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- “READ ME” for Router, version 1.0
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- Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
- March 30, 1992
- Font: Geneva 12
-
- This document must go wherever Router goes. Please do not distribute
- Router without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
-
- IMPORTANT: MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INFORMATION REGARDING ALIASES
- ---------- FURTHER IN THIS DOCUMENT.
-
- REGISTERING ROUTER AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
- ====================================================
- Router is not free. Sites using this software MUST register it,
- one copy per person. Contact the author for site licensing information.
- Or you can consider the following.
-
- 7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities
- I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until
- I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will
- register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and
- an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good
- deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it
- like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way.
-
- See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information
- on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file.
- Please use it to register the software.
-
- USING ROUTER
- =============
- • If you use Router, please please please send me a note. My addresses
- (post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the
- information in the above section on registration.
-
- What Does Router Do?
- --------------------
- • Drop files into this program and re-route them to other locations. For
- example, drop a text file in and move it to a Text Files folder. Or drop a
- Word document into a Word docs folder. Or a folder or disk containing
- text files, Word files, and PICT files, and move them to their own separate
- directories on their disk.
-
- • Read further if you plan to use Router with aliases.
-
- Using Router
- ------------
- • Drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
- style”. Router will scan folders and disks provided depending on your
- preferences, and will move (if preferences allow, of course) each of
- the selected items to a directory you have set. Drop Boxes require Apple
- Events, and thus System 7.0 or higher.
-
- • Double-click on Router to modify the preferences and links, and to see the
- about box information.
-
- • If you drag an alias directly into Router, its target (parent) will be moved
- (not the alias). If the alias was inside a folder you dropped in, then it
- will be moved (not the target).
-
- • Router will not move (copy) items from one disk to another. Just between
- directories on the same disk.
-
- • To cancel processing, just type a command-period. Files already processed
- will remain modified.
-
- Preferences
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- • The first time you try to modify a file using the program, the preferences
- dialog will come up, just to make sure the correct parameters have been
- set up. You can modify these if you wish. If you don't want to see that
- window again, just say OK. You will have to explicitly ask for for the
- Preferences window the next time you wish to change anything.
-
- • The Links window will not come up automatically. Make sure you press
- the Links... button to set up the item to folder links.
-
- • The preferences are fairly self-explanatory. You can choose to show an
- alert before modifying anything. By choosing to modify directories, you
- have decided that folders themselves can be modified. You can modify files
- and folders inside those folders which you have dropped in by checking the
- Modify contents box. For example, if you drop in a folder containing three files
- and another folder, and have Modify contents on but Modify directories off, the
- folders’ names will remain unchanged, but the names of all contained files
- (including those inside the second folder) will be modified according to your
- extensions.
-
- • NOTE: If you turn on Move contents, contained folders AND items will each
- go their separate ways. This can really mess you up if you don’t know this
- will happen. Files always move with the directories that contain them,
- so if you just want to move Folder A to Folder B, along with everything
- inside it, turn Move contents off!!!
-
- • To show the Preferences dialog on-the-fly in Drop Box mode, hold down the
- option key while the program is launching.
-
- • To bypass the “check” alert that appears before anything is modified, hold
- down the shift key while the program is launching, or after you hit OK to
- hide the Preferences dialog.
-
- Links
- -----
- • Use the links dialog to set up item to directory links. The buttons are
- fairly self-explanatory.
-
- • If an item matches more than one entry than another, and matches
- all criteria in that entry, the item will be moved to the most specific
- folder (so an item matching the ‘TEXT’ criteria would be moved to
- the folder with ‘TEXT’ ‘ttxt’ rather than that with just ‘TEXT’). If it
- matches the same number of criteria, it is moved to the first match
- in the list.
-
- • If an item does not match any of your criteria, it is not moved.
-
- • The ? wild card is allowed in the name extension, but not in the type
- or creator. It represents only one character. So ‘TE?T’ is the same as
- ‘TEXT’ or ‘TEMT’.
-
- • Make sure you select the correct folder and disk for your items. Remember
- that items are not copied by Router onto other disks. Just moved into
- directories on the same disk.
-
- USING DROP BOXES
- =================
- Drop Boxes are applications (drag-and-drop utilities) which can take advantage
- of System 7.0’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application
- icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory.
- The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits.
- You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in
- just one, either. Select a whole bunch of files, directories, or disks, or any
- combination of the three, and dump them in. The Drop Box will scan for
- files of the required type and modify them accordingly. All files in all
- directories within those dropped in will be modified. Any aliases dropped
- directly into a Drop Box (not inside a directory) are resolved by the Finder
- and thus their target (parent) is modified.
-
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ==================
- If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
- other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
-
- Robert Gibson E-Mail:
- RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
- Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
- KØK 1LØ
-
- This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
- BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
- written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
- include this document, unmodified.
-
- Router copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.