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- A.EXE - Directory Attach Utility
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- 'A' is a DOS enchancement utility used to speed your
- movement within your hard disk's directory hierachy. In
- order to use this utility you must first set up an
- 'abbreviation file' called 'ABBREV.DAT'. This is a file
- that contains an abbreviaton or 'easy to remember'
- symbol that represents a complete path name and that
- complete path.
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- An abbreviation file can be created with any standard
- ASCII editor, such as Sidekick or Edlin. It MUST be
- located in the directory from which the program, A, was
- loaded. To achieve optimum performance you may want to
- add to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file so that these files are
- copied to a RAM disk at bootup. In any case you will
- want to be sure to put the files in a directory that is
- included in the PATH command of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
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- The ABBREV.DAT file should be formated as follows:
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- ABBREV COMPLETE_PATH
- ABBREV COMPLETE_PATH
- ...
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- Where 'abbrev' is any symbol you wish to use to
- represent the directory, and complete path is the entire
- path name (including, if you wish, a drive letter). For
- example if you had a subdirectory off the root called
- 'DOS', you could set your ABBREV.DAT file to look like:
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- D C:\DOS
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- And if you wanted to add to that the directory where you
- keep your document files for your favorite word
- processer the file might look like:
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- D C:\DOS
- DAT C:\WP\WORD\DATA
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- Note that there can be no spaces before the 'abbrev' but
- spaces between the 'abbrev' and 'complete_path' are
- allowed. There is a sample ABBREV.DAT file included with
- this archive.
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- To use 'A', just enter 'A <abbrev>' at the DOS prompt.
- You can get a help screen by just entering 'A' at the
- DOS prompt. If you need further help, please feel free
- to write or send E-Mail to the auther:
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- Chris Boaro
- Excel-Soft
- 24 High Point Road
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- CompuServe ID: 74766,1034