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| Copyright Jan Ganzevles, Dec. 1990 - Oct. 1996
| !DiskBase version 0.75
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(lines marked with '|' are updated since the previous release)
Why !DiskBase ?
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The programs you use a lot, are often easy to find. But how about the rest,
especially if they are stored on floppies? A diskette label is too small to
print a complete directory on and having separate printouts it can still be
time consuming to find just the one file you're looking for.
But now there is ............ !DiskBase
What !DiskBase does.
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It gives you the possibility to:
- ADD directory info of disks (floppies and harddisks) to the datafile.
!DiskBase makes a distinction between applications, directories and
files. For each type of entry some relevant information is stored.
- DELETE a diskname (and of course the entries of that disk).
- SHOW disk names and optional their contents.
- If 'Show contents' is deselected, only disknames, date, free-space and
number of files/directories/applications are given.
- If 'Show contents' is selected, you have five suboptions to specify
the level of contents you want to see.
- If none of the five suboptions is selected, only files/dirs/apps
in the root-directory of the disk are shown.
- Otherwise you will be shown the contents of one or more of the
following items:
- Directories
- Applications
- Archives
- PackdDir
- DOSdisc partitions
It's possible to give a (wildcarded) diskname to do the SHOW on
(e.g. "*PROG*" will SHOW all disks with 'PROG' in the name) and it's also
possible to exclude (wildcarded) disknames by using a ~ as the first
character of the name (e.g. "~*BU" will SHOW all disks, except the ones
ending in 'BU').
Allowable wildcard characters are '*' matching any 0 or more characters
and '#' matching exactly any 1 character. Any combination of wildcard
and normal characters is allowed.
- SEARCH for (wildcarded) entry names. You can limit the SEARCH for one or
more particular types of entry (files/directories/applications). If type
"Files" is selected, an extra limitation can be made for a filetype. The
filetype may be entered in its textual form ("Basic") or in its hex
numerical form ("&FFB"). Since version 0.56 there is also the possibility
to limit the SEARCH to include or exclude disks using a (wildcarded)
diskname and optionally the exclude character (see also SHOW)
- DUPLICATES. This option now has several sub-options.
You can search files and/or applications having no duplicates, or
one or more duplicates, or two or more duplicates.
So you can find files/applications on your disks having no backup, or for
instance a scan of only your harddisk to report all files/applications
with two or more copies on that disk (one or more duplicates), or scan
all disk directories to see if there are files/applications with more
than one backup (so more than two copies somewhere).
Duplicates are files and/or applications (not directories!) with the same
name and optionally the same size and timestamp.
Same rules for wildcards and include/exclude disks as with SHOW are
applicable.
- RESULTS If the RESULTS window is open, you can save the RESULTS as a file
on disk, or drag it to an application (e.g. printerdriver, !Edit, !DTP).
Since version 0.56 you have the option to double click a line of the
RESULTS window. The effects are:
- If it's a directory name:
You can open the directory viewer
- If it's an application name:
The application can be started, or if SHIFT is pressed, the
application's directory viewer is opened.
- If it's a file:
The file is run or started. Be aware that as a side-effect this can
result in an application being started. E.g. if you double click a
line showing a file of type Sprite the application !Paint is started
and the file loaded, if the application has been seen before,
otherwise the sprite is shown on your screen.
(For safety, your confirmation is asked, before an action is taken.
If the disk has not been inserted ADFS will ask you to do so.)
- If it's an archive file, or a file inside an archive file:
The archive file is run, in order to start an application like
!ArcFS or !SparkFS to open the archive file for you. Because !ArcFS,
!Spark and !SparkFS share the same filetype for archive files (&DDC)
the application seen last by RISCOS will be started, even if it's an
!ArcFS archive, which can't be read by !Spark.
Unless the new ArcFSArc (&3FB) filetype is used, in which case of
course !ArcFS is started, if seen before by RISCOS.
| - If the RESULTS window shows results of a DUPLICATES, clicking on the
| filename doesn't start any action, but clicking on the pathname will
| start the appropriate action for the file located in this directory.
- If it's a diskname, a window will open showing a printpage. If a
printerdriver is loaded, the selected papersize is used, otherwise a
size just sufficient for the number of labels specified is assumed.
The label of the selected diskname is added to the page, and when
Menu is pressed over one of the labels, a menu is shown with the
following options:
SHOW LABEL - Gives a preview of the label the pointer was over
when Menu was pressed.
Clicking Select on the open preview will increase
the shown depth level of the entrynames, Adjust
will decrease it.
DELETE LABEL - Deletes the label at the position the pointer was
over when Menu was pressed. The other labels are
re-arranged. If pressed with Adjust the next label
at the same position can be deleted.
INVERT LABEL - This option will change the layout of the printed
labels (see the preview).
LABEL SIZE - A dialogue window will be shown, where labelsizes
and number of labels can be specified. All sizes
are in millimetres.
From version 0.72 onwards, there is an option to
configure the depth of the entrynames printed on
the labels. If Menu is pressed on top of a label
you can specify if you want to set the depth of
just that label, or of all labels. Otherwise if
Menu is pressed on the empty background only all
labels at once can de set.
If the depth is set to '1' only entries in the
root-directory are shown (as in pre-0.72 versions)
'2' will also show the entries inside directories
and applications shown in the root and so on.
The maximum number selectable is the maximum depth
in the loaded datafile. The value selected for all
labels will be stored in the datafile when saved.
OWNER'S NAME - Here you can specify the name of the owner that
will be printed on the label.
FONT - This leads to a submenu where you can select the
font used for printing. Changing the Font$Path
will directly affect the selectable fonts, without
need for a restart of !DiskBase.
PRINT - will start printing of all the labels queued.
Information about font, owner's name, label sizes and invert label