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  • Arrange a group of icons roughly horizontally, select them all and then choose cleanup while pressing control - the selected icons will be lined up horizontally while leaving non-selected icons untouched. Does not work properly vertically. Only works on the main window.

  • Any functions defined with a # character will be executed only once. Eg,

    AmigaDOS #stack 16384
    AmigaDOS lha {v} {f}

    With the Do All Files flag turned on, the stack command would be executed only the first time, while the lha command would be executed repeatedly for each file.

  • Select a disk icon, then shift-right-click on it - the disk is added to the list of Hidden Drives in the environment (you will need to save the Environment to make this change permanent).

  • The ScanDir command has a CONTAINER option that can be used to open the 'container' (really the parent) of an object. For example,

    ScanDir s:startup-sequence new container

    Would open a new lister with sys:s/ in it, and would automatically select the startup-sequence file.

  • The Copy command has an UPDATE flag which causes only those files that do not exist in the destination to be copied.

  • If you add menus to a filetype at priority -124, they will only be shown if no other filetype matched. This allows you to have a "default filetype" with menus that will only be shown if no other filetype menus are displayed.

  • You can configure the choices displayed in the "Copy" submenu in the file popup menu. To do this, create a directory called "CopyTo" in dopus5:System. In this directory you must create one file for each item you want to appear in the menu. The name of the file is the name that is displayed in the menu (use semicolons instead of colons, and back-slashes instead of forward-slashes - they will be converted automatically). If you want to specify a path for the item, set this in the comment field. Eg,

    list dopus5:system/copyto
    RAM; empty ----rw-d 24-Jun-96 01:34:23
    DF0; empty ----rw-d 24-Jun-96 01:34:27
    PC0; empty ----rw-d 24-Jun-96 01:34:32
    Uploads empty ----rw-d 24-Jun-96 01:42:47
    : Data:Downloads/Uploads



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