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These are updates for Disk Witch since version 3.0.0. This is an
actual suplement for the documentation. The changes are placed in
order of most recent first.
Disk Witch Version 3.1.0
Editing:
Edit fields now acknowledge escape as well as OA-. key combination.
Seaching within the textreader:
Case insensitive search instead of case sensitive search.
If you want case insensitive use control-OA-f and control-CA-f.
Directory Displays:
The directories are listed in either sorted or unsorted order.
You can toggle between them with the OA-U/u keys. Default sor
order is sorted.
You can now scroll through the directories one screen at a time.
The key presses for a screen scroll is the OA-<up arrow> or
OA-<down arrow>.
Pathname Remeberance:
Disk Witch now remembers the last pathname you accessed. The
exceptions to this is that going from GSOS to ProDOS 8 with a
colon as the seperator or a name length of greater then 64 the
pathname will be erased. When going from ProDOS 8 to GSOS the
seperator will be a '/' until another device search is performed.
Printing within Disk Witch:
Printing is now available from two places from within Disk Witch.
You can print directories or anything within the new textreader.
To access the printer window from within the directory listing use
the OA-P combination. This send the number of lines for your
directory listing to the printer window. The first item printed is
the directory name line. See below for explanations.
There are two ways to access the printer window from within the text
reader. The first is just like above in the directory listing. You
can send the number of lines in the file to the printer window. The
first line in the file is the line that is first sent to the printer.
There is also a key combination CA-P. This key combinaion sends the
number of lines on the screen to the printer window. The position that
is sent to the printer window is relative position that you are in
the file at that moment.
Printer Window:
This is a new window that is in Disk Witch. It can be accessed as
explained above. The individual fields will be explained here.
Before I go any further I would like to say that an OA-. or an
escape will stop printing at any time. A space will pause the
output while printing.
- The device field = This field is a scrollable list that displays
the devices that you have that you want to print out to. You
can scroll though these by using the up and down arrow keys.
- Lines to Send = This field within the printer window is accessed
by pressing s/S keys. This field will show the number of formatted
lines that you want sent to the printer. It is a normal Disk
Witch editing field as are the fields below. Just delete and
type as normal. No Default. This is not an exact calculation.
Some things that could effect the calculation is that the screen
formatting of the line you are printing out is longer then the
actual line that is being sent to the printer. Be careful of this
if you want an exact number of lines printed out. The printer
window will only print out the number of lines that are in this
field. This does not mean that if you sent it a line that had
100 characters in it that not all of them would be printed out.
The printer window is smart enough to tell this and will print
the excess on the next line. It only means that if you want to
send a line that is 76 characters long (which is the case for the
directory printing) to a page with 70 characters of room between
the margins then the line will be treated as two lines and the
Lines to send will have calculated wrong.
- Continuous Feed On/Off = You can toggle between these two options
bye using the C/c keys. If Continuous Feed is off then the printer
window will prompt you when it is done with one paper so that you
can put in another page. Default = On.
- Line Feeds On = Some printers or drivers do not need line feeds
after every carrage return. If your printouts are comming out
with double line spacing then just set this option to Off. You
can toggle between On and off with the F/f keys.
- Next Line/Inch = This is used to set the next default lines per
inch values. THIS DOES NOT SET THE LINES PER INCH!! It only
shows the recomended values for lines per inch. You toggle this
with using the N/n keys.
- Next Char/Inch = This is used to set the next default characters
per inch. THIS DOES NOT SET THE ACTUAL CHARACTERS PER INCH ON
YOUR PRINTER!! It only shows the recomended values for characters
per inch. You toggle this with using the I/i keys.
- Full Page Width = This option is set up originally for a 8.5"
wide paper with 10 characters per inch. You can access this
field by using the W/w keys. It is used in the Characters/line
calculation below. You can set this value to anything you desire.
Default 85.
- Left = This field tells the printer window what to use as a left
margin when printing. It is accessed by using the L/l keys.
Default 5
- Right = This field tells the printer window what to use as a right
margin. It is accessed be using the R/r keys. Default 5
- Characters/line = This is just an information line. It uses the
last three fields and calculates how many characters there are per
line.
- Lines per Page = This fields tells the printer window how many
lines are on the paper you have. The default is for a 11" long
piece of paper at 6 characters per inch. You can access this field
with the P/p keys. Default 66.
- Top = This field tells the printer window how many blank lines
you want at the top of every page. You can access this field with
the T/t keys. Default 6.
- Bottom = This field tells the printer window how many blank lines
you want at the bottom each page. You can access this field with
the B/b keys. Default 6.
- Printed lines = This is for information only. The printer window
calculates and displays the number of lines of actual text that
will be printed on each sheet.
- Pages = This is an inexact calculation of how many pages you wanted
printed out. This is inexact in that the number of lines above is
inexact.
Exiting:
Another keypress was added as a personel request. To leave Disk
Witch you can now use OA-esc.
Cosmetic:
Some of the terms were changed. In the copying screen it is was changed
from a question marks to colons. The question marks confused people.
If during copying the file with the name you were using was there a
small dialog type box popped up and one command said 'Delete file' and
another said 'Delete All'. These were changed to 'Replace File' and
'Replace All'
The S16/EXE version:
A bunch of dead ProDOS 8 code was removed. The difference in size is
now about 8K (15 blocks). This is also to let people know that if
they haven't figured it out, all you need to do to run the S16 version
as an EXE is to change the filetype. It's easy with Disk Witch!
Bugs:
When changing the attributes to locked the read bit was being cleared
as well as the write/rename/delete bits. This is fixed. An lock will
now set the read bit no matter what the condition before.
During a format some zero bank locations were being changed and they
should not have been. This is fixed.
A couple of minor bugs fixed in the s16 version.
Disk Witch Version 3.0.1
A problem with tabs in the new textreader was fixed with this version.
(a very minor fix but see below.)
A problem with tabs in the old textreader was fixed with this version.
^^^This problem above is rather serious.^^^
The directory where you are, is displayed on the same line where the
<This Directory> is.
Got rid of some extraneous code in the sys version.
Fixed a problem with renaming files in ProDOS 8.