Please note: The contents of this directory must be copied to a formatted blank disk that is named "ClickDOS_II" for the install program to work properly. To do this, open a CLI, or Shell and type: copy wb0072:clickdos ClickDOS_II: all Thanks DevWare ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ClickDOS II V2.00 - by Gary Scott Yates ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Revision: P Copyright © 1990 Gary S. Yates IMPORTANT! ClickDOS II is NOT public domain! See the distribution notice in the file ClickDOS.doc. Please read all of this file. It contains important information. ClickDOS is my entry into the ever-growing number of "directory utility" programs. I wrote the original ClickDOS primarily because of my frustrations with other directory utility programs. ClickDOS has been and continues to be a successful shareware venture for me. I thank each and every person who has contributed to the project. I hope you all have enjoyed using ClickDOS. If you are new to ClickDOS, I know that directory utilities are a dime-a-dozen, but take a moment to look (and play with) ClickDOS II. I think you will like it. Many others have found the original program useful and I think this one is even better. Here are some of the things which I think make ClickDOS II better than other directory utilities: - ClickDOS II is reasonably small (for what it does): 57K on disk, 74K in memory while it is iconified, 110K while its window is fully open. - It uses a single window on the Workbench screen which can be iconified so it doesn't gobble up your chip memory nor waste memory with bells and whistles. - It does not rely on other programs for most of its functions. Type and Show functions, for example, are built-in. This makes these functions much faster to use. - ClickDOS II's data structures are dynamically allocated and it uses Fast memory for everything it can. Therefore, it's very memory efficient. - ClickDOS II's gadget and mouse controls are, in my opinion, very logical and easy to use. This disk contains the latest and vastly improved second generation of the ClickDOS utility - ClickDOS II version 2.00. ClickDOS II V2.00 is a MAJOR upgrade of the popular ClickDOS II V1.10. Just about every suggestion I have received has been incorporated into ClickDOS II V2.00 along with many new features which I have been planning for some time. I could not possibly list all of the new features here. Therefore, I recommend to everyone, even experienced users of ClickDOS, read the document- ation thoroughly to see what ClickDOS II can do for you. Here are some of the major enhancements to this version: * User Defined-Gadgets!!! Yes, they are finally here and they work! * A volume selection requester * Wild card support * Enhancements to TYPE * Improved data protection features USE OF ARP.LIBRARY This version REQUIRES the V1.3 arp.library. If you received this distribution of ClickDOS II V2.00 on an original distribution disk from the author then the arp.library is included on this disk. If you received ClickDOS II V2.00 in some other way including the original distribution archive file from the author, you will have to supply arp.library. You can find the arp.library on BIX, PeopleLink, and Compuserve along with the full release of ARP. The ARP license does not allow the arp.library file to be distributed in archive files. ARP and arp.library are copyright 1987,1988,1989 by the authors of ARP. WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN The following is a list of files which should have been on the ClickDOS II V2.00 distribution disk or in the distribution archive file. Root directory: ClickDOS_II ClickDOS_II.info ClickDOS_II.doc ClickDOS_II.doc.info ClickDOS_II_INSTALL ClickDOS_II_INSTALL.info Read_Me_First! Read_Me_First!.info ClickDOS.pic More Pause ClickDOSDrawerIcon Devs directory: MountList L directory: null-handler S directory: startup-sequence ClickDOS-Startup cd_install archivefix C directory: spawn spool Oldversions directory: ClickDOSV2.06 ClickDOS_IIV1.10 ClickDOS_IIV1.20 In addition the following files should be contained ONLY on the original distribution disk but NOT with the distribution archive. Libs directory: arp.library Arp1.3 directory: The full release of arp in archived form. C directory: Arun Archive directory: CDIIV20P.ZOO OLD VERSIONS Included with this version of ClickDOS II are the previously released versions of ClickDOS and ClickDOS II. If for some reason you do not like the current version try one of the previous versions. Please note that there are two versions of ClickDOS which were released: ClickDOS V2.04 and ClickDOS II V1.00 which contained serious bugs. If you have either of these versions you should replace them immediately. They are not included with this distribution. THE DISTRIBUTION ARCHIVE FILE Obviously in you are reading this you have already unarchived the archive file. Hopefully, you unarchived the archive file in a directory by itself. If you did not do this, then I recommend you make a new directory and unarchive the file again or copy all of files which came out of the archive to this directory. Also, you should be sure the directory where you unarchive ClickDOS II is accessible from Workbench (i.e. has an icon) and that the disk where you unarchived ClickDOS II has at least 200K of free space. Once you have all of the unarchived files in such a directory then you should do the following assignment: ASSIGN ClickDOS_II: Now you should do a CD command as follows: CD ClickDOS_II: Now you need to execute the archivefix script file: EXECUTE archivefix The archivefix script will restore the directory structure needed by the install program. When it is done you will have a new directory called ClickDOS_II inside the directory where you unarchived the archive file. This directory has an icon. If you double click on this icon you will see the icons for the ClickDOS II files. Finish reading this document then read at least the beginning of the ClickDOS II documentation file. Then you can run the install program as described in the ClickDOS II documentation. The install will occur as described in the documentation except that the arp.library file and Arun file will not be installed because they are not included with the archive distribution due to licensing reasons. LAST MINUTE UPDATES, TIPS & HINTS THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE MANUAL * Even though the documentation says the full release of ARP will accompany ClickDOS II this is only true of the disk distribution. The full release of ARP is too large to include with the archive distribution. * Although it is not mentioned in the documentation the Arun command is also installed into your C: directory by the INSTALL script on the disk distribution only. While it is not required by ClickDOS II, you will want to use this command if you start ClickDOS II from the CLI. See the documentation for more information. * If you select a large number of files to copy, delete, or move you can cancel these actions in progress by pressing the ESC key. The action will be canceled when ClickDOS II finishes the action on the current file. * You can use ClickDOS II to rename a file to the same name but with different case letters. For example: RENAME clickdos_ii to ClickDOS_II * You can use MakeDir to create directories in subdirectories of the directory in a directory area by including the path to the subdirectory. For example, if DOCS is a subdirectory of the directory in area one, you can create a directory called LETTERS in the directory DOCS by typing into the MakeDir requester: DOCS/LETTERS. * When ClickDOS II starts it makes RAM: its current directory. So if you do any actions which refer to the current directory they will access RAM:. This is of most significance to user- defined gadget commands which may reference the current directory. For example unarchiving a file into the current directory will put the unarchived files in RAM:. * To get the NewCLI action to open a new shell (rather than a CLI) and have command line history work correctly you need to make sure that if you specify a console definition after the SHELL command in the ClickDOS-Startup, you specify the NEWCON: device rather than the CON: device. NEWCON: is what gives you command line history NOT NewShell. For example: SHELL=NewShell CON:0/0/640/200/NewShell_Window; will give you a new shell but you will not have command line history. You must use: SHELL=NewShell NEWCON:0/0/640/200/NewShell_Window; to get command line history. Note, this is only true if you are not using Conman. And, of course, you must have mounted NEWCON: * To get a CLI or shell started from ClickDOS II to have correct paths you need to do the following based on how you start ClickDOS II. If you start ClickDOS II from your startup- sequence then place your path statements in your startup- sequence BEFORE you start ClickDOS II. If you start ClickDOS II from the Workbench then you must put your path statements in the Shell-Startup or CLI-Startup files depending on if you have ClickDOS II start a new shell or CLI. If you want to be able to start ClickDOS II from your startup-sequence and you want to be able to start ClickDOS II from the Workbench then put your path statements in your startup-sequence AFTER the command to start ClickDOS II and also put the path commands in in the Shell-Startup or CLI-Startup files. * If you specify a '~' as the prompt for a %f CRA then ClickDOS II will NOT open a requester asking for the name of an item if no items are selected. For example: %f[f][~] * This version of ClickDOS II will only allow 30 character file and directory names, and 79 character comments to be entered into requesters asking for such items. These are the current AmigaDOS limits. * If you start ClickDOS II with the -i option so that it comes up iconified, ClickDOS II will NOT automatically activate its window. PRINTING THE ClickDOS_II.doc FILE The ClickDOS_II.doc file is formatted to print on any standard eighty character wide, sixty-six lines per page printer. To print it: 1. Make sure you have the margins in Preferences set to zero for the left and eighty for the right. 2. Position your printer to the very first line on the page and set the top of form (TOF). You can make sure that the top of form is set correctly by turning the printer off and on. Some printers have a TOF button on the front panel. 3. Copy the file to the printer using the command: COPY ClickDOS_II.doc PRT: or use the ClickDOS II PRINT action.