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Hard Disk DIRECTOR Easy and fun directory and file management for IBM PCs and compatibles. Version 3.40 Helpware 100 Bayo Vista Way #6 San Rafael, CA 94901 (415) 453-9779 _______ ____|__ | (tm) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at P.O. Box 5786, Bellevue, WA 98006 or send a Compuserve message via easyplex to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536" DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY This software and manual is sold "AS IS" and without warranties as to performance of merchantability or any other warranties whether expressed or implied. Because of the various hardware and software environments into which this program may be put, no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose is offered. Good data processing procedures dictate that any program be thoroughly tested with non-critical data before relying on it. The user must assume the entire risk of using the program. Any liability of the seller will be limited exclusively to product replacement or refund of the purchase price. You Probably Didn't Pay For This Software, But It Really Isn't Free. DIRECTOR is being marketed as Shareware. A Shareware program can be downloaded from numerous bulletin boards around the country. It may also come on a disk with other Shareware programs, the disk usually being sold for under $5.00. The philosophy behind Shareware is simple. Good quality software can be obtained for free, or practically so, for you to try out. You are free to copy the programs and pass them on to friends. They also can use the program and see if it meets their needs. If only after trying out the product any of you decide you like the program and find yourselves using it regularly, you are required to register with the author and pay the usually low registration fee. Because Shareware authors don't have to pay the high costs of advertising and distribution, they can provide you with high quality software at very reasonable prices. However, Shareware will only exist if you register for the programs you are using. Major software companies are constantly announcing release dates of new products and then later pushing forward those release dates by many months. The reason for these delays is that good software takes a long time to develop and debug. The same is true for good Shareware. The DIRECTOR programs, DL.EXE, DB.EXE and DM.EXE, took a long time to develop and I am constantly trying to make them run faster and add new features. It is only through your support that I'll be able to continue to do this. The registration price for DL and DB are 30.00. When you register, you will be sent the latest versions and a complete manual on disk. For $ 5.00 more you can also get a printed copy of the manual. I am also available by phone or on Compuserve, where my ID # is 71320,1277, to answer any questions or receive any suggestions for future releases. DIRECTOR is constantly being improved. I am currently working on a version where you can add command line arguments at run time when running programs. If you register, you will get these additions plus other improvements, plus unlimited support by phone, letter or CompuServe. The registered version will also not have a trailer on it telling you to register. You have 30 days to evaluate DIRECTOR and and see if you like it. If, after that you continue to use it, you are required to register. This is DIRECTOR Version 3.40. A complete set of DIRECTOR Version 3.40 should include the following programs: DL.EXE Directory and file manager. DB.EXE File manager. DM.EXE Pop up program menu. DCONFIG.COM Configuration program for DL.EXE, DB.EXE and DM.EXE. DIRECTOR.DOC Complete manual for DIRECTOR. DIRQUICK.DOC Quick start manual. DIRREG.DOC Registration form. DIRSITE.DOC Site license information. DIRREV.DOC Revision information. READ.ME This file will be on the diskette only if there is last minute information that didn't make it to the manual. Table of Contents What is Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About Disks and Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Installing DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Configuring DIRECTOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 View Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Change Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Change Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Rename Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Move Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Make Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Remove Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Search for Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Util Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Print Directory Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Hide and Unhide Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Program Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Disk Usage Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 DB.EXE and the File View in DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 View file contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Editing Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Marking Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Unmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Mark All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Unmark all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Remark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Copy Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Move files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Changing the filename when copying or moving . . . . . . 22 Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Rename Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Sorting the File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Running Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Util Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Print File List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Print File Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Changing File Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using a File Specification Filter . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Disk Usage Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 DB.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 DM.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Adding and Changing Programs in DM . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Running Programs in DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Command Summary for DL.EXE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Command Summary for DB.EXE and the File View of DL.EXE . . . 33 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Registration form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 WHAT IS DIRECTOR WHAT IS DIRECTOR DIRECTOR is made up of three programs: DL.EXE, DB.EXE and DM.EXE. DL and DB are designed to make managing your hard disk easy. Type DL, and very quickly a directory tree of your hard disk will pop up. From this tree, viewing, copying, deleting and editing files is a snap. You can also add, move and remove directories. You can also run programs without ever typing their name. Typing DB will do the same except it will bypass the directory tree and just show you the files of the directory you specify, making it even faster. If you are a mouse user, you will be happy to know that you can access all of DIRECTOR's features without ever typing a keystroke. But, DIRECTOR is also designed to be easy to use from the keyboard. These programs will also work on all standard color and monochrome monitors, plus in EGA 43 line mode or VGA 50 line mode. DM is a pop up program menu and is a new addition to DIRECTOR. With DM you can run programs within DIRECTOR. You pop up DM either by pressing the slash "/" key or clicking on "/ MENU" in the file view of DL and DB or clicking on "F9 UTIL" and then clicking on "/ Program Menu" in the directory view of DL. You can assign a hot key to any program in DM and when you press that hot key in DM, DIRECTOR will run the program. You can also run any DM program from DL and DB by merely pressing the ALT key and the programs hot key. DM can also be run as a stand alone hard disk menu. Please see the section on DM.EXE for complete instructions on running DM. DIRECTOR will run on all IBM compatible PCs running DOS 2.0 or later. This version has been made compatible with many network drives. However DIRECTOR does no file sharing or locking and is not aware of other users on a network, so you will have to determine its suitability for your network. If on some monochrome monitors the screen seems too washed-out for your liking, you can configure DIRECTOR to work only in monochrome. DL.EXE wants a minimum of 200 kilobytes of memory to run properly. Under DOS 4.0 where you are able to have hard disk partitions of over 32 megabytes, DL may require more memory depending on the size of the hard disk partition. DB would like at least 100 kilobytes of memory to run in. DL.EXE can handle drives with up to 350 directories and directories of up to 600 files. It can handle paths of up to nine directories deep. Page 1 DIRECTOR ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES If you are familiar with DOS, and the way one uses it to manage files and directories, you can skip this section and go right to page 8. This section assumes you are very new to personal computers. When you first start out using IBM compatible PCs, there is a lot of information that you need to know just to get started, and the learning curve is very steep. DIRECTOR was written to help you bypass some of this. There are however some basic concepts that you must learn first. It is not easy trying to explain a complex idea and make it simple; so if sometimes I sound condescending, please forgive me, I just want to make sure you understand the information. Computers use floppy diskettes and hard disks for permanent storage of information. Anything that is stored on a hard disk or a floppy diskette is called a file. Programs, documents and databases are all stored in files. All files are identified by their names, and a file name has two parts. The first part is the filename. This can consist of any combination of up to eight letters or numbers. The second part of a file name is the extension. The extension is optional; many filenames don't have them. Certain files (like programs) must have them. An extension can consist of any combination of up to 3 letters or numbers. The only characters DOS doesn't allow in a filename are: . " / \ { } : | < > + + ;,. A period "." always separates a filename from an extension. Some examples of filenames are: WP.EXE LOTUS.COM DBASE.EXE README.DOC COMMAND.COM AUTOEXEC.BAT Page 2 ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES Programs that you run on your computer must have an extension. This extension tells DOS that they are programs, and therefore how they have to be loaded. The extension for programs is always "COM", "EXE" or "BAT". You can see which files are on your hard disk or diskette by typing "DIR" at your DOS prompt and pressing the Enter key. Your screen will look something like this: COMMAND COM 23612 5-15-87 3:20a ANSI SYS 1651 5-15-87 3:20a ASSIGN COM 1523 5-15-87 3:20a ATTRIB EXE 8234 5-15-87 3:20a BACKUP COM 17216 5-15-87 3:20a CHKDSK COM 9819 5-15-87 3:20a COMP COM 3241 5-15-87 3:20a DISKCOMP COM 5776 5-15-87 3:20a DISKCOPY COM 6224 5-15-87 3:20a DRIVER SYS 1350 5-15-87 3:20a EDLIN COM 7495 5-15-87 3:20a FDISK COM 6731 5-15-87 3:20a FIND EXE 6403 5-15-87 3:20a FORMAT COM 11649 5-15-87 3:20a Even though DOS demands that we use a period between a filename and extension, it conveniently forgets to do so when showing you its file list. Instead you see the file name, a number of spaces, the extension, the size in bytes, and date and time of the last change to the file. By the way, a byte is a computer's unit of storage. A byte is basically equal to one letter. Therefore if your file is 12000 bytes long, it contains the equivalent of 12000 letters, including spaces. Typing DIR only gives you a list of files. If there are a lot of them, some will scroll off the screen before you can read them. If you want to copy any of them or view their contents, you have to use other commands. That's why DIRECTOR was written. Page 3 DIRECTOR Typing DB on the same disk will give you a screen like this: EXIT │VIEW │EDIT │COPY │DELETE │RENAME │MOVE │SORT │MARK │RUN IT ESC │──┘ │^──┘│F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 ANSI.SYS 1709 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ APPEND.EXE Program 5794 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ ASSIGN.COM Program 1530 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ ATTRIB.EXE Program 10656 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ BACKUP.COM Program 30048 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ CHKDSK.COM Program 11923 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ COMMAND.COM Program 25332 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ COMP.COM Program 4183 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ DEBUG.COM Program 16000 9-16-1987 12:00 PM │ DISKCOMP.COM Program 5848 9-16-1987 12:00 PM DISKCOPY.COM Program 6264 9-16-1987 12:00 PM You see the filenames and the extensions separated by a period. You see the same information that a DIR command gives you but the information doesn't scroll off the screen. You can scroll up and down a page at a time. There is a highlighted bar that you can move by using the arrow keys to highlight a particular file. Once that file is highlighted, you can press Enter and view its contents. You can also copy it or delete it while in the program. And if you have a mouse, you can use it to perform all of these operations. Since floppy disks don't have a very large capacity, you can store all the files in one place and see them by typing DIR. However, hard disks have a very large capacity, and it would be very unwieldy to store all our files in one place; so we break up hard disks into what are called directories. Directories have names just like files. A directory name can have an extension also just like a file (but they rarely do). Most directory names just consist of any combination of eight letters or numbers. Hard disks are divided up into what is called a directory tree. At the base of the tree is what is called the root directory and branching out are what are called sub- directories. You can move from one subdirectory to another by the CHDIR or CD command and you can create subdirectories by the MKDIR or MD command. Page 4 ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES You can find out which subdirectories are on your hard disk with DOS's Tree command. However, like the DIR command with too many files, if you have too many directories on your hard disk they will just scroll off the screen with TREE. DL.EXE was written to provide you with a visual display of the layout of your hard disk. Once inside DL you can make directories, remove directories, rename directories, view the files in any directory as well as change directories with ease and without having to use DOS commands. A portion of a typical screen in DL looks like this: EXIT │VIEW │DRIVE │CH DIR │RENAME │MOVE │MAKE │REMOVE │SEARCH ESC │──┘ │F1 │F2 │F3 │F4 │F5 │F6 │F7 C:\DOS\AST ROOT │ ╠══════BAT │ ║ ╚══════AAA │ ╠══════DOS │ ║ ╚══════AST │ ╠══════FONTWARE │ ║ ╠══════BCO │ ║ ╠══════CSD │ ║ ╠══════DDF │ ║ ╚══════TDF ╠══════PAINT You can see the tree layout of your directories. You can use the arrow keys to move up and down the directory tree. As you do this, the row above the directory tree will show you what your current path is. A path not only tells you what directory you're currently in, but also the subdirectories before it. In other words, it tells you the path you need to take to get from the main or "ROOT" directory of your disk to the directory you're currently in. The directory you're currently in is called the "current directory". In this example the path says "C:\WP\DOCS". That means I am in the "DOCS" sub-directory of "WP". "WP" is a sub-directory of the root directory of drive C:. Page 5 DIRECTOR In DL you don't need to know that. You just have to highlight the directory you want and DL takes care of the rest. There is one more thing you need to know before you're ready to learn about DIRECTOR: DOS's path command. DOS is not very smart or intuitive so we have to give it help. When you want to run a program you must be in the subdirectory where the program resides in order to run it. For instance, say you wanted to run your word processor. To do so you normally type the name of your word processor. The name of my word processor is "WP.EXE" so I type "WP.EXE" or just "WP" and press Enter. However you must be in the subdirectory where your word processor resides or you will get one of DOS's infamous messages: "Bad command or file name". The same holds for running DB.EXE from DL.EXE which you will want to do if you want to see what files are in a particular directory. For that we have the PATH command. The PATH command tells DOS where to look to find a program that isn't in the directory you are currently in (the current directory). For example if you put DL and DB in a directory called "UTILITY" on drive C:, you could tell DOS to look in the "UTILITY" directory after the current directory by typing "PATH=C:\UTILITY;". However most of the time you put your PATH command in a file called AUTOEXEC.BAT. This file is always read when you start the computer and consists of certain DOS commands. If you're using a hard disk, chances are you already have an AUTOEXEC.BAT file in your root directory. If it doesn't have a PATH command, you can add one or you can modify an existing PATH command with DOS's editor EDLIN or any text editor. The PATH command tells DOS all the different paths where it should look for programs. Each path is separated by a semicolon. The path command in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file is: "PATH=C:\UTIL;C:\DOS;C:\;C:\NORT;C:\BAT"; You will find numerous references to "wild cards" in the documentation. In poker, a wild card can be used as any card you want, whether it be an ace or a two. Similarly a DOS wild card can represent any letter or number in a filename. A "?" can represent any letter and a "*" can represent any group of letters. "*.COM" is translated by DOS to mean any file with a "COM" extension. "??CONFIG.EXE" will be translated by DOS as any file where the last six letters of the filename is CONFIG and the extension is "EXE". Page 6 INSTALLING DIRECTOR INSTALLING DIRECTOR The DIRECTOR diskette has 4 programs, DL.EXE, DB.EXE, DM.EXE and their configuration program DCONFIG. There also might be a file called READ.ME that has last minute information that is not in the manual. You'll want to put the DIRECTOR programs in a directory that is on your path. If you don't know what a path is, you might want to read the section at the beginning of this manual titled "ABOUT DISKS AND DIRECTORIES". You can either create a directory to put DIRECTOR in, or you can use a directory that you are using with other utility programs. Make the directory that you want to use the current directory and put the DIRECTOR disk in drive A: Type "copy a:*.*". That will copy all of the DIRECTOR programs to that directory on your hard disk. Page 7 DIRECTOR CONFIGURING DIRECTOR You can start DIRECTOR immediately and access most of its features. However if you want to install a text editor or word processor, and customize DIRECTOR, you should first run the configuration program DCONFIG. Go to the directory where the DIRECTOR programs are and type "DCONFIG". The following menu will pop up on the screen. ┌──────────────────────────────────┐ │ configure dL.exe │ │ configure dB.exe │ │ configure both Dl.exe and Db.exe │ │ configure dM.exe │ │ Exit │ └──────────────────────────────────┘ You can see that you have the options of configuring just DL or just DB both DL and DB or just DM. We will first go through the process as if we were going to configure both DL and DB. Then we will go through configuring DM. The operation will be very similar for the other options. To choose an option, you can either highlight it by using the arrow keys and then press Enter, or you can press the one letter that is capitalized in the option. For configuring both DL and DB, that letter would be "D". Once you've chosen an option, DCONFIG will try to find the program and read in what options are already set. DCONFIG will first look in the current directory to find DL; if it can't find DL there, DCONFIG will then search the directories of your path. If it still can't find , DCONFIG will exit with the error message "Can't find DL.EXE." Likewise, if you have an earlier version of DL, DCONFIG will exit with the message "Wrong Version of DL.EXE". Page 8 CONFIGURING DIRECTOR You can move forwards and backwards through DCONFIG using the down arrow or Enter key and using the up arrow respectively. You can always exit from DCONFIG by pressing the F10 key. You will then be prompted if you want to save the changes you have made and then you will return to the main menu. DIRECTOR allows you to run a text editor or word processor to edit the highlighted file. You are first asked to enter the drive and directory of the text editor and then you need to supply its name. I use the shareware program Qedit which resides in a directory on my drive D:, so I would enter "D:\QEDIT " and "Q.EXE". You can view any file in DIRECTOR by highlighting the file and pressing Enter. Many users have requested the option of installing a more featured viewing program such as Vernon Beurg's LIST. If you want to install a separate viewing program, you can do so by filling in the information in the next screen. If you want to use DIRECTOR's file view, just leave that screen blank. DIRECTOR should run perfectly on most monochrome and color monitors. However on some monochrome screens, DIRECTOR might look somewhat washed out. If that is so, you can configure DIRECTOR to run specifically in monochrome. The next question asked by DCONFIG will give you the chance to modify DIRECTOR to run only in monochrome. After DL reads the directory tree, it will save a copy of this tree to disk, so that future loads of DL will be much faster. If you make, rename or remove any directories, this tree file will be updated automatically. If you create a directory through the file view of DL, by copying files to a non existent directory, the tree file will be automatically erased so the next run of DL will read the disk again. You can always force a reread of the drive by pressing F2 (CHANGE DRIVE) and choosing the drive that you already are on. The next question DCONFIG will ask you is if you want DL to save the tree information to disk. The default is "Y" (yes). If you don't want DL configured to save the tree, press "N" (no) and press Enter. The file list of DIRECTOR is normally sorted by filename. The next question asked by DCONFIG is if you'd like to have it sorted differently. Your sort choices are filename, extension, date, size and unsorted. Page 9 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR will allow you to move and copy files even if they overwrite files in the target directory. Here you are given the choice of being warned before the overwriting will take place. Mouse users are provided with a scroll bar in the directory and file views of DIRECTOR. By clicking on the scroll bar, you can scroll up or down one page or one line at a time. When you are viewing the contents of files, mouse users will also have a scroll bar on the left side of their screen. Some users have complained about the loss of a full screen for viewing files because the scroll bar takes up the left 2 columns. If you are one of these people, you can choose not to have the scroll bar visible at this time. Even if the scroll bar is not shown, you will still be able to scroll up and down by clicking on the leftmost column of your screen. On your computer screen, DL uses the IBM extended character set box drawing characters to display the directory tree. Some printers can't print these characters so DL uses "+" and "=" when printing. DCONFIG will ask you if your printer can print these characters and if you want your printer to use them to print the directory tree. DCONFIG will then ask you if you want to have DIRECTOR send a particular setup string to the printer before it prints. You can enter any setup string such as bold or compressed; and each time you print, DIRECTOR will first send the string to the printer. If your printer needs to have the Escape key in the setup string, you can easily enter it here by pressing Escape. DCONFIG will next ask you if you want a form feed sent to the printer after printing. Some printers automatically do a form feed after printing so if DIRECTOR does one also, you'll be wasting sheet of paper. Page 10 CONFIGURING DIRECTOR CONFIGURING DM.EXE DM comes preconfigured to park the heads of up to 2 physical hard disks and blank the screen when it is popped up over DL and DB or just used alone after 5 minutes of no keystrokes or mouse moves. Unlike some head parking programs, you can continue to use your computer after the heads have been parked. When the screen is blanked, it will be made completely black. There will be no warning messages. After the screen is blanked, entering any keystroke will restore it. By choosing the option "configure dM.exe" you can turn on or off either or both of these features. It is very important to park the heads of your hard disk when you power down or if you are not using your computer for a period of time. For your convenience, DM also comes with a stand alone head parking program that you can install in DM. Page 11 DIRECTOR DL.EXE To run DL.EXE type "DL" at the DOS prompt and press Enter. DL will load up and give you a directory tree for your drive. The current directory will be highlighted. You can also specify a particular drive at the command line and it will load up with information about that drive. For example, to run DL on drive D: type "DL D:"and press Enter. Once in DL, the UP and DN arrow keys, the PGUP and PGDN keys and the Home and End keys will let you scroll the highlight bar through the directory tree. If you have a mouse and the mouse driver is loaded, there will be a mouse cursor on the upper left hand side of the screen just below the menu bar. The two arrows at the far left of the screen are scroll bars. Clicking anywhere on the top arrow with the left mouse button will scroll down 1 directory at a time. The right button will scroll down one page at a time. Similarly clicking anywhere on the lower arrow with the left button will scroll up one directory at a time and the right button, one page at a time. Holding a mouse button down, will have the same repeat effect as holding a keyboard key down. You can also highlight a directory by clicking on it with either button. Typing the first letter of a directory, will cause the highlight bar to move to that directory. For example, on my computer, typing a "b" will highlight the "BAT" directory. Typing a "b" again will then scroll down to the "BENCH" directory. This letter search is circular so if you are in the "UTIL" directory, you can type "b" to get back up to the "BAT" directory. If any directories in the tree are hidden, they will have an "(H)" after them. After DL reads the directory tree, it will save a copy of this tree to disk, so that future loads of DL will be much faster. If you make, rename or remove any directories, this tree file will be updated automatically. If you create a directory through the file view of DL, by copying files to a non existent directory, the tree file will be automatically erased so the next run of DL will read the disk again. You can always force a reread of the drive by pressing F2 (CHANGE DRIVE) and choosing the drive that you already are on. If you don't want DL to save the tree information to disk, you can turn off this option in DCONFIG. Page 12 DL.EXE On the top two rows of the screen you will see a menu bar naming particular functions and the particular keys associated with those functions. Mouse users can also click on the menu bar to run those functions. In addition there are a number of keyboard commands to run those functions. The additional keyboard commands are accessed by entering a particular letter with the CTRL key or the Alt key. The use of the CTRL key is indicated by putting a "^" before the letter. For example a CTRL-C will be indicated in this documentation by ^C. The use of the Alt key is indicated by putting a "@" before the letter. An Alt-P is therefore indicated by @P. Page 13 DIRECTOR EXIT Pressing the Escape key or clicking your mouse on the ESC part of the menu will exit DL and get you back to DOS in the directory you started DL from. FILES Pressing the Enter key or clicking on the FILES part of the menu will give you a listing of files for the highlighted directory. Also clicking with either mouse button on a highlighted directory will get you a file list for that directory. DRIVE (Change Drive) If you press F1, enter a ^C or click on the DRIVE part on the menu, a dialog box will appear on the screen asking you what drive you want to change to. You can enter the first letter of the drive or click on the drive letter and you will get a directory tree for that particular drive. When you exit DL you will return to the drive and directory you started from. CH DIR (Change Directory) If you press F2 or click on the CH DIR part of the menu, DL will exit, leaving you in the highlighted directory. RENAME (Rename Directory) If you press F3, enter a ^R or click on RENAME and a directory other than the root directory is highlighted, you will be presented with a dialog box prompting for a new name for the highlighted directory. Enter the new name and press Enter or click on the Enter Bar; DOS willing, the directory name will be changed and the new name will then be highlighted. If the directory name you entered already exists or DOS doesn't like what you entered, you will get a beep and an error box telling you so. You can then press or click on Enter to try again, press or click on Escape to cancel. This program uses a DOS function to rename a directory, and therefore it won't accept blanks or the characters ."/\[]:|<>+=;,. DOS 2.XX does not allow renaming directories. MOVE (Move directory) Through this function you can move an entire directory and all the files to another subdirectory or drive. Pressing F4 or clicking on MOVE will bring up a dialog box asking where you want to move that directory to. For example, let's say you have a directory of Lotus 123 spreadsheets called "ACCTS" and you want to make it a subdirectory of your directory "LOTUS". Highlight the "ACCTS" directory and press F4. In the dialog box enter "\LOTUS" and press Enter and the entire directory will be moved. The new path will now be "\LOTUS\ACCTS". Page 14 DIRECTORY VIEW COMMANDS MAKE (Make Directory) Press F5, click on MAKE or press ^M and you will be presented with a dialog box prompting for a new directory name to be added to the highlighted directory. Enter the new name and press Enter or click on the Enter Bar; again, DOS willing, the directory will be created and the screen updated. If the directory name you entered already exists or DOS doesn't like what you entered, you will get a beep and an error box telling you so. You can then press or click on Enter to try again, press or click on Escape to cancel. A DOS function call is used to make a directory; therefore entries with blanks or the characters ."/\[]:|<>+ =;, won't be accepted. REMOVE (Remove Directory) DL will let you remove a directory with files in it but first you will get a beep and a warning about the files that will be lost. If you want to continue, press Enter at the warning. DL will start by first deleting all the files in that directory. If at any time you want to stop, pressing any key or clicking the mouse will stop the process immediately. Once all the files have been deleted, DL will remove the directory. If the directory is not the last one in the chain or the directory name has characters DOS considers illegal, DL will be unable to remove the directory and will tell you so. You activate the Remove Directory feature by pressing F6, ^V or clicking on "REMOVE" on the menu bar. SEARCH DL will let you search the whole disk for a particular file. Press F7, click on SEARCH or press ^H and a dialog box will prompt you for the file name to search for. If you are not sure of the name or you want to search for files with similar names, you can use the DOS Wild Cards * and ?. After pressing or clicking on Enter, DL will start with the root directory and go through the entire disk looking for a match to your entry. If a match is found, DL will show a sorted file list with the desired file highlighted. When it is through searching one drive, DL will give you the options of continuing the search on other drives. UTIL Pressing F9 or clicking on the UTIL part of the menu bar will pull down the utility menu. From the utility menu you have the options of printing the directory tree, hiding or unhiding directories or popping up the program menu DM. You can use the up and down arrow keys to move the menu bar to the desired option, press the capitalized letter of the desired option, or click on the desired option. Page 15 DIRECTOR PRINT DIR LIST This option will send a copy of your directory tree to the printer. If the printer is turned off or not on- line, DL will give you an error message and give you the chance to try again. You can also print a copy of the directory tree from outside the UTIL menu by pressing F8 or ^P. HIDE/UNHIDE While in the UTIL menu clicking on Hide/unhide or pressing "H" will hide an unhidden directory or unhide a hidden directory. When a directory is hidden, it won't be displayed by a DIR command in DOS. However you can still access it with a CD command. A hidden directory is displayed with a "(H)" after the name. / PROGRAM MENU DIRECTOR comes with a pop up program menu called DM.EXE. You can pop up DM by pressing 'M' or by clicking the mouse on " / Menu". You can also pop up DM without the UTIL menu by pressing the slash "/" key. STATS (Statistics) Pressing F10, ^S or clicking on STATS will bring up a box showing you the particular file and byte statistics for the drive you are on. Page 16 FILE VIEW COMMANDS The File View in DL.EXE and DB.EXE Highlight any directory in DL and press Enter, and a new screen with a sorted list of files for that particular directory will pop up. You can also obtain this file view from DB.EXE. Just type DB at the DOS prompt and the same file view will pop up. Features specific to DB and command line options for DB will be found in the section "DB.EXE". This file view is similar to the directory view with a menu bar along the top and a mouse scroll bar along the left side. Pressing PGUP or PGDN will scroll a screen's worth of files at a time. Just like in the directory view, you can scroll through the files by clicking your mouse on the left scroll bar. The left button will move one file at a time and the right button will moving one screen at a time. Home and End will take you to the beginning and end of the file list. Holding the mouse buttons down will have the same repeat action as the keyboard. You can click on a file with either button to highlight it. Once a file is highlighted, clicking the left button on the file will mark it with a little arrow head and clicking the right button on it will show you its contents. Clicking with the left button on a highlighted file that is already marked will unmark it. Just like in the directory view, typing the first letter of a file will cause the highlight bar to move to that file. For example, on my computer, typing a "d" will highlight DB.EXE. Typing a "d" again will highlight "DL.EXE". This letter search is circular; so if the file "WP.EXE" is highlighted, you can type "d" to get back to DB.EXE. EXIT Pressing Escape, or clicking on ESC will exit back to the directory view or in DB exit back to DOS. VIEW Clicking on VIEW or pressing Enter will give you a screen displaying the contents of the file. Binary files can be viewed this way also. You can scroll through the file just like in a word processor with the UP, DN, PGUP, and PGDN keys. Pressing the End key will take you the end of the file. DIRECTOR must read the entire file to go to the end, so this may take a while on large files. Pressing Home will take you to the beginning of the file. Page 17 DIRECTOR Mouse users can have a scroll bar on the far left that works just like the one in the main screen of DIRECTOR if they specified it in DCONFIG. Even if you specified that you don't want to see the scroll bar, the left-most column will act as if there were one there if you click your mouse on it. Along the top of the screen there is also a menu bar. Mouse users can use the HOME and END choices to go the beginning and end of the file being viewed. Pressing F1 or clicking on the HEX part of the menu bar will allow you to view the file in hexadecimal. Pressing Escape, clicking on EXIT, or pressing Enter will land you back in the file list. You can print the file by clicking on the PRINT portion of the menu, pressing ^P or pressing F8. Since DIRECTOR does no print spooling, you have to wait while the file is being printed before doing anything else. If you are viewing a binary file or one with particularly long lines, you can use the left and right cursor arrows or click on the left and right arrows on the menu bar to see more of the file. For your convenience in viewing binary files, all lines longer than 130 characters will be wrapped at column 130. If you are unable to get the view function to work in DIRECTOR, it may be that you don't have enough available memory. DL needs at least 200 kilobytes to run. EDIT If you've run DCONFIG and specified a text editor, you can press the Ctrl key and the Enter key together (this is abbreviated as ^Enter), or click on the EDIT choice of the menu bar. DIRECTOR will run your text editor and if possible, have it load up the highlighted file. MARKING FILES In DIRECTOR you can mark a group of files for copying, deleting, moving, or printing. If no files are marked, DIRECTOR will act only on the highlighted file. MARK You can mark a file in 5 ways. First, highlight the file. 1. Press the Plus (+) key. 2. Press the space bar on an unmarked file. 3. Press the right arrow key . 4. Click on the highlighted file. 5. Use the mark menu. Page 18 FILE VIEW COMMANDS A marked file has a little arrow head pointing to the file in the far left column. You access the mark menu by pressing F6 or clicking on mark. From the mark menu you can also unmark files, mark all files, unmark all files and remark previously marked files. You can mark as many files as you like. UNMARK Similarly you can unmark a marked file in 5 ways. First highlight the file. 1. Press the Minus (-) key. 2. Press the space bar on an marked file. 3. Press the left arrow key . 4. Click on the highlighted and marked file. 5. Use the mark menu. MARK ALL Press Ctrl key and the right arrow key or use the mark menu to mark all the files. UNMARK ALL Press Ctrl key and the left arrow key or use the mark menu to unmark all the files. DIRECTOR will not permit you to mark a hidden file. To find out more about hidden files and how to unhide them, please read the section on changing file attributes. REMARK Once a file has been operated on (copied, moved, or printed) the mark arrow is replaced by a little circle. If you want to repeat an operation on the same files, pressing the asterisk "*" or clicking on the on the mark menu and choosing Remark will mark all the files with a little circle preceding it. COPY Clicking on COPY, pressing F1 or ^C will bring up a dialog box asking where you want the files to be copied. You can copy to any directory or drive. DIRECTOR allows you to change the filename when copying. You can also use the DOS wild cards, "*" and "?",when you copy. You can even copy the file to the same directory but with a different filename. The only thing DIRECTOR won't let you do is copy a file on top of itself. DIRECTOR checks the path that you've entered to see if it exists. If DIRECTOR can't find it, it assumes that you want to change the filename and will do so if it can make a pathname and filename out of your entry. Be careful, because if the last part of your pathname is entered incorrectly, DIRECTOR will copy the file to the first part of the pathname and change the file's name to the last part of the pathname. For more information on Page 19 DIRECTOR how DIRECTOR changes file names when copying, see the end of the section on moving files. If you are not sure of the pathname or if you want DL to enter the pathname for you, you can press the TAB key which will switch you back to the directory view. There you can also change drives if you want to copy the files to another drive. You then highlight the desired directory and click on it or press F1. You will then be back in the file view with the highlighted path entered in the dialog box. This will work in DL only. Once DIRECTOR has copied a file, a little circle will appear in front of the filename to let you know that it has been copied. Before trying to copy a file, DIRECTOR first looks to see if the target directory or drive has enough room. If it does, then DIRECTOR copies the file to the new directory or drive. If there isn't enough room for the file, DIRECTOR will move on to the next file. DIRECTOR will go through all the marked files and copy only those that fit. The remaining files will stay marked. If the target disk gets full, DIRECTOR will stop, leaving the still uncopied files, marked. If you are copying to a floppy diskette, you can then change diskettes and repeat the copy procedure on the remaining marked files. You can do this as many times as necessary until all of the marked files are copied. If while copying a group of files, you decide that you want to stop the operation, press Escape and DIRECTOR will stop after copying the file its presently working on. If the file you are copying already exists on the target directory or drive, DIRECTOR can warn you of its presence and query you if you want to perform the copy anyway. You turn this option on or off through using DCONFIG. DIRECTOR will not copy hidden files. In order to do that you must change the hidden attribute first. For information on how to do this, see the section on changing file attributes. MOVE Pressing F4, clicking on MOVE or pressing ^M will activate MOVE. Move works like copy except that when the files are copied to the new directory or drive they are removed from the current one. If you are moving files to another directory on the same drive, all that happens is that the file is renamed. If you are moving files to another drive, the files will first be copied to the new drive and then deleted from the old one. Page 20 FILE VIEW COMMANDS If the file you are moving already exists on the target directory or drive, DIRECTOR can warn you of its presence and query you if you want to perform the move anyway. You turn this option on or off through using DCONFIG. If you are not sure of the pathname or if you want DL to enter the pathname for you, you can press the TAB key which will switch you back to the directory view. There you can also change drives if you want to copy the files to another drive. You then highlight the desired directory and click on it or press F1. You will then be back in the file view with the highlighted path entered in the dialog box. This will work in DL only. DIRECTOR will not move hidden files. In order to do that you must change the hidden attribute first. For information on how to do this, see the section on changing file attributes. You can also change a file's name when moving. If in addition to specifying a path, you add a filename or a filename with wild cards, DIRECTOR will change the names of the moved files. This can lead to ambiguity if, for instance, you entered an incorrect pathname which could be mistaken for a pathname and filename. If there is any question as to what your intentions may be, DIRECTOR will query you. Page 21 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR will copy and move in the following manner: ONE FILE MARKED What Entered What DIRECTOR Will Do Valid pathname Copies or moves to Path. Valid pathname + filename Copies or moves to Path and extension changes name to new filename. Valid pathname + filename DIRECTOR will ask you if you with no extension want copy or move and change the name. Filename entered with the DIRECTOR will change the wildcards "*" and "?" name of the file by making a new name out of the wildcards. MANY FILES MARKED What Entered What DIRECTOR Will Do Valid pathname Copies or moves to Path. Valid pathname + filename Copies or moves to Path and + extension changes name to new filename. Valid pathname + filename Since you are copying many with no extension files, DIRECTOR will assume that you entered a path that doesn't exist and will give you the opportunity to create it. Filename entered with the DIRECTOR will change the wildcards "*" and "?" names of the files, making new names out of the wildcards. Page 22 FILE VIEW COMMANDS DELETE You can delete the highlighted file or the marked files by clicking on DELETE, pressing F2 or pressing ^D. Before deleting the files, DIRECTOR will ask you if you are sure. Pressing or clicking on Enter will set DIRECTOR on its work. If while deleting a group of files you decide to stop, Press the Escape key and DIRECTOR will stop. DIRECTOR will not delete hidden files. In order to do that you must change the hidden attribute first. For information on how to do this, see the section on changing file attributes. RENAME You can only rename one file at a time, so when pressing F3, clicking on RENAME or pressing ^R, DIRECTOR acts only on the file that is highlighted. DIRECTOR uses DOS calls to rename a file and therefore will only let you use a name that DOS will allow. DOS doesn't like filenames with blanks or the characters ."/ \[]:;|<>+=, in it. SORT Pressing F5 or clicking on SORT will bring up the sort menu. You can enter the first letter of your sort choice or you can scroll the highlighted bar to Filename, Extension, Date, Size or Unsorted and press Enter and the screen will be updated with the sorted or unsorted directory. The Unsorted option gives you the file listings in the order that they appear on your disk. You can also click a mouse on the choice and it will work the same way. There is also a quick way to sort with bypassing the menu. ^F sorts by filename. ^E sorts by extension, ^T sorts by date and ^Z sorts by size. RUN IT You can run any highlighted program whether it be and EXE, COM or BAT file. Just press F7 or click on "RUN IT" on the menu bar and DIRECTOR will immediately execute the program. DIRECTOR creates a batch file and then completely exits so it won't take up any memory while you are running programs. When you are finished, the batch file will run DIRECTOR again. In DOS 3 and over, DIRECTOR uses the pathname that you entered in DCONFIG to find itself. In DOS 2, DIRECTOR depends on being in a directory on your path in order to find itself. Page 23 DIRECTOR UTIL Pressing F9 or clicking on the UTIL part of the menu bar will pull down the utility menu. From the utility menu you have the options of printing the file list, printing the contents of the marked files, changing the attributes of the marked files, and using a file specification to see only some of the files. You can use the up and down arrow keys to move the menu bar to the desired option, press the capitalized letter of the desired option, or click on the desired option. Print File List Press F8, ^P or choose print filelist from the UTIL menu and DIRECTOR will print out a copy of the file list just like it is displayed on the screen. Print File Text You can print a copy of any group of marked text files with this selection. If you have no files marked, DIRECTOR will just print the highlighted file. DIRECTOR does no print spooling, so you will have to wait for the file to be printed before continuing. The default printer is LPT1, but this can be redirected through DOS' mode command. Page 24 FILE VIEW COMMANDS CHANGING FILE ATTRIBUTES Every file on your disk has a directory listing. This directory listing, contains the file name, the extension, the size in bytes, the date of last modification and other useful information. This directory listing also contains a number called the attribute byte. This attribute byte tells DOS if the directory listing is that of a file, a subdirectory or a volume label. A directory listing for a file, can be any one of 4 different numbers or any combination thereof. DIRECTOR shows each files attribute as the last entry after the file modification date. The choices are: System: Abbreviated as Sys. This attribute doesn't signify much, except the DOS boot files usually have this attribute. A file with the system attribute turned on cannot be seen by a DOS "DIR" command and cannot be read by other files. However DIRECTOR will show it. Hidden: Abbreviated as Hid. This attribute also hides a file from normal DOS operations. However, like Sys, DIRECTOR will show it. Read Only: Abbreviated as R/O. A file marked as read only cannot be modified, or deleted by normal DOS operations. You need not worry about this when using DIRECTOR to delete or rename files. Archive: Abbreviated as Arc. This is used as an indicator in back up operations. A file marked with the archive attribute has not been backed up since the last modification. DIRECTOR allows you to change a file's attributes very easily. Choose "Attributes" from the UTIL menu or just press ^A and a screen will pop up showing the attributes for the highlighted file, or if only one file is marked, the marked file. If the attribute is turned on, an "ON" will appear before the attribute. If the attribute is turned off, an "OFF" will appear before the attribute. If more than one file is marked, all the attributes in the dialog box will be off. Pressing the first letter of the attribute or clicking the mouse on the attribute will turn it off or on. When you have made the desired changes, pressing Enter will change them permanently. Pressing Escape will cancel the operation. Page 25 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR uses DOS function calls to perform the attribute change. If for some reason you have a file with "illegal" characters in it (a filename DOS doesn't consider valid) DIRECTOR may not be able to make the change. File Spec Looking for a few files in a large directory can be trying even with the different possible sorts. For that reason, I've provided a way to filter out the files you don't want to see and displaying only those that you want to see. Choose "Filespec" from the UTIL menu or press ^L and a dialog box will prompt you for a file specification. This can be a particular file name or a combination of a filename and wild cards. DIRECTOR will use this file spec and reread the directory displaying those files that meet your specifications. For example, if I enter the filespec "D*.EXE", DIRECTOR will display only those files that begin with the letter D and have an EXE extension. STATS (Statistics) Pressing F10, ^S or clicking on STATS will bring up a box showing you the particular statistics for the directory you are viewing. Page 26 DB.EXE DB.EXE DB.EXE is the file list portion of DL.EXE. You can use DB when you want to work in a specific directory and have no need for and don't want to wait for a directory tree. Most of the time, I use DB instead of typing DIR, to see what's in a directory and to be able to scroll through it and view files. Like DIR, You can also specify a specific filename and wildcard combination on the command line, and DB will display only those files meeting that specification. For example, entering "DB *.DOC" will display only the files with a DOC extension. The syntax for DB is: DB [directory] [filename.ext] [/s] The "/s" stands for what kind of sort you want. You can have DB load up with a sort different from the one specified in DCONFIG with this command line switch. "/e" extension. "/d" date. "/s" size. "/f" filename. "/u" unsorted. Page 27 DIRECTOR DM.EXE To facilitate running programs from Director, the pop menu program DM.EXE has been added. You can pop up DM over the directory view of DL and file view of DL and DB by pressing the slash "/" key. Mouse users can pop up DM in the directory view of DL by clicking on "UTIL" and then clicking on " / Menu". They can pop up DM in the file view of DL and DB by clicking on " / MENU" on the lower right of the screen. You can also run programs from Director without popping up DM. Merely press the ALT key and the hot key of the program that you want to run and it will be run without DM ever popping up. You can also use DM as a stand alone hard disk menu. Just type "DM" at the DOS prompt and press Enter. The DM menu looks something like this: DM displays programs in 2 parallel columns. In order to run a program you can use the arrow keys to highlight the program and press Enter, use the mouse to move the highlight bar to the desired program and click, or press the hot key for the program. When DM has no programs loaded in it, the only choices are "A ADD/CHANGE PROGS" and "X ESCAPE EXIT". The first letter is the hot key and what follows is the function that the hot key activates. Page 28 DM.EXE DM is designed to park your disk heads and blank the screen after 5 minutes of no keyboard or mouse action. The head parking will work on up to 2 physical drives. Either one of these or both can be turned off by the configuration program DCONFIG. When DM blanks the screen, the screen will be made black. Pressing any keystroke will restore the screen. When DM parks the disk heads. The heads will be moved to the last track of the disk. Unlike some parking programs, you can still go back and use the computer after DM parks the drive heads. Pressing the letter "X", pressing the Escape key or clicking on "ESCAPE EXIT" will exit DM and return you to DIRECTOR or your DOS prompt, wherever you started from. To add or change program entries choose "ADD/CHANGE PROGS". The menu will then be replaced with a data entry form. If there are programs already entered, the last program will be displayed in the form. The form looks like this: ESC EXIT You can press escape or click on the escape portion of the data entry screen and you will be returned to the menu. While you are entering or changing data, pressing Escape will automatically save the entry before returning to the menu. Page 29 DIRECTOR F1 ADD Press F1 or click on ADD and a the space after "PROGRAM NAME" in the entry form will be displayed in reverse video. There you enter the name of the program just like you would if you were running it from the DOS prompt. DM starts in overstrike mode, but you can toggle insert by pressing the insert key. If you are running DM from the file view of DL or DB, the highlighted file will be automatically entered in the space for program name. If you want to enter something different, just start typing and what was previously entered will disappear. If you are entering the name of a COM or EXE file, you only need enter the filename and not the extension. If you are entering the name of a batch file, you must enter the BAT extension. You can move through the fields with the up and down arrow keys and the Enter key. After pressing Enter or the down arrow key in the last field, the entry will automatically be saved and the screen will be cleared to be ready for a new entry. Pressing Escape will always save the entry and return to the menu. If you want to return to the menu and don't want to save the entry press or click on F10 DELETE. The second field is "MENU ENTRY". This is the way the program will appear in the menu. For instance, my word processor is WP.EXE, but in the menu I want to see "WORD PERFECT" so I enter "WP" under PROGRAM NAME and "WORD PERFECT" under MENU ENTRY. You can add command line arguments or switches to some programs. When I load Word Perfect I use the command line switch "/m start". This has Word Perfect execute the macro "start" immediately after it loads . You can enter any command line arguments or switches in the "SWITCHES" field. To make use of the menu easier and to enable you to run programs from Director without even popping up the menu, you can enter any hot key from "B" to "Z" in the "HOT KEY" field. "A" and "X" are already taken. If you try to enter a hot key that is already in use, you will hear a tone and an error message will be displayed on line 25 of the screen telling you that letter is in use. You don't have to add a hot key if you don't want one. DM is designed to be able to run as a stand alone menu as well. When using DM as a stand alone menu, you have the choice of whether to return to DM after running a program by selecting 'Y' or "N" in the "RETURN TO MENU" field. Page 30 DM.EXE F2 CHANGE You can change any entry by clicking on F2 CHANGE or pressing the F2 key. Mouse users can also highlight a particular field to change by clicking on that field. F3 LAST and F4 NEXT scroll through the program database. F10 DELETE will delete any program that is displayed. RUNNING PROGRAMS FROM DIRECTOR You can run programs from Director without ever popping up DM. Merely press the ALT key and the hot key of the program that you want to run and it will be run without DM ever popping up. When you run programs from the directory view of DL, just the program will be run. When you run programs from the file view of DL or DB, the program will be run and if possible load up the highlighted file. USING DM ALONE You can also use DM as a stand alone hard disk menu. You can run it by typing "DM" at the DOS prompt and pressing Enter. DM will work exactly as it does when you run it from DIRECTOR. If you don't want to return to DM when the program is finished running, enter a "N" in the space after "RETURN TO MENU" in the program entry form. When turning off your computer, it is always good to park the drive heads. Many new drives do this automatically but many also don't. For your convenience, I've provided a head parking program "PARK.COM" that you can install into DM. This program will park up to 2 physical drives. Page 31 DIRECTOR COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE DIRECTORY VIEW OF DL.EXE Enter: View contents of highlighted directory. F1 or ^C: Change Drive. F2: Exit DL to the highlighted directory. F3, ^R: Rename directory. F4: Move directory. F5 or ^M: Make directory. F6 or ^V: Remove directory. F7 or ^H: Search disk for file. F8 or ^P: Print directory tree. F9: Pull down Utility Menu s Show file count and disk usage. h Hide or unhide directories. m Pop up DM.EXE program menu F10 or ^S: Show file count and disk usage. / Pop up program menu. ALT key + hot key Run programs without popping up DM. Page 32 COMMAND SUMMARY COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE VIEW in DL.EXE and DB.EXE Enter: View the highlighted file. ^Enter: Run Text Editor and load highlighted file. F1 or ^C: Copy the highlighted or marked file(s). F2 or ^D: Delete the highlighted or marked file(s). F3 or ^R: Rename the highlighted file. F4 or ^M: Move the highlighted or marked file(s). F5: Sort Menu e sort by extension. f sort by filename. d sort by date. d sort by size. u show unsorted listing. ^F: Sort by filename. ^E: Sort by extension. ^T: Sort by date. ^Z: Sort by size. ^U: Show unsorted listing. Page 33 DIRECTOR COMMAND SUMMARY FOR THE FILE VIEW IN DL.EXE and DB.EXE F6: Mark Menu. + or Right Arrow: Mark file. - or Left Arrow: Unmark file. Space Bar: Mark or Unmark file. ^Right Arrow: Mark all but the hidden files. ^Left Arrow: Unmark all files. F7 or ^X: Run marked programs. F8 or ^P: Print file list. ^F8: Print marked files. ^A: Change file attributes. ^L: File specification. F9: Util Menu. l Print file list. t Print marked files. a Change file attributes. f Enter file specification. m Pop up program menu. F10, ^S: Display disk usage statistics. / Pop up DM.EXE program menu. ALT key + hot key Run programs without popping up DM. Page 34 INDEX INDEX Attribute 20, 21, 23, 25, 26 AUTOEXEC.BAT 2 Byte 3, 16, 25 DB 1, 4, 6-8, 11, 17, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 34 DB.EXE 8, 17, 27, 33, 34 Delete 29 DIRECTOR 1-3, 6-10, 16-26, 28-31 DL 1, 5-12, 14-18, 20, 21, 27, 28, 30-34 DL.EXE 1, 5-8, 12, 17, 27, 32-34 DOS 5, 25 Drive 6, 7, 9, 12, 14-16, 19-21, 29, 31, 32 Edit 4, 18 EGA 1 Exit 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 17, 18, 28, 29, 32 Extension 2-4, 6, 9, 22, 23, 25-27, 30, 33 Hard disk 2, 3, 5-7, 11, 28, 31 Hidden 12, 16, 19-21, 23, 25, 34 Mark 4 Memory 1, 18, 23, 28 Move 4, 5, 14, 20 network 1 Path 29 Print 10, 16, 18, 24, 32, 34 Program 1, 4, 6-9, 11, 14-16, 23, 28-32, 34 Search 15 Sys 3, 4 System 25 Unhide 16, 19, 32 Unmark 17, 19, 34 VGA 1 View 4, 5, 17, 33, 34 Page 35 REGISTRATION FORM ____DIRECTOR Version 3.43 Diskette, Manual and Registration.......................... @ $35.00 ea $________ ____Director Version 3.43 Diskette, Manual on Diskette and Registration.......... @ $30.00 ea $________ Subtotal $________ California residents please add 6% sales tax: tax $________ Total $________ Please make checks payable to: Helpware 100 Bayo Vista Way #6 San Rafael, CA 94901 Name:_________________________________________________________________ Company:_______________________________________________________________ Address:_______________________________________________________________ Where did you obtain DIRECTOR__________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Any comments, suggestions or bugs?_____________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ My name is Dan Baumbach I am a member of ASP., The Association of Shareware Professionals. I can be reached either at the above address, on CompuServe electronic mail 71320,1277, or at (415) 453-9779. Thank you for your registration. For your convenience, you may now register for DIRECTOR through the Public (Software) Library with their 800 number and use your credit card. PSL will contact me the same day and I will send you the latest release of DIRECTOR. Their phone number is 1-800-2424-PSL