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- Copyright
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- Drawersize is FREEWARE, (C) H Brown,S Rouse 20/12/98 (see disclaimer below).
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- Disclaimer
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- Drawersize is to be used entirely at owner's risk. No liability whatsoever
- can be accepted by the authors for any losses incurring due to the use
- of this software.
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- Distribution
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- Freely distributable only as complete archive Drawersize.lha
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- Authors
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- Howard Brown <Howard@fhs1.demon.co.uk>
- Steve Rouse <spr@streb.demon.co.uk>
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- What is it?
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- DrawerSize is a utility program run by Workbench from the WBStartup drawer
- which attaches a menu item to the Workbench "Tools" menu called "Drawer Size".
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- When selected the program will scan all the files in a highlighted drawer
- and display the total size of the drawer in bytes along the Workbench screen
- titlebar.
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- Useful? We like to think so, especially for transferring drawers between
- machines using floppy- no more five minute coffee grinding followed by a
- "Disk Full" error.
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- Why was it written?
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- 1) To fulfil the above need.
- 2) To use the fabulous Blitz Basic to program a "serious" application.
- 3) To learn how to program the Amiga's operating system
- (We learned a hell of a lot in the end!)
- 4) To help other people learn how to program the Amiga's operating system.
- (The enclosed source code is fully documented and should be fairly
- easy to translate into other languages. Not that you'd want to,
- having programmed in Blitz :-) )
- 5) To contribute something to Aminet, having taken so much!
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- Which Amigas?
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- Needs Kickstart 2.04 or higher.
- Tested (so far) on A500+ with fast RAM, an unexpanded A1200 and an
- accelerated A1200 with fast RAM.
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- How is it installed?
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- Copy the program (including icon, CLI users!) into the WBStartup drawer.
- Reboot to run the program.
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- How is it used?
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- Select a drawer icon (single click, LMB) and choose Drawer Size from Workbench
- "Tools" menu. The size of the drawer is displayed on the screen titlebar.
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- Also accepts group-selected icons.
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- On choosing menu with no icon selected, last selection is redisplayed.
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- DrawerSize icon has one tooltype:
- DONOTWAIT must be present if run from WBStartup drawer.
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- Acknowledgements.
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- Acid Software for the thinking man's programming language.
- Paul Andrews and Aaron Koolen for a couple of file system routines.
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- Program history.
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- It works now, so who cares?!
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