Welcome to another utility made by Ice (c) 1991 DMS userinterface v1.3 released 911224 (c) Ice This little utility makes it a little easier to use the DMS program. To use this utility you must install the DMS, EndCLI & Run programs in your path which you select using the 'Path' gadget in the DMSui program. You MUST have this programs in your PATH or the DMSui won't work!!! You MUST have 'Path' somewhere in your normal DOS path or the paths in the DMSui program won't work!!! Put the req.library in your LIBS: directory. You may also put the DMSui.prefs file in your S: directory, but you don't have to. This program is very easy to use, just start it and you'll know how it works. If you don't understand it, here's an explanasion: LOW: This means the lowest track to read. (Specified as LOWTRACK in this manual hereafter) HIGH: This means the highest track to read. (Specified as HIGHTRACK in this manual hereafter) Crunch mode: Press this gadget to count through the different crunch modes. Password: If you write anything here, DMS will crunch the program with this as a password and you must uncrunch it with the same password or you won't be able to uncrunch it. If you choose WRITE this will be the decrypt password. If you write anything here the program will encrypt/decrypt the file. Usally this string should be blank. Textfile: By pressing this gadget you'll get a filerequester to choose the textfile which will be displayed when uncrunching. You can also write the filename in the gadget to the right. If you write anything here the program will automatically include this file into the DMS file. Now handles an own cache for textfiles!! Filename: By pressing this gadget you'll get a filerequester to choose the filename of the DMS file. This filename could either be a packed DMS file that you should uncrunch or the name of a new DMS file. You can also write the filename in the gadget to the right. If you choose a filename in the first place, you will be able to select a second filename if you like to unpack two files, i.e HMN-2A.DMS & HMN-2B.DMS, or if you want to make the DMS pack one disk into two smaller files. If you select a second filename the program will automatically split the diskpack into two files, the first will pack from LOWTRACK to track 39 & the second will pack from track 40 to HIGHTRACK. If LOWTRACK is higher than 39 or HIGHTRACK is lower than 40 then there will be only one outfile. To multiselect files (= two files) hold down SHIFT and press on the two filenames. Now handles an own cache for infiles!! Outfile: This works exactly as the Filename gadget but here you select only one filename which is the name of the repacked file. (This filename is used when you use the REPACK command.) Now handles an own cache for outfile!! About: By pressing this gadget you'll get a window with a little abouts about me (The programmer!!!) Save Prefs: If you press this gadget the DMSui program will save a prefs- file (DMSui.prefs) to your S: directory containing CRUNCHMODE, DEVICE, all the different FLAGS (No DiskVal, No BitMap, No Text No Pause, Full, RET, PAL/NTSC & MOUSE/KEYS) & the path so when you start DMSui the next time it will load this file and select all the gadgets for you. DF0:... Press this gadget to toggle between the devices from/to which you should crunch/uncrunch. The program only checks if the device is present when you use READ/WRITE so try to keep in mind which devices that are present. NOVAL: This was originally called No DiskVal, but to the 1.2 release I changed it to NOVAL to get more space. If you press this gadget you'll toggle between using/not using the Disk-Validator when crunching/uncrunching. This is the same as NOVAL. NOZERO: This was originally called No Bitmap, but to the 1.2 release I changed it to NOZERO to get more space. If you press this gadget you'll toggle between using/not using the Bitmap when crunching. On trackloaded games you should use this option as these games don't use DOS to load. This is the same as NOZERO. NOTEXT: By pressing this gadget you'll toggle between seeing/not seeing the text when you uncrunch a DMS file. NOPAUSE: By pressing this gadget you'll toggle the PAUSE command. If NOPAUSE is pressed the DMS program will not pause at any time. FULL: This gadget is for selecting the FULL option when VIEWing a DMS archive. If you choose FULL all tracks and their crunchmodes will be shown. RET: If you select this gadget the DMSui program will ask you to press any key when it has finished the job. READ: Press this gadget and the DMS will start to pack a disk->file. WRITE: Press this gadget and the DMS will start to uncrunch a file->disk. VIEW: This activate the VIEW option. The DMSui will show some info on the file/s selected. TEST: This activate the TEST option. The DMSui will test the file/s selected. TEXT: This activate the TEXT option. Ths DMSui will view the banner in the file/s selected. REPACK: This activate the REPACK option. This repack a file to the OUTFILE using the LOW/HIGHTRACK and the CRUNCHMODE. In v1.3 you can REPACK two files into one file, but then you MUST have RAD: mounted and it must be called RAD:!!! If you have want to repack two files into one you must select two infiles or the DMSui program will not repack two->one. PATH: Press this gadget and you'll be able to select the whole path from which the DMSui should get the DMS, EndCLI & Run programs from. The program will continue till you either press Close- Window or Forget it! or till you have gone through all the ten paths. You can go through the paths with the arrow gadgets. If you stand on path #4 for example you'll be able to select all the remaining paths (which means paths 4-10) and then the program will stop asking for paths. The program will NOT go through ten paths if you stand on any path which isn't #1, because the program will just continue till it has reached path #10. Please note that C: and Current directory paths always is installed, so you don't have to select these paths! Now handles an own cache for pathnames!! UPARROW: Press this gadget to step back in the pathnames. DOWNARROW: Press this gadget to step forward in the pathnames. PAL/NTSC: Press this gadget to toggle between PAL/NTSC mode on the window that DMS uses. Now also changes the size of the requster window. When using PAL mode the requester will use the whole screen. MOUSE/KEYS: Press this gadget to toggle between using the mouse & the keyboard when you use the RET option. If you'ld like to upgrade your DMS program you just have to put the new DMS program in your path (Described in the begining of this text). One hint, if you'ld like to clear a string gadget then just activate that gadget and press AMIGA-X. If you wonder why it's a big space between the commands and the path gadget I can tell you that this is where the errors is outputted. I thought it was ugly to have an extra window just for the errors so I put them here instead. If an error occure when starting the DMSui program from Workbench the error will be displayed in the Workbench title bar. So just look there if you don't get the program to work properly from Workbench. If you put the DMSui program somewhere else than in the same directory as the DMSui.info file, then you must tell the DMSui.info file where to get the DMSui program from. This can be made from either Workbench or CLI. From Workbench just activate the DMSui icon and the go to the menu in Workbench where you find an option called 'Info'. Now you can enter the proper path and filename in the string- gadget called COMMAND. If you want to change this thing when using CLI then just start IconEd or any other icon-editor and edit the COMMAND string. One final note, if the DMS program fails when you use the DMSui program then just type 'endcli [RETURN]' and the program will continue. This was about all of the docs. Use this program as much as you want and spread it around the world. If you have any suggestions of how to improve this program or if you find any BUGS then just leave a note to me (Ice) on: Guru's Dream Node 1: +46-8-363425 (HST only) Node 2: +46-8-368169 (2400 bps -> 14400 bps) Node 3: +46-8-369205 (2400 bps -> 14400 bps) Node 4: +46-8-369225 (HST only) Running Ami-Express with 930 MB, 68030 & 68882 (25 MHz) (Soon 2-3 GB) or Ultimate Ride (+46-455-11163 2400->14400 bps) Running Tempest on an AMIGA 3000 Well, that's all folks! Hope you like it and watch out for more utilities from ICE. Greetings must go to: Snuskbuske (Keep up the good work!!) Skrutt (Hur går det med Tecno Amigan v2 ?) Phan Anh Tran (For helping me debugging the program) The Baron (Thanks for all the comments, hope you like this version (and the 2.0 style!!)) Signed Ice December 24 1991 Contact me: Mathias Axelsson Skirtorpsvägen 18 S-641 35 Katrineholm SWEDEN Phone: +46-150-17877