rabeck@cbnewsk.att.com (ronald.a.beck) (11/01/90)
A quick word about Directory Freedom Ver 3.50a, by Gordon Haff. It is in Simtel20, under pd1:<msdos.dirutl> as df350a.zip. It is stated as "best hack of PC Mag's DR, CO, RN". First off, it is good. I have been checking many hacks and trying to see which I prefer. The bug. The <alt F4>, which is a refresh of the current directory or disk is a neat move, only I have found if you do that on blank disks in the A drive, it bombs out and exits with a "divide overflow". I found this while checking some unmarked floppies. It does not fail with a "<F9> a:" sequence (change dir). Not a big problem, but I thought netland and the author might want to know. Keep up the good work, Gordon. Ron -- Ron Beck AT&T Voice:404-870-5679 Atlanta, Ga. ATTMail !rabeck rabeck@cbnewsk.att.com ***** Standard Disclaimer *****
s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) (11/02/90)
rabeck@cbnewsk.att.com (ronald.a.beck) writes: >A quick word about Directory Freedom Ver 3.50a, by Gordon Haff. It is in >Simtel20, under pd1:<msdos.dirutl> as df350a.zip. It is stated as >"best hack of PC Mag's DR, CO, RN". I use DR, and tried DF on that same recommendation. >First off, it is good. I have been checking many hacks and trying to see >which I prefer. It's terrible. I loaded it up, ran it, and my machine crashed. Seems I didn't have somebody-or-other's list program on board. I found some fix mentioned in the documentation, tried again... OK. Let's view a file.. Pg Dn.. It seems the screen is 25 lines long, but this prog drops 26 on random but common occasions. I.e. you miss a line in the view. I can put up with limitations or _obscure_ bugs, but to me, it seemed that the whole thing was poorly tested and hurriedly cobbled together. I did without. -- Regards, Ron House. (s64421@zeus.usq.edu.au) (By post: Info Tech, U.C.S.Q. Toowoomba. Australia. 4350)
rlp@drutx.ATT.COM (Bob Prehn (@ The Right Choice)) (11/02/90)
In article <s64421.657550350@zeus>, s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) writes: > rabeck@cbnewsk.att.com (ronald.a.beck) writes: > > >A quick word about Directory Freedom Ver 3.50a, by Gordon Haff. It is in > >Simtel20, under pd1:<msdos.dirutl> as df350a.zip. It is stated as > >"best hack of PC Mag's DR, CO, RN". > > I use DR, and tried DF on that same recommendation. > > >First off, it is good. I have been checking many hacks and trying to see > >which I prefer. > > It's terrible. > > I loaded it up, ran it, and my machine crashed. Seems I didn't have > somebody-or-other's list program on board. I found some fix mentioned > in the documentation, tried again... OK. Let's view a file.. Pg Dn.. > It seems the screen is 25 lines long, but this prog drops 26 on random > but common occasions. I.e. you miss a line in the view. > Try directory scanner version 4.00a. It is a $15 shareware gem I've used for a couple years. It supports split screen viewing of 2 drives/directories. You can do all of the file management stuff (i.e. copy, rename, delete, move, attribues, print, etc) as well as edit/view. It allows you to execute a dos command or program with or without overlaying the DS program. It also allows macro programming of the alt, shift and ctrl keys for use when executing a command (e.g. programming @F7=pkunzip %f %R would unzip the highligted file and require <RETURN> to be pressed before the DS screen is redisplayed when <ALT F7> was pressed). It is a powerfull program that has worked without flaw for me. Until the program is registered, there is a slight delay before reading drive directories. The latest version is available on the following RBBS boards: (805) 488-7430 (805) 983-4303 (805) 482-8030 Bob Prehn (303) 538-4554
KOHLER@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com (11/03/90)
The "best hack of RN, DR, CO" is DM/DIRMAGIC, written by the author of RN, DR, & CO, namely Michael Mefford himself. It is available on SIMTEL20 in PD2:<MSDOS2.PCMAG> as DIRMAG2.ARC.