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- FileManager Pro
- CopyRight 1996 Morten Poulsen
-
- License
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- This program is distributed as ShareWare, please read the file FM.LNC, included
- in the original archive for further information on how to register.
-
- Short BackGround
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- Once upon a time in a small country called Denmark which was so incredibly
- old-fashioned, that they actually still had a queen who had sons who did not
- make scandals. Hhhmm, actually they did but that is another story.
- In this small country a filemanager lived, and was used by a quite small group
- of people. It was written by a man called Niels Dybdahl, whom noone ever came to
- know who was, but they were very grateful for what he had written.
- Years came to pass and noone knew if there was new versions of the filemanager
- released, so one day some of the FM-users decided it was time to for a new
- version to be created. There was a lot of talking about what should be included
- in this new incarnation and more important, who should program it.
- And one day one of the users started this, quite extensive as it turned out,
- project which should haunt him day and night for just about a month before an
- initial beta version could be released. Just before that he went on a small
- holiday to Sweden bringing his small portable computer on which he at this
- precise moment is writing this precise word -> Hi!
-
- Actual Documentation (or lack of the same)
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- To write documentation in simple english just after programming object-
- orientated pascal must be something like reading all Winny the Poo-books just
- after completing the collected works of Kierkegaard. Ok, bad comparison, but the
- result is that I really cannot concentrate on writing a full documentation, when
- I really have to find bugs in my program. Therefore I will just discuss a few
- subject concerning the use of my FileManager:
- 1. Read the help tekst (F1), if you do not understand the commands assigned to
- keys you probably wont have use for them anyway.
- 2. Most commands work on subdirectories too! Be careful... I assume no
- responsebility what so ever for loss of data!
- 3. At this moment a few bugs may still haunt the program, if you want to help
- me, please read the part about bugs below.
- 4. A question you might want to ask: If you have to write a FileManager, why
- not design it to use a, by others, well-known user-interface, like Norton
- Commander <tm> etc.?
- A: I wrote this program mainly for my own sake being well supported by those
- of my friends who also was addicted to the old FM. One of the promises I
- made to them when I started this project was that all keypresses would be
- exactly the same as in the old one; a promise I have almost kept. If you do
- not like this user-interface (which I humbly believes is better than NC's in
- many ways) then do not use it. It is as simple as that. But I assure you,
- that when you have learned the keyboard commands (which actually is quite
- intuitive C for copy, and so on) it will be lightning fast to use!
-
- Bugs
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- Yes, they are there, lots of them. Many of them I know of, one by one I work on
- them and lots, I presume, I have not even discovered yet. Here is what to do if
- you come across a bug and want to help me:
- 1. Try to make the program fail again, that is find out exactly what and under
- what circumstances things go wrong.
- 2. Send me an email describing the bug and as much information about your
- system as possible. Most important is: What type of disk you where working on,
- under which OS, you were working, and what runtime-error, if any, the program
- reported when it crashed.
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- New features
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- If you have suggestions please mail me. If you can, it would be a great
- help if you could include some source concerning the feature (C, Pas, Basic). If
- you would like to help writing documentation or correct errors in these humble
- textfiles, please mail me too.
-
- Adresses
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- Eventhough you have not any bugs to report, features to include and so on you
- could just write me a note saying what you think about this small program.
-
- I can be reached here:
- SnailMail: Morten Poulsen
- Kongensgade 22,st
- DK-3000 Helsing¢r
- Denmark
- Internet : mop@danbbs.dk
- HomePage : http://www.danbbs.dk/~mop
- FIDO-net : 2:236/300.11
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