@DATABASE "DosWedge" @AUTHOR David Swasbrook @(C) Copyright (C)1995 David Swasbrook. All Rights Reserved. @$VER: DosWedge.guide 2.1 (07.02.95) @INDEX Index @NODE MAIN "DosWedge (07.02.95)" DosWedge : Documentation Contents ================================= (C) 1994-95 David Swasbrook, All Rights Reserved. @{" Disclaimer " LINK Disclaimer } Legal information @{" Distribution " LINK Distribution } Distibution & Freeware information @{" Requirements " LINK Requirements } What you needed @{" Introduction " LINK Introduction } Introduction to DosWedge @{" Installation " LINK Installation } How to install DosWedge @{" Usage " LINK Usage } How to use DosWedge @{" Special Thanks " LINK Thanx } Thanks to these people @{" History " LINK History } A very brief history of DosWedge @ENDNODE @NODE Disclaimer DosWedge/Disclaimer =================== I hereby reject any liability or responsibility for these or any other consequences from the use of DosWedge whatsoever. This includes, but is not limited to, damage to your equipment, to your data, personal injuries, financial loss or any other kinds of side effects. Although DosWedge has been tested thoroughly on several different machines, I cannot rule out the possibility that DosWedge: o is somehow incompatible to your equipment o has bugs that show up on your equipment o does not do what it is supposed to do on your equipment It is your responsibility to take any precautions necessary to protect yourself from these or any other effects. I explicitly reject any liability or responsibility from the consequences of you using DosWedge. Swaz. @ENDNODE @NODE Distribution "Distribution information..." DosWedge/Distribution ===================== DosWedge is @{b}FREEWARE@{ub}. The program may be freely distributed and copied, as long as the following conditions are fulfilled: o The sales price must not be higher than the cost of an (empty) disk plus a nominal copying fee plus costs for shipping. The total price must not be higher than 5 US$. o All parts of the program and the documentation must be complete. The distribution of single parts or incomplete subsets of the original distribution is NOT ALLOWED. o DosWedge or parts of it may not be sold in combination with or as part of commercial software. o Program and documentation may not be changed in any way. o Permission has been given for distribution through Aminet and Fred Fish. Please contact the @{" Author " LINK Author} for further information. @ENDNODE @NODE Author "Contacting the author..." DosWedge/Author =============== I can be contacted via the following media: Postal: David Swasbrook, PO Box 54134, Bucklands Beach, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: swaz@iconz.co.nz Internet Relay Chat: #amiga:Swaz World Wide Web: http://iconz.co.nz/~msd/swaz.html @ENDNODE @NODE Requirements "Whats needed to run DosWedge" DosWedge/Requirements ===================== The following are required for DosWedge to run: o Kickstart V37 or higher o @{" matrix.library " LINK MxLib} version 23.2103 or higher o @{" MultiuserFileSystem " LINK MUFS} version 1.5 or higher @ENDNODE @NODE MUFS "MultiUserFileSystem" DosWedge/MultiUserFileSystem ============================ Copyright © Geert Uytterhoeven, All Rights Reserved. You've got an Amiga with Kickstart 2.04 or higher and several people are regularly fooling around with it ... Last week your sister deleted your 20MB JPEG collection by mistake and you don't want this to happen again ... Well, here's the answer: MultiUser! MultiUser allows you to create a *IX-like environment where several users live together in harmony, unable to delete each others files, unable to read those private love-letters of other users ... And this even if several users are working on the machine at the same time (on a terminal hooked up to the serial port) ... You are the sole user of your computer? Well, make sure it stays that way by installing MultiUser! People without a valid login ID and password won't be able to access files you have made private with MultiUser. If you make all files private (not readable for others), the only useful thing they could do, is boot from a floppy ... And ... you do not have to reformat your hard drive! @ENDNODE @NODE MxLib "Matrix Library" DosWedge/matrix.library ======================= Copyright ©1992-95 David Swasbrook, All Rights Reserved. o Yet another library to put in your LIBS: drawer. o Matrix.library provides general purpose routines which are commonly used through out my programs. Some of the key features are the GUI, preferences, and IFF routines. o The name "matrix" came from "The Matrix" - The computer system used by the TimeLords (Re: Dr Who). o Please contact me if you'd like programming documentation. @ENDNODE @NODE Introduction DosWedge/Introduction ===================== @ENDNODE @NODE Installation DosWedge/Installation ===================== Double click on the "install" icon. DosWedge will be installed in the SYS:WBStartup or SYS:Startup drawer. @ENDNODE @NODE Usage "How to use DosWedge" DosWedge/Usage ============== When DosWedge is enabled several functions is dos.library are patched to give AmigaDOS a more Unix like structure. Filenames and paths will have the following changes applied to them: . The current directory. Eg. "./filename" -> "filename" "dir/./filename" -> "dir/filename" .. The parent directory. Eg. "../filename" -> "/filename" "dir/../filename" -> "filename" ~ Home directory. This is will be expanded in one of three ways in the following order: o If the environment variable HOME is set then this will be used. o If the assign HOME: is valid this will be used. o Failing the above two methods and provided that @{" MultiuserFileSystem " LINK MUFS} is installed it will be expanded out to the users home directory. ~name This is the home diretory of the specified user. You require @{" MultiuserFileSystem " LINK MUFS} to use this feature. /dev This can be evaluated to dev: if you set SLASHDEV to YES in the @{" ToolTypes " LINK ToolTypes }. $name This is expanded to the environment variable name. DosWedge has a few configuration options through @{" ToolTypes " LINK ToolTypes } so you may wish to configure these to your needs. Also with pattern matching filenames * is mapped to #? so you can do things like "copy * ram:filename". This will not copy files under normal AmigaDOS - it copies from StdIo. But running DosWedge it will copy all the files into the specified direcory. Eg: "copy * ram:dirname". @ENDNODE @NODE ToolTypes "Tool Types" DosWedge/Tool Types =================== DosWedge accepts the following tool types: @{b}CX_POPKEY@{ub} The hotkey to open the DosWedge interface. Currently there is no interface so this has no effect. @{i}Default = None@{ui}. @{b}CX_POPUP@{ub} Display the DosWedge interface when it is run? Currently there is no interface so this has no effect. @{i}Default = No@{ui}. @{b}CX_PRI@{ub} Priority in the commodities queue. @{i}Default = 0@{ui}. @{b}WILDSTAR@{ub} Enable * wildcard pattern matching? @{i}Default = Yes@{ui}. @{b}SLASHDEV@{ub} Evaluate "/dev" as "dev:". Eg. "/dev/filename" -> "dev:filename". @{i}Default = No@{ui}. @ENDNODE @NODE Thanx "List of contributors" DosWedge/Contributors ===================== Thanks to the following for ideas and support: Daryl Jay Mike Latinovich @ENDNODE @NODE History DosWedge/History Information ============================ `2.2' o Aminet release `2.1' o Bug fixed which would evaluate "~/" to "~/..". o Fixed problem with null termination of "/dev/". o Previous versions incorrecty reported requirement of V37 even under V37. `2.0' o Rewritten in C o Added environment variable parseing o Better home directory dropback if $HOME or HOME: not valid will try MultiUser. o Aminet release. `1.1' o Added patches for MatchNext(). `1.0' o Initial aminet release. @ENDNODE @NODE Index "Index..." DosWedge : Documentation Index ============================== (C) 1994-95 David Swasbrook, All Rights Reserved. @{" Author " LINK Author } Contacting the author @{" Configuration " LINK Config } Configuring DosWedge @{" Distribution " LINK Distribution } Distibution rights @{" Disclaimer " LINK Disclaimer } Legal information @{" Email and WWW Addresses " LINK Author } Contact addresses for Author @{" Freeware " LINK Distribution } Freeware status @{" Installation " LINK Installation } How to install DosWedge @{" Introduction " LINK Introduction } Introduction to DosWedge @{" History " LINK History } A very brief history of DosWedge @{" Matrix Library " LINK MxLib } Yet another library @{" MultiuserFileSystem " LINK MUFS } MultiUserFileSystem support @{" Requirements " LINK Requirements } Whats needed @{" Special Thanks " LINK Thanx } Thanks to these people @{" ToolTypes " LINK ToolTypes } Configuring DosWedge @{" Usage " LINK Usage } How to use DosWedge @ENDNODE