MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 1 MAssign v2.00 Copyright © 1991, 1992 Peter Stuer All rights reserved Release date July 7, 1992 FREEWARE User Manual COPYRIGHT NOTICE MAssign software and documentation are © 1991, 1992 by Peter Stuer. All rights reserved. DISCLAIMER MAssign has been thoroughly tested and is the result of a constant process of changes and updates that started in February 1991. The program has proven to be stable in everyday use. The author is not responsible for any loss of data, damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use of this program. The author reserves the right to make changes to the software or documentation without notice. PREFACE This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it freely as long as you don't ask any more money for it than a nominal fee for copying. If you want to distribute this program you should keep this document with it. This program cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission from the author. Special permission is hereby granted to include MAssign in Public-Domain collections such as Fred Fish's Amiga Library. Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign MAssign is a little program that allows you to make Multiple (hence the 'M') assigns at once. For users of BindNames this may sound familiar. It allows you to remove all the assign and makedir commands from your startup-sequence and user-startup files. You can keep the assigns of different programs in different files. For example: Assigns -> a directory in Work: System -> contains all the system assigns DPaint -> contains the assigns for DeluxePaint Macro68 -> contains the assigns for Macro68 MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 2 MAssign takes the name of a directory or a file as argument. If the argument is a directory any file in that directory will be parsed. The files must be in pure ASCII format. Take a look at the following example: ; : Assigns 1.00 (7.7.92) FOO: SYS: FOOBAR: SYS:Devs Temp: RAM:T Work:T add C: Work:C Rexx:C WShell:C add Any line that begins with a colon (;) is considered a comment line and will be left alone. Blank lines will also be ignored. The first argument is your normal assign name. For example the first line would be the same as: assign FOO: SYS: However unlike assign MAssign first looks if the second assign name exists yet. If it doesn't, the directory will be created. For example: T: RAM:T ENV: RAM:ENV CLIPS: RAM:CLIPBOARDS The above example comes from my startup-sequence. I don't have to bother with a lot of assign and makedir commands. MAssign creates the RAM:T, RAM:ENV and RAM:CLIPBOARDS directories before assigning them to T:, ENV: and CLIPS: respectively. MAssign now supports all the assign the normal AmigaDOS 2.0 Assign can make. This means you can use the ADD, REMOVE, DEFER and PATH. 1.1 System requirements MAssign should run on any Amiga system with at least 512KB RAM and one disk-drive. MAssign requires KickStart v2.04 or higher to run. Should you have any trouble running MAssign on your machine, please write to me with the full specifications of your machine, that is KickStart version, model, expansion boards etc... 1.2 About the program If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if you find any bugs, please let me know. When sending in bug reports, please state exactly under what MAssign v2.00 User's Manual 3 circumstances the bug occurred, what equipment was used and what happened. If possible also try to give me enough information to reproduce the bug. It is very difficult to find bugs when you don't know exactly what happened. Write to the following address: Peter Stuer Kauwlei 21 B-2550 Kontich Belgium - Europe Fido: 2:292/603.7 1.3 Usage MAssign is for CLI usage only. Trying to run MAssign from the Workbench may result in a system crash. If you run MAssign without any arguments get a message similar to the following one: MAssign v2.00 by Peter Stuer (7.7.92 18:56:08) FREEWARE Makes many assigns at once. If you run MAssign with an questionmark (?) as argument you'll get the argument template: FROM/A/M,V=VERBOSE/S: You can supply as many arguments as you like. If the argument is a directory or a device all the files in that directory or device will be examined. If you also supply the VERBOSE switch MAssign will show you which files and directories it's scanning and which assigns it makes. MAssign can be stopped at any time by pressing Control-C. Table Of Contents MAssign v2.00 Chapter 1 Introducing MAssign .......................... 1 1.1 System requirements ............................ 2 1.2 About the program ............................... 2 1.3 Usage ......................................... 3 © 1992 MAssign v2.00 written by Peter Stuer _ _ // Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !