Info V39.2
			© 1997 by Stephan Rupprecht
			    All rights reserved.
    

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
 This version of Info is copyrighted 1997 by Stephan Rupprecht. 
 All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial  
 donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is 
 left unchanged except for addition of new language  catalogs.   
 The author is not responsible for any damage caused by the 
 use or misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it 
 describes.


Overview
 This directory contains the following files:

 Info.dok				german doc
 Info.doc				this file
 Info	  				the program itself
 Info.cd				catalog desciptor file
 deutsch.ct				german catalog translation
 install				installation program
 info_com.catalog			german catalog file

 To use Info you have to work with:
 -at least AmigaOS 2.04.


Description
Info is a replacement for the original AmigaDOS 'info' command.
In opposite to other info commands, this version does not cause 
any deadlocks. You can select if you  want only  information about 
disks or volumes or even selected devices. Another advantage is 
that the columns 'size' and 'used' are printed no longer in blocks, 
but in KBytes, MBytes or even in GBytes, so  you  don't have to 
know how long  a block actually is  on a  specific device. For 
volumes the creation date is printed additionally. Info uses 
64bit math-functions, so you won`t get wrong results about the 
size of a drive, if you have a big hd of 2GBytes or more.  
Another feature is that info outputs the disktype of each volume.

   Output	File system
   --------------------------------------------------------
   OFS		Old File System (DOS\0)
   FFS		Fast File System (DOS\1)
   INT-OFS	Old File System, internal. mode
   INT-FFS	Fast File System, internal. mode
   DC-OFS	Old File System, fast dirs
   DC-FFS	Fast File System, fast dirs
   MSDOS	CrossDos/MSDos disk
   CDFS		CDRom 
   NO DOS	unknown system

   		Depending on the file system you`re using, 
		other outputs are possible (eg. AFS0, MSH0 ...).

Start from Shell.
To install info just start the >>install<< program.
You  can  start  Info  only  from   shell, since it a DOS command
(except  for  the  possibility to start it from Workbench through
the menu item 'Execute Command...').

The   format    is  »Info  DISKS/S,VOLS=VOLUMES/S,DEVICES«.  Each
parameter  is  optional.  If you don't give any parameter, you'll
get  full information. If you provide a device name (eg. df0:) or 
a pattern string (eg. dh?:) you will get only information for the 
device(s) matching the given string. If you invoke  Info with the 
keywords VOLUMES or DEVICES, you'll only get information from these 
ones. The keyword VOLS is only an abbreviation for VOLUMES.


HISTORY
39.1	first public release
39.2	added pattern-matching, removed DEVICES/M option for this
	purpose.
	fixed a bug, which causes info to continue its job even 
	when a memory allocation failed. 
	

AUTHOR

Please send bug reports and ideas to:

 Stephan Rupprecht
 Apfeldweg 1
 D44359 Dortmund
 Germany

 Send emails to (it`s my brothers address!)

 Rupprecht_Verwertung@T-Online.de