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- ≥ €€≥ €€≥ €€≥ €€≥ €€≥ €€≥ Copyright (C) 1993 by Chris Buijs ≥
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-
- Well, after installing RA V2.xx and using the RAMGR utility i felt that i
- needed something more flexibel to maintain my file-areas, i already had
- written RAFT for the older versions of RA, the new RA has a completly
- new file-system so i completly rewrote RAFT with a new interface and
- new functions so that RAFT could be used with the new RA, here it is...
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- RAFT is FREEWARE, RAFT is in no way crippled, if you use RAFT more then
- 30 days and you think it is a usefull programm, you can send me a
- postcard telling so, send it to:
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- Chris Buijs
- De Spil 22
- 1507 CX Zaandam
- The Netherlands
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- You can also send me a message on CompuServe, write to 100117,3242.
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- Thanks for using RAFT...
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- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Disclaimer ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
-
- RAFT and the accompaying programs and documentation (later on collectively
- referred to as RAFT) are distributes as is. Chris Buijs (the author) makes
- no warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including but not limited to
- warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, with
- respect to this software and documentation. In no event shall the author be
- liable for any damages, including lost profits, lost savings, or any other
- incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or the inability
- to use this program, even if the author has been advised of the possibility
- of such damages, or for any claim by any other party.
-
- RAFT.EXE is protected with the 'Protect! EXE/COM' utility of Jeremy Lilley,
- this means everytime RAFT is started it checks itself with an CRC-Check,
- when RAFT.EXE is changed in any way it simply does not startup.
-
- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Features ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
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- Some of the features:
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- ˛ Total control over your file-areas and files.
- ˛ Creating/Deleting/Editing file-areas, up to 65535 areas.
- ˛ Cleaning option to clean old unused files from the filebase.
- ˛ Adopting/Deleting/Editing of files, up to 65535 files per area.
- ˛ Adding/Deleting/Editing of text in your listings.
- ˛ Import/Export file-listings from/to text-files (FILES.BBS style).
- ˛ Import an description from a DIZ file from within an archive.
- ˛ Editing of your file-descriptions with a internal full-screen-editor.
- ˛ Editing of file-names.
- ˛ Editing of file-flags.
- ˛ Editing of uploader-name.
- ˛ Editing of download-counter.
- ˛ Editing of password on file.
- ˛ Smart-sorting, RAFT sorts BETWEEN text-blocks.
- ˛ Multi line-tagging, up to 65535 tags per area.
- ˛ Wildcard tagging/untagging, you can tag/untag files by wildcard-selection.
- ˛ Tagged text/files can be pasted within an area.
- ˛ Tagged text/files can be copied to another area.
- ˛ Tagged text/files can be moved to another area.
- ˛ Tagged text/files can be deleted.
- ˛ Tagged file-descriptions can be deleted (without deleting the files).
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- And lots more...
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- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Requirements/Setting up ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
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- All You'll need are the following things:
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- ˛ An installed RA V2.xx environment.
- ˛ 220 KB of free conventional memory.
- ˛ For memory-swapping an additional 200 KB of EMS, XMS or DiskSpace
- is needed.
- ˛ Minimum of 512 KB Free disk-space on the drive where your file-base
- is on.
- ˛ Some external utilitys are needed for some options in RAFT:
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- PKUNPAK.EXE from PKWare for processing .ARC files.
- ARJ.EXE from R.Jung for processing .ARJ files.
- PAK.EXE from NoGate for processing .PAK files.
- LHA.EXE from Yoshi for processing .LHA or .LZH files.
- PKUNZIP.EXE from PKWare for processing .ZIP files.
- AVIEW.EXE from Chris Buijs for processing archives.
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- Place them in the same directory as RAFT or somewhere in your PATH.
-
- AVIEW V2.0 is included in the RAFT package.
-
- These utilitys are only needed when you use the auto-describe or the
- archive-view option, they are not needed to run RAFT on it's own without
- the use of the functions.
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- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Configuration ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
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- RAFT looks for the RA environment variable to find out where the RA system-
- files are, when found, RAFT gets all information needed from the RA system-
- files, RAFT doesn't need to be setup and can be placed in any directory
- (i suggest a directory which is included in your PATH).
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- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Parameters ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
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- Syntax: RAFT [/?] [/N]
-
- /? - Gives a help-screen with all parameters.
- /M - When you use this parameter, RAFT will startup in mono
- (B/W) mode.
- /N - When you use this parameter, RAFT will NOT check for any
- missing files when you enter an file-area.
-
- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Usage ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
-
- ˛ RAFT is very simple to use, everything is cursor-controlled, there are
- several help-screens included which can be called up with the F1 key
- (also in the editors), also the key-bar (the last line on the screen) is
- used for poping up some help-message when using some functions.
-
- ˛ All functions that delete or change items have a 'are you sure' prompt.
-
- ˛ One major difference between RAFT and RAMGR is that RAFT can do
- multi-line tagging, this means you can tag several lines individualy
- instead of block-wise (like RAMGR), tagged lines are highlited.
-
- ˛ With the GREY + and - you can do wildcard tagging, this means that you
- can tag/untag files which match a wildcard pattern you enter.
- Normal tagging/untagging can be done with SPACE or INS.
-
- ˛ AREA-SELECTOR
- RAFT starts up with an area-selector, this selector shows all the area's
- that are currently defined in your FILES.RA file, you can do several
- things here, press F1 for help on the functions you can use.
-
- ˛ AREA-EDITOR
- When you select an area in the area-selector and you press ENTER, you
- will enter the area-editor which is build up in two section, the upper
- half of the screen shows a page of files with some data, the bottom
- half of the screen shows the description of the file the cursor-bar
- is on. Press F1 for help on the functions you can use.
-
- ˛ All input is checked if it is valid.
-
- ˛ All functions are self-explaining so we will keep this doc small and
- tidy.
-
- ⁄ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒø
- ≥ ±±±± Support ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±± ≥
- ¿ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒŸ
-
- For suggestions, bug-reports, complaints or the latest version of RAFT, you
- can call Action Board Zaandam in The Netherlands, +31-(0)75-704890, or you
- can write me a letter, send it to:
-
- Chris Buijs
- De Spil 22
- 1507 CX Zaandam
- The Netherlands
-
- You can also reach me at CompuServe, write a message to user 100117,3242.
-
- Have Fun,
- Chris Buijs.
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