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- This started out as a quick & dirty program for my own use. After
- playing with it a little and with some prodding (ouch :-)) by Don
- Dawson of 1:141/730, we thought it was too fun not to pass along.
-
- This program is based on a Byte Magazine Article (March 1991)
- _Undocumented_DOS_ by Andrew Schulman, the article was adapted from
- the book of the same name, by Andrew Schulman, Raymond J. Michels,
- Jim Kyle, Tim Paterson, David Maxey, and Ralf Brown.
-
- Written using DVGLUE by Ralf Brown.
-
-
- Files.exe - Displays a table of currently open files . It will loop
- continuously until the ESC is key pressed. It will only run under
- Desqview and DOS 3.1 or higher (I've only tested it with DV 2.31 and
- MS-DOS 3.3).
-
-
- Fields displayed:
- y/n sleep mode on (y) or off (n)
- Filename Ext name/ext of file
- Size current file size
- Offset current offset into file
- Attr files' attribute
- Mode open mode
- Date files' date
- Time files' time
- Hnd number of file handles referring to this file (?)
- PSP File owners PSP
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-
- Active Keys:
- Esc Exit/Quit
- PgUp/PgDn Moves between display screens (if more than one)
- Home clear and redraw screen
- F2 Toggle open/all mode
- F3 Toggle regular/open mode display
- F4 Toggle sleep/nosleep mode
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-
- Pressing the space bar or F2 will toggle open/all modes. The initial
- mode shows only open files. The all mode will dump the whole file
- table, files that are not open will show a 0 in the 'handles' column.
- Pressing F3 will provide more detail about the files open and sharing
- modes and file attributes.
-
- Pressing F4 toggles sleep mode on and off. While on the program will
- give up one second of time after each screen refresh, this is the
- default. This gives back a lot of time to the system and will allow
- Files to use very little overhead. While sleep mode is on a '+' will
- be displayed in the upper left hand corner of the screen. When sleep
- mode is toggled off the screen redraw will be more frequent, at the
- expense of hogging more system time. The '+' will change to a '-'
- when sleep mode is toggled off.
-
- Files attempts to be smart about the screen length and displays only
- as many files as will fit on the screen. If you resize the window it
- will try to adjust to the new window height. Pressing the Home key
- will allow you to reset the display manually if it becomes confused.
-
- Questions/Comments/Bug Reports may be sent to Bill Bond
- 1:325/118@fidonet
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