Quick Review Guide for File_Handle If you try the next few examples in the order they are shown here, you'll get a quick impression of File_Handle's unsurpassed power. Install File_Handle by extracting the archive (if any) into a tempo- rary directory. To demonstrate File_Handle's executer, you may need to edit some of FH_EXEC.ARF's templates. Its defaults may work for now if your unarchivers, editors and other utils are in your PATH. Start FH.EXE and choose a video system (once only, after install). Example 1: Show tree -------------------- Press Tree (F7) and the tree of the current drive will be shown. If no logfile exists, it's built directory-by-directory on your screen. Example 2: Build/Update trees for all non-removable drives ---------------------------------------------------------- Press Alt+Space to open up the combined menu/hotkey list, position the bar on BldAll (in the F4 column) with the UP/DOWN cursor keys and press F4. File_Handle is now building trees (and logfiles) for all existing non-removable drives. If you have a slow device like a large network drive, you can halt the process with Escape. CD-ROM's and MO's are only scanned if you explicitly ask for them to be scan- ned with Build (Ctrl+F4) or when File_Handle needs to have a tree for that media. Totals (Shift+F7) switches directory totals on/off. Example 3: Find all archives on all non-removable drives -------------------------------------------------------- Press Alt+F, Load (F9) the ARCHIVES script, then press Accept (F3). When the scanning is finished, press Sort (F9) to sort on the exten- sion. Note how the bar stays on the initial record, effectively grouping 'alikes' based upon the column you sorted on. Click on the column headers to sort on Filename, Ext, Size, Date or Time. Reverse the sort by clicking the period in Filename.Ext. Group selections by clicking the space in front of 'Filename'. Example 4: Find all archives created in 1995 -------------------------------------------- Press Alt+F to pop up the Finder'e entry screen, move the cursor to the Date limits, and enter "1.1.95 31.12.95", and F3. After a little while only the archives of 1995 are on the screen, ready to be copied, moved, renamed etc, etc. The Finder can perform most of File_Handle's functions globally on all the drives in the system. For example, you could select files on different drives from within the Finder, and erase them with a single command. Example 5: Copy some files -------------------------- Leave the Finder by pressing Escape, and go back to the File window by pressing Files (F7). Shift all directories up with FilesF(irst) (Ctrl+F6) so only files are shown, and select some files by tapping More... ...Continued Quick Review Guide for File_Handle the Space bar. Press Alt+C(opy), Alt+T(agged), Alt+D(rive); choose a drive from the pop up menu with enough free space on it to receive the amount you are about to copy - the pop up has the free space after each drive. Choose a directory on the destination drive by placing the bar over it, or create a new subdirectory at the bar with MkDir (Alt+F6). Press Accept (F3) when you are satisfied with the destination. The destination will be inspected for duplicates. File_Handle resol- ves all problems beforehand, so all files can be copied as a single contiguous process. After duplicates are tested, confirmation is asked to start copying. Press Accept (F3) once more. Now sit back and watch the files being copied, while both source and destination windows are updated during each copy by a bar type progress-indicator. Example 6: Removing the copied files from the destination again --------------------------------------------------------------- "NEW" files in the destination window have Reselect marks '>' in the column before the filename. Go to that window by pressing Tab, then press Selec(t)Q(uick) (F5) and Reselect the marked files. Now press Erase (Shift+F8) and Accept (F3) to remove the files. (Remember that Alt+Space opens the hot-key menu). Example 7: Executing -------------------- Pressing Enter or clicking the left mouse button twice on a filename will execute it. If it is an EXE/COM/BAT/BTM it's passed on to DOS. Anything else will be processed as per the description in the file FH_EXEC.ARF; unsupported files will be fed to the default viewer therein. New links can easily be added with a straight text editor. Example 8: Locate a file or directory by using wildcards -------------------------------------------------------- Each File and Tree window has a small Quick-Find field in the bottom left corner. Make sure this field has a trailing '*', and that it is in INSERT mode, or the finder will only locate EXACT matches. Enter any character, edit them with insert, delete or overtype until you find what you are after. File_Handle provides so-called EMBEDDED wildcards; meaning that more than one '*' can be used. To find any file with for example an E *and* a D, enter "*E*D*". Ctrl+UP/DOWN Arrow will locate the previous or next match, or else beeps. Example 9: Registration screen ------------------------------ Shift+F1 enters the registration screen. It takes care of European state taxes (VAT/BTW), type of license, forms of payment, Surface or Air mail etc. The user just chooses the license (s)he wants, comple- tes the other fields and mails or faxes it to Hasoft. More (Continued) Quick Review Guide for File_Handle Resum‚ ------ Consult the files MANUAL.TXT and FH_QUICK.TXT (F1 and Ctrl+F1) be- fore giving up on File_Handle, some options have differrent results than you might expect. File_Handle is very flexible, and can be controlled in more -usualy faster- ways than described in this short document. For example, instead of moving a menu bar, the Alt+Letter shortcut will execute an option right away; there are more invisible mouse Quick-spots on the screen; menus can repeat their last command with a mouse-chord or by the Enter key, etc. Much more features are explained in those two documents. File_Handle will stop ANY process with Escape, and will unconditio- nally exit from ANYWHERE (but a running application) with Exit (F10) -- you don't need to close menus or anything else first! ###