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- Program - Disk Cover (DISKOVER)
-
- This program was written to replace the Public Domain program
- COVER. This was a good program however it has a bug in it under
- Dos 3.1. The free space routine did not work. It gave you
- improper values. The program COVER also went into the wild blue
- and hung my machine when it read a quad density (808K) diskette with
- 4 sub directories.
-
- This program also allows you to dump the data to a disk file so
- that you can print it later with PRINT. This also allows you to
- free up your machine faster.
-
- If anyone has another brand of printer they could do a quick
- patch to the source to change the Condenced and form feed characters.
- The program also does a reset to the default values at end of
- the print. If they don't have Turbo Pascal (who doesn't) they
- could patch the output print file with their own printer codes.
-
- The program is set up to allow up to 40 directories and 700 files.
- Not many people have that on floppies, but it will read a hard
- disk also and create a mini type list.
-
- The program does not allow you to create a file DIR.DIR on the disk
- that you are reading. It assumes that the device has a removable
- recording media and that if you are creating multiple labels then
- when the program would go to read the next diskette the file DIR.DIR
- would be gone. To get a listing of the Hard Disk go to the A: drive
- and type C:DISKOVER, you could then create the file DIR.DIR on the A:
- drive. The program could also be executed from the C: drive and just
- request the printer output instead of the file output.
-
- The program has been modified to use the Volume-ID if one exists on the
- disk. If it does not then the program has an option to create on for you
- if you want it.
-
- When entering the Volume ID and Diskette Title message a mini editor
- is available for allowing the entry of data.
-
- Ctrl A is left of line
- Ctrl F is right of line
- Ctrl S is left one character
- Ctrl D is right one character
- Ctrl G is delete character forward
- Ctrl H is delete character backward (Backspace also)
- Ctrl Y is delete to end of line
- Right Arrow is right one character (except at end of line)
- Left arrow is left one character (except at beginning of line)
- Home is beginning of line (same as Ctrl A)
- End is end of line (same as Ctrl F)
- Del is delete character forward (same as Ctrl G)
-
- * Note Ctrl A and Ctrl Y delete the whole line of data. *
-
- You are always in an insert mode and anything typed at the cursor
- causes the following characters to be moved to the right.
-
- These codes are similar to those in WordStar and Turbo.
- When entering the DisKover label information by typing "F3" (Dos return
- previous) the previous information for the previous floppy will be returned.
-
- Program Written and Copyright (C) by Karson W. Morrison
- Marty Morrison
- Caleb Computing Center (Numbers 13:30)
- RD 1, Box 531,
- Ringoes, New Jersey 08551
-
- Please leave this Doc file with the program and source.