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- NCD (Norton Change Directory)
-
- Description: Creates or removes directories and lets you change to any
- directory quickly by entering only part of the last qualifier
- of the directory path. This command can also provide a
- full-screen menu system that displays the directory tree and
- lets you maintain or change to directories within the tree.
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- NCD maintains a file named TREEINFO.NCD in the root directory of the drive;
- TREEINFO.NCD contains quick lookup tables for all directories. This file is
- created the first time you run NCD on a drive and is updated whenever you run
- NCD MD or NCD RD or if you use the /R switch with NCD (dirspec).
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- Syntax: Version 4.0: NCD [/D0 | /D1 | /D2] [[[/F(n)] [/B(n)]] | /BW
- | /TV]
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- Version 4.5: NCD [/D0 | /D1] [/BW] [/NOSNOW]
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- Version 4.0, 4.5: NCD (dirspec) [/N] [/R]
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- NCD MD (dirname)
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- NCD RD (dirname)
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- Parameters:
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- (dirspec) The partial or complete last qualifier of the directory you
- want to establish as the current directory. You cannot include
- either a drive or the parent path names in (dirspec). NCD
- compares (dirspec) to the leading characters of the last
- qualifier for each directory name in the tree, and it
- establishes as the current directory the next directory whose
- last qualifier matches (dirspec). To establish the next
- matching directory as the current directory, enter NCD using
- the same (dirspec). If the last qualifiers for all directories
- on a disk are unique, NCD requires fewer keystrokes than the
- MS-DOS CD command does to establish a directory within a
- complex tree as the current directory.
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- MD (dirname) Works identically to the MS-DOS MD command, but also updates
- the TREEINFO.NCD file.
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- RD (dirname) Works identically to the MS-DOS RD command, but also updates
- the TREEINFO.NCD file. /B(n) The background color for the
- menu system if you do not specify either (dirspec) or the MD
- or RD subcommand. Use an integer from 0 through 15 to specify
- the color. If you attempt to specify identical foreground and
- background colors, NCD adds one to the foreground color number
- before beginning execution. Avoid using the high-intensity
- shade of a color for the foreground with the normal-intensity
- shade of the same color for the background (for example, /F12
- bright red and /B4 red). The default is /B1 (blue). See
- <NUCOLOR>.
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- /BW Specifies a black-and-white display in versions 4.0 and 4.5.
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- /D0 Requests the standard screen driver (the default) for a fully
- IBM-compatible computer system.
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- /D1 Requests the screen driver for a BIOS-compatible computer
- system.
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- /D2 Requests the ANSI.SYS driver for a non-IBM-compatible computer
- system.
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- /F(n) Specifies the foreground color for the menu system if you do
- not specify either (dirspec) or the MD or RD subcommand. Use
- an integer from 0 through 15 to specify the color. The default
- is /F15 (bright white). See <NUCOLOR>.
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- /N Prevents NCD from writing a TREEINFO.NCD file. Include this
- switch when you run NCD on a write-protected floppy disk.
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- /NOSNOW Prevents screen flicker if your system has an older CGA card.
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- /R Rescans the directories and updates TREEINFO.NCD. Include this
- switch if you used the MS-DOS MD or RD command instead of NCD
- to change the directory tree structure.
-
- /TV Indicates that NCD is running under either TopView or
- Microsoft Windows.
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- Notes:
-
- <NUNCDG01> shows the primary display within the full-screen menu system of
- NCD in version 4.5; the menu system is also available in version 4.0. In
- versions 4.0 and 4.5, use the direction keys to move the highlight from one
- directory to another. Press PgUp and PgDn to move the highlight a page at a
- time. Press Home to move to the top of the tree and press End to move to the
- bottom of the tree.
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- In version 4.5, you can search for a particular directory by entering one or
- more characters of the last qualifier of the directory path: Speed Search
- stops on the next directory whose last qualifier begins with the characters
- you entered. Press Ctrl-Enter to continue the search for the next matching
- directory.
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- When the highlight is on the directory you want, press Enter to make that
- directory current and to exit NCD. In version 4.5, press F2 to rescan the
- directories on the disk and to rebuild TREEINFO.NCD. (This is the same as
- using the /R switch.) Press F3 to call up the submenu to select a new drive.
- Either use the direction keys to move the highlight to the drive you want and
- then press Enter, or press Escape to exit drive selection.
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- Move the highlight to the name of a directory you want to modify. Then press
- F6 in version 4.5 or the letter R in version 4.0 to rename the directory.
- (You can rename a directory only if you are using MS-DOS version 3.0 or
- later.) Press F7 in version 4.5 or the letter M in version 4.0 to create a
- new subdirectory under this directory. Press F8 in version 4.5 or the letter
- D in version 4.0 to delete the directory. You can delete a directory only if
- it is empty.
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- If you have either an EGA or a VGA monitor, you can change the number of
- lines on the display by pressing F9. Use the direction keys to select the
- number of lines you want from the submenu.
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- You can exit the NCD menu system at any time by pressing F10 or Escape.
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- Example: To reset the current directory to the next directory whose last
- qualifier begins with the letters GA.
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- Enter: NCD ga
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- See <NULD>.
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