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- 4EDIT USER'S GUIDE
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- DECEMBER 1990
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- XD SYSTEMS
- 1014 SHIPMAN LANE
- MCLEAN, VA 22101
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- CONTENTS
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- Limited Warranty 1
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- Background 2
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- 4EDIT Usage 2
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- Regarding Registration 3
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- 4EDIT Version History 4
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- 4ZIP/4UNZIP 5
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- Software Registration Form and Order 6
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- LIMITED WARRANTY
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- XD Systems warrants the physical diskette enclosed herein
- to be free of defects in materials and workmanship for a period
- of 60 days from the date of purchase. In the event of notification
- within the warranty period of defects in material or workmanship,
- XD Systems will replace the defective diskette.
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- XD Systems specifically disclaims all other warranties,
- express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties
- of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no
- event shall XD Systems be liable for any loss of profit or any
- other commercial damage, including but not limited to special,
- incidental, consequential or other damages arising out of the use,
- the result of use, or inability to use this product.
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- This program is produced by a member of the Association of
- Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the
- shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a
- shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the
- member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can
- help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does
- not provide technical support for members' products. Please write
- to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send
- a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536
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- 4DOS is a trademark of J.P. Software. PKZip and PKUnzip are
- trademarks of PKWare. 4EDIT and all the files and document-
- ation distributed with it are copyright 1990 by Iram J. Weinstein.
- All rights reserved.
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- 4EDIT User's Guide
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- Copyright (C) 1990
- I. J. Weinstein
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- A.BACKGROUND
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- In 1988, I wrote and distributed a shareware program, XDIR,
- which was one of the first DOS directory programs to attach a
- comment to each file. When I first saw 4DOS, I loved it, but
- I wanted to have the same sort of full-screen editor for directory
- comments (or, in 4DOS terms, Descriptions) that I had in XDIR.
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- 4EDIT provides this feature. I think you will find it very
- useful. Its good practice to comment your files, and often its
- handy to see the descriptions attached to other files, while you
- are writing a new one.
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- 4EDIT reads the DESCRIPT.ION files produced by 4DOS and
- allows you to modify them, or creates a new file if 4DOS has
- not already provided one. You should know that the DESCRIPT.ION
- file is a hidden file. You will not see it in the DOS directory
- unless you change the file attribute or use the 4DOS DIR /h
- option.
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- B. 4EDIT USAGE
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- 4EDIT Usage is:
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- 4EDIT [d:][path][filespec] [+ filespec] [+..]
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- A directory display similar to that of SELECT will appear
- showing all of the files meeting any of the filespecs. This
- use of include lists is identical to the 4DOS 3.0 DIR and
- SELECT usage. Note that only the first argument in an include
- list can have a pathname; subsequent arguments default to the
- same path.
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- You can cursor around the screen using <Up>, <Dn>, <PgUp>,
- <PgDn>, <Ctrl-PgUp> and <Ctrl-PgDn>. At any row, you can start
- typing. This will automatically start the EDIT mode, and a
- cursor will appear. Typing will start at the beginning of the
- description in Insert mode. The editor is WordStar compatible
- and also supports the following:
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- <Esc> Quit without saving
- <Enter> End edit. Save changed Descriptions
- <PgUp> Cursor back one screen
- <PgDn> Cursor forward one screen
- <Ctrl-PgUp> Cursor to top of first screen
- <Ctrl-PgDn> Cursor to end of last screen
- <Left> Cursor left one character
- <Right> Cursor right one character
- <CtrlLeft> Cursor left one word
- <CtrlRight> Cursor right one word
- <Home> Cursor to beginning of line
- <End> Cursor to end of line
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- <Del> Delete character at cursor
- <Bksp> Delete character to left of cursor
- <CtrlEnd> Delete to end of line
- <CtrlY>,<CtrlX> Delete entire line
- <CtrlHome> Delete from beginning of line
- <CtrlT> Delete word to right of cursor
- <CtrlR> Restore original contents of line
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- <Ins> Toggle INSERT on and off. Thin cursor
- indicates overwrite mode; thicker
- cursor indicates insert mode (default).
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- C. REGARDING REGISTRATION
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- 4EDIT is ShareWare. The law requires that if you use this
- program, you must register and obtain a license for it.
- The registration fee is $15.
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- Registered users will be notified of upgrades to 4EDIT as
- they are released, and will receive the latest version of the
- program. Online help is available through CompuServe, by
- EasyPlex. Help is also available by mail. I will try to answer
- all letters within 48 hours. Non-registered users must include
- a SASE for a reply. The degree of help available to non-registered
- users is purely discretionary. Registrations and inquiries should
- be sent to:
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- Iram J. Weinstein
- XD Systems
- 1014 Shipman Lane
- McLean, VA 22101
- Voice (703) 821-3215
- CIS 70741,3711
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- A registration form is included at the end of this manual.
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- Commercial use of 4EDIT without payment of the registration
- fee is prohibited. Site licenses are available for users with
- multiple machines. Please contact me for information.
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- The program and its associated documentation are the
- copyrighted property of the author. Non-commercial users
- are granted the right to use copy and share 4EDIT with the
- following conditions:
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- Shareware distributors and Users Groups may charge a
- nominal fee for copying and distributing this program
- and Bulletin Board Systems may likewise carry it. Any
- distribution of 4EDIT must include without alteration only the
- files 4EDIT.EXE and 4EDIT.TXT, unchanged. Permission is
- also given for electronic distribution of archived versions of
- these files on electronic bulletin boards.
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- D. 4EDIT VERSION HISTORY
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- Ver 0.90 (Beta Test) 12/01/89
- This is the original release. It used batch files to drive
- 4edit and could only run under 4DOS.
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- Ver 0.91 (Beta Test) 12/20/89
- 4EDIT now stands alone, and can be run under DOS.
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- Ver 0.92 (Beta Test) 1/18/90
- Corrected error causing highlighted row to blink on some machines.
- Modified so that EDIT function is always active.
- Correct command line parser so that C: ==> C:*.*
- and ABC ==> ABC\*.* if ABC is a directory but ABC.* otherwise.
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- Ver 0.93 (Beta Test) 2/04/90
- This is mostly bug cleanup.
- 1. Entering the editor with a right arrow positioned the cursor
- to the second character of an existing description, but to the
- first character of an empty description. Fixed to always go to
- the first character position.
- 2. Cursor size in Insert mode made larger and easier to
- distinguish from overstrike mode.
- 3. 4EDIT lost descriptions on some files in big directories. Now
- fixed.
- 4. Use of wildcard symbols * and ? changed to match 4DOS extended
- features.
- 5.Ver 0.92 tried to correct command line parser so that
- C: ==> C:*.* and ABC ==> ABC\*.* if ABC is a directory but
- ABC.* otherwise. Got it right this time!
- 6. The default state of the editor is insert mode. This used to be
- reset on each line. Now 4EDIT remembers if you toggle insert mode
- and starts the next line in the state you left it.
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- Version 1.0 3/11/90
- First public release
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- Version 1.01 3/21/90
- Minor changes in documentation.
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- Version 1.02 4/01/90
- Changed file access to run on networks reliably.
- Added name and serial number on registered copies.
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- Version 1.03 6/10/90
- Modified to correct for 4DOS 3.0 quirk. Entries in DESCRIPT.ION
- are sometimes delimited by LF instead of CRLF. Earlier versions
- of 4EDIT misread these lines.
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- Version 1.04 8/03/90
- Added Error Messages for Drive unready and Disk write-protected.
- 4EDIT a: is now equivalent to 4EDIT a:*.*
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- Version 1.05 10/21/90
- A problem with include lists that caused the same file to be selected
- more than once has been corrected. For example, 4EDIT *.txt+4*.txt
- would show the file 4zip.txt twice.
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- Many users have complained about my use of ENTER to mean EXIT. So I
- have changed the key usage as follows:
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- F10 - Exit 4EDIT, saving all Description changes.
- ENTER - Same as cursor down
- Esc - If current line has been edited, restore it to original.
- Otherwise, Exit 4Edit without saving changes.
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- The cursor is now ON at all times.
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- In addition, you can now copy the description from one line,
- using CTRL-C, and paste it into another line, using CTRL-P.
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- Version 1.06 12/02/90
- 4EDIT would hang up if used on a directory that contained
- only subdirectories. Now fixed.
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- E. 4ZIP/4UNZIP
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- Also take a look at 4ZIP and 4UNZIP. These are also
- utilities for use with 4DOS. These programs are shells that
- use the PKWare programs PKZIP and PKUNZIP. They provide a
- facility for ZIPping and UNZIPping selected files along with
- the 4DOS directory comments. Both provide a full screen SELECT
- screen, allowing you to easily pick the files to enter or
- remove from the ZIP file. The 4ZIP/4UNZIP package is shareware,
- available on Bulletin Boards and from shareware distributors.
- Registration is $15. See the order form at the end of this
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- SOFTWARE REGISTRATION FORM AND ORDER
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