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DirWork V1.31 - Chris Hames 22/6/91. All rights Reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------- DW Size 44428 bytes Need to get around your directories fast and simply. Force yourself to read fully this doc file and I think you will find this program of great use. What makes DirWork better than the rest ? VERY Configurable. All Buttons/Options/WindowSize/WindowPosition can be modified and the DW executable modified to have these values. Detaches. So when you type DW from CLI you can still use your CLI as if nothing happened. No need to Run! Sleep. Can be put to sleep so it disappears completely until you select it from the workbench tools menu (kick2.0-) or press left Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D or whatever keys you configure it to. Also can be started in sleep mode so "DW -s" in your startup-sequence will have it there for when you want it later. Intelligent. Double click the left mouse button on filename of a IFF picture and it will be automatically displayed. Double click a text file to type it, press the right mouse button to edit it! Double Click a .lzh file and you see the contents, right mouse button on one extracts the contents to the destination dir and then reads in the new entries. As well as many other instant actions on different types of files. A excellent show built in that loads in the next picture while your looking at the last. You can of course set up a button to use your own show utility. Both memory and BootBlock virus checking. PopKeys. Define keys to start up programs. eg make Amiga-P start your paint program. Amiga-Escape start a NewShell etc etc etc Also adds these programs to your Tools menu if using Kick2.0-. ScreenBlanker so that the phosphors on your monitor get a rest. AutoPoint option so that the window the mouse is over is selected. Copy & move cloning so that the date/protection/filenote is same. Fast and Smooth Floppy Dirs! Getting a directory off a floppy is up to 2 times faster. And your drive doesn't grind back and forward anywhere near as much as normal. Size. At less than 45K uncompressed in makes mince meat of most of those huge memory hungry utils. This program is SHAREWARE so please support the work that has gone into it. Here is my order of preference due to bank charges for contributions :- Australian Cash or Cheque Internationa Money Order or anything else that costs me nothing Foreign Cash (US, English or German prefered) The suggested contribution of $35 will get you a disk containing the next version of this program when it is available. Please send the contribution & any ideas etc to:- C Hames |Internet: Snail: 6 Pamela Crt | bytey@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au Blackburn South | ins760z@monu4.cc.monash.edu.au (1991 only) VIC 3130 |FidoNet BBS: Australia | 3:633/353 And don't forget to include the version number you have! This program may be copied as long as it is accompanied by this doc file both unaltered & no money is charged(except for a reasonable copying fee such as what Fred Fish charges). All use of this program is at your own risk & I assume no responsibility or liability for any problems that occur. Future Improvements:- (When registering please tell me which ones you want) More configurable. ie Screens/ButtonPositions/Colors/Priority etc Much better Type/Htype. Ability to stop during a dir read. Iconify. Inbuilt gif viewer(I have written one just needs adding). Internal Diskcopying/Formatting. More file types recognized. Last side used as source, selection option. Faster(the need for speed!). History:- 27/ 1/90 1.00 First Release. 5/ 2/90 1.01 VMK updated to v27. Stopped title bar flashing. 12/ 2/90 1.02 Icon. Faster. Smaller. Now uses less memory(5K) if destination display is not used. 15/ 2/90 1.03 Detaches from CLI. Some Workbench problems fixed. A Show bug fixed. 22/ 2/90 1.04 CD bug fixed. Volumes button added. Dir buttons and options can be modified and saved. VMK can now automatically be executed every 10 secs. 14/ 7/90 1.10 Heaps of little improvements. Copy/Delete/Move Dirs. Now VERY configurable buttons. Sleep. Window sizing. HxType/Type/Search Esc works anytime now. Rename/ makdir/copy/move/delete add or remove from both filelists where appropriate. So many more changes that I am calling it 1.10 ! 30/ 7/90 1.11 Bug fixed when getting dirs with spaces in them. 17/ 8/90 1.12 Rare problem getting dirs with spaces at end. 10/ 1/91 1.20 More than 255 files displayed. Dirs above files option added. And too many other things to mention. 13/ 1/91 1.21 Sometimes crashed when started from cli, bug found in detach routine. Argh!! Display .info files option added. Window Pos now saved with config. 16/ 1/91 1.22 Recognition of text files improved. Other little things improved. 10/ 6/91 1.30 Wouldn't save config if started in sleep mode (-s) fixed. Didn't open some windows at same offset as window fixed. Now gets the dirs after sleep. Automatically gets info(bytes free) for dirs after a copy move or delete. MakeDir can have icon. Bootblock checking. Popkeys. ScreenBlanking. Runs programs with spaces(Dave!). Save's path of DW program with save executable. Paths other than C: recognized(Thanks Randell). Parent/root far left or right of the text gadget right mouse button over text gadget gets dir. Shells etc now have close gadgets if kick 2.0, and the N,x,u commands have been improved. Kick 2.0 looks. Heaps of other little things. 22/ 6/91 1.31 Requester kick 1.2/1.3 freeze bug hopefully gone. Crash after RMB instant getdir gone. AutoPoint for James. Screen option. Copy/move clone code better and kick 1.2/1.3 date. Filenote problem with FSDirs problem fixed. Better FileSelection. Requester bigger. FileBits/Note writting under Kick 1.2/1.3 fixed. Resizing doesn't make slide gadgets go to top. Kick 2.0- execute window title shows path. Delete didn't request for non-empty dirs fixed. Popkey stuff gets added to tools menu in Kick2.0- No flashing bottom line. And some other little things. Instructions:- ------------ The window display +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ |+| Title Bar - Chip & total memory available | | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | | +++ Buttons +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ Buttons +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | | +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ | / Left Directory Al No CD << <> >> CD No Al Right Directory / |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | Left File List | || | Right File List | | |S||S| | | DirectoryName ? |l||l| DirectoryName ? | | OR |i||i| OR | | FileName ? size|d||d| FileName ? size| | ^ |e||e| ^ | | if undeletable u | || | if undeletable u | | if has filenote f |G||G| if has filenote f | | if is script s |a||a| if is script s | | if pure p |d||d| if pure p | | |g||g| | | |e||e| | | |t||t| | | | || | | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| |Errors and other messages Disk Names & Bytes Free as well | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Actual directory text (Left Directory or Right Directory) Pressing the Right mouse button when over the text showing the path of the dir reads that directory into the file list. eg If DF0: was in the Left Directory text gadget you could insert a new disk into the internal disk drive DF0: and then press the right mouse button over the DF0: in the Left directory text to read in the new directory. Pressing the left mouse button over the far left/right of the text gadget(see the "/" in window representation above) gets the parent. Parent makes DF0:t/r become DF0:t Right button gets the root. Root makes DF0:t/r become DF0: You can press the left mouse button over the left or right directory text gadget then edit the directory to the one you want to work with and then if you press return the directory will be read in. Remember in most string gadgets right Amiga X clears the text in the gadget, and you can use shift -> or <- to go to end or start of the text. FileList(s) Press the left mouse button to select/deselect a file or directory name. Right mouse button or double click left button on a directory reads in that directory. Left mouse button to the far left or right of a file/dir will bring up a requester with the FileNote and Protection bits which you can edit. Use the slide gadget to see files that are not displayed. Double Click of left Button on a file will try to recognize the file and automatically do something with the file(eg With default settings the quickly double clicking the left button on a text file will type it & and double clicking on a IFF picture(such as a picture from a paint program) file will show it with the internal show). Right Mouse Button on a file will try to recognize the file and automatically do something with the file. eg With default settings the Right mouse button on a text file will edit it (If you have configured your instant edit to your editor or it already is) or pressing the right mouse button on a picture file will show it with Mostra(© Sebastino Vigna) if you have that program. Here is a table of the default instant Operations:- File type Double Clicking Right Mouse button ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOD. Intuitracker filename Run Intuitracker filename .ARC Arc v filename Arc xw filename .DMS DMS Write filename DMS Write filename .LZH Lharc l filename Lharc -m -x -r x filename .LHW Lhwarp Write 0 filename Lhwarp Write 0 filename .PAK filename filename .WRP UnWarp filename UnWarp filename .ZIP PkaZIP filename PkaZIP filename .ZOO Zoo v filename Zoo xO// filename .GIF VirtGIF filename Run >NIL: VirtGIF filename .INFO 8SVX INTERNAL PlaySS filename PlaySS filename ANIM ShowANIM >NIL: filename ShowANIM >NIL: filename ILBM INTERNAL Show filename Mostra >NIL: filename SMUS PlaySMUS >NIL: filename PlaySMUS >NIL: filename FTXT Most Most filename Run >NIL: Most filename PP20 PPMore filename PPShow filename Exect filename Text INTERNAL Type filename Run >NIL: E filename Binry INTERNAL HxType filename Run >NIL: NewZAP filename Buttons The main idea is to press the left mouse button if you are referring to the source as the file list below the pointer. So to copy from the left file list to the right list, click on the the left copy button. And to copy from the right file list to the left file list, click on the right copy button. You can also click on a button with the right mouse button to refer to the opposite file list but if this sounds confusing just ignore this paragraph. (eg Left button on left DF0: will get the directory from DF0: and put it in the left file list, but right button on left DF0: will get the directory DF0: and put it in the right file list) Below is a description of what the buttons will do when the default setup is used. You can modify button functions to do something completely different if you want. DF0: DF1: RAM: SYS: etc Just press these to get the directory of this name in the file list below the pointer. Sleep Puts the task to sleep until you press the four left keys Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D. ie The window disappears as if you quit but the program is still there waiting until you press the keys. So you don't have to load DirWork all the time. DirWork starts in Sleep mode if you type DW -s instead of the usual DW when you run it from CLI. So you can have the command DW -s in your startup-sequence then when you actually want DirWork later you just have to press the keys Ctrl-Shift-Alt-D or if running Kick2.0- just can select DW in the Tools menu of workbench. Do what you want then press the sleep button to make DirWork disappear again. See PopKeys information for how to change the key combination that wakes DirWork up. Volms Displays all things assigned ie C: LIBS: SYS: etc Just press a button on one of them to enter the directory. Al Select all files. No Unselect all files & dirs. <> Swaps the left and right file list displays. >> & << Copies one file list to the other file list. Info Updates the info(bytes Free and name). And displays how many dirs/files/bytes are selected. Good to see if you are going to be able to fit all the file you want to copy. Copy Copys files/dirs from one dir to another. BytesFree for the source/destination is updated. See the configuration section if you want it to clone the original date/filenote/protection etc. Move Moves files/dirs from one dir to another. BytesFree for the source/destination is updated. See the configuration section if you want it to clone the original date/filenote/protection etc. Please note the DOS 1.2/1.3 bug where you lose directories if you move a directory to be a child of itself. I intercept and stop some but not all. ie Move ONE ONE/ONE !!!!IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! Delet Delete files/dirs. You are prompted before non empty dirs are deleted for confirmation but see the configuartion section if you don't like this. BytesFree for the directory is updated. Print Copies selected files text to the printer. Renam Rename files/dirs. Edit names in the requester. Please note the DOS 1.2/1.3 bug where you lose directories if you move a directory to be a child of itself. I intercept and stop some but not all. ie Rename ONE ONE/ONE !!!!IS NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!! MakDi Make a new directory. Enter name in requester. See the configuration section if you want it to also create a icon for the directory. Prote Change delete protection of a file/dir. Lets you toggle the delete protection of a file. A file with delete protection on has a u next to the right of the filename. CD Makes the dir the current directory. Type Displays a text file to a window. Esc quits anytime. By default a double click on a text file will call this routine. HxType Displays a file in hexadecimal to a window. By default Double click on a binary file will call this routine. Instant This performs as if you double clicked the left mouse button on the selected files. It will perform a relevent button on the file if it finds one otherwise it will assume the file is just binary and HxType it. All these things can be changed, see configuaration section Show Shows IFF files. Loads in the next pic while the last is being displayed to save a lot of time. Use Cursor keys to scroll around a picture bigger than the screen. Use the left mouse mouse button or press a key to go to next. If low on memory select one file at a time to display. By default a double click on a IFF picture file will call this routine. PlaySS Plays any file as a Sampled sound at 10000 samples/sec. By default a double click on a 8SVX sound file will call this routine. Search Search files for text that you are prompted for. The prompt has a UpperCase!=LowerCase option. It will tell you at want offsets in the file the text is found. VMK My MEMORY virus detector/killer. For a simple check to see that your memory is virus free. Does checks of many memory locations etc that are used by viruses. If you get a alert use a good disk virus killer to clear up the problem. See the seperate program VMK v1.0 for docs. The following buttons require you to have a external program and/or run in your c: or similar directory. Prefs Loads up workbench preferences with kickstart 1.2/1.3. Requires Preferences to be in a command path such as c:. Kickstart 2 preferences are spread over a few programs so there isn't one program you can run. Edit Edit selected files. Requires a editor named E in a path such as c:. Pressing the right mouse button on a text file will call a simlar routine. NewZP NewZAP selected files. Requires Newzap in a path such as c:. NewZAP is a file editor © John Hodgson. By default pressing the right mouse button on a binary file will call a similar routine. Run Run selected files. You will be prompted for optional arguments. eg if you selected the file Diskcopy you might want to enter "DF0: to DF1:". By default pressing the right mouse button on a executable file will will call a similar routine. Commd Enter commands in the cli window then enter endcli to return to DW or if using Kick2.0- or later click the close gadget. NewSh Does the NewShell command. Requires all shell type files. LHarcA Adds file to a Lharc archive that you specify in the prompt. Xoper Starts the program Xoper © Werner Gunther. Requires Xoper to be in path such as C:. Changing the configuration -------------------------- Menu Options Move the mouse pointer up to the left side of the title bar of the window and press the right mouse button. You can select if you want every inserted floppy disk's boot block checked to see if it is normal. Note some bootblocks are not normal and are not viruses so when you insert a disk and get the requester saying this is not a normal bootblock only install if you know that the bootblock does not contain important information. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want VMK(The virus detector) to be run every 8 seconds. You get a requester asking for options(see VMK docs). This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want the screen to blank after 8 minutes of no activity by the user. A still image on a monitor is not good for it so this blanks the screen. This is defaulted to off. AutoPoint lets you select if you want the window under the pointer to be automatically selected(activated). This is defaulted to off. You can select whether you want Fast&SmoothFloppyDirs. This is defaulted to off shouldn't be needed with Kick 2.0-. Note that the DirWork FSDirs does not make use of dos buffers that have been added using AddBuffers, but does very well with the two commercial diskbuffering programs. You can select if you want Directories displayed above files. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want .info files to be displayed. This is defaulted to on. You can select if you want the close gadget box of the window to make dirwork sleep instead of quit. This is defaulted to off. You can select if you want the old style button selection where the button position is irrelevent. ie Where you must use the right mouse button to refer to the right hand file list as the source. If you don't understand just ignore this option. This is defaulted to off. You can select that DirWork is to have a screen of its own instead of using the workbench screen. This is defaulted to off. ChangePopKey allows you to change the keys that bring DirWork out of sleep and you can define many other keys to execute other programs. If you are running kick2.0- the programs are also added to the workbench tools menu. By default the only one added is when left amiga and escape is pressed NewShell is executed. By default "@1922DW in Memory@4045NewShell" note first is DW wakeup \/\/\ \ \ \This is the marker between key definitions \ \This is the raw keycode of the normal key \This is the qualifier (special keys down) Sample Qualifiers: Sample RawKeys: LSHIFT=$01 Esc=$45 F1=$50 to F10=$59 RSHIFT=$02 `=$00 1=$01 to \=$0D BS=$41 CTRL =$08 Tab=$42 Q=$10 to P=$19 to ]=$1B LALT =$10 A=$20 to L=$29 to '=$2A RALT =$20 Z=$31 to M=$37 to /=$3A LAMIGA=$40 Del=$46 Help=$5F Return=$44 Space=$40 RAMIGA=$80 Up=$4C Down=$4D Left=$4F Right=$4E Keypad RawKeys: (=$5A to *=$5D 0=$0F .=$3C -=$4A Enter=$43 You can add up to 512 characters of this to launch many programs simply by pressing the keys(or selecting them from the tools menu in Kick2.0-). Just follow the format of @ then two digit qualifier then two digit keycode then the program to run then repeat the format but the first entry must always be the wakeup keys for DirWork. The SAVE function will modify a DW executable to have the setup that you currently have. You are prompted for the name of the DW which would most likey be C:DW. BUTTONS/INSTANTACTIONS/MENUOPTIONS/WINDOWSIZE/WINDOWPOSITION/ POPKEYS are all saved with this command so set up DirWork how you like it then use this command. Changing a button:- You can change a button to make it do something slightly different to something totally different. Just press on the button then go to the menu and select "Change last button pressed". To change an instant action you just do the instant action then select "Change last button pressed". You can also just do a binary edit of DirWork to change a button or instant action using NewZAP or similar. You are then able to edit the button configuration text. Which comprises of:- " , , " ||||| ||| | | ||| +------------Arguments for operation. | ||| | ||| | ||+-------------- Options for certain routines. | || | || | || | || | || | || | |+--------------------- What needs to be selected to operate. | | F=Selected Files. D=Selected Dirs. | | B=Selected Files &/or Dirs. | | A=All files/dirs even if not selected. | | 0=irrelevent | | | +------------------------ Internal routine the button uses. | A capital letter signifies that the operation does | not require selected files/dirs. A lower case | hence means the operation should require selected | files/dirs. | | +---------------------------------------- Button Name of 5 Chars This is the text that is displayed inside the button. These are the default button options "Instn,nF0,", "Print,iF0,", "Serch,fF0,", "NewZP,uF0,Run >NIL: NewZAP", "LharA,aF0,Lharc -m a ", "NewSh,N00,NewShell", "Info ,I00,", " Info,I00,", "Xoper,N00,Xoper", "Commd,N0w,", "NewZP,uF0,Run >NIL: NewZAP", "Searh,fF0,R", "Print,iF0,", "Sleep,S00,", "Prefs,N00,Preferences", "Prote,kB0,", "PlayS,pF0,", "MakDi,M00,", "HxTyp,hF0,", "Delet,dBR,", "Move ,mB0,", " Move,mB0,", "Delet,dBR,", "HxTyp,hF0,", "MakDi,M00,", "PlayS,pF0,", "Prote,kB0,", " VMK ,V00,", "Volms,U00,", " Run ,uFR,Run >NIL:", "Show ,sF0,", "Edit ,uF0,Run >NIL: E", "Type ,tF0,", "Renam,rB0,", "Copy ,cB0,", " Copy,cB0,", "Renam,rB0,", " Type,tF0,", " Edit,uF0,Run >NIL: E", " Show,sF0,", " Run ,uFR,Run >NIL:", "Volms,U00,", "WORK:,D00,WORK:", "SYS: ,D00,SYS:", "DH1: ,D00,DH1:", "DH0: ,D00,DH0:", "DF1: ,D00,DF1:", "DF0: ,D00,DF0:", "RAM: ,D00,RAM:", " RAM:,D00,RAM:", " DF0:,D00,DF0:", " DF1:,D00,DF1:", " DH0:,D00,DH0:", " DH1:,D00,DH1:", " SYS:,D00,SYS:", "WORK:,D00,WORK:", These are the one and two letter buttons between the dir string gadgets "All ,jAf,", "None ,lB0,", "CD ,C00,", "<< ,E00,", "<>SWA,W00,", ">> ,E00,", "CD ,C00,", "None ,lB0,", "All ,jAf,", These are the instant actions taken for various files if you double click the left button on a file. "MOD. ,uF0,Intuitracker", ".ARC ,uFp,Arc v", ".DMS ,uFR,DMS Write", ".LZH ,uFp,Lharc l", ".LHW ,uFR,Lhwarp Write 0", ".PAK ,xFw,", ".WRP ,uFR,UnWarp", ".ZIP ,uF0,PkaZIP", ".ZOO ,uFp,Zoo v", ".GIF ,uF0,VirtGIF", ".INFO,000,", "8SVX ,pF0,", "ANIM ,uF0,ShowANIM >NIL:", "ILBM ,sF0,", "SMUS ,uF0,PlaySMUS >NIL:", "FTXT ,uF0,", "Most ,uF0,Most", "PP20 ,uF0,PPMore", "Exect,000,", "Text ,tF0,", "Binry,hF0,", These are the instant actions taken for various files if you press the right mouse button on a file. "MOD. ,uF0,Run Intuitracker", ".ARC ,xFw,Arc xw", ".DMS ,uFR,DMS Write", ".LZH ,xFw,Lharc -m -x -r x", ".LHW ,uFR,Lhwarp Write 0", ".PAK ,xFw,", ".WRP ,uFW,UnWarp", ".ZIP ,uF0,PkaZIP", ".ZOO ,xFw,Zoo xO//", ".GIF ,uF0,VirtGIF", ".INFO,000,", "8SVX ,uF0,PlaySS >NIL:", "ANIM ,uF0,ShowANIM >NIL:", "ILBM ,uF0,Mostra >NIL:", "SMUS ,uF0,PlaySMUS >NIL:", "FTXT ,uF0,", "Most ,uF0,Run >NIL: Most", "PP20 ,uF0,PPShow", "Exect,uFR,", "Text ,uF0,Run >NIL: E", "Binry,uF0,Run >NIL: NewZAP", Routine| Example changes and Information letter | Remember upper case routine letter means selected file(s) related. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- D A simple change would be changing DH1: to DF2: just select the DH1: button, go up to change last button pressed and change " DH1:,D00,DH1:" to " DF2:,D00,DF2:". To make a button that gets the directory already in the text gadget (instead of just pressing the right mouse button over the gadget) "GetDr,D0c," N Executes commands. If you want to execute a program and don't want the selected files to be added to the command. You must add CTRL-J EndCLI to your command if you use a option that opens a window and you want it to automatically close. Options:- w if you want a window to open for the output. p if you want a window to open for the output and waits for you to press a key before it closes. R if you want a requester so you can edit the command before it is executed. W if you want a requestor then a window to open for the output. P if you want a requestor then a window that waits for a key. 0 means no window or requester. Examples:- "Prefs,N00,Preferences" Bring up 1.2/1.3 preferences. No output window is opened. "Avail,N0p,AvailJEndCLI" Show available memory in a window. Then automatically close that window after the user presses a key (or clicks on the close gadget with Kick2.0-). Note the J is CTRL-J "Avail,N0w,List" List a directory in a output window that stays open until the user enters EndCLI (or clicks on the close gadget with Kick2.0-). "DiskC,N0w,DiskCopy DF0: TO DF0:JEndCLI" Diskcopy DF0: to DF0: opening a window for the output that auto closes when the Diskcopy is finished. Note the J is CTRL-J M The Makedir function can be given a filename which it will copy to create a icon for the directory. All you have to do is give it the filename of the icon you want it to create. "MakDr,M00,sys:DefaultDraw.info" P To create a parent button if you don't like going to the far left/right of the directory text and pressing the left button. "Paren,P00," R To create a root button if you don't like going to the far left/right of the directory text and pressing the right button. "Root ,R00," j To make a all button select dirs as well as files. Change "All ,jAf," to "All ,jAb," d To make a delete button that doesn't request you when you delete a non empty dir. Change "Delet,dBR," to "Delet,dB0," c To make a copy button clone the file note, protection and date. BytesFree for the source/destination is updated after a copy. "CCopy,cBc," m To make a move button clone the file note, protection and date. "CMove,mBc," u The u internal routine is one of the most usefull it will execute the text in the argument part of the button config with any any file/dirnames selected. If you want the button to operate on selected files and directories use the B middle letter. If you want it just to operate on selected files use F and if you just want it to operate only on selected Dirs use D. Note the u command automatically adds JEndCLI (where J is CTRL-J) to commands that use an option that opens a window Options:- w if you want a window to open for the output. p if you want a window to open for the output and waits for you to press a key before it closes. R if you want a requester so you can edit the command before it is executed. W if you want a requestor then a window to open for the output. P if you want a requestor then a window that waits for a key. 0 means no window or requester. An example of using the u routine is the edit button and right mouse instant operation on text files:- " Edit,uF0,Run >NIL: E" To change to path for the editor from E to c:Ed just select the edit button, go up to change last button pressed and change to " Edit,uF0,Run >NIL: c:Ed" Note an output window is not needed hence the 0 as the option. To change the double click on a text file to use another text viewer instead of the default internal type. After you double click a text file & select change last button pressed change "Text ,tF0," to "Text ,uF0,ViewerName". To make a button that uses DOS's list command on selected files and dirs, and shows the output in a window than stays open until the user presses a key (or clicks the close gadget with Kick2.0-). "List ,uBp,List" To make a button that uses DOS's Execute command to execute script files, with an output window open while the command is executing. "Execu,uFw,Execute" To make a button that uses DOS's FileNote command to change the FileNote of a file in a requester. "Execu,uFR,FileNote" x Is like the u command except that the other file list is CD'ed before the command is executed. It is used for the extract commands for .lzh files and the like so that files produced go to the destination directory and not the source one. The destination directory is read in after this button is finished. b Is the routine which displays the FileNote/protection bits so "FBits,bB0," would create a button for it instead of going to the far right or left of the file/dir. Most people will make small changes to the button configurations if any, the simplest changes are the changing of the button text and the arguments. There are heaps more configuration changes & new buttons you could make! If you are a registered user just describe what sort of button you would like configured and I will give you the button configuration text for it if it is possible. Bye, Chris Hames (Available for any Amiga work)