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CDP (Cliff's Directory Program) is Copyright (C) 1989,1990 by Cliff Roberson dba GoodWare, 926 Leighton Way, Sunnyvale, CA. 94087 All Rights Reserved In the United States and Worldwide An Appreciative Statement ------------------------- First, I wish to state my thanks for the use of LHARC and the LH113C.EXE (Copyright (C) 1989, Haruyasu Yoshizaki) package, which the author has allowed to be used without fee by the general public. It was used to create the CDP-PACK.EXE file, and I wish to express my admiration of the author's considerable talent and generosity. The files that would often be named .DOC files have been given the extension .CDP, which will enable one to search them easily for information on a topic, using CDP itself, and to copy or manipulate them en masse. Contents of CDP Packages ------------------------ The CDP "Shareware" package: CDPSWPKG.DIR The file you are reading, if you have CDPSW, the shareware version. CDPSW.EXE The shareware versions, with introductory screens, and and/or identification of "user" as being "GoodWare 30-day CDPSW25.EXE free trial". You must run this program from the and/or directory in which it resides, or it may abort with CDPSW50.EXE the message that it cannot find its .EXE file. In that case, run it by typing CDPSW +.(See NOTE at end) These files must be used under their exact names or they will not be able to find their help screens. CDPSW25 displays only 25 lines, but is 5 KB shorter. If you wish, and are a systems programmer, you could amuse yourself no end trying to skip the shareware screens and/or change the user identifi- cation or CDP serial number. This file may be copied freely and distributed to your friends for their examination; so long as it is made clear to them that it is the shareware version and is theirs for a 30-day trial only. This file does not have the "2nd tree". That's a carrot to promote registration. The file is capable of printing an order form for the "registered" version. SMALLMAN.CDP How to get started with CDP in the simplest fashion. Oriented toward CDPSW, the shareware version, and its few differences. Also an attempt to anticipate and avoid surprises. A short manual for those in a hurry to get started. BIGMAN.CDP A complete and fairly well written, but unindexed, manual. But you should look at SMALLMAN.CDP first. TRY.ME A single-screen tutorial about CDP's power in finding information on a disk. Shows how CDP can itself serve as your index for all the .CDP files -- or almost anything else. 2CDPS.CDP An attempt at explaining how you can run two copies of CDP simultaneously. It is possible and useful!! PRIMER.CDP The little "getting started" file that is printed by CDPSW.EXE to show you how very easy it is to use CDP. Explains the CDP screen and windows. BBSUPORT.CDP How you can get answers to questions about CDP. Includes BBS numbers you can call to get YOUR questions answered. Plus, you may find helpful advice for using CDP more effectively. ABOUT.CDP Facts & tidbits not all in the manual. In 3 sections: 1. History of CDP, plus changes since going shareware. 2. Features, bells & whistles of CDP. Things unique or exceptional about CDP. 3. Answers up front about things which might puzzle or worry a user. Not all PC clones really are! And not all DOS-based systems work the same. Some are buggy, some are stupid, and some are dangerous. We want CDP to work excellently for you. And we want you to know about possible problems before they occur. NOCURSOR.CDP A catchy title for a short file devoted solely to a common source of reader puzzlement. CDPKB.EXE Makes itself resident so that CDP can run at maximum keyboard speed and then reset the speed to whatever it was before CDP was brought up. Works ONLY on enhanced AT keyboards. SEND.ME A file with a convenient form for registering CDP. The "registered" CDP package contains all the above (except CDPSWPKG), PLUS: CDP-PACK.DIR Similar to CDPSWPKG. It is the file you are now reading, if you have a registered version of CDP. CDP.EXE Version without the 2nd tree feature. Version 431 uses the same memory as CDPW2.EXE. It is billed as version 431B on the screen when you run it. The two programs, CDPRENAM.EXE & CDPCOLOR.EXE allow you to change the colors and to put whatever user name you desire on the screen. The serial # is one which classifies it as a "registered" copy. CDPRENAM and CDPCOLOR are tied to a particular serial number of CDP. They will work only with that one numbered CDP. The CDP serial number cannot be changed. THIS IS THE 43-LINE VERSION! CDP must be run under its exact name in order to find its help screens. CDP50.EXE Version that does 50 lines on a VGA monitor. Same as CDP.EXE, otherwise. Billed as version 501D on screen. VERS-501.ME An explanation of new features of Version 501 and how to use them. There are not many, but they are good ones. CDP25.EXE On a separate diskette. It does not contain the code to use 43 screen lines on the EGA. This saves 5K of memory when CDP is resident. For use on a monochrome or CGA monitor, it is preferable to plain old CDP.EXE. It is identified as CDP 431C on the screen. It must be used under the name CDP25 in order to properly find its help screens. CDPW2.EXE Same as CDP.EXE, but has the 2nd tree feature. The .EXE size is only 2k greater, but it requires 5k more memory when it runs. Identified as CDP 431A. It does not have the 43-line feature. It must be used under the name CDPW2 to find its help screens. CDPCOLOR.SCR Contains the screen images for CDPCOLOR.EXE. This must be present in order to run CDPCOLOR. CDPRENAM.EXE Alters its particular "registered" copy of CDP so that the shareware screen goes away forever. It also lets you put your own name on CDP's screen as the registered user. It WILL NOT work with the shareware version. It will work with either CDP.EXE or CDPW2.EXE. The serial # 1234567, and possibly others later on (useful for identifying sources of unregistered copies) will be reserved as "forever-shareware" numbers. CDPRENAM allows you to change the hotkeys of CDP also. To use CDPRENAM: CDPRENAM [$filename] [+h1] [-h2] up to 26 character name $filename names a copy of CDP.EXE or CDPW2.EXE. If this parameteter is omitted, then CDPX.EXE is looked for. The $ must be present. +h1 (where h1 is one of L,R,C,A) sets the main hotkey to be a double-tap on L=Left shiftkey R=Right shiftkey A=Alt key C=Ctrl key When this hot key is tapped, CDP awakes and returns (if possible) to the SAME DIRECTORY AS BEFORE it went to sleep. This parameter may be omitted. Default hot key is Lshift-Lshift. -h2 (where h2 is one of L,R,C,A) sets the second hotkey. It comes up in the CURRENT DOS DIRECTORY, whatever it may be. This parameter may be omitted. Default is Rshift-Rshift. examples: CDPRENAME $cdpx.exe +a -l Joe's Copy of CDP comes up in same directory as before when alt-alt is tapped, and DOS directory when Lshift-Lshift is tapped. If the default hotkeys (Lshift-Lshift & Rshift-Rshift) are OK & the file is in CDPX.EXE, one may simply do: CDPRENAME Fletcher Normal's Copy CDPCOLOR.EXE Alters the colors of a copy of CDP. CDPCOLOR will not work on the shareware version, or on any copies other than a particular serial number. To use it, simply type: CDPCOLOR filename where filename is a copy of CDP or CDPW2. If filename is omitted, CDPX.EXE is used as default. NOTE: CDPCOLOR.SCR must be present to use CDPCOLOR. The rest of the instructions are on the screen, and are fairly intuitive. You may use CDPCOLOR before or after CDPRENAM. The only tricky things about this program are that you type S to save the changed colors (it won't write the file and remove the software screen unless you do change the colors); and you type alt-E to get out of the program. NOTE: CDPRENAM & CDPCOLOR are themselves TSRs. This is to make them proof against tampering with the serial numbers. As a consequence, they must perform a little hesitation wait before they perform any actions. After you start them, wait patiently for a full 2 seconds for them to work. There are technical reasons for this pause. A TSR normally only works before it goes resident, or after a hot key is struck. These programs do neither. They may sometimes hang, if the timing is off or you strike a key before they act. This is NEVER harmful, merely inconvenient. I apologize if that should occur -- but it is necessary to the scheme of security for CDP serial numbers. TWEE.EXE A free-standing tree program that will work on networks as well as regular disks. It is quite useful in switching from directory to directory in deep trees and several disks. It is a TSR, and its limit is 400 directories. CFC.COM Probably the best Ascii file comparison program ever seen on a PC. It is faster, works on files of unlimited size, has a difference "update" marking option that has not been seen elsewhere on PC's. It also has a very loose command line syntax which allows such easy things to type as: cfc cfc.asm . . to mean compare cfc.asm to cfc.bak and put the comparison differences into cfc.dif. cfc d:\oldfiles\cfc.asm . ./u compares cfc.asm in d:\oldfiles to the local version of cfc.asm and puts a copy of the (newer, presumably) new CFC.ASM into CFC.UP with double upright bars marking the differences from the older version. FOTO.EXE internally turns on ^P (send stuff out LPT1:) and goes resident. It logs indefinitely to FOTOLOG.LOG until you remove FOTO.EXE from memory (with an alt-alt tap-tap). It rewrites and closes FOTOLOG.LOG every 12000 bytes, so even if your system crashes, something will be left. FOTO is not a perfect TSR. It sometimes hangs the system when it first installs itself (the internal setting of ^P is not a sure thing). Once it is going, it is solid, however. But some low-level debuggers can be touchy about it. It is fast enough to log such things as FF (Norton FileFind) *.* on a loaded, fast, disk. But if you do: copy bigfile.big lpt1:, it can not keep up because the DOS COPY does such a command with 64K writes, and poor little FOTO has only a 12K buffer. A typical use of the program I have made is to have it running on both sides of a 9600 baud link between 2 PCs sending stuff to one another as fast as they possibly can while logging everything they send to the screen simultaneously. FOTO holds up under that quite well. SETKB.EXE Sets most AT enhanced keyboards to any desired speeds (via the hardware). See CDP.DOC. NOTE: All the CDP*.EXEs contain the Help screens tacked onto the end of the file. By the time they are fully functioning, they find files better than DOS DOS does. But when the shareware version is looking for its "shareware" screens, it has not completed its own initialization; and may not find itself (CDPSW.EXE or CDPSW25.EXE) if it was invoked from a directory other than the one in which it resides. If you use a + in the invocation of it, it will bypass looking for itself and displaying "shareware" screens. It will, however, find itself later when its initialization is done, so that it will still have full Help facilities.