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══ ADDENDUM.DOC ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ The StupenDOS distribution diskette contains three versions of StupenDOS. The SD.EXE file is the normal registered version of StupenDOS. In a subdirectory called \OVERLAY, is a version of StupenDOS that uses overlays, which is a technique that reduces memory usage, but may slow the operation of StupenDOS in some functions. We recommend you use the normal version of StupenDOS unless you run into memory problems. If you put both of these versions of StupenDOS on your machine, you should be aware that StupenDOS looks for files that correspond to the executable filename. So if you run the overlay version of StupenDOS, and the filename is SDO.EXE, then this version will look for SDO.SET, and SDO.TRE, etc., when looking for its configuration files. The exception is the SD.PRO file, which should not be renamed. The third version of StupenDOS included on the disk is in the \SHARWARE directory. This is a self-extracting file that contains the shareware version of StupenDOS. Feel free to distribute this file to your associates and friends. This file may also be uploaded to any online system. The filename should be uploaded as SD-500.EXE to remain consistent with previous shareware releases of StupenDOS. New Programmable Features * File Coloring StupenDOS supports file coloring, so you can display groups of files in different colors, so they will stand out. The file coloring is a programmable option, so you must make changes to the SD.PRO file to invoke file coloring. The file coloring examples below have four sections in each entry. 1. The keyword CLR, to tell StupenDOS that the following command is a COLOR command. 2. The FILESPEC of the files you wish to color. 3. The color of the text of the filename displayed. 4. The background color to be displayed. If you want to use the standard file background color, do not specify a background color. The following examples show how the COLOR commands are used: CLR:<DIR>;black; // Directory entries will be displayed in BLACK CLR:*.exe;RED; // All .EXE files will be displayed in RED CLR:*.;LTYELLOW;defa // All files with no extension will be LTYELLOW CLR:*.DOC;cyan;black // All .DOC files will be CYAN on BLACK The following is a list of legal colors: BLACK BLUE GREEN CYAN RED MAGENTA YELLOW WHITE GRAY LTBLUE LTGREEN LTCYAN LTRED LTMAGENTA LTYELLOW LTWHITE If you have a Monochrome or CGA video card, you must use one of the first eight colors listed above for the background color, since these video cards do not support bright background colors. * Programming the bottom line of the screen The function keys at the bottom of the screen are programmable. You must make changes to the SD.PRO file to modify the default values. The examples below have five sections in each entry. 1. The keyword FKY, to tell StupenDOS that the following command is a Function KeY command. 2. The text you wish displayed on the screen. Put a '&' character in front on characters you wish to be highlighted. These highlighted characters can be used as shortcut keys. 3. The key value of the shortcut key desired. Use the WHATKEY.EXE program to determine the value of the shortcut key. 4. The value you wish to be returned to StupenDOS. This is a function value that is listed in the StupenDOS manual (page 39-40). 5. The column on the screen the text will be displayed. The starting column number is zero. The following examples show how the FKY commands are used: FKY:F1 &Copy;67;11570;0 // "Copy", shortcut key = 'C', return // value is to COPY files. Text will // be displayed starting at column 0 KEY:315;11570; // Now add the KEY command, F1=copy FKY:F2 &Move;77;11575;9 K:77;11575; // M=move, starting at column 9 K:316;11575; // F2=move See the bottom of the SD.PRO file for additonal examples. Secondary Sort * StupenDOS version 5.0 supports secondary sorting. This feature is designed to help you filter through files in a more logical order. For example, if you were looking for the newest .DOC file in a directory, and there were hundreds of .DOC files, you can sort by extension first, to group all the .DOC files together, then do a secondary sort by date to put all the newest .DOC files together. To do a secondary sort, bring up the "Sort" pull down menu by pressing ALT S. Then select the "Secondary sort" option. Use the arrow keys or the mouse to select the desired sort type. Pressing the SPACE Bar will toggle the sort direction from Ascending to Descending. To permanently set the secondary sort type, press ALT P to invoke the "setuP" pull down menu. The select "File options", and another menu will appear. Select "seCondary sort", and set the desired sort type as described above. FILEFILL * FILEFILL has been added in several areas. FILEFILL eliminates spelling errors by finishing directory or filenames for you in certain input boxes. For example, if you are changing directories, and you start to type C:\WI and then press the TAB key, StupenDOS will look on the DISK for directories that start with C:\WI. If a match is found, StupenDOS will fill in the directory name for you. In the above example, SD would most likely have filled in C:\WINDOWS If the incorrect name was filled in by StupenDOS, just press TAB again and the next match will be displayed. When all of the matching files have been displayed, a beep will sound and the first match will again be displayed. 4DOS descriptions * 4DOS (or NDOS) is a popular shareware COMMAND.COM replacement. StupenDOS can now display 4DOS comments. 4DOS comments allow you to add text to files, so instead of displaying the size, time and date of a file, you can display a description of the file. You can also modify 4DOS descriptions easily. Note: Even if you do not use 4DOS, you can add descriptions to files. To add or modify the description of a file, you must enable 4DOS description usage in the setup menu. Press ALT P to invoke the "setuP" pull down menu. Then select the "Other options" item. Then enable "4DOS descriptions". Once the "4DOS descriptions" option is enabled, you can enter or modify descriptions. Use the arrow keys to select the file you wish to add a comment to. Then select the "4DOS description" item from the "File" pull down menu. This will display a pop up window. Enter the desired text, and press ENTER when finished. You can also enable a hot key to enter descriptions quicker. The '4' key has been added to the SD.PRO file as follows: KEY:52;11070; // Key 52 ('4') will invoke option 11070 (descriptions) This will make the '4' key a shortcut to enter 4DOS descriptions. ZIPPING Several Subdirectories * StupenDOS now allows PKZIP to compress several subdirectories at one time. Just tag the directories you want compressed before going into the ZIP screen. The directories will be added to the ZIP file automatically. In most cases, you will want to select the "Absolute paths" option in the "Path" pull down menu to save the directory name in the ZIP file. See the PKZIP documentation for details on the absolute path (-P) option. TREE Options * The TREE display can now display additional information about your disk drive. To invoke the TREE display, press ALT M, then select the "Tree display", or "Reread tree" option. The TREE display must be "fresh", that is to say that the disk was just scanned, and not read in from the SD.TRE file, which could happen if you selected the "Tree display" option and not the "Reread tree" option. The additional directory information is displayed to the right side of the directory name. If no information is displayed, you must reread the drive information by pressing ALT R. Once the additional information is displayed, you can press the '%' key to toggle between: => Files in each directory => Percentage of the disk used by each directory => The number of bytes used by the files in each directory * To quickly move around in the tree display, you can press SHIFT UPARROW and SHIFT DOWNARROW, which will move you to the next/previous directory that is at the same depth. * To sort the TREE display, you must set the setuP | Options | soRt tree. MOUSE OPTIONS * Left handed users can now reverse the mouse buttons. You can also make the mouse translucent. Set the setuP | Mouse options | Left handed and setuP | Mouse options | Translucent items. DATE FORMAT * The date format can now be displayed in MM/DD/YY, DD/MM/YY or YY/MM/DD format. Set the setuP | Video & sound | Date format to your desired format. StupenDOS tries to do this for you automatically when StupenDOS is run for the first time, so you may never need to set this option. WIPE ALL TAGGED DIRECTORIES * A "WIPE ALL TAGGED DIRECTORIES" function has been added. This allows you to select several subdirectories, and remove them all at once. To wipe multiple directories, tag each subdirectory, and then select the wiPe tagged directories option from the More pull down menu. SD.INI file * A file called SD.INI can be used to configure items not currently in the normal setup options. SD.INI is a text file that can be modified with any text editor (like DOS EDIT). The commands in SD.INI are not case-sensitive. Currently, only four items are allowed in the SD.INI file. SkipDrives AutoSaveZipOptions AutoLoadZipOptions USRScrollable * The SkipDrives option is designed to tell StupenDOS to skip error detection on the selected drives. When you change to a different disk drive, StupenDOS tries to see if the drive is ready to be accessed. This can be a problem on some floppy disks, or external hard disks that do not support normal DOS disk functions. If StupenDOS is unable to properly detect a disk drive, add the SkipDrives option to the SD.INI file. If no SD.INI file exists, create it. Suppose your E: drive is a removable hard disk, and StupenDOS will not read this drive properly. Add the following text to SD.INI: SkipDrives=E If you also had a problem with your G: drive, SD.INI should contain the following text: SkipDrives=EG * The AutoSaveZipOptions and AutoLoadZipOptions items allow you to automatically save and load the options you set in the ZIP screen. If you find you often use the same options over and over, it would make sense to save and load these options rather than set them each time you use this feature. To set these options, add the following text to SD.INI: AutoSaveZipOptions = TRUE AutoLoadZipOptions = TRUE Other legal values for TRUE are: YES, 1, ON Legal values for clearing these features are: FALSE, NO, 0, OFF * The USR commands displayed in the center vertical column are scrollable in StupenDOS. These commands could be selected with a single mouse click in earlier versions of StupenDOS. A single click now highlights a item in the USR area, and a double click activates this item. Some users will still prefer single click activation of the USR items. For these users, the USRScrollable item can be set in the SD.INI file. To enable single click selection of the USR items, scrolling must be disabled. To disable USR scrolling, add the following text to SD.INI: USRScrollable = FALSE Here is a listing of legal programmable values: DELETE_BAK 4000 // Delete *.BAK, entire disk DELETE_SPEC 4001 // Delete specified files DELETE_L_BAK 4003 // Delete Local *.BAK DELETE_HIGH_NO_CONFIRM 4004 // Delete highlighted file, no confirm DELETE_HIGH_CONFIRM 4005 // w/confirm DEL_ALL_NO_CONFIRM 4006 // Delete tagged files, no confirm DEL_ALL_CONFIRM 4007 // w/confirm DELETE_SPEC_PASSED 4008 // Delete Specified from entire disk TYPEALL 4011 // Display all tagged files TAG_BY_DATE 4012 // Tag By Date Window TAGALL 4013 // Tag all files EDITALL 4015 // Edit all tagged files COMPARE 4016 // File Compare LOADTAGFILE 4017 // Load a tag file BATCHTAG 4020 // Tag by filespec (name) BATCHCLEAR 4021 // Clear SIZETAG 4022 // Tag by size SIZECLEAR 4023 // Clear DATETAG 4024 // Tag by date DATECLEAR 4025 // Clear TODAYTAG 4026 // Tag files with todays date TODAYCLEAR 4027 // Clear ARCHIVETAG 4028 // Tag file with ARCHIVE bit set ARCHIVECLEAR 4029 // Clear REVERSETAGS 4030 // Reverse all tags REMOVETAGGEDFILES 4031 // Remove tagged files from the display TAG_MODE 4032 // Sets Tag mode CLEAR_MODE 4033 // Sets Clear mode CLEAR_ALL_TAGS 4034 // Clear all tags ABOUT_SD 11000 // About Box display CHANGE_COLORS 11001 // Change Colors Window RUN_PKZMENU 11004 // Run PKZMENU (A shareware program) TOUCHFILES 11005 // Stamp time/date of tagged files DISKSTATS 11006 // Disk Statistics Window RESET_MOUSE 11007 // Reset (after running external program) REMOVE_DIR 11050 // Remove directory MAKE_DIR 11051 // Make Directory DOS_CALL 11052 // External DOS Call DOS_SHELL 11053 // DOS Shell, type EXIT to return to SD RENAME 11054 // Rename file(s) FIND_FILE 11055 // Activate the file finder ALLDRIVEINFO 11056 // Information on all disk drives _4DOS_DESCRIPTIONS 11060 // Toggle 4DOS description display MODIFY_4DOS 11070 // Modify a 4DOS description DRIVE_A_B 11100 // Change to Drive A:, use 11101 for B: DRIVE_C_D 11102 // DRIVE_E_F 11104 // DRIVE_G_H 11106 // DRIVE_I_J 11108 // DRIVE_K_L 11110 // DRIVE_M_N 11112 // DRIVE_O_P 11114 // DRIVE_Q_R 11116 // DRIVE_S_T 11118 // DRIVE_U_V 11120 // DRIVE_W_X 11122 // DRIVE_Y_Z 11124 // COPY_TO_A 11150 // Copy tagged files to A: COPY_TO_B 11151 // COPY_TO_C 11152 // COPY_TO_D 11153 // COPY_TO_E 11154 // COPY_TO_F 11155 // COPY_TO_G 11156 // COPY_TO_H 11157 // COPY_TO_I 11158 // COPY_TO_J 11159 // COPY_TO_K 11160 // COPY_TO_L 11161 // COPY_TO_M 11162 // COPY_TO_N 11163 // COPY_TO_O 11164 // COPY_TO_P 11165 // COPY_TO_Q 11166 // COPY_TO_R 11167 // COPY_TO_S 11168 // COPY_TO_T 11169 // COPY_TO_U 11170 // COPY_TO_V 11171 // COPY_TO_W 11172 // COPY_TO_X 11173 // COPY_TO_Y 11174 // COPY_TO_Z 11175 // EXITCNOW 11200 // Exit to current directory EXITSNOW 11201 // Exit to startup directory SORT_BY_NAME 11300 // Sort by Name, use 11301 for descending SORT_BY_EXT 11302 // Extension SORT_BY_DATE 11304 // Date SORT_BY_SIZE 11306 // Size SORT_UNSORTED 11308 // Unsorted SORT_TAGGED 11310 // Tagged LOAD_PRO_FILE 11350 // Load a new .PRO file COPY_TO_OTHER 11400 // Copy to other window MOVE_TO_OTHER 11500 // Move to other window BYTESINDIRECTORY 11504 // Show the bytes used in the directory FORMAT 11505 // Format a floppy disk ENLARGEWINDOW 11510 // Increase window size DECREASEWINDOW 11511 // Decrease window size OPEN_CLOSE_WINDOW 11512 // Open/Close a window CHANGEWINDOWS 11513 // Change to the other window ZIPVAL 11520 // Open the ZIP full screen window UNZIPVAL 11521 // Open the UNZIP full screen window PRINTVAL 11530 // Print files WIPE 11535 // Wipe directory WIPEALLTAGGED 11536 // Wipe all tagged directories LISTFILE 11540 // Create a list file LOCATEFILE 11545 // Locate a file by name LOCATEFILEDIR 11546 // Locate a file or a directory by name NEWDIR 11565 // Reread the current directory COPYFILE 11570 // Copy tagged files MOVEFILE 11575 // Move tagged files TYPEFILE 11585 // View a file EDITFILE 11590 // Edit a file HELPSCREEN 11595 // Display help screen TREEFILE 11596 // Activate tree display, use .TRE file TREEREREAD 11605 // Activate tree display, read disk SORT_MENU 11610 // Pop up the sort menu CHANGEDRIVE 11600 // Change drive window DELETEMENU 11601 // Activate the delete menu CHANGEATTR 11602 // Activate the Change Attribute window EXECUTEFILE 11603 // Run a program USR_MENU 11604 // Enter the USR area FILE_COMPARE 11606 // Compare files CHDIR_PASSED 12000 // Change to the specified directory CHDIR_PASSED_OPEN 12001 // Open a window, chdir to the passed dir