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- DIRMATCH.COM
- Command
-
- Michael J. Mefford September 26, 1989 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: To display two scrollable, alphabetized, directory listings
- side-by-side, with the more recent of matching filenames highlighted;
- to provide mark, copy, and move facilities to update the target
- directory with one or more selected files from the source.
-
- Format: DIRMATCH source target [/D][/A]
-
- Remarks: The source and target may comprise any
- combination of drives, directories, or subdirectories
- (with optional * and ? wildcards) valid for the DOS DIR
- command. The user will be prompted for target and
- source directories if his entry is incorrect. By
- default, DIRMATCH displays all files in the two
- directories. The optional /D and /A switches restrict
- the display to Different and Alike files, respectively.
- The on-screen display, together with the number-of-
- files counters, can be cycled through All, Different,
- and Alike modes with F1; Shift-F1 cycles in reverse.
- Pressing Esc exits the utility. Crtl-C will abort the
- program operation.
-
- An inverse-video selector bar shows the current
- position in the listings, and may be moved with the
- UpArrow, DownArrow, PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End keys.
- When the selector bar is on a filename, pressing the
- plus (+) key on the keypad or the +/= key on the
- keyboard marks the file for further action. Pressing
- the minus (-) key on the keypad or the _/- key on the
- keyboard unmarks a marked file. F2 marks all files; F3
- clears all marks.
-
- A file under the selector-bar or a group of
- marked files can be copied from source to target
- directories by pressing F4. A confirming prompt is
- provided. Similarly, pressing F5 moves a file or
- marked group, by first copying and then deleting
- file(s) from the source. While older files can be
- copied (F4) to the target directory, by default F5 will
- not move them. (See Customization Note).
-
- Pressing F6 prints a list of All files, with
- more recent matching filenames identified with a
- greater-than (>) sign.
-
- DIRMATCH supports any number of screen display
- lines, including 43-line (EGA) and 50-line (VGA) modes.
- It can display up to 1,423 filesnames in its listings.
- Hidden and read-only files are not displayed. DIRMATCH
- requires 64K free RAM in order to run.
-
- Customization Note: A sidebar to the original
- article provides DEBUG instructions for changing the
- display colors, for removing the move-over-existing
- file protection, and for adding printer control codes
- to display highlighted files in boldface rather than
- with a greater-than sign.
-