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- SORTALL DOCUMENTATION
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- SORTALL was written as a "universal" sorting utility for putting the
- files in root directories and subdirectories in alphabetical order.
- Other sorting utilities I have come across worked only on floppies,
- worked only on hard disks, or worked only with a specific version of
- DOS. SORTALL was written to handle any diskette format known to DOS 2.x
- or 3.x including the following:
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- Double- or single-sided 8 and 9 track diskettes
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- 15 track AT 1.2 meg diskettes
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- Hard disks up to the regular DOS limit of 32 megabytes, formatted under
- DOS 2.x or 3.x.
-
-
- To use SORTALL, move to the directory or subdirectory you wish to
- have sorted. Execute SORTALL by either having it in the (sub)directory
- being sorted or by "pathing" to it if it resides somewhere else. For
- example, to sort a floppy in drive A:, with SORTALL in your "Utility"
- subdirectory on your hard disk, do the following:
-
- For DOS 3.x: C>A:
- A>C:\UTILITY\SORTALL
-
- For DOS 2.x: C>CD\UTILITY
- C>A:
- A>C:SORTALL
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- ******* NEW FEATURE !! *******
-
- As of version 2.0 of SORTALL, there are two ways available to sort
- your subdirectories - by FILE NAME (the full 11 possible characters) or
- by FILE EXTENSION (the optional 1-3 characters after the "."). In the
- latter case you can, for instance, group all your .WKS (for 1-2-3)
- together within a subdirectory. For a given FILE EXTENSION group, the
- files will still be sorted by FILE NAME within that FILE EXTENSION.
-
- To sort by FILE NAME, (the default) execute "SORTALL" or "SORTALL /n"
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- To sort by FILE EXTENSION, execute "SORTALL /x"
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- SOME CAVEATS:
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- 1. Although I have taken precautions to ensure I don't trash your
- disk, you use this program at your own risk! If in doubt, backup
- your diskette or hard disk before you try SORTALL. Don't say you
- weren't warned!
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- 2. SORTALL will not work with RAM disks. (Why would you ever want
- to sort a RAM disk anyway?)
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- 3. SORTALL was written so as not to be device-specific. It uses
- only DOS functions to read and write the disk(ette). In theory,
- it should handle any "normal" DOS medium. But it has not been
- tested, nor can I predict success with any of the following:
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- a. Bernoulli Boxes
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- b. Hard disks which use special, patched DOS's or
- other utilities to exceed the usual 32 megabyte
- disk size limit.
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- c. 3 1/2 " diskettes, such as on the PC Convertible
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- d. Anything weird not mentioned above
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- If anyone wants to volunteer to try SORTALL with any of the
- untried media listed above, please report back the results to the
- author, below, so this documentation can be kept up-to-date. If
- necessary, I will then try to make any modifications required to
- accommodate these media.
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- 4. A maximum of 512 (sub)directory entries will be processed by
- SORTALL. If your (sub)directory has more than this number of
- files, then only the first 512 will be sorted.
-
-
- Herb Sorock
- Gene Plantz NW Chicago BBS id: ID0094
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