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- STUDIO ACCESS
- Librarian/File Manager for your CD-ROM
-
- Version 1.00
-
- This program is licensed exclusively to Data Express, Inc.
- Unauthorized distribution prohibited.
- All Rights Reserved
- (c) 1993 Vince Sorensen
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-
- Quick Set-Up
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- From your hard drive, type X:\INSTALL where X: is the CD-ROM
- drive's letter. Follow the on-screen instructions. The INSTALL program
- will copy whatever files are necessary to your hard drive, and create a
- batch file so that you can easily access your CD-ROM. You'll need as
- little as 27K of hard drive (or floppy) space to use all the features
- of STUDIO ACCESS.
-
- Note: Pressing F1 gives context sensitive help wherever available.
-
-
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- Keyboard Commands for Scrolling Tables
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- Press F1 when in a scrolling table for a complete command list.
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- ENTER - View/Run highlighted file
- ESC - Return to previous screen
- ARROW DOWN - Highlight next file
- ARROW UP - Highlight previous file
- CTRL-S - Search for a phrase
- CTRL-N - Next occurance of a phrase (specified by the last CTRL-S)
- CTRL-X - Run DOS Command (on tagged files, if any; otherwise the
- current highlighted file; see below)
- SPACE BAR - Tag/Untag highlighted file
- F10 - Clear all tags
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- Text File Viewing:
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- CD-ROM Access contains an internal file viewer, with Search
- and Line Jump Functions. However, if you have another text file
- viewer you prefer, you can specify it in the Configuration menu.
- To return to using the internal viewer, specify INTERNAL or leave
- the TEXT VIEWER line blank. Please note that the internal file viewer
- tries to load the file into memory - if you are viewing files over
- 140K in size, it is recommended that you use an external viewer.
- Please note that only the file you are highlighting when you
- press ENTER will be viewed (and the files it contains, if it is
- archived) - tagged files are only used when executing DOS commands
- with the CTRL-X key (see below).
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- Executing Commands:
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- You have the option to execute a DOS command from within the program in a
- number of places by pressing CTRL-X. When you do, you'll be presented with
- the following screen:
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- ║ EXECUTE COMMAND (up to 130 characters): ║
- ║COPY C:\001A\42BOOT.ZIP ║
- ║ ║
- ║ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ ║
- ║ │ Pressing CTRL-END clears to the end of the line │ ║
- ║ │ Pressing ESC exits without executing command │ ║
- ║ │ Pressing ENTER accepts and executes the command │ ║
- ║ └───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ║
- ║ ║
- ║ ^ Indicates "Next command" (Divides multiple commands) ║
- ║ -> Indicates "Change to this directory before executing command" ║
- ║ %TAG Indicates execute command for all tagged files ║
- ║ ║
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- You can alter the command (between the symbols and ) however you wish.
- Press ENTER, and the program will shell out to DOS and execute it.
- The default command is the one you specified in the Configuration screen,
- followed by the last path and file name referenced, unless you have
- tagged files, in which case the file name is replaced by %TAG.
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-
- In some areas, CTRL-C and CTRL-Z are also available. You are still
- presented with a default command, but CTRL-C will always begin with
- COPY instead of your default command, and CTRL-Z will begin with
- PKZIP instead of your default command. In addition, the default
- target directory you specified within Configuration will be appended
- to the end, following a "->". This way, you can copy, or even unzip
- the chosen file into a selected directory within a minimum of keystrokes.
-
- Tagging notes:
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- Before calling the command screen, you may select (tag) files using the
- SPACE BAR. F10 will clear all tags. When entering commands, put
- %TAG where you would normally put the file path and file name. When
- the command is executed, the program will execute your command once
- for each tagged file, replacing the %TAG with the file path and name.
-
- I.E.
- Below shows the results of pressing SPACE on INSTRUCT.ZIP and INSTRUC3.ZIP.
- The √ symbol shows that the file is tagged.
-
- INSTRUCT.ZIP√ 64234 01/01/93 Instructions for using this CD-ROM.
- INSTRUC2.ZIP 141434 01/01/93 Instructions for getting more CDs from us.
- INSTRUC3.ZIP√ 25234 01/01/93 Advanced info for using this CD-ROM.
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- CTRL-X is pressed, and the following is entered:
- COPY %TAG \TEMP
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- The two tagged files are then copied into the \TEMP directory.
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- About File Listing Formats and Exporting File Listings:
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- Using the Create File Listing option (also know as Create Listing of
- Files in a Directory) allows you to generate a formatted DOS file or
- printout of the list of files in a directory.
-
- All FILES.BBS file listings that are created using the "Create/Print
- File Listings" option will use one-line descriptions, unless a "~", "|"
- is contained within the format name or one of the proprietary formats
- (described below - see "Format Conventions") is used.
-
- Converting from a DOS file listing in one format to another will only
- convert the first line of each description, regardless of what multi-line
- options (as described below) are selected.
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- Format Conventions:
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- If the format title contains a "~" character, it indicates that the
- format is multi-line. The "~" should be followed by the number of lines
- of description allowed per file.
-
- I.E.:
- MAXFMT~2 will output 2 line descriptions for each file.
-
- If the format title contains a "|" character, it indicates that the
- description should be preceded by a "|". Note that the description
- is still placed at the position indicated in the format configuration.
- The "|" is placed two spaces before the description.
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- If both "|" and "~" are in the format title, the "|" is always placed
- before the 2nd and following lines, but only before the 1st line if
- the "|" precedes the "~".
-
- I.E.:
- Taking the format "WILD" and simply changing the format name
- has the following results:
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- If WILD outputs: FILENAME.ZIP 91810 01-01-93 Description
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- then WILD| outputs: FILENAME.ZIP 91810 01-01-93| Description
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- and WILD|~2 outputs: FILENAME.ZIP 91810 01-01-93| Description
- | Description Line 2
-
- and WILD~2| outputs: FILENAME.ZIP 91810 01-01-93 Description
- | Description Line 2
-
- and WILD~2 outputs: FILENAME.ZIP 91810 01-01-93 Description
- Description Line 2
-
- Also note that if there are not two spaces between the description and
- the previous field, and "|" is used, the previous field will be over-written.
-
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- Special Case (Proprietary Formats): If either the "PCBOARD" or
- "WILDCAT_2" file listing formats have been specified, special
- logic comes in to play to ensure the resulting FILES.BBS looks
- more like the proprietary formats used by these boards.
-
- I.E.:
-
- PCBOARD
- ARJ230.EXE 200363 02-07-92 This is what you'll use to extract files
- | that end in the ARJ extension. Its self-
- | extracting, so just type in ARJ230, and
- | then use the ARJ.EXE that comes out to
- | extract other files!
-
- WILDCAT_2
- ARJ230.EXE 200,363 02/07/92 | This is what you'll use to extract files
- DwnLds: 3 DL Time 00:17:23 | that end in the ARJ extension.
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- Important:
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- Always run the program from a floppy or hard drive. If you use
- any of the commands that need to call DOS (Check floppy for Duplicates,
- Execute a DOS Command, View Inside ZIPs), and there is not enough
- memory to load the extra command in, the program will swap out to
- the current drive in order to make room to run the command. The
- configuration and file listing format databases have to be on a
- floppy or hard drive in order for you to make changes to them.
- An option (ACCESS /nowrite) has been included so that you can run
- the program from your CD-ROM without using any hard drive space at all,
- but you will be unable to use all the features of the program for the
- reasons above. This is *not* recommended. DO NOT RUN THE PROGRAM FROM
- YOUR CD-ROM UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIFIED THIS OPTION ON THE COMMAND LINE.
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