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- Miscellaneous Last Minute Items
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- WARNINGS:
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- Because this program provides the user with great potential to expedite
- the organization and management of directories and files, it also enables
- the user to do great harm to themselves if they do not think about what
- they are doing. The following warnings pertain:
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- 1. MOVE Option (option 'M') - Please be very careful when using the
- move option not to 'move' critical system and hidden files unless
- you are sure you know what you are doing. DO NOT UNDER ANY
- CIRCUMSTANCE attempt to move the critical operating system files
- ("msdos.sys" & "io.sys" or similar on your system). Such files
- (found in the root directory of your boot drive) need to be located
- in specific positions on your disk to enable proper booting of the
- computer. Moving such files could prevent you from being able to
- boot your system.
-
- 2. DELETE Option (option 'Alt-D') - Please be aware that currently the
- default answer to the "Are your sure you want to delete these
- files?" question in the delete option is YES. If you really DO NOT
- want to delete ALL THE CURRENTLY TAGGED FILES, then answer the
- question with a "N" or hit the "ESC" key. Hitting any other key
- (including the carriage return key) will delete the tagged files.
-
- 3. Hitting the ESCape key or "clicking" the OPTION/"ESC" button during
- the Copy, Move or Delete files options will terminate the specified
- option. One additional file, may be copied, moved or deleted prior
- to the operation being terminated. If, however, the user has
- specified ALL FILES to be DELETED, the terminate delete option WILL
- NOT be successful as a faster method is used to delete files if ALL
- FILES (in 1 directory) are specified for deletion.
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- RECOMMENDATIONS:
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- 1. This program depends heavily on successfully reading and writing
- global/drive data to files, the following procedure should be kept
- in mind. Should the user experience any hangups after initially
- successful use of the program, it is recommended that the user
- delete the "ds_globl.log", "ds_drv_?.log" and, as a last resort, the
- "ds_prog.def" files. The program will create the foregoing files if
- it does not find them and this may clear up any hangups should
- one or more of those files get messed up during a write file
- operation.
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- 2. If the user changes display monitors (mono to color, or color to
- mono) the user will have to delete the "ds_globl.log" file to force
- the DS program to recognize that a new display monitor has been
- installed.
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- 3. Users of previous versions of this program should ensure they remove
- all files from any previous version of the program to a backup
- floppy so that this new version will not attempt to use outdated
- files. You CAN copy over the "DS_PROG.DEF" file from version 4.00
- or 4.10 to this version 4.20. This should preserve your defined
- macros and directory links; however, REVIEW YOUR DEFAULTS (USING
- ALT-F10) PRIOR TO USING THEM, AS VERSION 4.20 SHOULD CONVERT THE
- FILE FORMAT FROM VERSION 4.00 TO 4.20 WHEN YOU REVIEW THEM. DO
- NOT copy the "DS_GLOBL.LOG" file from a previous version to this
- version.
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- 4. OPERATION UNDER WINDOWS 3.0 - If you are experiencing problems using
- the program under Windows and have DS setup to use EMM memory for
- data storage (see Program Limits "Ctrl-L" option), try changing the
- DS setup to NOT USE EMM. You may have to set the DS Program Limits
- option to not use EMM >>> PRIOR <<< to starting Windows.
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-
- REQUESTS:
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- 1. This program was DEVELOPED on a PC which is NOT connected to a net-
- work. Additionally, the author does not have access to a network
- for testing. Should users experience problems running the program
- on a network, don't assume the problems are already known or cannot
- be corrected. If made aware of the network problems the author can
- sometimes still solve the problem without direct access to the net-
- work. It would be beneficial if the network administrator (more
- knowledgeable than the normal user) could discuss the problem with
- the author. The author is interested in improving network
- performance of the program and would welcome hearing from network
- administrators who would be willing to work with the author on
- improving network performance.
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- LATE CHANGES:
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- 1. Added capability to "refresh" screen (ie: redraw the entire screen)
- simply by "clicking" the action button on the last or bottom line
- (25th, 43rd, or 50th) of the display.
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- 2. "Clicking" on a drive letter which is the CURRENT DISPLAY DRIVE AND
- which has NO ".LOG" FILE MAINTAINED (ie: mostly for floppies and RAM
- drives) will "rescan" (Alt-R) the entire drive.
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