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Dirutily News File ------------------ Operating Systems Supported By Dirutily: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dirutily for DOS is available from the PCTOOLS tools disk. Dirutily for OS/2 is available from the OS2TOOLS tools disk. Dirutily for 4680 Store Systems is available from BERRYPAU @ RALVM0. NOTE: "Dirutily Script" and "Dirutily News" are basically the same for all three operating systems Dirutily is support on. I just wanted to say thanks to all the Dirutily users that report errors and suggest enhancements in the Dirutily Forum. It's because of you Dirutily has been gaining popularity and getting better and better every day. Thanks! If you get a continues beep when starting Dirutily, change the keyboard option in the profile to "N" (e.g. enhanced_keyboard = n ). Version 5.01 Availability Date: 02/27/91 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - WARNING! Please read the bugs fixed and enhancements made to version 5.00 in this news file if you have not already done so. - The following files have been changed: - Dirutily.Exe - Dirutily.Pro (added new profile option specified below) - Dirucust.Exe - Dirutily News - Dirutily Script (added new profile option and error messages) - A new option has been added to the profile that allows you to select the type of keyboard you have installed on your system (i.e. enhanced or standard). The option appears as follows in the profile: enhanced_keyboard = y - Added background colors 8-F for users that alter their color palettes. This will not be documented since these colors would normally cause a blinking foreground to appear. - The revision codes have been left in the documentation for users that have not received Dirutily 5.00. END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Bugs Fixed: - DOS Only: If moving a file to the same drive and that file already exists in the target directory you would encounter move file error. This has been corrected. - DOS Only: When trying to start Dirutily on a drive that does not exist, the system would hang. This has been corrected. Enhancements: - Added four new messages relating to copying and moving file errors These new error messages should help you determine whether the source file or target file caused the error to occur. - Made some improvements to the documentation with the help of Erwin Iemants. - Added an Unsort option to the SORT_MENU internal command. Version 5.00 Availability Date: 02/18/91 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - This version was not released for OS/2 or 4680 users. - The following files have been changed: - Dirutily.Exe - Dirutily.Pro - Dirucust.Exe - Dirutily News - Dirutily Script - WARNING! There have been major changes to the profile. The best thing to do is copy your key, color, and help box definitions from your old profile to the new profile. Some profile definitions names have been changed/deleted/added. Sorry to do this to you, but enhancements don't come for free. You may also need to change some of your key definitions. See list of changes below. - The use of comments have changed in the profile to allow the use of asterisks inside key definitions. If a line starts with a blank or an asterisk in column one, the line will be ignored. To comment out a part of a line, use TWO asterisks. Example: alt_e = edit / ** this is a comment alt_e = edit / * this is NOT a comment If one asterisk is found to the right of column one, it will be considered as part of the key definition. - The "Special Key Definition Options" ( i.e. !@#%&+ ) have been replaced with more meaningful definitions. See the profile or documentation for additional information. - The following Dirutily internal commands have new names assigned to them. You will need to change any key definitions in the profile that is using the old names: SORT_OPTS has been replaced by SORT_MENU MARK_OPTS has been replaced by MARK_MENU ATTRIB_OPTS has been replaced by ATTRIB_MENU - DOS Only: Previous versions of Dirutily would use up about 130k of memory once it was loaded. Even thou the EXE size of this version is about 10k larger than the previous version, once it is loaded in memory, it only takes up about 73k instead of 130k. This should help users that are running tight on memory. - DOS Only: A file called Dirutily.Ico can been added to the package. This is an icon for Dirutily to use under Microsoft Windows 3.0. - OS/2 Only: The Dirutily.Ico file has been removed from the package. The icon is now part of the Dirutily.Exe file and will be displayed when Dirutily is minimized. You can discard your old Dirutily.Ico file. - The document has been converted to BookMaster. Use BookMaster to print it. END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Bugs Fixed: - If the path you loaded exceeded 128 characters, Dirutily would corrupt memory. Now an error message gets displayed if the path length you are trying to load exceeds 128 characters. - When moving a file to the same drive with a file size greater than the bytes free, an error message was displayed saying the disk was full. This has been corrected. If you are moving, no additional disk space is needed (unless you are creating a subdirectory). - If the file you are trying to upload/download has an extension of only 1 character (i.e. "C"), sometimes a file extension from the pc/host extension table would substitute it. This has been corrected. - OS/2 Only: When moving a file on the same disk and the file already exists in the target directory, you would get a file could not be moved error. This has been corrected, the file will now be overlaid unless you have the "safe_copy_move" profile option set to "Y". In that case you get the file already exists message like you normally would. - OS/2 Only: When copying a file on a Lan disk, sometimes you would get a file could not be copied error message for no apparent reason. This would also occur sometimes when creating a sub-directory on a Lan disk. This has been corrected. - DOS Only: When copying a file with the safe_copy_move option set to "Y", the "Are You Sure (Y/N)" message would not be removed until processing was completed if "N" was selected. This has been corrected. - DOS Only: When copying/moving a file to a disk that is write protected, Dirutily would display the contents of the files and then display an error message. This has been corrected. - Fixed the display problem if a file had a year of 2000 or higher, for all you guys and gals that are ahead of your time. This bug was causing two directory entries to be appended to one another when displayed on the screen. - In the profile if you specified a non file substitution option following the / option (i.e. /; ), the complete path with filename.ext was not being inserted. This has been corrected. - The cursor was not starting one position passed the first character on the command line if there was only one character being displayed on the command line. This has been corrected. - DOS Only: If you were using an enhanced keyboard on an older model PC AT without the BIOS upgrade, when Dirutily was started it would begin beeping and lockup the PC. This has been corrected. - The graphics characters used for the help box were not getting displayed correctly for NLS countries using a Multilingual code page. These graphic characters have been replaced with a graphics character that can be displayed correctly. Enhancements: - When the file list is sorted by file extension and you are stepping thru the list by pressing the first letter of the file extension, if no more file extensions are found, it will then begin looking for file names starting with that character. - When moving/copying a file to a target path and the file already exists but is Read-Only, you will now be prompted before the file is overlaid allowing you to abort the operation. This has nothing to do with the "safe_copy_move" profile option setting. - You can now have up to 3 help boxes. Each help box can have up to 33 lines. - The "System" file attribute option has been added to allow you to turn it on or off. - When selecting a Dirutily internal command that allows you to select different options (i.e. MARK_MENU or ATTRIB_MENU), the selection letters (i.e. M=Mark All Files) will now show up as a different color which makes it more visible. - If you are using a display setup to have more than 25 lines, the size of the help box will also grow. It will display help lines for up to a 43 line display, thus allowing you to fit more information in each help box. - The delete subdirectory feature has changed! You no longer need to empty a subdirectory and any other subdirectories inside it just to delete the subdirectory. Just select the subdirectory you wish to delete and all files and subdirectories chained off the subdirectory will be deleted (that includes Read Only and Hidden files). It's a BIG time-saver. - The user command line is now scrollable from left to right, and will allow commands up to 150 characters in length to be entered. - New key assignments (Ctrl+A - Ctrl+Z) and (Ctrl+F1 - Ctrl+F12) have been added to the profile for you to customize. - Any user definable key in the profile will now work on the ".." entry. It will also work if the disk has no file entries. - Added the REMARK feature to the MARK_MENU internal command menu. - Added a background screen color option in the profile. This allows you to set the screen background color. - Key assignment lengths have been changed from 50 characters to 80 in length. - The Binary and PC/Host extension table lengths have been changed from 50 characters each to 150 characters each. - Added a beep when done option in the profile. This will cause a beep from the speaker to occur when the last marked file has been processed. The tone of the beep will also be different than the normal beep Dirutily makes when an error occurs. - Added a CGA snow removal option in the profile. This allows fast screen updates if you're using a CGA display. - Added a hidden file option in the profile. This will allow hidden files or subdirectories not to be displayed. - Whenever no files are marked, the total bytes used by the current directory will be displayed on the status line. Before, this would only be displayed when the directory was first loaded. - When the operating system returns an error, Dirutily will now display the operating system error number next to the Dirutily error message. - I/O error messages have been added, this should help you determine the cause of the I/O failure. - When the operating system returns an error, Dirucust utility will now display the operating system error number and error message. - When copying/moving a file to a different drive, the free bytes window will stay displayed for 1 second after the last file has been processed. Thus allowing you to see the remaining space left on the target drive. - When executing a program/utility that changes the current files size, date, time, or attributes (like an editor), the current line is updated to reflect the new file size/date/time/attributes. This means you don't have to do a REFRESH just to update the current line. - When executing a program/utility that takes over the screen on a set of marked files, the screen will not be cleared between each processed file (Note: This depends on the Pause option selected). - A new pause option was added to the profile which allows you to cause a pause to occur AFTER each marked file is processed. This will allow you to see the output from one file before it begins to process the next one. - A new pause option was added to the profile which allows you to cause a pause to occur BEFORE each marked file is processed. This will allow you to see the command being sent to the operating system before it is executed. - DOS Only: Any I/O errors that occur when exiting Dirutily will be ignored. In other words, you will not get an I/O error message just because you removed a diskette from the drive before you quit Dirutily. Version 4.04 Availability Date: 08/02/90 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - The following files have been changed: - Dirutily.Exe - Dirutily.Pro (added new options and some comments) - Dirucust.Exe - Dirucust News - Dirutily Script (see lines flagged with the | revision marker) END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Bugs Fixed: - The NO sort option has been fixed. - User commands can now be used on the parent .. sub-directory entry. - Fixed a bug in the DOS version which caused the following problem: (Note: the "d:\path" in quotes are examples only) If the default drive was "x:\", and you entered DIRUTILY "y:\work", then copied/moved a file to the "z:" drive, if you did a refresh, the current directory you're viewing gets changed to "x:\". The current directory should have been "y:\work" after the refresh. This has been fixed, and now works as you would expect it to. Enhancements: - Dirutily can now run in an OS/2 window or full screen mode! - Dirutily will now display the total number of bytes used by a directory when the directory is first loaded. This information will be displayed on the status line. It will overlay the number of marked files information. Once you mark a file or invoke a user key, the marked file information will then overlay the total bytes in the directory. If you refresh the directory, the total bytes in the directory will reappear. - Added new profile key words that allows you to have a Host to PC file extension conversion table. This will allow you to set up a list of PC file extension which would get mapped to a list of Host file extensions during uploads and downloads to and from the Host. See the documentation for additional information. - Added a new /h option in the profile to take advantage of the new PC/Host file extension conversion tables that were added to the profile. - You can now specify a target path following the [NEW_PATH] internal command in the profile. Example: set alt_f10 = [NEW_PATH] .. set alt_f11 = [NEW_PATH] C:\TOOLS set alt_f12 = [NEW_PATH] A:\ - Added a new option to the "set date_format" in the profile for NLS users. Option 4 will now display the date formatted with a period between the date fields as follows: DD.MM.YY - When switching from drive to drive and changing directories, Dirutily will now keep each drive in the same directory you left it in. It used to change each drive back to its default directory whenever you loaded a new drive. Once you quit Dirutily, it will then go back and change any drive you loaded back to their original directory (just like Dirutily 3.x versions did). - Added a new internal command called REMARK which will re-mark any files that have been processed (i.e. a * next to the file name). - If you specify a .. (parent directory) as the target for any command that requires a path, the parent directory name will be substituted. - Last but not least, added a command line retrieve feature that allows you to recall previously enter commands that were entered on the command line. The last ten commands entered will be saved for any Dirutily internal, or user defined command. Use the up and down arrow keys to recall the commands you entered. Version 4.03 Availability Date: 05/21/90 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - The following files have been changed: - Dirutily.Exe - Dirutily.Pro (added some comments only) - Dirucust.Exe - Dirucust.News - Dirutily Script (added system requirements) END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Dirutily for OS/2 is now available. It is available on the OS2TOOLS disk. The OS/2 version cannot be run under real mode (Dos). It looks and runs just like the Dos version with a few exceptions. See the documentation for these exceptions (look in the section titled "Using Dirutily Under the OS/2 Operating System"). Bugs Fixed: - When using the Dirutily internal command [REFRESH_DIR], it would reload the current directory like it should. If you ran a program that changed the current directory, Dirutily did not recognize the current directory had changed and the new directory was not being loaded (the previous directory was reloaded). Now if you run a program that changes the directory you're in, Dirutily will load the new directory. - If you specified a long target path when copying files and it filled up the command line at the bottom of the screen, Dirutily would go off to never never land and sometimes never return. This has been fixed. Enhancements: - You can now use user definable keys when you're on the .. directory entry. Version 4.02 Availability Date: 03/21/90 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - The following files have been changed: - Dirutily.Exe - Dirutily.Pro (added/changed comments only) - Dirucust.Exe - Dirutily Script (lots of re-wording, plus explanations of new features) - Most of the comments in the profile have changed, the best thing to do is copy your key definitions from your old profile to the new profile. - The profile should now be downloaded in binary, so the square brackets don't get translated to other characters. - Dirutily shrunk by a whopping 5k! END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Bugs Fixed: - When selecting options other than 1 for the date_format option in the profile, the list was not being sorted correctly. Now it sorts by yy/mm/dd, just like it does when you select option 1. - You can now copy files to a hidden directory. - Starting Dirutily from a hidden directory now works like it should. - When specifying a double slash in the profile (i.e. //e) it does not make the substitution (i.e. //e gets converted to /e). - Fixed the keyboard input problems some users were having, I hope! - Fixed the profile color options. Some colors were not being displayed correctly. - Dirucust can now support profiles up to 50k, it used to be 15k. - Dirucust should no longer lockup when the UnCook program is loaded (UnCook is part of the Howard package from PCTOOLS). - Led (an editor from PCTOOLS) should now display the cursor correctly when invoked from within Dirutily. Enhancements: - Dirutily no longer checks the return code from the DOS ERRORLEVEL variable when shelling to DOS. - Added the # Special Key Definition Options to the profile, and changed the way the + Special Key Definition Options works. PLEASE see the document for an explanation if you get confused. - When loading a drive/directory, Dirutily will switch to that drive/directory and make it the default (the way the old Dirutily did it). - Added FULL wildcard support (i.e. * and ?) when loading a directory. - The cursor is now being placed at the end of the command line input field. - Added support for the /d Substitution Option in the profile, this will substitute the current drive (i.e. C:). - Added support for the /p Substitution Option in the profile, this will substitute the current path (without fn.ext) (i.e. C:\TOOLS). Future Enhancements: - OS/2 version of Dirutily (top priority !!!!!!!!!!!!!) - PC to Host file extension translate table - Command line command retrieval - Plus more Version 4.01 Availability Date: 02/26/90 ----------------------------------------------- - Copying files under version 4.00 with the DOS APPEND command loaded seem to be causing errors, this new version should eliminate those errors. Version 4.00 Availability Date: 02/21/90 ----------------------------------------------- NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily - When loading Dirutily, if you specify a different directory/drive, Dirutily no longer changes to the path you specified. It stays in the current directory. - You must use Dirucust to insert the profile information into the Dirutily.Exe program, it can no longer be specified at run time or put in the DOS environment space via the SET command. - See the document or profile for new features. END OF NOTE: To previous users of Dirutily Please Note: This version of Dirutily is a total re-write of the original Dirutily program. New Features have been added and few have been removed, if you have any comments, please append them in the Dirutily Forum on IBMPC. Future Enhancements: - OS/2 version of Dirutily (top priority) - Command line command retrieval - Plus more