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- DR At a Glance
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- DR.COM provides an integrated set of file management facilities for sorting,
- viewing, renaming, deleting, and moving files to another directory. The
- command is entered at the DOS prompt, with the following syntax:
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- Syntax: DR [d:][directory]
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- The default filename display (21 per page, to a maximum of 721) is sorted
- alphabetically. Various switches, added to the command, may be added to sort
- by other criteria:
- /E (sort by Extension)
- /S (sort by Size)
- /D or /T (sort by DaTe)
- /O (sort by DOS DIR order)
- Thus, for example,
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- DR \PROG /S
- sorts the initial display of the PROG directory of the default drive by size.
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- When a DR listing is on screen, a menu is displayed showing further options.
- A highlight bar illuminates a single filename, and the Up and Down Arrow keys
- move the highlight bar a line at a time. The PgUp and PgDn keys move the bar
- a page at a time, and Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn move it to the top and bottom
- of the current page. Home and End move to the beginning and end of the
- directory listing. Pressing (and repressing) a letter moves the bar to the
- first (and successive) filename(s) beginning with that letter.
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- The highlighted file may be brought on screen for viewing by pressing F1 (or
- Enter or Ctrl-V). The Up and Down Arrows, PgUp and PgDn, and Home and End
- work within the file, as well. Esc, Enter, or F1 return you to the menu and
- directory listing. When pressed at the menu level, Esc terminates the
- program.
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- Within DR, the following function keys (and alternatively, the indicated
- Ctrl-letter) combinations are used:
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- F1 Ctrl-V (or Enter) View file
- F2 Ctrl-D Delete file
- F3 Ctrl-R Rename file
- F4 Ctrl-M Move file
- F5 (none) CONFIRM DELETE ON/OFF
- F6 Ctrl-W WordStar hi-bit ON/Off
- F7 Ctrl-N Sort files by Name
- F8 Ctrl-E Sort files by Extension
- F9 Ctrl-S Sort files by Size
- F10 Ctrl-T Sort files by Date
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- Successive sorts can be used to arrange files, e.g. in order of size and then,
- additionally, by extension.
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- Files can be renamed and may be moved from one directory to another within DR,
- but they cannot be renamed and moved in a single step. Files cannot be
- copied from within DR.
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