Hard Disk Director v4.5 HelpWare Registration $ 35.00 UTIL JAN91 DIRECTOR HELPWARE HARD DISK SHELL MENU FILE FILES: dskdir45.sdn Replacement Hard Disk Director is made up of four main programs: DL.EXE, DB.EXE, DA.EXE and DM.EXE. DL.EXE is a full featured shell. It starts off giving you a directory tree. From the directory tree you can add, delete, move, hide and unhide and rename directories as well as change drives, search for files and print a copy of the tree. DL can now move or copy whole branches of directories. Highlighting any directory in DL and pressing "Enter" will show you a sorted list of the files in that directory. You can edit, view, copy, rename, print, and resort any single file or group of marked files. You can also run any program or batch file. Because it saves a copy of the directory tree to disk, DL can also be used for quick directory and drive changes. Enter DL and the drive specification and directory name or part of it and DL will change directories to the first match. For instance say I'm in E:\FILES and I enter "dl tem". DL will change directories to my E:\FOX\TEMPLATE directory. If I enter "dl c: do", I will find myself in my C:\WP\DOCS directory. If you have more than one directory with the same name, just type the number after the directory name. For instance, since I have 3 DOCS directories, I can put a "2" or "3" after "do " to get to the second or third DOCS sub directory. For example to get to my third DOCS sub directory, I would enter "DL do 3". DB.EXE is a stripped down version of DL. DB gives you a sorted file list for any directory. Pathnames, file specifications and sort parameters can be added to the command line. I use DB instead of "DIR" when I want to see what files are in a directory because then I can copy move, view or edit them. DA.EXE is like DB but shows you all the files on a particular drive. For example, typing "DA" and pressing "Enter" on your C drive will show you all the files in every directory on your drive C. You can also add additional drives to the file view. Pressing the "Tab" key will show only the duplicate files. You can also use DA to keep track of your files. DA will write ASCII, ASCII Delimited and DBF files of the file list. DA can be run from the command line or from DL by pressing ^Enter. DM is a full featured hard disk menu. You can add up to 20 entries to the main menu and have unlimited sub menus of up to 20 entries each. DM can be run from the command line or also popped up in DL or DB by pressing the slash, "/", key. When running DM from DL or DB, you can run programs and add the highlighted or marked files from DL and DB to the command line. In this manner you can add your favorite archive utility to DM, mark a group of files in DL or DB, and them pop up DM and run your archive program and add the marked files to the command line. Hard Disk Director will run on all IBM compatible PCs running DOS 2.0 or later. This version has been made compatible with many network drives. However Hard Disk Director does no file sharing or locking and is not aware of other users on a network, so you will have to determine its suitability for your network. DL.EXE wants a minimum of 200 kilobytes of memory to run properly. Under DOS 4.0 where you are able to have hard disk partitions of over 32 megabytes, DL may require more memory depending on the size of the hard disk partition. DB would like at least 128 kilobytes of memory to run in and can handle directories of up to 800 files. DL.EXE can handle drives with up to 500 directories and directories of up to 1000 files. It can handle paths of up to nine directories deep. The memory DA requires depends on the amount of files on the drive that it is reading. A minimum of 300 kilobytes is recommended for a 20 megabyte drive. _____________________________________________________________ (SDA format (c)Copyright 1990 The SDN Project - SDNet/Works!) _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________