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MAIN HELP MENU - WHERE_K VERSION 9.8 APRIL 2, 1994
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* Version 9.8 is called WhereK98.lha and decompresses as WhereK98
THIS PROGRAM WAS TESTED USING WB2.0 AND WB3.0. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANY OTHER
VERSIONS BUT GIVE THEM A TRY.
COPYRIGHT ® September 4, 1993 by Kenneth J. McCormick. All Rights Reserved.
This program and all of its files are giftware and can be distributed
freely as long as the following terms are met:
1. The program is not to be modified in any way without my permission
in writing.
2. Any files that are distributed with this program are to always be
distributed with it and not modified without my permission in writing.
This program must have the following files with it:
Comp.Help
Address all mail to me at PORTAL 516 292-2820 or any PORTAL telephone number
c/o Kenneth McCormick.
Warning!!!!!!!!!
LIB VER ROUTINE TESTS FOR KICKSTART 39 OR ABOVE, WHICH IS ON WORKBENCH 3.0.
YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO RUN THE 'LIST LIBRARY VERSIONS IN BULK' FEATURE
UNLESS YOU HAVE WORKBENCH 3.0 OR ABOVE SINCE YOUR MACHINE WOULD CRASH,
HOWEVER THE INDIVIDUAL LISTING MODE OF THE LIBRARY SEEMS TO WORK FINE ON
ON WB2.0.
THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE REQUIRED TO BE IN THE 'C' DIRECTORY OF YOUR STARTUP
DISK OR PARTITION FOR THIS PROGRAM TO WORK PROPERLY:
DIR,LIST,COPY,RUN,NEWCLI,ENDCLI,RENAME,DELETE,VERSION,JOIN,DISKCHANGE,STATUS
WHERE_K PROGRAM
WHERE_K IS A UTILITY FOR LOCATING FILES ANYWHERE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE.
WHILE THIS PROGRAM IS BASICALLY A HARD DRIVE UTILITY IT CAN BE USED FOR
FLOPPY DRIVES, OPTICAL DRIVES ETC.
THIS PROGRAM WILL ALLOW YOU TO CREATE A TEMPORARY FILE OR PERMANENT FILE
CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT THE FILES ON YOU DRIVE:
Name of File, Size of File, File status, Date saved and Time saved
NEW WAY TO INSTALL
MOVE THE DRAWER NAMED WHERE_K TO YOUR HARD DRIVE IN ANY OF THE
FOLLOWING PARTATIONS:
HD0:,HD1:,DH0:,DH1 OR KEEP ON A FLOPPY IN DRIVES DF0: OR DF1:
IF YOU DOWNLOADED THIS PROGRAM AND DIDN'T GET IT FROM A FRED FISH DISK
AND THE DECOMPRESSION PROGRAM DIDN'T KEEP THE FILES IN THE DRAWERS
USE THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE:
RENAME THE EMPTY 'WHERE_K' AND 'SCRIPTS' DRAWERS TO X AND XX.
MAKE A COPY OF THE DRAWER CALLED 'EMPTY' ON YOUR WORKBENCH. RENAME THE
COPY TO 'Where_K'.
PUT WHEREK98 INTO THE DRAWER ALONG WITH THE COMP.HELP FILE.
COPY THE 'EMPTY' DRAWER AGAIN. RENAME IT AS 'Scripts'.
PUT ALL THE FILES ENDING IN '.scr' INTO THE 'SCRIPTS' DRAWER (THEY HAVE
NO ICONS). PUT THE 'SCRIPTS' DRAWER INTO THE WHERE_K DRAWER. YOU MAY ALSO
WANT TO PUT 'READ-ME-FIRST!!!', 'SCRIPT.DOCS' AND 'SETUP' INTO THE
'WHERE_K' DRAWER BUT IT IS NOT A NECESSITY.
IF YOU ARE SURE THE X AND XX DRAWERS ARE EMPTY DELETE THEM. IF THERE
ARE ANY FILES IN THEM, PUT THESE FILES IN THE NEW DRAWERS WHERE THEY
BELONG.
YOU WILL BE CREATING AND SAVING 3 FILES AS YOU CONTINUE TO USE THE
PROGRAM. THIS DRAWER IS AN IDEAL PLACE TO KEEP THEM. THE FILES WILL
BE WHEREVAR - THE TINY BUTTON SETTINGS, EDINFO - THE PATH INFORMATION
FOR THE EDITOR YOU HAVE YOU SELECTED TO READ YOUR TEXT FILES
AND DDBASE_K - YOUR DISK DATA BASE FOR THE LISTING OF THE CATALOGED DISKS.
IF YOU DON'T CATALOG DISKS YOU WON'T BE CREATING THE DDBASE_K FILE.
IF YOU DON'T SET THE TINY BUTTONS YOU WON'T CREATE THE WHEREVAR FILE.
IF YOU DON'T SET THE CUSTOM EDITOR YOU WON'T CREATE THE EDINFO FILE.
IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO SELECT ANY OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS FOR THE PROGRAM
TO RUN.
IMPORTANT - - YOU MUST PUT THE DRAWER CALLED WK_ICONS IN THE WHERE_K
DRAWER IN ORDER FOR THE ICON ROUTINE TO WORK.
FLIPPING BETWEEN WHERE_K AND CLI, TEXT EDITORS
OR WORKBENCH - USE THE '1' ON THE KEYPAD OR USE LEFT
'A'MIGA KEY + 'A'
PROGRAM PRIORITY:
THIS PROGRAM WILL LOOK FOR ITS LOCATION IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER:
DF0:,DF1:,DH0:,DH1:,HD0:,HD1:
*NOTE IF YOU HAVE WHERE_K ON A DISK IN DRIVE DF0: AND ON A HARD
DISK THIS PROGRAM WILL ALWAYS USE DF0: FOR THE PROGRAM LOCATION
SINCE YOU SEE BY THE ABOVE EXAMPLE THAT DF0: HAS A HIGHER
PRIORITY.
USING THE HIDDEN MENU:
PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON TO REVEAL THE 'NEEDFULLTHINGS' MENU.
MENU ITEMS:
1. CHANGE TEXT EDITOR
2. PRINT ANY TEXT FILE
3. RAM READ
4. DELETE FILE
5. ABOUT
THIS PROGRAM GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO LOAD AND USE THE TEXT EDITOR OF YOUR
CHOICE. ONCE THIS EDITOR IS SELECTED, AS LONG AS IT IS ON YOUR HARD DRIVE
IF WILL AUTOMATICALLY LOAD EACH TIME YOU USE THIS PROGRAM. CLICKING
CANCEL INSTEAD OF LOADING A TEXT EDITOR WILL ACTIVATE THE DEFAULT
FILE READER.
CHANGE TEXT EDITOR - WHERE_K IS ABLE TO RUN ANY TEXT EDITOR OF YOUR
CHOICE. SELECT MENU ITEM 1 AND FOLLOW THE EASY
INSTRUCTIONS TO SELECT THE TEXT EDITOR YOU WANT TO
TO USE. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THE TEXT EDITOR OR
FILE READER YOU SELECT SHOULD BE SOMEWHERE ON YOUR
HARD DRIVE. IF IT IS NOT IT SHOULD BE PUT THERE.
A TEXT EDITOR OR FILE READER WITH A SEARCH
CAPABILITY IS INVALUABLE WHEN SEARCHING FOR A FILE.
EXAMPLES OF TEXT EDITORS ARE ED IN YOU C DIRECTORY,
ITS O.K. BUT THE SEARCH IS CASE SENSITIVE UNLESS
YOU CHANGE IT USING 'ESC' 'UC', SEE THE USER'S
MANUAL FOR THE AMIGA. I PREFER SEVERAL OF THE
EDITORS THAT ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, OR FILE
READERS SUCH AS MUCHMORE AND PPMORE.
*I PREFER USING A FILE READER AS THERE IS NO CHANCE
OF ACCIDENTLY CHANGING A FILE.
PRINT ANY TEXT FILE- PRINTS ANY TEXT FILE CREATED BY THIS PROGRAM SUCH
AS WHERE_IS, DDBASE_K ETC. WILL ALSO PRINT ANY ASCII
FILE.
RAM READ - ALLOWS A FAST METHOD FOR SEEING WHAT FILES
ARE IN RAM:
DELETE ANY FILE - USE THE DELETE GADGET TO ERASE ANY FILE ANYWHERE.
BE VERY CAREFUL BECAUSE THE FILE IS USUALLY LOST
FOREVER UNLESS YOU HAVE AN UNDELETE UTILITY.
ABOUT - THE USUAL BORING BUT NECESSARY INFO, SUCH AS
VERSION NUMBER, DATE, AUTHOR ETC. LOOK FOR LATER
UPGRADES IN THE FUTURE.
USING THE BUTTONS:
CREATE TEMPORARY LIST - FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS WILL CREATE A
TEMPORARY FILE OF YOUR PARTITION OR DIRECTORY
CONTENTS DEPENDING ON WHICH YOU SELECTED. THIS FILE
IS IN ASCII AND CAN BE READ BY A VARIETY OF READERS.
AS MENTIONED ABOVE IT IS BEST TO USE A READER OR
TEXT EDITOR THAT HAS A SEARCH FACILITY. WHEN YOU
EXIT THE PROGRAM THE FILE WILL BE ERASED. THE NAME
OF THE FILE IS 'WHERE_IS".
CREATION OPTIONS:
LIST - OPT A - OPT D
THESE OPTIONS ARE DOS OPTIONS. LIST IS
THE STANDARD LIST COMMAND WHILE OPT A AND
D ARE DIRECTORY COMMANDS.(SEE DOS COMMANDS IN
YOUR AMIGA MANUAL). OPT A LISTS EVERYTHING
INCLUDING ALL SUB-DIRECTORIES AND FILES. OPT D
LISTS ONLY DIRECTORIES.
CREATE PERMANENT LIST - SAME AS ABOVE BUT STORES THE FILE PERMANENTLY ON
YOUR HARD DRIVE OR DISK. JUST PRESS THE BUTTON AND
FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. IF YOU HAVE NOT CREATED A
TEMPORARY LIST YOU CAN NOT CREATE