INTRODUCTION ------------ X-Filer is designed to help you manage your CoCo files with ease. It's small enough to fit in all your disks without seriously limiting the available storage space, and perfect for the hard drive user. IMPORTANT ------- X-Filer is designed for Disk BASIC, HDB-DOS and RGB-DOS, using 35 track disks. Should work with most compatible OSs, but will not be able to read 40-80 track disks correctly, and data corruption may occur. STARTUP ------- At startup, the program will read the current drive, and display the list of available files. Depending on whether it was able to confirm the presence of a hard disk OS (only tested with HDB-DOS and RGB-DOS) or not, the menu will include different commands. USAGE ----- To use the program, first select the command you want to use. To select a file, you might use the cursor keys or type the name of the file. X-Filer will select the file that matches what you type as you do it. To cancel the selection, press the key. When entering a name, you can cancel the operation by pressing without entering any name. Press to exit the program. DISK LABELS: If a disk does not have a label assigned, X-Filer will assign the name of the first file in the disk as label. COMMANDS -------- INSTALL: This will save the X-Filer program to the current drive, with the name XF.BAS If there are not enough free granules, the program can attempt to delete a current XF.BAS file to make enough room. SIZE: Select a file to display it's size in Kb and granules. Press any key to go back to the menu. LOAD: Select a file to load. The program will identify the format and load it. If it is a BASIC program, it will overwrite X-Filer in memory and be started. If it is a ML program, X-Filer might be able to continue. HARD DRIVE: Will prompt you to select the virtual disk in the Hard drive to which you would like to access. The program will detect the number of available virtual disks. Press without entering a number to cancel. BACKUP: Will prompt you to select a disk to which backup the current disk. This option only works with H.D. OSs, since Disk Basic will delete the RAM content before starting a backup. FORMAT: Will format the current drive. This option only works with H.D. OSs, since Disk Basic will delete the RAM content before starting a format. COPY: Will prompt to select the file to be copied. After selecting one, will ask for the destination name. You might specify a drive using the FILENAME.EXT:N format, where N is the destination disk number. If you want to keep the same name, use *:N MOVE: Same as COPY, but will delete the original file. DELETE: Will prompt to select the file to be deleted, and request a confirmation before proceeding. RENAME: Will prompt to select the file to be renamed. After selecting one, will ask for the destination (new) name. LABEL: Asks for a new label name for the current disk. When a disk without a label is listed, X-Filer will automatically assign the name of the first file in the disk as label. BROWSE: Used to browse disk by label and number. More information below. DRIVE: Used to quick select a disk with the keyboard numbers. In a floppy disk only system, drives 0 to 3 are available. In a hard drive system, drives 0 to 9 are available. Using the key will switch the drives 0 to 3 from hard disk access to floppy disk. DISK BROWSER ------------ By pressing the key, X-Filer will enter the Disk Browser mode. In it, it will list the numbers and labels of 13 disks at a time. You can navigate the list using the arrow keys, or jump to a disk by pressing the key. Once a disk is selected, its content will be listed in the main program UI. CUSTOMIZATION ------------- You can customize the colors and sounds of the program, by changing some values in the line 20000. The BE$ variable stores the string that is PLAYed as system bell. The following palette colors change the program display: Screen background: 7 File background: 6 File text: 9 Alert background: 2 Alert text: 11 Some suggested color schemes are (for RGB): Windows95: 7,24 6,63 9,0 11,63 2,8 MacOS8: 7,57 6,63 9,0 11,0 2,56 B&W: 7,56 6,0 9,56 11,0 2,63 Deskmate: 7,24 6,13 9,62 11,63 2,36 CoCo: 7,20 6,18 9,0 11,63 2,2