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- CF VERSION 0.9X
-
- KEYS:
-
- F1 = View small help SHIFT-F1 = View large help
- F2 = NC menu
- F3 = Toggle size mode SHIFT-F3 = Toggle date mode
- F4 = Toggle cursor lock
- F5,? = Information page
- F6 = Create list file SHIFT-F6 = Create sorted list
- F7 = Create 'batch' file
- F9 = XTGOLD menu
- F10 = Change sort order SHIFT-F10 = Re-load config file
-
- SPACE = View duplicates
- RETURN = Execute NC extension file entry
-
- Q,q,Alt-Q,Ctrl-Q,ESC = Clear the screen and exit to DOS
- X,x,Alt-X = Exit to DOS (no clear screen)
-
- Home,C-PgUp = First page PgUp = Page up
- End,C-PgDwn = Last page PgDwn = Page down
- CsrUp = Previous line CsrDwn = Next line
- CsrLeft = File left CsrRight = File right
- C-CsrLeft = Sel mode left C-CsrRight = Sel mode right
-
- V,v = View file E,e = Edit file
- O,o = Execute XTGOLD batch file
-
- Alt-V = Auto-view mode Alt-E = Auto-edit mode
- Alt-O = Auto-batch mode
-
- T,t = Tag file U,u = Untag file
- Space,N,n = Invert file tag Ctrl-T = Tag all in set
- Ctrl-U = Untag all in set Ctrl-N = Invert all in set
- Alt-T = Tag all files Alt-U = Untag all files
- Alt-N = Invert all files
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- PARAMETERS:
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- -SE Sort file records by extension
- -SL Sort CF readable output by location (sets -TB)
-
- -TD Toggle date display mode
- -TS Toggle sizes display mode
- -TC Toggle cursor lock mode
- -TO Toggle use of mono 'colours'
- -TK Toggle buffering of keys
- -TB Toggle batch mode (set by -SL)
-
- -IL Ignore locations (don't store them)
- -IM Ignore EMS (don't use it)
- -IX Ignore XMS (don't use it)
- -ID Ignore date field when high-lighting files
- -IT Ignore time field when high-lighting files
- -IS Ignore size field when high-lighting files
- -IE Ignore extensions when sorting file records
- -IU Ignore duplicate details (don't store them)
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- -C Read file contents rather than storing its details
- -P Pause until key-press (use before logging diskettes)
- -D Descend any sub-directories encountered
- -W Switch day and month order while processing next source
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- -F<pattern> = File name patterns, separated by a semi-colon
- -Y<filename>= Change location of temporary file
- -M<letter> = Switch selection mode (<letter> = ASDUONLHT; if letter is
- 'T', then set number can follow)
- -V<mode> = Flip to specified (decimal) video mode and back afterwards
- + = Append files to last file set
-
- {<number> = Loop start <number> times loop
- } = End-of-loop indicator
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
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- (a) CFTEMPNAME - This holds the name of the temporary file to be used
- by CF when carrying out certain operations. Note that this string
- will be over-ridden by any '-Y' command that is encountered.
-
- (b) CFCFGNAME - Holds the name of the config file. If it does not
- exist, then a file of the name CF.INI will be sought in the
- directory from where CF was started.
-
- (c) CFXTGOLDDIR - Tells CF in which directory to look for XTGOLD files
- that it wishes to access.
-
- (d) CFNCDIR - Specifies which directory should be searched for Norton
- Commander files. If this environment variable doesn't exist, then
- CF will use the standard NC variable, "NC".
-
- CONFIG:
-
- (a) PROGARCH <match> <progname> <beforeparams> <afterparams>
- PROGVIEW <match> <progname> <beforeparams> <afterparams>
- PROGEDIT <match> <progname> <beforeparams> <afterparams>
-
- (b) PARAMETER <parameter>
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- (c) VARIABLE <environment-variable-name> <value>
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- (d) RECOGNISE <file-extension-with-dot>
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- NOTES:
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- (a) The -SL option automatically sets the -TB option
-
- (b) CF can only access .ARC and .ZIP files to extract a list file or
- edit and view text files, if you have a relevant program on your
- search path.
-
- (c) Certain parameters can be concatenated together. Any from one
- 'class' can be grouped. For example, if you want to ignore file
- extensions and sizes, use '-IES' instead of '-IE -IS'.
-
- (d) If you use a drive letter on its own (say, 'C:'), this is
- processed as if you'd specified a recursive descent of the
- corresponding root directory. (In the previous example, it would
- act as if you had used '-D C:\'.)
-
- (e) The emulation of the NC extension file system is not complete.
- However, it seems to work most of the time. CF actually converts
- the special "!" entries, in the NC extension file, into XTGOLD "%"
- equivalents. Also, the NC menu is handled by reading the NC menu
- file and creating a (temporary) XTGOLD menu file, so the XTGOLD
- limits (number of entries and number of lines per entry) also
- apply to NC menus displayed via CF.
-
- (f) If the NC menu or extension files are editted from within CF, the
- changes take effect straight away. I believe that this is NOT the
- case with Norton Commander itself, where it only appears to read
- these files at start-up.
-
- (g) Environment varibles defined by using "VARIABLE" lines in the
- config file OVERRIDE the real MS-DOS environment defintions since
- CF searches the config file contents before looking in the MS-DOS
- environment.
-
- (h) Graphics video modes, specified using the -V parameter, will NOT
- work because of the window libraries used by CF.
-
- EXAMPLES:
-
- (a) CF C: + D: + E: + F: -SE
-
- This will log all files on all drives (on my machine) into one
- file set. The files will be in extension order. Note that there
- will only be ONE file set.
-
- (b) CF C: D: E: F: -MT2
-
- This will log all the files, as above, but the files on each drive
- will be in a separate file set. The files will be sorted by file
- NAME rather than file extension. At start-up, the mode will be
- such that all the files in file set two (that is, those of drive
- D:) will be shown.
-
- (c) CF {3 -P A: }
-
- This will compare the files from three different diskettes. CF
- will pause before each diskette is logged.
-
- (d) CF -F*.DEF;*.MOD -D -C \*.ZIP
-
- Using an external program, examine the contents of all .ZIP files
- on the default drive, but, from these .ZIP files, only log .DEF
- and .MOD files.
-
- (d) CF -F*A.* C:
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- Find all files, on drive C:, where the "root" of the file name
- ends with an "A". Note that if you try this in a normal MS-DOS
- command, you'll get ALL files - the -F parameter uses a much
- better string matching algorithm.
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