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- Dear Computer User:
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- ArcMaster (AM) is a powerful and sophisticated system that is designed
- to make the compression, extraction, and management of archive files
- quick and easy. In fact, AM does much, much more and can be used as a
- primary file management "shell".
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- Those of you that are knowledgable, experienced computer users will
- not need the information contained in the remainder of this file. But
- many users are new to the world of computers and will benefit from
- this information. Hopefully, this info will assist the less
- experienced person with dealing with the complexity and power of AM.
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- All users are urged to read AM.DOC, which contains complete operating
- instructions for this program.
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- On-line Help
- ------------
- AM has a an extensive on-line help system. You can access this help
- from just about anywhere in the AM program by pressing the F1 key on
- your computer. You can user your computer keypad arrow and Pg keys to
- move help system cursor to where you want it. Use the computer Enter
- key to select a help topic.
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- Dual-Windows
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- The AM main display is dominated by dual display windows that contain
- lists of file names extracted from the directory active for that
- window. Each window can be set to the same or a different directory.
- Only one window can be "active". The active window is the one with
- the solid cursor bar that moves when an up/down arrow key is pressed.
- You can "move" from one window to the other with the left/right arrow
- keys or the Tab key. All AM operations originate in the active
- window and resulting files are placed in the inactive (target) window.
- You can change a window drive with the F3 key and the window directory
- with the F5 key.
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- Menu System
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- You can press either slash key ("/" or "\") while viewing the main
- dual-window display to activate the AM menu system. A cursor bar will
- appear on the very top line of the screen which contains menu titles.
- Move this cursor bar with the left/right arrow keys. Press the Enter
- key to display a selected menu. Even after the menu is displayed, you
- can move to an adjacent menu with the left/right arrow keys. Each
- menu has a cusor bar wich can be moved vertically to a desired menu
- item. Press the Enter key activate a selected menu function.
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- File Masks
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- A file mask is a sort of filter that uses DOS wild card characters
- ("?" or "*") that you can use to limit the files you can view in an
- AM window. For example, you may wish to view only those files that
- match the filter "*.ABC". This means that AM will show you all files
- that have an extension of "ABC". The File Cmds menu has an item named
- Define File Mask that permits you to create different file name
- filters.
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- Tagging/Untagging File Names
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- The term "tag" means to mark a specific file. Files are tagged for
- group or batch operations. For example, you may wish to mark a set of
- 8 or 10 files for compression by one of the supported file compression
- systems by tagging each of files. Files can be tagged in either of
- the dual windows by pressing the space bar or the "+" key. You may
- tag all the files in the windows by pressing Ctrl+T. You can untag
- individual files with the space bar or the "-" key. Notice that a
- tagged file has a small diamond character to the left of the file
- name.
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- Finally, it is most important that you read the section in AM.DOC
- entitled "Configuring ArcMaster".
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- Thank you for trying ArcMaster!
-
- New-Ware
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