COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEELETA software and documentation are © COPYRIGHT 1996 by David Tucker.
All RIGHTS reserved.
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DISCLAIMER
While every effort has been made to ensure the integrity of the software, the USER assumes ALL risk and responsibility related to its use. The author cannot be held responsible for any loss of data, damages to software or hardware that may result directly or indirectly from the use or misuse of this program. The author reserves the right to make changes to the software and / or documentation without notice.
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WHAT IS THE PACKAGE
The following directories and files make up the DEELETA package.
Deeleta - For WB 2.04 or higher
Deeleta.Doc - This text file
Icon/AppIconImage - AppIcon Image (WB2.04 or higher)
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DISTRIBUTION
This program is FREEWARE. It may be freely distributed provided that no charge is made for the program. This excludes reasonable costs of media, copying and or shipping and for BBS/Network systems, no charges other than normal download charges. The DEELETA package must be distributed as a whole. No additional restrictions may be added to the distribution of the DEELETA package. No files may be modified except for archiving.

Commercial distribution by magazine cover disks is permitted provided that they obey the above rules and follow this additional requirement. Please send me a copy of the magazine / coverdisk / CD That the DEELETA package appears on.
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CONTACT
You can contact me by
Email: daviddcat@subdimension.com
Email: daviddcat@hotpop.com
Web : http://www.crosswinds.net/~daviddcat/
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CREDITS
DEELETA was written using BLITZ BASIC 2 VERSION 2.10.
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HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION
From WORKBENCH just drag the DRAWER across to where you want it.
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HISTORY
V1.05 Oct 1996
° If the Disk/Directory that DEELETA was run from was not
available then DEELETA would ask for that disk/directory
to be inserted in a drive. This has been corrected.

° DEELETA's GUI has been changed to be more compact.

° DEELETA now closes all open windows of directories that have been deleted and also removes all icons of deleted  files.Previously only files with icons and all directories except the first was closed/removed. ( Refer BUGS )

° You can now set where you want DEELETA to to send it's report to. ( Refer TOOLTYPES ) 

V1.01 Aug 1996
° If you set the tool types to 'DONOTWAIT' DEELETA will not activate its window. This is of use if you have Deeleta in your WB startup drawer.

V1.00 June 1996
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BUGS
DEELETA was written on an A1200 and the program worked exactly as intended but whilst testing on a system with WB2.04 it was discovered that the following would not work. The first, and one that you can probably live without is that there is no zoom gadget. The second which is more of an inconvenience is
that on WB 3.0 windows of deleted directories are closed when that directory has its window open and icons are removed from the display again if that window is open. But on WB2.04 only files with icons where removed from the display. All files/ directories will be deleted it's just that the display is not
updated to display this. So if you are using WB 2.04 then delete your files/ directories and then select Update from the WorkBench menus. Needless to say that in theory there should be no difference between the two. I will of course try to correct this bug. Note: Closing all windows of directories that you are going to delete will avoid this bug.
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
DEELETA requires WB 2.04 or higher
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THE WB STARTUP DRAWER
If you place DEELETA in your WB Startup drawer and add DONOTWAIT to DEELETA's tooltypes. Then DEELETA will not activate its window upon execution. If you do not add 'DONOTWAIT' then DEELETA will NOT activate its window at execution.
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THE PROGRAM
DEELETA is a simple to use directory / file deleter. An AppIcon is set up and you simply drop icons onto the AppIcon. DEELETA can delete single files, multiple files ( by using extended selection ), Whole directories and complete disks. Use this program with EXTREME CAUTION. NOTE: If you have to use SHOW and/or VIEW BY from WorkBench then you can still delete these files. Simply use DEELETA as you would for an Iconed file.
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DELETE A SINGLE FILE / DIRECTORY
Simply drop the selected file onto the appicon. ie click on the file you want to delete. Do not let go of the left mouse button, move the mouse until the image is over DEELETA's appicon and release the mouse button.

DELETE MULTIPLE FILES / DIRECTORIES
Click on the files you want to delete. ( Hold down shift key to select more than one file / directory ) then drag and drop.

DELETE COMPLETE DISK
Drop the disk icon onto DEELETA's appicon

IGNORE PROTECTION
If this has been selected then as the name suggest the file protection is ignored and the file will be deleted even if it has been protected against deletion.

CONFIRM
Puts up a requester asking for you to confirm you choices. Refer to DELETION / SELECTION for more information. The requester may have two or three choice these are 
Delete - delete file/directory 
Next - do nothing and jump to the next file/directory
Abort - do nothing. Delete NO files.
If you select abort all selections will be disregarded

DELETION / SELECTION
CONFIRM must be selected. There are two types of confirmation the first DELETION will put up the requester asking you to confirm the deletion of EVERY file. ie if you select a directory then you must confirm every file in the directory. With second SELECTION you will be asked to confirm only the files that you selected. ie if you select a directory then you will be asked if you want to delete the directory only and not any other files or directories in the selected directory.

DISPLAY ERRORS / CREATE REPORT
DISPLAY ERRORS if selected will show any errors that occurred during the deletion process in a requester. 
CREATE REPORT will create a report as either a file or send it to a printer. This will show any errors and if a file was deleted.

REPORT TO FILE / REPORT TO PRINTER
CREATE REPORT must be selected. This is where to send the report to. If you have chosen REPORT TO FILE then you may set the path. The path is where the report file will be saved to.

ESC CODES
When DEELETA creates a report esc codes are also sent to make text bold, colour text etc. You can switch OFF the sending of these esc codes by selecting ESC CODES from the pull down menus.
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TOOL TYPES
You can effect DEELETA's set up by setting the tool types in
DEELETA's Icon. The following can be set
WINDX=? - Maximum 310 where DEELETA opens across the screen
WINDY=? - Maximum 50 where DEELETA opens down the screen
PROTECT=? - 1 ignore protection on 0 off
CONFIRM=? - 1 confirm on 0 off
SELECT=? - 1 selection 0 deletion
REPORT=? - 1 Create report 0 display errors
PRINTER=? - 1 report to file 0 report to printer
PATH=? - Path including the report name where the report
will be saved to ie Ram:DeeletaReport

Do not exceed the maximum WINDX or WINDY as there is no checking to see if the value is legal. This is your responsibility.
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Till next time
Catcha !

DCAT