Info V39.5 © 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. REQUIREMENTS Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with AmigaOS® 2.x or higher. 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 (they are printed in alphabetical order). 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 If you use any other filesystem, Info will show you the 4 byte filesystem identifier. Eg.: users of AmiFileSystem will get a PFS or AFS as disktype. INSTALLATION AND START To install Info simply doubleclick the Install icon in this directory. 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 DISKS, you'll only get information from these ones. The keyword VOLS is only an abbreviation for VOLUMES. Some examples for the DEVICES option: Info (df0:|dh0:) Info only shows information about df0: and dh0: Info d#? Info shows all devices, which names begin with a 'd' For more about patterns, take a look at the AmigaDOS manual (ch. 1-11). NEW LANGUAGE CATALOGS If you translate Info to your native language, please send me the catalog translation file (.ct) via eMail, so that I can include it into the archive. You can find the catalog descriptor file in the subdir Catalogs/ ! 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. 39.3 devices and volumes are printed in alphabetical order now 39.4 recompiled with MaxonDEVELOP, some optimiziations 39.5 Info does no longer shorten the device designation to 5 characters. New catalog file (french). SPECIAL THANKS GO TO Gunther Nikl for reporting me that the german catalog file was missing the last time (39.1). Jussi T Lindgren for his suggestions. Didier Giron for the french translation. Dirk Mueller for his suggestions. and to all others, who send me an eMail and aren't mentioned here! 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