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- PrefSet v1.00 Instructions
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- Introduction
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- When you click on the SAVE button in Preferences, the programs saves your
- setup in a file called "system-configuration" in the DEVS directory of your
- boot disk. One problem with this is that you can only have one configuration
- per boot disk which makes it difficult to quickly change to a new set of
- preferences. Using PrefSet you can have a collection of system configuration
- files and be able to switch between them easily.
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- Using PrefSet from the CLI
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- Typing 'PrefSet' with no arguments will open a little window in the centre
- of the screen which allows you to type in the filename of the preferences
- file you wish to use. Typing the filename in this window and pressing RETURN
- will cause the file to be loaded and used as the system configuration. If the
- file cannot be loaded an error will appear in the calling CLI window. If you
- don't want to change the configuration after all just press RETURN without
- typing a filename.
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- PrefSet can also be given a filename from the command line by typing
- 'PrefSet filename'. In this case, the filename request window will not appear
- and the supplied filename will be used.
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- Finally, typing 'PrefSet ?' will output a message telling you the syntax
- of the PrefSet command.
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- Using PrefSet from Workbench
- ----------------------------
-
- PrefSet will only run from WorkBench by having the IconX program in the C
- directory of the disk which PrefSet in on. Clicking on the PrefSet icon will
- open two windows - the file request window and a window where PrefSet can
- write any error messages to. You should now type in the name of the system-
- configuration file you wish to use.
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- PrefSave
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-
- PrefSave is a second program which does exactly the opposite of PrefSet.
- Where PrefSet reads a system configuration file from disk and uses it to
- change the preferences, PrefSave saves the current preferences to disk for
- later use. This makes it much easier to build up a 'library' of configuration
- files which you can change between at will.
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- Examples
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- In the PrefSet drawer you will find some example system-configuration files
- with the names "example1" "example2" "example3" "example4" and "example5".
- These files show how quickly you can change between configurations with
- PrefSet. These files aren't actually very useful, all they do is change the
- screen colours and the pointer image, but they provide some sort of example
- of what PrefSet can do.
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- A more useful example is the printer configuration data which is contained
- in the configuration file. With preferences you can set up printer up just as
- you need it, but sometimes you might find yourself needing different setups
- for different applications. Using PrefSet and PrefSave you can have a number
- of configurations to switch between quickly.
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- Finally
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- Make sure that you only load system-configuration files with PrefSet. Other
- files may have strange results. Remember that system-configuration files are
- files created by PrefSave, or Preferences.
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- If you want to use the default preferences off another boot disk, you
- should run PrefSet without any command line arguments (or click the icon)
- to make the filename requester appear, insert the disk with the config file
- into a drive and enter the filename as "dfx:devs/system-configuration" where
- dfx is the drive in which you put the disk (ie. df0,df1..)
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