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- PDIR.EXE
- (Paul's DIRectory)
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- Simple type: PDIR -? for help.
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- Introduction.
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- PDIR was written to take the piss, and in some circumstances better HOTDir.
- It has been written entirely in TURBO PASCAL ver6.0, compiled into an EXE
- file and then had several extra things done to it so that code tampering
- "lamers" cannot easily change the code!
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- The Rest.
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- I cannot be bothered to type loads, so, I'll keep it brief so that you
- don't get bored! Anyway for a basic description of all of the functions,
- simply type:
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- PDIR -?
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- for help! For more in depth information, read on...
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- Basics (like my brain).
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- For a simple approach and for those who do not like to experiment, simply
- type:
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- PDIR
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- for your standard run-of-the-mill directory listing. This will give you a
- description of ALL files in the current directory (if it works). The
- program will list different files in different colours, ie EXEcutable
- files will be coloured light-cyan. The size of the files will be given in
- BYTE format. Commands can also be entered as in the following format:
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- PDIR [options] [d:] [path] [filename[.EXT]] [options]
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- Where:
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- [options] is a command/option selectable from the following list.
- [d:] is the DRIVE letter, eg C:
- [path] the path/directory you wish to list. (default: present)
- [filename[.EXT]] the type of files you are looking (default: *.* ie ALL)
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- And there must be a space between each option!
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- Options follow...
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- Kilobyte Format.
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- This can be accomplished by placing a "-Y" format in the options place.
- When this is done, the size of the file will be displayed in kilobytes or
- "K".
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- Clearing Screen.
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- With a directory full of loads of utilities (like mine), a screen clear
- is sometimes useful when you have more than one page of files to look
- through, as this can tidy up appearances and maybe even improve
- readabilty of the files/extensions. Anyway enough babbling, to do this,
- simply add a "-K" to the options (K as in Klear, whoever thought of that
- MUST be dence... okay I admit to it, it was me!).
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- Information Screen.
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- This tells you other boring stuff about the program! It is also very
- boring, so only read once! Anyway, if you do get desperate, simply add a
- "-I" as a single option and no other commands.
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- Colour Cycling
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- There are many different ways to colour files besides the ones I use as
- standard. These can be used as follows:
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- -En Change colour of EXEcutable files.
- -Hn Change colour of HIDDEN files.
- -Mn " " " " " coM files.
- -Rn " " " " " diRectory files.
- -Dn " " " " " Doc/txt files.
- -Bn " " " " " Batch files.
- -Zn " " " " " ZIPPED files (eg ARJ LZH ZIP).
- -On " " " " " Other non-standard files.
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- For an example how these works, look at the file DEMO.BAT for an example of
- what colours can be used! With the colouring, you have a choice of 15 colours
- these colours are indexed, 1 thru 9 and A thru F. To use this index, simply
- replace the letter "n" above with the colour index of your choice, and if
- you want to know what each index code represents, read on:
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- ┌───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────────┬───────────┐
- │1 = Blue │2 = Green │3 = Cyan │ 4 = Red │5 = Magenta│
- ├───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┤
- │6 = Brown │7 = Light-gray│8 = Dark-Gray │ 9 = Light-blue │ │
- ├───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┤
- │A = Light-Green│B = Light-cyan│C = Lightred │ D = Light-magenta│ │
- ├───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────────┼───────────┤
- │E = Yellow │F = White │ │ │ │
- └───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────────┴───────────┘
- Table of colours available.
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- Examples of PDIR.
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- Okay, now we have the basic idea of PDIR and its uses. But, to me, an
- explanation is no good without some examples to make the idea clearer (ie
- I talk a load of mumbo jumbo, so I'll use some examples to illustrate the
- program.
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- Eg 1.
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- C:\ >PDIR /K
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- This will do a listing of the root directory, clearing the screen before each
- display.
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- Eg 2.
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- C:\ >PDIR UTILS
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- This will give a directory listing of the directory UTILS on drive "C".
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- Eg 3.
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- C:\ >PDIR UTILS /K /Y
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- This will again show you whats in UTILS, this time clearing the screen and
- showing the size of the files in Kilobytes. (Remember the SPACE)
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- Eg 4.
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- C:\ >PDIR /?
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- Displays the HELP screen, just encase you haven't been bothered to read this.
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- Eg 5.
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- C:\ >PDIR UTILS\*.EXE
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- Looks through directory UTILS again and looks for all EXEcutable files and
- displays them on screen.
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- Eg 6.
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- C:\ >PDIR UTILS\*.EXE /E6
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- Does the same as Eg 5, but this time will display the EXE files in BROWN
- rather than its default colour -=light-cyan.
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- Eg 7.
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- C:\ >PDIR UTILS /L
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- Again, same as example 2, but this time will display the directory in a
- single column.
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- Eg 8.
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- A useful idea is if you are looking for a certain type of file in a large
- directory, what could be done is either make everyother file less noticable
- by giving it a colour of "8" or darkgray, else making the file you are looking
- for a less noticable file! For example, I have a directory full of DOCs and
- init I had a few other files, so, I entered this command:
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- C:\ >PDIR /D8 /R8
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- Which told the program to make ALL DOC/TXT files and DIRECTORIES colour,
- darkgray, ie not very clear.
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- I hope you enjoy using this program as I have creating it (well, I once had
- a nice head of hair, I've now pulled it out!) If there are any further
- questions you have, or ideas for the program, or are MUG enough to want to
- pay money to get your name on the program, then write to me!
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- Thanks goto:
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- Paul Brindley:
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- For giving me the idea of selecting colours for files, and for scrutinising
- the whole of PDIR right down to its smallest bits.
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- Stephanie Pike:
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- Because she is very nice (I always say that)
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- Paul Hardwick:
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- Because he'll be testing the program for me too!
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- Mike Gledhill:
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- Because even he was flabbergastted at this program! (and he the assembler).
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- Paulware?
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- THIS PROGRAM IS PAULWARE, THAT IS THAT THE PROGRAM IS FREE (ie PD) BUT IF
- YOU WANT AN UNNECESSARY LUXURY (ie in this program have your name printed
- at the header of the program) THEN YOU PAY A SMALL FEE (few quid) FOR IT!
- ELSE YOU MAY DISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS FREELY AS YOU WISH AS LONG AS YOU
- INCLUDE THESE FILES AND THAT YOU DO NOT MODIFY THE PROGRAM IN ANYWAY.
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- -= PDIR is (c) Sampson Trading who IS Paul Askew. =-
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- -= Read the file PAUL.DOC for other programs. =-