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- Documentation For 'Bites' Version 1.3
- It's smaller, and better.
-
- Introduction
-
- Bites is a program written at the request of Mike VDS
- by Robert W. Albrecht. It is designed to display disk space
- available on all mounted volumes.
-
- How to use Bites...
-
- Run the program by double clicking on it's icon or typing:
- 'RUN Bites' from the CLI prompt.
-
- Bites needs at least a 2500 byte stack.
-
- A small window will appear in the title bar with the Bites icon at the
- left. When you click on the Bites icon the program terminates. The
- window can be dragged around like any other intuition window. The
- standard 'to back' and 'to front' system gadgets appear at the right of
- the window. There are two other gadgets to the left of the system
- gadgets that control the behaviour of Bites.
-
- When Bites first comes up it will cycle through all of the mounted
- volumes and display the number of bytes available on each volume every
- three seconds. To stop cycling through the volumes click on the 'up and
- down arrow' gadget. The next time you click on the 'up and down arrow'
- gadget the next volume in the list will be displayed. To return to
- cycling mode click on the 'circle arrow' gadget.
-
- The Bites window can be 'iconified' by clicking the right mouse button
- while it's window is active. The window will reduce to a 24x10 Bites
- icon that takes a minimum amount of screen space. To 'un-iconify' the
- Bites window just activate the window by clicking on the icon with the
- left mouse button, then click the right mouse button.
-
- Bites can also be terminated by use of the Amiga DOS Break command.
- First type 'Status' at the CLI and get the Process ID of Bites then type
- 'Break <Process ID>'.
-
-
- Enhancements Made for Version 1.1
-
- You can now control the position and size of the Bites window through
- command line switches or icon 'Tool Types'. You may also display free
- 'blocks' instead of free bytes.
-
- CLI command line switches:
-
- -l<Left Edge> Left edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- -t<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- -w<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
-
- -b Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
-
- EXAMPLE: RUN BITES -l0 -t20 -w640 -b
-
- Icon Tool Types:
-
- LEFTEDGE=<Left Edge> Left Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- TOPEDGE=<Top Edge> Top Edge of Bites window in pixels
-
- WIDTH=<Width> Width of Bites window in pixels
-
- SHOWBLOCKS=ON Displays 'blocks' instead of bytes
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- LEFTEDGE=0
- TOPEDGE=20
- WIDTH=640
- SHOWBLOCKS=ON
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-
- Bug Fixes Made for Version 1.1
-
- There was a bug where if you had an 'ASSIGN' to a disk that was no
- longer in the drive a system requester would come up and not go away.
- This has been fixed. Now when this situation exists the volume name will
- be given and instead of bytes free or blocks free the message 'Not
- Installed' will be displayed. This way you will be clued into assigns
- that are just flopping around.
-
- Bug Fixes made for version 1.2
-
- The command line arguments for width and left-edge and top-edge are now
- checked for correctness. The width has to be greater than 24, and the
- left-edge and top-edge have to be greater than zero.
-
- Enhancements for version 1.3
-
- Bites now uses CClib.library which is a shareable C library. This has
- reduced the size of the executable to 5288 from 6420 bytes. For bites
- version 1.3 to work you MUST have CClib.library installed in your LIBS:
- directory. You can find the binary only version of CClib.library under
- the name USRCCLIB.ZOO on many BSS's and on Fred Fish #260.
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