at least these files in your current "c" directory:
-
- CD, LoGG.file, ENDCLI, STACK, RUN
-
- 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. This is the file that contains the names of your drives, the 4 colors
- and the 48 user-definable gadgets.
-
- 2) For a fully operational LoGG you will need the following files in
- your current "c" directory:
-
- ARC, CD, EDIT, ENDCLI, LHARC, LoGG.file, PAK, RUN, STACK, WARP, ZOO
-
- You must name these files exactly as above. For example, EDIT is
- your favourite editor program. The files CD, ENDCLI, RUN and STACK are your
- usual Workbench files.
-
- 3) Click into a vertical gadget to make the corresponding window the
- SOURCE window. When SOURCE and DESTINATION are the same, do not try to
- copy from one to the other because you cannot copy a file to itself.
-
- 4) Click fast twice on the name of a directory in order to attach to
- it. If a DRIVE is not listed in your list of 14 drives, and you want to
- see it, just enter the desired pathname into the "D" or "S" gadget and press
- <RETURN>.
-
- 5) Configure LoGG so that it carries your own 4 colors and your own 14
- drives. Attach to a place where you can find your palette. Run the palette
- by selecting it first and then clicking into LoGG's RUN gadget. Change
- any of the 4 colors on the palette (you get 3 HEX numbers for each color),
- and then place those 12 numbers in the third line of your LoGG.file.
- To place your own drives in LoGG, just enter 14 drive names into the
- first two lines of your LoGG.file. You may repeat drive names of course.
- 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.
-
- 6) Study the file LoGG.file so that you can create up to 48 gadgets
- with your own titles and your own commands.
- The titles of the gadgets should be at most 8 characters long.
- The corresponding title entries in the file LoGG.file should be exactly
- 10 characters long, like "DPAINT *", "CONTOURA *", etc. You should not
- include the quotes in your LoGG.file.
- The MACROS (Entries 1 - 24 in your LoGG.file) can accommodate up to
- 7 different command lines each.
- Only the first token of the first command line of a MACRO can be "CD".
- The PARMS (Entries 25 - 48 in your LoGG.file) can only carry one
- command line. This command line can have up to 5 tokens and at most 2 para-
- meters. For example,
-
- "FIXOBJ %s %s (R)", "HELLO %s HERMES %s JULIE (R)", "EDITOR %s"
-
- are acceptable PARMS command lines. If there are two parameters (%s) in a
- PARMS command, the first one is a highlighted file and the second is a
- string that you enter in the file requestor. If there is only one parameter
- in your command line, there are two possibilities: 1) If there is a file
- selected (highlighted), LoGG will pick the name of that file for this para-
- meter. 2) If there is no selected file, LoGG will bring the requester out
- for you to enter a string for this parameter.
- The symbol "(R)" here means that you want to have the file listing
- refreshed after the execution of this command. The symbol "(R)" must be
- placed at the end of your command and at least one space away from the last
- word/symbol in your command.
- 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.
-
- 7) Sometimes your LoGG.file gets funny with some, possibly invisible,
- characters in it. To correct it, just run the file FIX_FILE. This file
- 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.
-
- 8) IMPORTANT! Do not forget that you can stop the SEARCHING OF FILES
- AND STRINGS, CATALOGING, COPYING AND MOVING OF FILES, etc., by just
- clicking into the STOP BUTTON on your front panel.
-
- 9) To make one of the two windows on your front panel the SOURCE
- window, just click into its vertical gadget or anywhere into it. Then the
- other window will automatically become the DESTINATION window.
-
- 10) To copy files from one of the display windows into another path
- not currently on display in the opposite window, you can just enter that
- path in the DESTINATION BUFFER "D" and click into the COPY gadget. When
- copying is finished, LoGG will list that destination path. The same remark
- applies to the MOVE operation.
-
- 11) Pressing QUIT while FORMATTING/DISKCOPYING might corrupt the desti-
- nation disk. Do not use QUIT (on the FORMAT/DISKCOPY requester) unless
- it is absolutely necessary.
-
- 12) 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.
-
- 13) You should change to HIRES (clicking into the RESOL gadget) if
- you have more than 800 files in the same directory listing. Otherwise you
- will get a partial listing of these files. If you are using the MEDIUM re-
- solution mode and LoGG finds out that there are more than 800 files in your
- directory, LoGG will inform you that you should change into the HIRES mode.
-
- 14) The STOP button does stop a file from being printed to your
- printer, but it takes some time before the Amiga responds to the signal
- to stop. So, be a little patient.
-
- 15) 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
- information on the file's Protection Bits, Comment and Date of creation.
-
- 16) 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.
-
- 17) If you change your LoGG icon (this is the program icon, not the
- disk 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. If you do not take
- care of this, LoGG may crash your machine when it tries to write an error
- statement into a nonexistent window.
-