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- Help for Reverser
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- Version 1.20 - 21st June 1997
- Shareware - Copyright 1996-1997 Peter Naulls
- pnaulls@wave.co.nz
-
-
- "So, What is it?"
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- !Reverser is a foreign filename formatter.
-
-
- "A what?"
-
- It takes filenames from other platforms (e.g. DOS, Unix) and converts them
- into more RISC OS friendly filenames.
-
-
- "Like what?"
-
- Well, there might be a Unix file called "program.c". When this is moved
- to RISC OS, this becomes program/c, as RISC OS uses the fullstops as
- directory serparators. For programs to be compiled using compilers such
- as gcc, the files need to be placed in "c" and "h" directories. Not so bad
- it there are a few files, but if there are tens, or even hundreds of files,
- manually doing it will take quite a while. Reverser does this all for you.
-
-
- "Anything else?"
-
- Picture files brought to RISC OS often have esentially useless extensions. E.g.
- for picture/gif, Reverser will take off the "/gif" part. Reverser will
- optionally take off trailing "/"s too, left over from file truncations.
-
- Finally, Reverser can just set the type of files matching a given extension.
-
-
- "Cool, I could really use this. How does it work?"
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- The program is launched in the normal way, by double clicking the icon.
- From the icon bar menu, off the Start entry, a save-as like box will appear.
- The icon can be dragged to a directory, where it will begin converting all the
- files it finds.
-
- There are two options on the icon bar menu:
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- "Remove Trailing '/'" - If this is ticked, files without extensions, but
- with leftover '/'s will have them removed.
-
- "Recurse" - Reverser will recurse into any subdirectories it finds if this
- is selected.
-
-
- "So, what files will it rename?"
-
- Look in the file !Reverser.Extensions. This contains the configuration.
- Each line contains an extension, followed by an action.
-
- The first line contains:
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- c rename fff c
-
- Which means that files ending in "/c" will have the "/c" removed, and will
- be placed in a "c" directory. e.g. program/c -> c.program. Lastly,
- the type of the file will be set to fff (textfile).
-
- Further down we have:
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- jpg chop c85
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- Which means than files ending in "/jpg" will have it removed.
- e.g. picture/jpg -> picture, and the type will be set to c85
- (jpeg).
-
- At the bottom:
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- txt settype fff
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- This means any files ending in "/txt" will have their type
- set to textfile.
-
-
- If you don't want files to have their type change, put in "none" for
- the filetype instead.
-
-
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- "Is there anything it won't do?"
-
- The shareware version will not recurse subdirectories, whatever you do.
- Also, there is a good chance that in a directory with many entries to
- be renamed, the shareware version will skip over some files because of
- the directory cataloguing method used. You will have to use Reverser
- several times to get all the files. Note registered versions do not
- do this.
-
- The shareware version will also not set filetypes.
-
- Also, see limiations below.
-
-
- "What should I watch out for?"
-
- The file extensions in the configuration file are case-sensitive,
- I might change this eventually, but it's not a big deal - simply
- put the uppercase one too.
-
- Image files will not be renamed as Reverser sees these as directories.
- Quit the filesystem first (e.g. zip files - quit SparkFS)
-
- A filename will not be renamed if doing so would mean a filename
- clash.
-
-
- "Anything else?"
-
- Reverser is shareware. If you like it, and intend to use it, you
- must send me 5UKP, or equivalent in your currency to:
-
- Peter Naulls
- 28a Galloway Street
- Hamilton
- NEW ZEALAND
-
- As a guide, 5UKP = NZ$11 and 11 German Marks. Anyone registered will
- receive free upgrades and support.
-
- Any comments, suggestions, or general abuse to:
-
- pnaulls@wave.co.nz
-
-
-
-
- History
- -------
-
- Version 1.00 - 15th November 1996
-
- Original version, it's taken me a while to get round to finishing, but here
- it is.
-
-
- Version 1.10 - 27th December 1996
-
- New !Sprites22 thanks to James Shiell
- Renaming bug fixed - you cannot do a rename inside some image filing
- systems like SparkFS. Reverser reverts to copy and delete if it cannot
- rename.
-
- Version 1.11 - January(ish) 1997
-
- The Reverser icon was a wee big wrong - now fixed
-
- Version 1.20 - 21st June 1997
-
- Added setting of filetypes.
- Removed limitation of number of extensions.
- Directory which renamed files are moved to does not have to be the same
- as the extension.
-
-
- Known Bugs
- ----------
-
- Reverser may lock occasionally if it cannot do something. I have not
- bothered to trace this bug as yet.
-
- Malformed Extensions file will cause unpredictable results - you have
- been warned.
-
-
- Limitations
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-
- Shareware version will not recurse.
- Sharewave version will not always 'get' every file.
- Shareware version will not set filetypes.
- Very little error reporting if anything goes wrong.
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- Wishlist
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- Checking for image files - e.g. DOS partitions and archives.
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- Thanks to
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- James Shiell (aka SevenUp)
- Michael-Dennis Biemans (aka XORcist)
-
- And the rest of the #acorn crew.
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