XLent - a diskutility by Anguilla Software International, Ltd. copyright ASI 1991, all rights reserved distribution CACHET, Ostendstr.32, 7524 Oestringen, Germany 1. START 2. GENERAL INFORMATION 3. LOADING OF DIRECTORYS 4. OPTIONS OF XLent 5. MENUE-OPTIONS XLent has been programmed by Volker Roth and Holger Vocke 1. START: When you start XLent (either from CLI or ICON) it runs its own process and your Amiga keeps it full multitasking ability. 2. GENERAL INFORMATION: The XLent window contains two file boxes, one board with options and one board with device gadgets. Each device, which acts like a drive and has a working handler is shown as a gadget. Options (like for example DELETE) will interact with the files in the active file box. You activate a box by placing the cursor over it and pressing the left mouse button. The border of the activated box is then highlighted. If you select a file in the activated box it changes its color, to show that you can now operate it. 3. LOADING OF DIRECTORYS: Selecting a device gadget loads the Root directory of the selected device in the activated file box. Another option is to enter the device you want to choose as a string gadget. To enter a directory which is shown in the file box, just double-click it. You leave it by selecting the PARENT gadget. 4. GADGETS IN XLent 4.1 COPY copies all selected opjects of the activated file box in the device, which is shown in the second file box. If there is not enough space in your target device, XLent asks you, meather you want to skip this file or abort copying. If you use RAM as your target device, you have to select NOCHECK in the OPTIONS-MENU because RAM is dynamic and therefore the system alwaysthinks it is FULL. In the pull down window OPTIONS you can select more Parameters for COPY (see 5. Menu Options) 4.2 MOVE MOVE works exactly as COPY, but it deletes the Source file after it has copied it. 4.3 DELETE DELETE deletes all selected files in the activated box. Before this is done, the program checks if the selected file is PROTECTED. IF you want to delete a protected file, you have to use UNPROTECT first (see 5. Menue Options). 4.4 RENAME Shows a requester in which you enter the new name of the file you want to rename. If you want to cancel RENAME, just press RETURN without making any changes. 4.5 MAKEDIR Shows a requester in which you enter the name of the directory you want to create. To cancel MAKEDIR just press RETURN without making an entry. 4.6 ALL ALL selects all entries in the activated file box. 4.7 CLEAR CLEAR deselects all entries in the activated file box. 4.8 CANCEL CANCEL enables you to interrupt a running process (for example: COPY) 4.9 PARENT loads the parent directory of the files in the activated file box. Each file box has its own PARENT gadget. 4.10 14 SELF-DEFINED GADGETS at the bottom of the screen you find these gadgets. How to define them - see 5.5 CONFIG 5. MENU OPTIONS (pull down windows) 5.0 XLent 5.0.1 QUIT quits XLent 5.0.2 SLEEP closes the window and puts XLent "to sleep". You can "wake it up" by clicking on the gadget. 5.1 FILES 5.1.1 SELECT SELECT shows a requester in which you can enter a pattern. All entrys in the activated file box, which fir the pattern will then be selected. For example 'Prefix#?' will select all entries witch start their name with 'Prefix'. You get the same result, when you enter the pattern as 'Prefix*'. Other valid pattern are: XLent.(asm|o|postfix) ab(c|d|ef*gh|(ijk|l?m))??*z #(a|b|c) 5.1.2 UNSELECT does the same as SELECT, except it deselects the entrys. After using either SELECT or DESELECT the top line of the window shows you how many entries you have selected, how many new entries were added and the memory which is needed for all selected files. 5.1.3 BYTES counts the bytes of all selected entries and directories. 5.1.4 SEARCH searches for a certain file. 5.1.5 FIND enables you to find entries, which are related with the the string you enter. This mode is experimental in this stage and can only be used in the activated directory. In a later version the algorythm will be different and it will be able to search a complete disc. 5.1.6 COMMENT allows you to comment a file. 5.1.7 PROTECT protects a file, so it can not be deleted. 5.1.8 PRINTDIR prints your current directory 5.2 OPTIONS 5.2.0 UNPROTECT UNPROTECT enables you to overcopy protected files without doublechecking. 5.2.1 OVERWRITE If an object allready exists in the target directory OVERWRITE enables you to replace it with the file you write without doublechecking. 5.2.2 SKIPPING If an object allready exists in the target drive SKIPPING checks if bouth objects have the same programming date, the same flags and the same comment. If they have, the file will not be copied. This saves time and reduces the number of disc operations. This option work hand in hand with CLONE 5.2.3 CLONE If CLONE is selected a file is copied with its date, flags and comment. 5.2.4 NOCHECK Before copying a file XLent checks if there is enough space on the target device. To copy into RAM you always have to set NOCHECK, because RAM is dynamic. 5.2.5 DEFAULTHEX shows non-ascii files as hexdump. 5.2.6 DOUBLEVIEW checks first, if a viewer is implemented. If so, XLent uses this viewer. 5.3 DISK 5.3.0 INFO gives you information about the disc like NAME, SPACE ON DISC and more 5.3.1 RELABEL allows you to change the name of the active device or disk. Does not work yet, but will be implemented in the next update. 5.3.2 MEMORY shows free memory in CHIP, FAST and TOTAL 5.4 DISPLAY 5.4.0 DATES shows the dates of the files 5.4.1 FLAGS shows the flags of the files 5.4.2 NONE shows neither dates nor flags of the files 5.4.3 REVERSE selected entries are shown reverse, otherwise they just have a different color 5.4.5 READ AND SORT puts the files in alphabetical order while reading directory. 5.5 CONFIG 5.5.0 SET CUSTOMGADGET... allows you to program the custom gadget. 5.5.1 SAVE CONFIG generates a ASCII-CONFIGFILE with all active parameters. The Configfile ist placed in the 'S:' Directory as 'XLent.Config'. 5.6 VIEWING FILES AND PICTURES, PLAYING MUSIC ETC. XLent shows pictures and files by simply doubleclicking on them. The program uses a konfiguration file, which you can find in the S: DIR. If you want to make any changes in the config.file see 5.5.0 6. END By clicking on the CLOSE gadget (little square with a dot in the middle) you can quit XLent.