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Directory Opus Legalities All software and programs and documentatioo provided herein are entirely copyright (l;)1991-1992 by Jonathan Potter, with the following exceptlcns: I, inovarnusic.library is copyright @>1992by lNOVAtronics, lnc. inovamusic.library was written by Carl W. Moore. 2. And as specified in documentation provided on the distribution disk. AU rl&h1B are reserved, The programs and documentation aresold "AS IS" and witbout warranties as to performance, mercllantability, or fitncss for a parricular purpose. Sale of Ibissoftware conveys a license for its useon up to two computers owned or operaredonIy by the purchaser. Copying this software or documentation by any means wbatsoever for any otber purpose ja strictly probibited. "AmIp", "AmJaaDOS", and "Workbench" areregisteredtrademarla of Ccmmodore-Amlga Inc, "AR.xx" is atrademark of WlshruJThlnklna DevelopmeatCorp, DIrectory üpw Manual Version 4.0 Cnnlributers Carol Bland Eddie Cbw-cbill Cash Foley Joel Guerra Jonathan Potter ProJectMan.... r Eddie Cbw-cbill Manual EdItor Cash Poley Cover DesIan ScouMartiodale Directory OpusManual version 4.0 - Producedwith Radical Eye's Amiga1j;X with special thaoIato 1bmasRolricki. For help, call (214)340-4992 hetweeo the bours of 10:00AM - 3:00PM CST. Inovatronics,Inc. Suite 209B 10Europe,coniacn 8499GreenvilleAvenue loovatronics GmbH Dallas, Tx 75231-2499 USA Im Heidkamp 11 Office Pbone: 214/340-4991 W-5000 Cologne 91 Tech Support: 214!340-4992 Germany FAX: 214/340-8514 Pbooe: +49-221-875126 BBS: 214/342-1930 FAX: +49-221-8704747 ( Contents 1 A Directory Opus Walk- Through 3 1.1 What Is Direetory Opus? . 3 1.2 Files andDireetories . 4 1.2.1 Files ....... 4 1.2.2 Direetories. 5 1.3 Installing Direetory Opus 6 1.4 Running Direetory Opus . 7 ( 1.4.1 Starting From Workbeneh 8 1.4.2 Starting From a CU . 8 1.4.3 Automatie Startup in the startup-sequence. 8 1.5 Introduetion to Using Direetory Opus 10 1.5.1 Aborting ........... 10 1.5.2 Direetory Opus Components . 10 1.5.3 Direetory Windows: 12 1.5.4 Custom Buttons .... 20 1.6 The Tiny Buttons ....... 38 1.7 The Tiny Bottom Right Buttons 41 1.8 Default Menus . 45 1.8.1 Projeet Menus . 46 1.8.2 Funetion Menu 50 ( 2 Requesters & Viewers 55 2.1 Proteetion Requester . 55 2.2 Disk eopy Requester . 59 2.3 Format Requester .. 61 ii CONTENTS 2.4 Install Requester. 63 2.5 Print dir Requester. 65 2.6 Print Requester. 67 2.7 TextViewer 72 ( 2.8 Hex Viewer .. 75 3 Opus Configuration (ConfigOpus) 77 3.1 Introduction ......... 78 3.2 ConfigOpusMain·Screen .. 79 3.3 ConfigOpusConfigureMenus 80 3.4 BUTTONS/MANAGER . 82 3.4.1 ButtonManagerMenus 85 3.5 BUTTONS/EDITOR. 86 3.6 CornrnandEditor.. 87 3.6.1 Edit Fields . 88 3.6.2 Edit Menu .. 97 3.7 DRIVES/MANAGER 98 3.8 DRIVES/EDITOR . .100 ( 3.9 FILETYPES/MANAGER .102 3.9.1 Filetypes..... .103 3.9.2 Menus ...... .105 3.9.3 Editing anexistingentry . · 105 3.10 FILETYPES/EDITOR . .105 3.10.1 MouseAction Events .107 3.10.2 CornrnandEvents .107 3.11 FILE CLASS/MANAGER. .109 3.12 FILE CLASS/EDITOR ... · 111 3.12.1 File ClassEditorCornponents. .113 3.12.2 Editing ........... .115 3.12.3 File ClassEdit Cornrnands. .115 3.12.4 Testingdirectives .. .116 3.12.5 Movernentdirectives .118 3.13 HOTKEYS/MANAGER . .120 3.13.1 Menus .... · 121 3.14 HOTKEYS/EDITOR .. .122 CONTENTS iii 3.15 MENUS/MANAGER . 123 3.16 MENUS/EDITOR . 126 3.17 OPERATIONS. 127 ( 3.17.1 OPERATIONS/COPY 129 3.17.2 OPERATIONS/DATEFORMAT 131 3.17.3 OPERATIONS/DELETE 132 3.17.4 OPERATIONS/ERRORCHECK 133 3.17.5 OPERATIONS/GENERAL 134 3.17.6 OPERATIONS/ICONS 136 3.17.7 OPERATIONS/LISTFORMAT 137 3.17.8 OPERATIONS/UPDATE 140 3.18 SCREEN. 143 3.18.1 SCREEN/ARROWS 144 3.18.2 SCREEN/COLORS. 145 3.18.3 SCREEN/FONTS. 146 3.18.4 SCREEN/GENERAL 148 3.18.5 SCREEN/PALETTE. 149 ( 3.18.6 SCREEN/SCREENMODE . 150 3.19 SYSTEM 153 3.19.1 SYSTEM/AMIGADOS 155 3.19.2 SYSTEM/CLOCKS . 157 3.19.3 SYSTEM/DIRECTORIES 160 3.19.4 SYSTEM/HOTKEY. 164 3.19.5 SYSTEM/ICONS . 165 3.19.6 SYSTEM/MODULES. 167 3.19.7 SYSTEM/SHOWPAlTERN .. 168 3.19.8 SYSTEM/STARTUP 169 3.19.9 SYSTEM/VIEW& PLAY . 171 4 Commands 175 4.1 SimpleArgumentFunctions . 261 4.2 RequesterFunctions. 263 iv CONTENTS 5 Appendices 265 5.1 CJlossary............ .265 5.2 How we startexternalprograms .267 5.3 Wild CardPatterns. 5.4 ShortcutKeysfor CustomButtonsandMenus . :;~~( 5.5 SimpleShortcutKeys . .272 ( A Note from the Author I havebeenworkingonDirectoryOpusfor thepastthreeyears.What startedasasimpledirectoryutility (howeverrevolutionaryfor its times)hasgrowninto whatI believeto bethemostconfigurable, functionalandeasy-to-usedirectoryutility availablefor theAmiga and possiblyfor anyothercomputer. ( Much of thiswouldnothavebeenpossiblewithoutthehelpof many people.To list all thepeoplewhohavecontributedin anyway would beimpossible,butherearesomeof them: Mel Bice,JohnCousins,PeterJackson,AdrianJones,Edward Lawford,MichaelLorant,JayMiner,RossMolden,Michael Portmann,lanRodbourn,lanSteuart,TimStrachan,Andrew Wilson 1 2 CONTENTS Nor couldDirectoryOpus4 havebeenpossiblewithoutthevaluable andmuchappreciatedeffortsof INOVAtronics,who arelargely responsiblefortheuser-interfaceimprovementsandhundreds,ifnot thousands,ofotherchanges.ToEddieChurchill andeveryoneelseat ( INOVAtronics,to almostall of thebetatesters,andto everyoneelse who hascontributed,thankyou. Enjoy theprogram! JonathanPotter ( ( Chapter 1 A Directory Opus Walk-Through ( 1.1 WhatIs Directory Opus? ThetheorybehindDirectoryOpusis quitesimple.Onthescreenthere aretwo windows.ThesearecalledDirectory Windows. Youcanread adirectoryinto eachof thesefrom anydeviceaccessiblebytheAmiga. Youcanselectfilesand/ordirectoriesin eitherof thesewindows,then manipulatethemalmostanyway youlike. Selectedentries canbe copiedto theoppositewindow,deletedorrenamed;textfiles canbe read,picturefilescanbeviewed,andsoundfilescanbeheard. DirectoryOpusoffersmuchmorethanthese"bare-bones"features,and youwilliearn morelaterin this manual. ( 3 4 CHAPTER 1. A DIRECTORYOPUSWALK-THROUGH 1.2 FilesandDirectories TheArniga'sDOS (Disk OperatingSystem)dealswith two kindsof data-arrangement:filesanddirectories. ( Eachfile anddirectorymustbegivenauniquename;within a directoryyoucannothavetwo files,two directories,orafile anda directorywith thesamename. 1.2.1 Files Any datayou recordon adisk is storedin afile. Filescontain information,which maybefrom adatabase,fromaword processor, from a paintingprogram,or theentirecontentsof aprogram. Thesizeof a file is expressedinbytes,eachbytebeingequivalent ( to onecharacter.Storingthestring"Hello" in afile would usefive bytes,astheword "Hello" is five characterslong. Whetherafile canbedisplayed,executed,deleted,edited,or consideredasascript file dependsuponattributesthatareexplainedon page55. All files haveadatestampwhich showswhatthesystemdateand time werethelasttime thefile waswritten to. Filesmayaisohaveacommentof up to 79charactersattachedto them. ( 1.2. FILES AND DIRECTORIES 5 1.2.2 Directories To store information in a logical manner,disks are generally organized ( into directories, which areoften referred to asdrawers. If you picture a disk asa filing cabinet, with your programs, databasefiles and pictures asthe actual files, then directories are the drawers of the filing cabinet. Someof thesedrawers have further drawers inside them, called sub-directories,which themselvescan contain drawers, and so on, indefinitely. The directory or sub-directory containing any given sub-directory is known asits parent directory. The highest level of organization is the Root Directory. If the directory is a filing cabinet, then the root directory is the room it stands in. ( f = 1I1 ~' ~I Applic~ti ons Oownlo~s OirectOt'o;Opus I 1 Z I. 3 I I I """ 111 dd+ ~I 1"""··'11 Archives ~ ~ Business ArtTooIs Ustill9S LQ<lfilt ToOoliS1 I 5 I 1 1 I~· 1II ~6 ~7 ~ Picture.RRC ~tiFiles Bu~tMat\l<ler LeePiint I I. a ;~_1l ~ ~ IS1Qwter 2ndQuarter Figure 1.1: Directory Tree Example ( The Directory Tree Example (Figure 1.1) demonstratesa sampie disk structure. 6 CHAPTER 1. A DIREcroRY OPUSWALK-THROUGH The routeyou takealongadirectory tree to reachafile is calleda path. As youproceedalongthepath,eachbranchof thetreeis separatedfromthenextbranchby a/ character.Forexample,thepath of Archivesis expressedasWork:Downloads/Archives. ( To referto Picture.ARC,youusewhatis calledapathname. This consistsof afile's path,followedby thenameof thefile. Picture.ARC's pathnamewouldbeWork:Downloads/Archi ves/Picture. ARe. The numberof files andsub-directoriesanygivendirectorycan containis limited only by theamountof spaceonthedisk. The list belowshowsthecorrectpathto eachof thefilesin thechart. 1. Work:DirectoryOpus 2. Work:Downloads/Listings 3. Work:Downloads/Logfile ( 4. Work:Applications/ToDoList 5. Work:DownloadslArchiveslPicture.ARC 6. Work:Applications/Business/BudgetManager 7. Work:Applications/LeePaint 8. Work:ApplicationslDataFiles/lstQuarter 1.3 Installing Directory Opus ( If your computerdoesnothaveaharddrive,youmaywantto run DirectoryOpusfrom thedistributiondisk; otherwiseyouneedto use 1.4. RUNNING DIRECTORY OPUS 7 theinstallationprogram,InstallOpus,whichinsertsDirectoryOpusinto your harddisk'srootdirectory.Itwill modify yourUser Startup Sequence.InstallOpusallowsyouto choosetheapproachbestsuited ( to your levelof expertise. For thenovice,InstallOpusinsertsDirectoryOpusinto your hard disk'srootdirectoryanddoeseverythingfor you,offeringyou few choices.YoumaychoosetohavetheDirectoryOpusscreendisplayed whenyoufirst bootupyour computer,otherwiseyoumayrun DirectoryOpusfrom theWorkbenchorfrom theCLI. At a moreambitiouslevel,InstallOpusallowsyouto selectthe