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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.
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