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- RASIS Dos File Manager
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- SisFm, the RASIS Dos File Manager, is a part of the RASIS program
- package, and as such falls under all the same Copyright, Distribution and
- Disclaimer clauses as applied to RASIS.EXE
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- Please see the appropriate sections in RASIS.DOC for clarification
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- BEFORE BLINDLY JUMPING IN AND MANIPULATING FILES WITH THE FILE MANAGER,
- MAY WE SUGGEST THAT YOU EXPERIMENT ON SOME UN-NEEDED FILES FIRST.
- THAT WAY, IF WE WERE NOT IMPLICIT ENOUGH IN OUR EXPLANATION, OR YOU
- MISSED AN IMPORTANT FACT, THERE WILL BE NO GREAT LOSS.
-
- The File Manager program, SISFM.EXE must be placed in a directory that
- is in your Dos PATH statement. else RASIS will be unable to find it.
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- Or.... you can place it in the same directory as RASIS.EXE
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- The File Manager is accessed from the RASIS Tools menu, by pressing 'F' or
- selecting File Manager.
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- All the data entry, picklist functions are identical to those of the
- RASIS main area, so we won't be redundant here.
-
- The top two lines of the screen show the name RASIS File Manager, the
- and a One line help on tagging files.
- Next is the status line, current file mask, number of tagged files,
- and then a display of the current action.
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- The current action will always mirror the Menu choice, so if you forget
- whether you are Copying or Moving files, glancing at the Menu Bar or the
- Action display will confirm just what it is you're attempting to do.
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- The center area is where all lists and message/data boxes will be
- displayed.
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- At the bottom, is the Menu Bar, and below it the Help Line.
-
- Pretty much the same setup as RASIS, but the menubar is at the bottom.
- A help screen is available by pressing F1 from the main menu bar.
-
- Of course, as in RASIS, a help line is displayed for each menu item
- as you scroll around. The pick lists also display help in this line.
-
- Now, lets cover the menu choices, and what they do.
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- ┌─────────┐
- │SET MASK │
- └─────────┘
-
- This allows you to specify the filemask for lists, if you were to
- specify *.TXT, then ONLY files with the extension of .TXT will be
- displayed in the lists.
-
- Pressing F5 will set/re-set the mask to *.*
- F5 may be used from the main menu for a quick toggle back to this
- default mask.
-
- ┌───────────┐
- │LIST FILES │
- └───────────┘
- Displays a list of all files in the current directory.
-
- There is no tagging of files, its simply a display.
- But while the file is highlighted, you may press the F5 function key,
- to view the file with the internal Text Viewer, which is the same one
- used in RASIS.
-
- The display is filtered by the setting of the MASK.
- Pressing ESC will exit the list.
-
-
- We will cover the next menu item, COPY in detail, from that point on, we
- will just cover the differences, as all functions basically use the same
- methods for selecting files, prompting for destinations, names etc.
-
- ┌─────┐
- │COPY │
- └─────┘
- Presents a picklist where you select one file, or TAG multiple files.
- Once the file(s) selection is complete, press ENTER.
-
- A Dialog box will display, and ask you for a destination.
-
- If you are copying to another filename, enter the new filename, or the
- directory and filename, if it will be copied to another directory as a
- new file. (This is valid only for a single file, trying this with
- multiple files will overwrite the new file for each copy processed)
-
- If you are copying a file, or files to another directory, be SURE to
- supply a trailing backslash after the directory name.....
- Example: \TEMP\ (correct) \TEMP (WRONG!)
-
- The destination can be another drive also, using the above example, you
- would enter: D:\TEMP\
-
- We will be implementing a check on this in a future version, to
- determine if the destination is a directory or filename. If its a
- directory then the Mgr will auto-add the backslash.
-
- If you don't supply the backslash, you will get an error message, for
- EACH file tagged!! Quite irritating if you have tagged 20 files to
- move. So don't forget the backslash.
-
- Pressing ESC will abort the Copy process, and reset the tagged files to
- zero.
-
- A message will display for each file as it's copied, something like:
- Copying SELECTED-FILE => DESTINATION
-
- There is no confirmation requested, once you enter the destination, and
- press ENTER, the process begins, and goes to the end.
-
- ┌──────┐
- │ MOVE │
- └──────┘
- Basically the same as copy, except the file(s) are deleted after it has
- been placed in the new destination.
- You should only specify a directory destination for this function, unless
- you are processing only one file.... then the move may work with a
- directory\filename, as the File Manager attempts to first RENAME the file
- to the new destination, only doing a copy and delete if the rename fails.
-
- If you are moving to another drive, then it will always be a copy/move
- operation.
-
- No confirmation requested.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │RENAME │
- └───────┘
- The File Managers Rename function is quite a bit better than the DOS
- rename, you can tag as many files as you wish, and then rename each one
- individually. Each tagged file will be presented, and you will be asked
- to enter the new filename.
- You can include a new directory in the filename "IF" it is on the SAME
- drive as the file you are renaming.... you then will MOVE AND RENAME the
- file.
-
- ┌───────┐
- │DELETE │
- └───────┘
- The Delete function is the only one that will ask for confirmation, if
- you tell it to.
-
- Once the files have been selected, and ENTER has been pressed, the File
- Manager will ask you if you want to Confirm each deletion.
- If you answer Yes, you will be asked for permission to delete each file.
- If you answer No, File Manager will happily delete each and every file
- that was tagged.
-
- A message is displayed for each file, Deleting => FILENAME
-
- ┌─────┐
- │QUIT │
- └─────┘
- And of course there is Quit! Returns you to RASIS.
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- ERRORS: Whenever there is an error during one of the file processing
- commands, a message will display and ask for a key press.
- The file that generated the error is skipped.
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