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- P C D v2.31
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- Paddy's Change Directory
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- PCD is an easy-to-use directory-change tool for OS/2 2.x able to handle both
- HPFS and FAT drives as well as long filenames.
- It is written in REXX and EMX 0.8g.
-
-
- Installation
- ==============
-
- The first time you use PCD it asks you to enter four paths:
-
- - Path of PCDCMP.EXE Contains the sorting routines.
- - Path of the PCD.IDX-file This file is the index-file in which the
- directories are stored. It remains on
- your disk.
- - Path of the temporary .IDX The temporary index contains the just
- found filenames during the scanning-
- process and is automatically deleted
- after the scan.
- - Path of a temp file for PCDCMP.EXE This file will be created by PCDCMP.EXE
- during the sorting and is being deleted
- afterwards.
-
- To change these settings later just type "PCD /INIT".
-
- The file PCD.CMD must be located in a directory in the path (e.g. C:\TOOLS).
- The EMX.DLL file must be in a directory included in the LIBPATH= statement of
- your CONFIG.SYS. To view your current settings type "set " <Enter> at any
- prompt.
-
- You should create a program in the WPS-Startup-folder to update the index-
- file automatically everytime the system is booting.
-
- To build or update the index-file run "PCD /SCAN".
-
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- Usage
- =======
-
- To change to the directory <dir-name> just type "PCD <dir-name>". Instead
- of the whole directory-name, <dir-name> can also be a substring of it. If
- the substring is ambiguous PCD presents a window that displays all dirs
- containing the substring. Here you can choose to which dir you want to
- change to using the following keys:
-
- <Cursor Up>, <Cursor Down>, <Page Up>, <Page Down> are moving the
- highlighted bar
- <Ctrl + Home>, <Ctrl + Page Up> jumps to the first dir in the list
- <Ctrl + End>, <Ctrl + Page Down> jumps to the last dir in the list
-
- Should a directory-name exceed the width of the selection-window a small
- arrow right of the list-entry is indicating the possibility to use
- the following keys to scroll the line:
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- <Cursor Left>, <Cursor Right> are scrolling the line
- <Home> jumps to the leftmost character
- <End> jumps to the rightmost character
-
- If you want PCD to display only those directories matching exactly <dir-
- name>, add "/E" to your command-line.
-
- Commandline arguments
- =======================
-
- "*"
- Let you make your selection from the complete index-file.
-
- "<dir-name> [/E]"
- Tells PCD to change either to the named directory or display a window with
- all directories containing the name/substring. The switch [/E] displays only
- directories exactly matching the name/substring.
-
- "md <dir-name>"
- With PCD it is possible to create directories and update the index-file with-
- out the need for a new "/SCAN". It creates a directory named <dir-name>.
-
- "rd <dir-name>"
- The same way you can remove your dirs with an update of the index-file. PCD
- removes the directory given as <dir-name>. It is impossible to use sub-
- strings with this command!
-
- "/SCAN [list]"
- This command scans your drives and stores the directory tree in the index-
- file PCD.IDX. If there are any drives given as the argument [list], PCD
- scans only these. [list] must be like the following example:
- "cef" to scan the drives c:, e: and f:; but NOT d:!
-
- "/INIT"
- Necessary to adapt OS2.INI for the use of PCD (stores the above mentioned
- informations).
-
- "/CLEAR"
- Deletes PCD's informations in the OS2.INI.
-
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- Copyrights & Thanks
- =====================
-
- For private use PCD is distributed as cardware. That means, if you find PCD
- useful, you must send me a postcard - so I can see where PCD is used.
- For non-private use PCD is distributed as shareware. When you are using PCD,
- you must pay a fee of US$ 10 or DEM 15 for your registration.
-
- PCD: copyright by Patrick Asché.
- EMX: copyright by Eberhard Mattes.
-
- The author wants to thank Markus Rex for the documentation.
-
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- Contacting the author
- =======================
-
- For suggestions and any other purposes you can reach the author by the
- following ways:
-
- Via Internet
- ------------
- pkasche@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- pkasche@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
- sz0074@epix.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
- sz0074@daphne.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
-
- Via Mail
- --------
- Patrick Asché
- Theodor-von-Zahn-Str. 7
- 91052 Erlangen
- Germany
-