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- CATT / ZCOLOR / MAGIK / ZEDITT are copyright by CASTLEsoft Boston.
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- Copyright 1989-1993
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- CATT / ZCOLOR / MAGIK / ZEDITT are written in ZBASIC
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- and portions of the code are copyright by 32Bit Software, Tx.
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- CATT is a transparent program that both saves disk space, and organizes
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- your computer interface. It's main function is to automate batch files and
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- save the hard disk space they use. Batch (BAT) files are nothing more than
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- lists of commands. You use a BAT file when there is a series of commands
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- you find yourself repeating often. Each file you write, no matter how few
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- bytes, takes a fixed amount of disk space. Typically this is 2048k (even
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- for 20 bytes). If you use a lots of BAT files, you use up a lot of 'empty'
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- disk room. CATT puts all those BAT files into 1 ASCII file, and runs them
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- from this file. There is a built-in editor for this file (Z.FLS). Each bat
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- command has a name, and those names may be listed sorted, or in order they
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- were entered. CATT is transparent, and any command CATT doesn't find in
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- it's own list, is passed to DOS. Commands (Dos or CATT commands) may be
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- recalled via left/right arrows. CATT is =f=a=s=t and you will not see any
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- loss of speed when using CATT. CATT has mouse support for left/right
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- buttons. Press either mouse button and the list of CATT commands will be
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- listed (sorted). Use the left button to execute a command, the right button
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- to list the contents of the command. The execute button will also execute a
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- program in a directory on your screen.
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- Included are ZCOLOR, ZEDITT, and MAGIK. Zcolor sets menu bar / screen
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- colors, as well as the COMport for Magik. Zeditt is a very simple text file
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- (ASCII) viewer / line editor. Magik is a dialer which keeps a compact
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- database of numbers. (see separate DOC for Magik)
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- CATT
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- CATT is loaded from the DOS prompt by typing KITTY. I suggest you put
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- KITTY as the last line of your AUTOEXEC.BAT. I have extensively tested
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- CATT, and it is my normal computer interface, at home and work. I use many
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- programs, including FAX, Telecom, Word Processing, Paint programs, and
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- Windows and have found none that caused a crash or any other problem. (I
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- am using DrDos-6, SSTOR (HD compression), EMM386, PCKwik cache, w/ TWO
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- scanner drivers, mouse, 2 comports and more on the desktop. The 486slc
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- notebook has all but the scanner drivers, and has only 1 faxmodem).
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- When CATT is loaded, you will have a 'menu bar' with the current DIR
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- shown on the left. EXAMPLE:
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- C:\TEXT CATT 93 (C)1987-93 CASTLEsoft Boston F1 for HELP
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- The cursor will be after >>> and there you type any command. If the
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- command is a CATT command it will run the bat-command in Z.FLS which has
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- that name. If it is a Dos command, it will be passed to the Dos prompt and
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- executed. Left/right arrows will recall commands, up to 8 are stored (after
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- which the 1st one is lost as you enter new ones). <F1> will bring up the
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- HELP screen for CATT. Press [Enter] and the list of Z.FLS will be shown
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- sorted alphabetically. Enter '/z' and the list will be displayed in the
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- original order they were entered. '? name' will show the contents of the
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- bat-command that is entered as 'name'.
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- Enter '/ed' to get the CATT editor. You can <A>dd <D>elete <E>dit
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- (modify) your commands in the list. Also included is <C>reate, for a new
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- Z.FLS, in case you want to start over for some reason. <C>reate will empty
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- Z.FLS. For your protection, CATT keeps two backups of Z.FLS (Z.BAK and
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- Z.BKK). Press the letter (a d e q (quit) to get a function. 'a d e' will
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- ask for a name. If you press [Enter] on the blank line it aborts that
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- function. After you enter the name, the <A>dd function will accept lines
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- until you enter 'END' to finish the bat. You enter the list of commands you
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- wish to execute when you enter the name of this CAT bat. example:
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- pro (name of bat)
- c: (change to drive C:)
- cd\procomm (change to proper directory)
- procomm (run the program)
- cd\dwn (change to your download directory when you exit Procomm)
- dir/w (list the files in the download directory)
- END (finish the bat)
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- Then you may <S>ave or <Q>uit (in case you misstyped). When you <E>dit a
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- CATT bat, you re-type any line you wish to change as it is displayed. Even
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- the bat-name can be changed this way. Press [Enter] on a blank line to
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- accept the old command unchanged. To insert a NEW line, begin the line with
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- '+' sign. (ie: +newcommand). The line will be inserted in front of the
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- present line. When you press enter to accept the line, it will show the
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- line you have just typed, and then the line that it was inserted in front
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- of. To delete a line, just put '-' sign and press enter.
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- You may use parameters in CATT much like a normal BAT file. A very
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- simple example might be one to copy all the files using XCOPY.
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- xc (name of bat, must be lower case)
- xcopy %1 %2
- END (all CATT entries end with END, UPPERCASE)
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- Then typing 'xc a: b:' would be the same as typing 'xcopy a: b:' CATT
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- will accept several parameters on one line. Parameters on the command line
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- may be used in any order in the bat file, just like a Dos Bat file. A CATT
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- command name may be from 1-8 chars. There may by up to 200 commands, of an
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- 'average' length of 20 bytes (per bat file) (up to 4,000 bytes total). When
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- you do a list of commands, it will also tell you how many commands you have
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- entered. When you 'Edit' CATT, you will be told how may lines have been
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- used. Included in Z.FLS is the command 'zl' which will list Z.FLS so you
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- can see how many bytes are used. You can see several examples of commands
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- in the included Z.FLS. CATT does not recognize BAT file commands and you
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- just use dos commands, programs in the bat files. But you can call a Dos
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- BAT from CATT. (I do have a very few of them).
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- To chase the CATT away (ie: exit CATT) enter 'dog' (lower case). To
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- reload, type 'kitty'.
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- The full CATT uses F-KEYS as shown in the HELP screen.
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- ZCOLOR
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- Zcolor sets colors for the menu-bar and screen characters. It also
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- sets the COMport for MAGIK. Just run zcolor and follow the prompts. In the
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- FULL version there are extra colors, and you are also allowed to set
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- alternate IRQ's for internal modems.
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- ZEDITT
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- This is a simple ASCII viewer / editor. Run 'zeditt' and it asks if
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- you want to <V>iew or <E>dit a file. Zeditt will accept paths in the
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- filename. When you <E>dit a file, the operation is the same as the editor
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- within CATT for Z.FLS. (see above for directions).
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- MAGIK (see separate DOC file)
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- Don Hinds, the Wyzard of Draper CASTLE, CASTLEsoft, Boston
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- CATT was written as an 'extension' of Bat Commander. Portions of the code
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- are copyright from 1989 through 1993.