Short: DiskMaster 2.4 and DM2.guide 1.85 Author: rriedel@amiga.on-luebeck.de (Rudolph Riedel) Uploader: rriedel@amiga.on-luebeck.de (Rudolph Riedel) Version: 2.4 Type: util/dir Replaces: util/dir/DiskMaster.lha Try to *READ* the guide *FIRST* if you encounter any problems! Then subscribe to the mailing-list. Some commands changed since 2.3 especially 'Sort'. From the guide: 2.4 (99-04-02) 61292 Bytes - Added a new function that was suggested by Hannu Nevalainen. Called 'SwapSel' it toggles all file`s selection state. - Renamed 'NoDoubles' to 'Dupe' and started implementing options, 'S' for selection of files is working fine. - Added '[C]omment' to 'Dupe'. - Bugfix: rewritten 'Dupe' again. - Improved 'About' by splitting it into two functions. - Replaced GetRexxVar1 and SetRexxVar1 by function-calls to amiga.lib . This saved about 200 lines from the ASM section of the source! - Changed the options for 'Sort' again. The template is now: Sort [ N(-) | C(-) | D(-) | S(-) | F ] [G] So 'Sort N' will sort in normal order, 'Sort N-' in reverse. Suggested by Hannu Nevalainen . - Added a new function called 'View' that utilizes amigaguide.library to display about everything. Template: 'View %s' - As suggested by Jody Tierney , AmigaGuide.library is no longer needed to start DM. If it is absent, 'View' won`t work though. - Fixed a bug that caused enforcer-hits when aborting the new font-requester. Thanks to Nils Goers for reporting it! - DiskFont.library is also not longer needed to start DM, if absent, topaz 8 will be used. - Fixed 'Font' - The requester will display the last selected font now. Changed the interface, FontName and FontSize are now 2 options. Example: "Font xen 8" - Adapted 'SaveConfig' to the changed 'Font' options. - Added some little extra-magic to recognize old-style 'Font'-commands. - AmigaGuide.library is now loaded on first use -> startup speed-up - The user-selected colors are now restored after 'View'. Thanks to Nils Görs for reporting this -still not really solved- conflict! - Re-Integrated '%n' - this time '%s' is not required on the same line... - Added the option 'FORCE' to 'Delete' - delete protected files! Suggested by Jostein Klemmetsrud . - Added a new function 'Icon' that will create an default icon for the file you provide. Suggested by Fredrik Ismyren and brought to life with a little help from Jody Tierney . - Internal: Flagged out a not (yet) used sub-routine. - Reduced the maximum size for the copy-buffer from 4megs to 128K. - Implemented 'Swap [ID]'. Suggested by Hannu Nevalainen . - Simplified the internal Startup.DM. e.g. removed the autocmd for .dms files and added an autocmd for reading amigaguide-docs with 'View'. - Internal: Replaced the line-counting function written in assembly by a similar function written in C. - Added a check to avoid stack-sizes lower than 4000 bytes with 'Extern'. - Removed DMHandler as DM2 was not dealing with DOS-packets directly for quiet some time now. - Internal: Made 'Status' a separate function. - Implemented 'Info' which pops up the WB-Information requester for the files you feed it. Suggested by Torben Danoe . - Added option "Date" to 'Dirlist' as suggested by Hannu Nevalainen. - Added option "Var" to 'Dirlist' - Added options "sel","unsel","dir" and "file" to 'Dirlist'. - list.sel.0 now contains the amount of selected entries. - Bugfix: The stem supplied as arg for 'Dirlist' is now converted to uppercase. Reported by Hannu Nevalainen. - Implemented 'Status E' and 'Status S' as a little exercise, these will return the amount of entries in a window / selected entries. Suggested by Nils Goers. - Raised length of filesize-string from 8 to 9 chars -> sizes will still be cutoff but now at sizes above 950 megs rather than 95 megs. - 'Comment %s ##' will DM2 tell to erase the comment of the selected file. Suggested by Nils Goers. - The current dir-window is now re-activated after a command from the cmd-window has been executed - Suggested by Nils Goers. - Internal: removed an unnecessary Delay(25) - Some generic code cleanup. - When an Arexx-Script returns anything else but ZERO the current operation is aborted and an existing con: window gets closed. Suggested by Nils Goers. - Internal: Moved all functions related to saving the config to a separate file -> DM2`s source is now splitted into 15 files. - 'SaveConfig' will now put quotations marks around volume names for 'OpenWindow' lines. e.g.: OpenWindow 0 11 281 389 "Ram Disk:" Suggested by Fredrik Ismyren. - Added option '%A' to 'Barformat' which refelects the screen/task name. Suggested by Moses Wildermuth . - Partly rewritten the inner loop of 'Copy' -> no more "GOTO"`s and 'Copy' may be aborted at any time now. - Internal: Raised limit for file-names to 64 characters - Bugfix: 'Rename' now supports up to 64 characters and checks the result. - Experimental: 'Weekday' and 'Time' are system-generated for the title-string. - Improved keyboard support: cursor keys/numeric keypad utlized for scrolling. - Mapped out (yet) unused keys from the numeric keypad after protest ;-) from Dirk Teunis . - Rewritten 'Parent' - also resolves links now. - Removed 'Expand' as it became useless with the new 'Parent'. - Rewritten 'Root'. - Bugfix: 'Archive' now also makes use of System() instead of Execute() which fixes a well hidden bug with 'Stdio'. - Bugfix: Changing the sort-mode didn`t worked with dir windows that shows the dev/vol/asn list. Reported by Fredrik Ismyren. - Fixed a bug with 'Copy'. Recursive copying with having the destination drawer included within the source caused DM to create drawers untill it failed. Thanks for reporting to Jim Steichen ! - Fixed a bug in 'Protect' that I introduced in 2.2b15, the last used protection-mask got dumped. Reported by Tony L.Bullock - Thanks! - Found and fixed an old enforcer-hit that occured when the font from Startup.DM was not existent. I wonder why no-one found this before. - Bugfix: 'Window NEXT' with only the command-window left caused an endless loop - Reported by Hannu Nevalainen. - Bugfix: Removed another ancient enforcer-hit that occured when calling Rename,Protect,Comment,Delete,Read,View or Setdate without arguments. Thanks for reporting to Nils Goers! - Bugfix: Deleting a hard-linked dir resulted in deleting the contents of the dir the link is pointing at - Reported by Hannu Nevalainen. - Bufix: "Setformat T" string was 7 instead of 5 chars in length. - Bugfix: 'HostScreen' copied a fixed number of pens to the internal array instead of looking at dri_NumPens. - Bugfix: 'Pens' can now be called after 'NewScreen'. - Bugfix: 'SaveConfig' always saved twelve pens instead of looking at dri_NumPens. - Bugfix: DM2 couldn`t handle dirs including ?/*/# correctly. Thanks to Fabrizio Bartoloni for reporting this! - Rewritten 'Dirlist' as suggested by Nils Goers, Hannu Nevalainen and Jody Tierney. - Bugfix: DM2 now jumps down a long list instead of scrolling down. - Bugfix: DM2 didn`t moved down to the last entry when moving/deleting... - Bugfix: Entering "devs:mountlist" in the string-gadget let DM2 quit as the file was interpreted as startup.dm . Thanks for reporting to Giuseppe Ammendolia . - Bugfix: Moving a file between two windows with the same path let DM2 forget about that file even though it didn`t get deleted. Moving any other file than the first also resulted in a recoverable alert. 'Move' is now aborted when the source and dest window have the same path. Reported by Jostein Klemmetsrud . - Bugfix: The requester for 'SetFormat'/'TitleFormat' allowed strings too long. - Bugfix: There was no check for the length of the resulting string in 'BarFormat','SetFormat' and 'TitleFormat' so it was no problem to cause a buffer overrun -> caboum! - Bugfix: noticed that an internal string-buffer for 'Status' was too small. 'Status E' with more than 999 files resulted in a buffer-overflow. - Bugfix: added some lines of code from Nils Goers to the assembly-section. The year-display for years beyond 99 is no longer trashed - thanks Nils! - Fixed that old bug that let DM try to close it`s screen even if there is still a visitor window left on it. Thanks to Fredrik Tempelman ! - Bugfix: "Move %s %d RENAME" opened two rename-requesters of which the the first was totally useless. Thanks for reporting to Fredrik Ismyren .