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- XDIR Jeff Prosise
- Command 1987/No. 7
-
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- Purpose: XDIR.COM is a memory-resident utility that
- allows you to display the filenames in any
- drive/directory even when you are running
- another applications program.
-
- Format: [d:][path]XDIR
-
- Remarks: Once loaded (normally as an entry in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file), pressing the Alt-. (the
- Alt and the period key combination) causes a
- blank window to pop up on the screen.
- Pressing Enter then displays the first 40
- filenames of your current directory in the
- window. Pressing Esc once clears the
- display, and pressing it a second time
- returns you to your previous application.
-
- To view other directories, simply enter their
- appropriate path designation (including
- drive, if different) before pressing Enter
- when the window is blank.
-
- The PgUp and PgDn keys are used to display
- files beyond the initial 40 shown in the
- window. Up to 360 files in any one directory
- may be displayed.
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. If you are experienced in using DEBUG,
- you may wish to change some of the
- XDIR.COM defaults. Remember always to
- make changes to a copy of the program,
- not to your original. After entering
- DEBUG XDIR.COM, the following addresses
- and initial values may be of interest:
-
- Offset Value Parameter
- :013C 4F Border color attribute
- :013D 0F Text color attribute
- :014D 00 File type (see Note 2)
- :0186 34 Period key scan code
- :018E 08 Alt-key shift code
-
- 2. By default, XDIR displays only normal
- filenames (00 at :014D). To show hidden
- files, the value here should be 02.
- System files are 04, and subdirectories
- are 10h. These values are additive. To
- display subdirectories and files marked
- both hidden and system (e.g. IBMBIO.COM)
- you would enter the value 16h at offset
- :014D in place of the default 00.
-
- 3. While no TSR program can be guaranteed
- compatible with all other memory
- residents, its special interrupt
- handling should make XDIR.COM coexist
- even with most "difficult" TSRs.