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| 2 | ³ F(ile) M(anager)/2 is free software from Mark Kimes ³
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| 3 | ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄŽ
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| 4 | ³ READ.ME file -- read before installing ³
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| 5 | ³ See end of document for contact info and license details ³
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| 6 | ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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| 8 |
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| 9 | File Manager/2 (FM/2) is a free OS/2 3.0 (Warp)+ PM 32-bit
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| 10 | file/directory/archive maintenance utility (a sort of super-Drives
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| 11 | object, something midway between the Drives objects and a more
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| 12 | traditional file manager) with plenty of bells, whistles and utilities,
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| 13 | drag and drop, context menus, toolbars, bubble help and accelerator
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| 14 | keys. If you know how to use OS/2, you already know how to use most of
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| 15 | FM/2. You can easily glean the rest from the extensive online help,
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| 16 | including tutorials.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | This document explains how to install FM/2, including upgrading from
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| 19 | previous versions. It explains command line syntaxes (parameters in a
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| 20 | program object) and how to get the program(s) running. The online help
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| 21 | tells you how to actually use FM/2. I'll try to keep this brief.
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| 22 |
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| 23 |
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| 24 | FM/2 3.x installation instructions:
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| 25 | ==================================
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| 26 |
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| 27 | First-time installation:
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| 28 | -----------------------
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| 29 | 1. Unpack the FM2*.ZIP archive in a private directory (for example,
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| 30 | C:\FM2). UNZIP.EXE works nicely to unpack the file.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | 2. Run the provided INSTALL.CMD in that directory to build a folder
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| 33 | and program objects. INSTALL /? will give you simple command line
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| 34 | help on a couple of options.
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| 35 |
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| 36 | 3. Run it -- double-click the "FM/2" or "FM/2 Lite" object in the
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| 37 | File Manager/2 folder. Play, browse, have fun. Full help is
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| 38 | available from within the program, and it helps you with quick
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| 39 | initial setup the first time it's run.
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Upgrading existing versions of FM/2:
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| 42 | -----------------------------------
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| 43 | If upgrading, just unpack the files in the FM/2 directory. Be
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| 44 | sure to overwrite old files. You might want to skip ARCHIVER.BB2
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| 45 | if you've customized it -- other customizations are automatically
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| 46 | preserved. You might then want to rerun INSTALL or just delete
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| 47 | *.TMP and *.ICO to clean up some stuff that you won't need when
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| 48 | upgrading. Note: don't attempt to unpack using FM/2 into the
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| 49 | directory in which FM/2 is already running -- OS/2 locks in-use
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| 50 | files and the upgrade won't be completed properly; not all files
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| 51 | will be unpacked.
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Moving FM/2:
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| 54 | -----------
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| 55 | Rerun INSTALL.CMD if you move the FM/2 directory. This will make
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| 56 | sure all the objects in the folders and *.CMD files point to the
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| 57 | right place. Compare to other products, where'd you'd have to
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| 58 | reinstall if you could only figure out how to completely uninstall
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| 59 | the existing version...
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| 60 |
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| 61 | Uninstalling FM/2:
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| 62 | -----------------
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| 63 | If you later decide to remove FM/2, run UNINSTAL.CMD in the FM/2
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| 64 | directory and follow simple directions. Both installation and
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| 65 | deinstallation are no-brainers. UNINSTAL will help you quickly
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| 66 | and easily remove all traces of FM/2 from your system, if you
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| 67 | don't like it for some reason. All programs should be so nice.
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| 68 |
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| 69 |
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| 70 | First-time notes:
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| 71 | ================
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| 72 |
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| 73 | Starting FM/2 -- how it works, customizing parameters:
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| 74 | -----------------------------------------------------
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| 75 | If you start File Manager/2 (filename FM3.EXE) with no parameters, it
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| 76 | opens the Drive Tree window but no directory windows (unless the "Save
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| 77 | state of dir windows" toggle is checked -- see online help).
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| 78 |
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| 79 | File Manager/2 optionally accepts names of directories in the parameters
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| 80 | field of its program object; it'll open a directory window for each one.
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| 81 | Hint: If you often do different specific things with FM/2, you might
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| 82 | set up a WPS object customized to start up ideally for each activity.
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| 83 | For example, if you wanted to maintain your BBS areas, you might have
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| 84 | one object with parameters like: "D:\BBSDIR D:\BBSDIR\MAILIN
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| 85 | D:\BBSDIR\MAILOUT", and if you also like to use FM/2 to set icons on
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| 86 | files, you might have another object with parameters like: "E:\MYICONS
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| 87 | D:\NEWFILES". The State quicklist can also be used for this within FM/2
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| 88 | itself -- see online help.
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| 89 |
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| 90 | You can exclude drives in the parameters by prefacing the drive letter
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| 91 | with "/", and there can be more than one drive letter behind the "/"
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| 92 | (i.e. "/BH" to exclude both drives B: and H:). Hint: Many people like
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| 93 | to use /B to exclude "phantom" drive B: if they have a single-floppy
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| 94 | system. Similarly, you can cause drives NOT to be prescanned by the
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| 95 | Drive Tree by prefacing the drive letter with ";", drives NOT to load
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| 96 | icons for objects by prefacing the drive letter with ",", drives NOT to
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| 97 | load subjects for objects by prefacing the drive letter with "`" and
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| 98 | drives NOT to load longnames for objects by prefacing the drive letter
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| 99 | with "'". This can be handy if you have a very slow drive like a CD-ROM
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| 100 | or Zip drive. FM/2 Lite recognizes these switches, too. See also the
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| 101 | Drive Flags dialog in FM/2.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | If you place the plus sign "+" (alone, separated from anything else by
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| 104 | spaces) in the parameters, FM/2 will log, to FM2.LOG, delete, rename,
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| 105 | move and copy operations that are performed by drag-and-drop or with the
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| 106 | menus. FM/2 Lite recognizes this switch, too.
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| 107 |
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| 108 | The parameter "-" (alone, separated from anything else by spaces) causes
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| 109 | FM/2 to ignore, not load or save, the previous state of directory
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| 110 | windows (see the "Save state of dir windows" toggle under Config
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| 111 | Menu->Toggles in the online help) for that invocation.
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| 112 |
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| 113 | You can specify the name of an alternate INI file with "-<inifilename>"
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| 114 | -- for example, "-C:\FM2\MYINI.INI".
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| 115 |
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| 116 | How to get started using FM/2:
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| 117 | -----------------------------
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| 118 | Please read the following sections in the online help when you start
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| 119 | FM/2 for the first time: "How to use FM/2's Help," "Terminology" and
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| 120 | "General Help," then "Hints." A peek at the labelled "Window Layouts"
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| 121 | pictures would probably be a good idea, too. The rest you can browse as
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| 122 | you get time/feel the need; for instance, if you want to know what a
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| 123 | toggle does, read the help under Settings notebook for that page (each
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| 124 | Settings notebook page has its own Help button).
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| 125 |
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| 126 | If you prefer hardcopy help, print this file, run FM/2, press Ctrl + F1,
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| 127 | click the "Print" button at the bottom of the help window that appears
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| 128 | and then print both the "Contents" and "All sections" (keep an eye on
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| 129 | the printer, after page 100 of "All sections" as the Help Manager will
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| 130 | begin printing its own help then -- you may want to abort printing at
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| 131 | that point). Advanced and/or curious users may also want to print
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| 132 | FM3TOOLS.DAT and ARCHIVER.BB2. Be sure you have plenty of paper and ink
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| 133 | handy -- the package is well documented. You'll probably also want a
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| 134 | three-ring binder and hole punch to get it bound, as staples aren't
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| 135 | going through that puppy. You can, of course, print only the sections
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| 136 | that are of particular interest to you.
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| 137 |
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| 138 | You may want to either move ARCHIVER.BB2 (the data file containing
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| 139 | information about archiver programs and archive files) to a directory in
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| 140 | your PATH= statement or erase this one if you've customized an old one.
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| 141 | FM/2 can still find, use and maintain ARCHIVER.BB2 on the PATH; it
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| 142 | doesn't have to be in FM/2's directory (this allows it to be used by
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| 143 | other programs as well, like XGroup, XBBS/2, LA, AV, ZTreeBold, etc.).
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| 144 | Remember, FM/2 works best with OS/2, not DOS, archivers.
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| 145 |
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| 146 | Additional documentation:
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| 147 | ------------------------
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| 148 | FM3.HLP: FM/2's online help file.
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| 149 |
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| 150 | Look in the FM/2 Docs subfolder of the File Manager/2 folder for easy
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| 151 | access to all documentation.
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| 152 |
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| 153 |
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| 154 | Bonus programs:
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| 155 | ==============
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| 156 |
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| 157 | You'll note the extra objects that the Install program creates in the
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| 158 | FM/2 Tools subfolder of the File Manager/2 folder. FM/2 is modular, so
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| 159 | that you can get directly to some of its components without running the
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| 160 | entire ball of wax. This may allow you to enhance the behavior of some
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| 161 | of your other applications in the WPS tradition. You don't _have_ to
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| 162 | keep these around, of course -- FM/2 itself contains all their
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| 163 | functionality.
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| 164 |
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| 165 | Archive Viewer/2: Intended for drag-and-drop operation (or WPS
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| 166 | association) with WPS objects or other
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| 167 | applications. Drag an archive onto it, drop it,
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| 168 | get an archive listing box. FM/2's installation
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| 169 | program sets up some associations between archive
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| 170 | files and this program by file extension (run
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| 171 | INSTALL with "NOASSOC" as an argument if you don't
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| 172 | want them). AV/2 will try to display whatever
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| 173 | you give it as sensibly as it can. Filename AV2.EXE.
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| 174 |
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| 175 | EA Viewer: Drag a file system object onto it and it'll show
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| 176 | you the object's extended attributes. Filename
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| 177 | EAS.EXE.
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| 178 |
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| 179 | INI Viewer: Drag an .INI file onto it and it'll show you its
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| 180 | contents. Filename INI.EXE.
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| 181 |
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| 182 | Bookshelf Viewer: Shows all .INF files in a listbox and lets you
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| 183 | pick the one(s) you want to view. If you give any
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| 184 | command line argument, the .HLP files on the HELP
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| 185 | path will be shown instead (the Helpfile Viewer
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| 186 | object calls VIEWINFS.EXE with "dummy" for an
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| 187 | argument, for example). Filename VIEWINFS.EXE.
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| 188 |
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| 189 | Process Killer: Lets you kill off renegade processes. An English
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| 190 | version of PSTAT.EXE must be on your PATH.
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| 191 | Filename KILLPROC.EXE.
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| 192 |
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| 193 | Undeleter: Lets you undelete files (via interface with
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| 194 | UNDELETE.COM). Drag a file system object onto it
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| 195 | and it'll let you undelete files for that drive.
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| 196 | Filename UNDEL.EXE.
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| 197 |
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| 198 | Visual Tree: Opens a Drive Tree window (like the WPS Drives
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| 199 | object with more horsepower). Filename VTREE.EXE.
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| 200 |
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| 201 | Visual Directory: Opens a Directory Container window; drag a file
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| 202 | system object onto it and this will open its
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| 203 | directory (like a WPS directory Folder with more
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| 204 | horsepower). Filename VDIR.EXE.
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| 205 |
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| 206 | Collector: Opens a Collector window. Filename VCOLLECT.EXE.
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| 207 | Two other objects, "See all files" and "Seek and
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| 208 | scan" are created which call up the Collector and
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| 209 | go directly to dialogs for the appropriate
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| 210 | purpose.
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| 211 |
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| 212 | Global Viewer: Opens a global view of a drive or drives. Filename
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| 213 | GLOBAL.EXE.
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| 214 |
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| 215 | Databar: Opens a databar showing some system information.
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| 216 | Filename DATABAR.EXE.
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| 217 |
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| 218 | DirSize: Shows where drive usage is concentrated. Filename
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| 219 | DIRSIZE.EXE.
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| 220 |
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| 221 | FM/2 Lite: A simplified interface for "dummies." Filename
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| 222 | FM4.EXE.
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| 223 |
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| 224 | FM/2's install creates FM2.CMD, AV2.CMD, VDIR.CMD, VTREE.CMD,
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| 225 | VCOLLECT.CMD, UNDEL.CMD, KILLPROC.CMD, INI.CMD, EAS.CMD, DIRSIZE.CMD,
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| 226 | VIEWINFS.CMD and VIEWHELP.CMD files for you in a directory "utils" off
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| 227 | the install directory. You should add this directory to your PATH=
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| 228 | statement in CONFIG.SYS (type HELP PATH at a command line for more
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| 229 | info). If you prefer, FM/2's INSTALL builds a SETENV.CMD in the FM/2
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| 230 | directory which you can call to set the PATH for FM/2 in any given
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| 231 | session without modifying CONFIG.SYS.
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| 232 |
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| 233 |
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| 234 | Troubleshooting:
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| 235 | ===============
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| 236 |
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| 237 | If FM/2 won't run, the probable culprit is CONFIG.SYS. Your LIBPATH
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| 238 | statement should contain a ".\" entry. If yours doesn't, add it. It's
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| 239 | standard for an OS/2 installation, but some buggy install programs knock
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| 240 | it out because they translate entries to their full pathname before
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| 241 | rewriting (so ".\" gets translated to whatever the current directory is
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| 242 | for the buggy install program). What this ".\" entry does is allow a
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| 243 | program to find and use .DLL files in the program's current directory --
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| 244 | obviously something you want programs to be able to do, otherwise you'd
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| 245 | have to put every application's .DLLs into directories already on the
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| 246 | LIBPATH, or add the directories of all applications to the LIBPATH, a
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| 247 | rather huge pain in the, uh, neck.
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| 248 |
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| 249 | If things in FM/2 are suddenly acting strange after an upgrade, first
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| 250 | make _sure_ you unpacked _all_ the files and overwrote the old ones,
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| 251 | then ran INSTALL.CMD to update your WPS objects.
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| 252 |
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| 253 | If the "FM/2 Online Help" object in the "FM/2 Docs" subfolder won't work
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| 254 | properly, you've got a version of VIEW.EXE that won't directly display
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| 255 | help (.HLP) files. Use SEEHELP.EXE from the FM/2 Utilities package to
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| 256 | get around this problem (or upgrade your version of OS/2).
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| 257 |
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| 258 | Don't drag files over Netscape -- it will lock up if files (not WPS
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| 259 | objects; there's a subtle difference) are dragged over it.
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| 260 |
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| [11] | 261 | Known problems/shortcomings
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| 262 | ===========================
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| 263 |
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| 264 | - There must be some
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| 265 |
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| 266 | About FM/2
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| 267 | ==========
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| 268 |
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| 269 | FM/2 was originally written by:
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| 270 |
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| 271 | Mark Kimes
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| 272 | <hectorplasmic@worldnet.att.net>
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| 273 |
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| 274 | He has kindly allowed me to take over maintenance and support of FM/2 and to
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| 275 | release the program under the GNU GPL license. I'm sure he would appreciate
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| 276 | a Thank You note for his generosity.
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| 277 |
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| 278 | Support
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| 279 | =======
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| 280 |
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| 281 | Please address support questions and enhancement requests to:
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| 282 |
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| 283 | Steven H. Levine
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| 284 | steve53@earthlink.net
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| 285 |
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| 286 | I also monitor most of the comp.os.os2.apps newsgroup.
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| 287 |
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| 288 | Thanks and enjoy.
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| 289 |
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| 290 | $ID$
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