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- MFM is a file area manager designed to work with MAXIMUS.
-
- MFM is guaranteed to do nothing but take up your precious disk
- space. If you use this program, you do so at your own risk. The
- author assumes NO responsibility for ANY loss.
-
- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
- --------------------
-
- -a This allows you to specify the path for MFM to find the
- AREAS.CTL file. Default is to look for AREAS.CTL in the
- same directory as MFM.EXE
-
- Example MFM -aC:\MAX\
-
- -c This tells MFM where to direct it's IO. MFM defaults the
- IO to CON.
-
- -c0 Tells MFM to direct IO to CON.
- -c1 Tells MFM to direct IO to COM1.
- -c2 Tells MFM to direct IO to COM2.
- -c9 Tells MFM to direct IO to STDIN and STDOUT.
-
- -p This parameter tell MFM to start in the specified directory.
-
- Example MFM -pD:\FILES\UTILITY\
-
-
-
- AREA SELECT SCREEN
- ------------------
-
- When MFM is started without the -p parameter it will present you
- with a screen that will allow you select an area. Just use your cursor
- keys to select an area and press enter. The only other command at this
- screen is the P command, that allows you to add temporary areas.
-
-
- FILES.BBS EDITING SCREEN
- ------------------------
-
- This screen will show you the list of files in this area upto 22
- records at a time. The following keys are presently defined.
-
- 7 [home] Moves to the top of the list.
-
- 8 [up arrow] Moves up one line.
-
- 9 [pg up] Moves up 22 lines.
-
- 1 [end] Moves to the bottom of the list.
-
- 2 [down arrow] Moves down one line.
-
- 3 [pg dn] Moves down 22 lines.
-
-
- A Adopt orphans and Abandon file records.
- ^A Adopt ALL orphans.
-
- E Edit the file description.
-
- I Insert comment line.
-
- N Choose new area.
-
- C Copy current file and description to new area.
-
- M Move current file and description to new area.
-
- K Kill current entry.
-
- U Unkill to current position.
-
- F Mark first entry to be sorted.
-
- L Mark Last entry to be sorted.
-
- S Sort by name.
-
- T Sort by time and date.
-
- W Write records to FILES.BBS and erase killed entries.
-
- R Change filename of entry.
-
- *** NOTE ***
-
- Push and Pop commands are used to moved lines within an area. Push
- the line onto the stack, move to the new location and pop it back.
-
- < or , Push record on to stack for moving.
-
- . Pop record from stack to before current location.
-
- > Pop record from stack to after current location.
-
- [ Rotate stack to previous entry and display.
-
- ] Rotate stack to next entry and display.
-
- ; Display current stack entry.
-
- { Rotate kill stack to previous entry and display.
-
- } Rotate kill stack to next entry and display.
-
- : Display current kill stack entry.
-
- ! ReDraw screen.
-
- D Change file date.
-
- Search for string:
-
- ^F In file name.
- ^D In description.
- ^B In both.
-
- <SPACE> Toggle tag.
-
- # Mass move.
-
- $ Mass copy.
-
- ALT-F View file with "SHEZ.EXE".
-
- ALT-L View file with "LIST.COM".
-
- ALT-V View file with "LIST.COM" or "SHEZ.EXE".
-
- ALT-Z View GIF file with VPIC.EXE. (Requires VGA)
-
- ALT-S Shell to DOS.
-
-
-
- COMMENTS, SUGGESTIONS AND BUGS
- ------------------------------
-
- Please direct these to: Mark W. Billig Jr.
- 1:273/701.0
- Enterprise BBS
- (215) 641-0270
-
- CREDITS
- -------
-
- MAXIMUS Scott Dudley
- LIST Vernon D. Buerg
- SHEZ Jim Derr
- VPIC Bob Montgomery
-
-
- HISTORY
- -------
-
- 1.00 17mar90 First public release.
-
- 1.01 30mar90 Added, Search for string, Tag and Mass move.
-
- 1.02 12apr90 Added view file and enhanced the move and copy.
- You will need "LIST.COM" and "SHEZ.EXE" to use
- the ALT-V command. Fixed bug with copy or move
- not having enough space.
-
- 1.03 29apr90 Minor bug fixes.
-
- 1.04a 15may90 Removed prompt in mass move. Added checking to
- make sure there is enough room for the file to be
- copied and FILES.BBS to be modified on destination.
- Fixed problem with mass move when entries were not
- on the screen.
-
- 1.04b 19may90 Added to commands ("," and "."). Changed operation
- of quit command slightly.
-
- 1.04c 24may90 Fixed bug with quit command. (NQN)
-
- 1.04d 06jun90 Increased number of columns in area display. Added
- new commands in area selection.
-
- 1.05a 23jun90 Added ALT-F command, to force SHEZ on a file with
- an improper extension.
-
- 1.05b 30jun90 Added *NEW* way to change areas. (Start spelling
- the area)
-
- 1.05c 03jul90 Added ':' to area mask. Changed quit in area
- selection to allow quick quitting.
-
- 1.05d 15aug90 Changed the save procedure to start the description
- at position 14.
-
- 1.06a 20aug90 Added support for three line descriptions. Fixed
- several bugs. (^Q)
-
- 1.06b 30aug90 Fixed problem with case sensitivity in area table.
-
- 1.06c 06sep90 Added ability to quote keys in description edit.
- This is done with the ^Q key.
-
- 1.06d 07sep90 Fixed problem with "BuildList" properly identifying
- comments.
-
- 1.06e 08sep90 Changed insert command, to only insert a blank.
-
- 1.07a 11oct90 Changed tagging to also move down. Fixed problem
- with area select #1 key.
-
- 1.07b 22oct90 Fixed problem, when killing top entry the display
- show the killed list over and over to fill the
- screen. The TopEntry was not updated properly.
- In released version 1.07, the file AREA.INC was
- corrupted.
-
- 1.07c 26oct90 Fixed problem with "BuildList" properly identifying
- comments. (again)
-
- 1.07d 27oct90 Fixed problem with "FreeSpace" showing 0k free.
-
- 1.07e 29oct90 Fixed problem with only filename.
-
- 1.08a 07nov90 Tick release of 1.08 in SDSMAX.
-
- 1.08b 23nov90 Added CTRL-X command to copy the description from
- the record above.
-
- 1.08c 26nov90 Added ability to specify AREAS.CTL's name.
- Example >>>---> -aC:\MAX\FILEAREA.CTL
- Added ability to specify number of columns in area
- display. From 3 to 8, default 5.
- Example >>>---> -k8
-
- 1.08d 28nov90 Added new command "^A - Adopt All Orphans". Change
- Find both to from ^A to ^B.
-
- 1.08e 09dec90 Changed from TP5.5 to TP6.0
-
- 1.08f 19dec90 Changed from AREAS.CTL to AREA.DAT, with the unit
- MAXAREAS. Renamed all .INC files to .PAS to make
- it easier to work in TP60.
-
- 1.08g 20apr91 Added CallList routine to allow viewing files
- without extensions. (ALT-L)
-
- 1.09 14jun91 Added support for ARJ files. Fixed file sharing
- problem. Improved copy subroutine and AREA.DAT
- reading subroutine. Fixed problem with ^B (find
- string in description and filename). Added MASS
- COPY subroutine.
-
- 1.09a 19jun91 Fixed problem with move subroutine.
-
- 1.09b 20jun91 Fixed problem with AREA.DAT file being greater then
- an integer value.
-
- 1.09c 03aug91 Changed >= to > in MAXAREAS.PAS to fix problem with
- missing the last area.
- "If (StructLen*AreaNo) > FileSize(AreaDat) Then"
-
- 1.09d 23sep91 Fixed problem with "0" as leading character. Added
- size and number of files.
-
- 1.09e 27sep91 Added ALT-Z to view GIFs.
-
- 1.09f 22oct91 Added file path to line 25.
-
- 1.09g 23oct91 Added file path to line 25 on area select.
-
- 1.09h 23oct91 Changed colors to match Maximus.
-
- 1.09i 31oct91 Changed more colors.
-
- 1.09j 03nov91 Added internal skip list. Will now save original
- FILES.BBS to FILES.BAK
-
- 1.10 16nov91 Added external skip list. (MFM-SKIP.LST) Maximum
- skip entries is 20.
-