Do Not Edit This File. NARC Help Facility, copyright (c) 1987-89 Infinity Design Concepts, Inc. ð Help Facility Index Section 1 ............................................ Extract file(s) Section 2 ............................................ View file Section 3 ............................................ Print file(s) Section 4 ............................................ Select ZIP file Section 5 ............................................ Select drive Section 6 ............................................ Directory tree Section 7 ............................................ Quit Section 8 ............................................ Misc. commands and Function Keys ð Extracting File(s) Section 1 This command allows extracting files from an archive or zipfile. You may extract highlighted or tagged files. NARC will ask for the drive/path to extract the file(s) to. Hitting the ENTER key alone will cause the files to be extracted to the current directory. NOTE: Control-R will repeat the last extraction path. ð View File Section 2 The currently highlighted file is read, formatted and displayed on the screen. The Pg Up, Pg Down, Home, End and arrow keys allow you to move easily through the file. F - key toggles the filter so that the output files from some word processors can be displayed correctly. M or H key toggles the display mode from HEX dump to ASCII view. S - searches for a string of text in the file and highlights the located string. ESC,Q,X,F1,ENTER or either mouse button ends the view. ð Print File(s) Section 3 Page 1 The print routine will print the highlighted or tagged files. You have several options here. The first option that comes to the screen is the printer string option. This allows you to select a character font for printing the file. There are four optional fonts. They are, 0 Send no printer string (use printers default) 1 Set printer to 10 cpi (pica) 2 Set printer to 12 cpi (elite) 3 Set printer to 17 cpi (compressed) These printer strings come with NARC configured for an EPSON compatible printer. They can be changed to anything that you like with NARCCFG.EXE. Each string has a maximum length of 9 bytes. The ESC key aborts the print operation completely. Page 2 The second option tells NARC how to format the document. There are three options. Each option is toggled between YES and NO with the SPACE bar. The ESC key aborts the print operation completely and the ENTER key accepts the currently displayed options. Format - YES - This option tells NARC that you want the document formatted during printing. The formatting includes page numbers, page breaks and expanded tabs. NO - This option tells NARC not to perform any formatting at all during print. This is for use on files that have already been formatted with formfeeds etc. Page 3 Strip High bit - YES - This option tells NARC to strip the high bit off of each character that is printed. This is to allow WordStar (c) type documents to be printed correctly, since WordStar and other word processors use the high bit of some characters to denote paragraph alignment etc. NO - Do not strip the high bit from each character. Strip Control Characters - YES - This option tells NARC to remove all control characters from the document before printing. The exceptions to this are carriage returns, linefeeds and tabs. NO - Do not remove control characters. ð Select ZIP/ARC file Section 4 This option allows selecting an archive file from the list of ZIP,ARC or ARK files in the current directory. The directory is searched for files with any of the above extensions. They are then sorted and displayed in a box. Use the arrow keys to move the highlight bar to the desired file and select the file with the ENTER key (or left mouse button). The "O" command will toggle sorting of the ZIP/ARC files on and off. NOTE: Those of you that wish to handle archive files with non-standard file extensions can do so by passing the filename on the command line (From DOS, enter NARC /H for complete information) or you may use the "S" command from the ZIP window or main screen. ð Select drive Section 5 This option allows selecting a new disk drive. All of the drives that are currently available, as reported by DOS are displayed in a box. Use the arrow keys to position the highlight bar and then select the drive with the ENTER key (or left mouse button). ð Directory Tree Section 6 Page 1 This command will scan the complete disk searching for sub-directories. The directories are sorted and sub-sorted and displayed in a visual tree. There are several commands available at this point, such as creating new directories, removing existing directories or scanning a new drive. The disk is scanned for directory entries when you use the "D" command from the main menu. This information is stored so that with subsequent use of the "D" command, the disk need not be rescanned unless you have changed drives. Note: It normally takes about 3 seconds to scan a slow 20MB drive. This speed is achieved by reading the FAT tables directly rather than relying on the relatively slow services offered by DOS. Page 2 ALT-letter will take you immediately to the subdirectory whose name begins with "letter". ALT-I would highlight the next directory name that began with the letter "I" on the tree, ALT-I again would highlight the one after that, etc. If no more are found, then the search begins back at the root and moves down the list again. ð Exit NARC Section 7 Exit NARC, with thanks from IDC. Remember that if you play with hardware long enough, it BREAKS and if you play with software long enough, it WORKS ! ð Miscellaneous Commands Section 8 Page 1 ALT-letter key will locate any file in the subdirectory having "letter" as the first character of the filename This same ALT-letter combination works in the directory tree as well. F - command will also locate a subfile in the ZIPfile. You will be asked for a wildcard filename mask. You don't even have to enter a complete file specification, you may enter as much of the filename as you wish. MOUSE: The left mouse button is always available and simulates the ENTER key. The right mouse button is always available and simulates the ESC key. K - command will delete the highlighted file from the archive. Page 2 FUNCTION KEYS F1 - Calls up this help system. F2 - On EGA/VGA systems, this key will toggle between 25 and 43 line modes. F4 - This command will send a copy of the current directory to the printer in the same format as the screen. F5 - This command will allow running DOS commands. You also have the option of running command.com again. Type EXIT to return to NARC when finished in DOS. Page 3 F6 - This command will tag all subfiles within the ZIPfile. Tagged files are denoted with a diamond character in column 80. F7 - This command will invert the tagged status of all subfiles, that all tagged files will become untagged and all untagged files will become tagged. F8 - Display file comment for highlighted subfile in a ZIPfile. (Also see ALT-F8) F9 - This command will run your editor. The environment variable IDCED must be set up before this command will work. The syntax is SET IDCED=drive:\path\editor name (INCLUDE extension). (Also see ALT-F9) Page 4 F10 - This key will call up this help file (see F1). ALT-F3 - Displays the stored pathname in a ZIP file. When files are stored in a zipfile with their associated pathnames, this function allows viewing the complete stored pathname. ALT-F8 - Displays the comment for the entire zipfile, not to be confused with the individual file comments. (Also see F8) ALT-F10 - This key combination will display the NARC status screen. Page 5 I - command. This command will call IDCshell.EXE. The environment variable IDCARCPATH must be set up -OR- IDCshell must be in the current directory. The environment variable is set up as follows, IDCARCPATH=c:\util\idcshell.exe Note that the drive letter MUST be inserted. Then give the path and filename for IDCshell. This allows you to change the name of IDCshell.EXE to something else if you wish. S - command. This command will allow you to change the secondary search mask. When NARC looks for archives on the disk, it looks for ZIP, ARC and ARK files. This command allows changing the .ARK mask to something other than .ARK. Wildcards are OK. (This feature provided for Curt Edwards and other GT-SYSOPS) Page 6 Environment variables. For calling IDCshell.EXE, this environment variable tells NARC where to find IDCshell on your disk. If this variable is not set, then NARC will automatically look in the current directory. See NARC.DOC for complete details. Example: SET IDCARCPATH=c:\util\idcshell.exe Note that the drive letter MUST be inserted. Then give the path and filename for IDCshell. This allows you to change the name of IDCshell.EXE to something else if you wish. For calling your editor with the F9 key. Example: SET IDCED=c:\ws.com (continued on next page) Page 7 Environment variables (continued) Example: SET IDCTEMP=e:\ramdrive This environment variable is used to tell NARC where to create it's temporary files when viewing. Note that these variables should be set up in your AUTOEXEC.BAT. Note also in NARC zip 3.0 and above, the environment variables may be eliminated by using NARCCFG to permanently install the pathnames into NARC. See the environment variable section in NARC.DOC.