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ShowFiles (sf) - 0.995
======================
DIR/LIST command - displays a sorted and text-formatted list.
ShowFiles (sf) is yet another DIR command (written in C). It displays a sorted
and text-formatted list of files, drawers (dirs) and soft/hard-links on disk or
other storage medium. It will also display their additional information such as
size, date, possible comment, executable header type (68k or PPC program),
protection-bits, etc, etc.
It supports a number of different option/switch formats (Amiga like switches,
Unix/Linux style and DOS/Windows style). It also supports wildcards/pattern-
matching and Amiga templates.
 After installation, in the Shell, please type "sf HELP" (or "sf --help") for
listing all options/switches. Or look in the .doc-file in the archive.
Features
--------
- Abbreviated as SF or just sf, fast and easy to type in the shell.
- Dirs/drawers displayed in blue color (pen 3).
- Executable files displayed in white color (pen 2).
- Hard/Softlinks are displayed underscored (underlined).
- Shows where any Hard/Softlinks points to.
- Possible comments are displayed in italic.
- Displays the "primitive" file type of files.
- Fetches and identifies executable headers. 68k, PPC (ELF), EXE, among others.
- Displays the Amiga file protection bits of files.
- Shows free disk space and sizes in KiB (1024), kB (1000) and bytes.
- Options SIZE and TIME, for sorting by size and time/date.
- Option REVERSE, for reversing the output list.
- Options (FILES, DIRS & LINKS) for displaying only files, dirs or links. Or
 intermix them.
- Option 68K, for only listing m680x0 (68k) executables (AmigaOS 3.x).
- Option PPC, for only listing PowerPC (PPC) executables (ELF headers).
- Option ALL, for showing all files and dirs in directories and subdirs.
- Option to TRACE files with an initial character ('/', '*' or (at)-char).
- Option to TRAIL files with a final character ('/', '*' or (at)-char).
- Possibility to specify a path to display.
- Supports wildcards/pattern-matching.
- Option BARE, for listing without heading/summary information.
- Shows OwnerUID, OwnerGID and ObjectID (as reported by DOS).
- Supports the ? switch, for showing the Amiga Template.
- Option DATEFIRST for having the date first in every line.
- Option REALDATES for dates in the international format YYYY-MM-DD.
- Option NOCOMMENTS for omitting comments in output listings.
- Option NAMES for displaying only names in the output listing.
- Supports multiple formats of options/switches (f.ex: TIME --time -t /t).
- Supports automatic updates through AmiUpdate.
- Supports Shell/Console with black background.
- Supports Shell/Console with blue background and white foreground with ANSI
 colors palette.
- Written (in C) and developed on Amiga, for Amiga and Amigans.
Special notes for this release
------------------------------
- NOTE: Option CLARIFY is now deprecated, please use MOST instead.
- NOTE: Option REALDATE is now deprecated, please use REALDATES instead.
- NOTE: No footer info implemented yet when pattern matching..
- All one-single-letter options such as a, -m, /P are case
 sensitive, where as non-single-letter options are not. Reason for this
 is because available free letters are becomming scarce for more options.
- For the latest changes/updates, look in the Changes-section in the manual...
Displaying dir-listings
-----------------------
There are 4 main OUTPUT VIEWS for displaying dir-listings, typing the
following (without the "1>" string):
1> sf
= displays all the files in current dir with the *DEFAULT* view.
1> sf NAMES
or
1> sf -n
= displays a list with only filenames
1> sf MORE
or
1> sf -m
= displays a list with more specific information including what exe type a file
is (PPC (ELF), 68k, exe etc.)
1> sf MOST
or
1> sf -M
= displays an even more clarified list of specific information.
More examples
-------------
Options can be written in any of the four different types. For example MORE,
--MORE, -m, /m, more and --more, are all the same option.
However, one single letter options such as m, -p, P, /H, etc are case-
sensitive, non-single letter options are not.
1> sf 68K
or
1> sf -6
= lists only 68K executables.
1> sf TIME
or
1> sf -t
= sorts by time/date (oldest first).
1> sf TIME REVERSE
or
1> sf -t -r
= sorts by time/date (newest/latest first).
1> sf DIRS
or
1> sf -d
= displays only drawers (dirs).
1> sf SIZE REVERSE
or
1> sf -s -r
= displays a list of files sorted by size, the biggest at the top.
1> sf ALL
or
1> sf -a
= displays all files and dirs in a directory and its sub-directories.
1> sf sobjs: -l -c
= displays only links in the dir/assignment called sobjs:
1> sf HELP
or
1> sf --help
or
1> sf -?
or
1> sf /?
= displays the help with a list of all switches/commands.
1> sf ram:t/n#?
= displays all files and dirs in RAM:T starting with character n.
Limitations
-----------
- No footer info implemented yet when pattern matching.
- When fetching for exe-files (using MORE or MOST option, sf doesn't
(yet) recognize the architecture for MacOS files, it does only recognize
if it's an exe-file (for what ever architecture) or not.)
Installation
------------
Just run the file ShowFiles.Install, 
or: 
* Copy the file ShowFiles to your C:
* Type the following and hit enter:
 C:MakeLink C:sf C:ShowFiles SOFT FORCE
 Or you could add the following line to your S:User-Startup:
 Alias sf ShowFiles []
* Copy the documentation to SYS:Documentation/C/ 
* Done!
Milestones and major events
---------------------------
2016 Feb, version 0.981
 - Fixed so sf works with Shells/Consoles with black background.
2015 Jul, version 0.970
 - Pattern matching implemented.
2014 Feb, version 0.943
 - A rare bug with option ALL (recursive dirs) found, and tested on 
 A1-X1000, Sam460ex and Sam440ep-flex. Bug caused by a compiler switch.
2013 Dec, version 0.923
 - All major/minor typos, quirks and bugs resolved in all scripts
 (AutoInstall, Install and UnInstall scripts).
2012 Nov, version 0.8
 - Renamed to ShowFiles (SF/sf) from DF (DisplayFiles), due to a name-clash.
2011 Feb, version Beta 5, (0.5)
 - AmiUpdate implemetation completed and fully working autoinstall.
2011 Feb, version Beta 2
 - Dynamic memory allocation for storing file meta data (dir listing handling),
 no more "max limit of 1000 files".
2011 Jan, version Alpha 1
 - First public release.
Changes
-------
Version 0.995: (Apr 2023)
 - Compiled with the new SDK 54 with gcc version 8.4.0 (adtools build 8.4.0).
Version 0.994: (Jul 2021)
 - Fixed bug that made Error 11 always show up on plain listings. (Failed
 allocating memory for some reason. Maybe introduces during Kickstart
 version 53.14 - 54.30, or some other DOS update.)
 - Clarified an error message (the above Error 11).
Version 0.993: (Jan 2018)
 - Added white color (pen 2) as foreground on executable files.
 - Optimized the output listing, roughly about 41% faster now! Tested with 50
 items (42 files + 8 dirs). The whole command before had a mean of 0.3399 s
 and after the optimizion now a mean of 0.2014 s. However don't trust
 these values too much though, as the values fluctuates pretty much.
 - Made some minor changes to the three scripts.
Version 0.992: (Jan 2018)
 - Added commands SETANSICOLORSON and SETANSICOLORSOFF, set either one
 depending on if you use ANSI colors or System Pens as your Palette in
 the Text Colors tab in Console Preferences.
 - Added command SETBLUEBG for setting the background to blue. You might also
 set to use ANSI colors with the command SETANSICOLORSON.
Version 0.991: (Dec 2017)
 - Fixed issue in MOST view with uneven columns after Object ID now returns
 numbers with more digts.
 - Some changes to TRAIL and TRACE. Now TRACE has -i as one letter option and
 puts the symbol before the name. While TRAIL has -j and puts the symbol
 after the name.
Version 0.990: (Dec 2016)
 - New NOCOMMENTS option added, for omitting comments in output listings.
 (Kind of suggested by Guillaume (zzd10h).)
 - New NAMES option added, for displaying only names in the output listing.
 (Suggested by Severin.) (PS: both -l and -L for LESS
 are already taken/reser-ved)
 - New TRACE option added, allows files to be "traced" with an initial
 character. Dirs with an initial "/", executable with an "*", and links with
 an (at-char).
 - TRAIL is now opposite to TRACE, allows files to be "trailed" with a final
 character.
 - Fixed issue, (sometimes) the pointed link would appear not visable.
 - Bugfix: -E now works for DATEFIRST as expected.
 - Added one letter option -R to REALDATES ("promoted" from command
 to option).
 - Fixed issue, DATEFIRST -E added to documentation.
 - One new-line added to the MOST output.
 - Added alternative way of installation to readme, thanks Severin.
Version 0.982: (Feb 2016)
 - Fixed missing command (BARE) in the Template output and manual, it was in
 HELP and readme though.
 - Fixed so the Template is alphabetically sorted.
 - Fixed more contrast to the arrow (->) in links, color changed to black.
 - Fixed missing REALDATES and DATEFIRST in features in readme.
Version 0.981: (Feb 2016)
 - Fixed "sometimes missing footer" (appeared in the wrong color). Thanks
 Guillaume (zzd10h) for reporting.
 - Fixed wrong colors in comments when black Shell. Thanks Guillaume (zzd10h)
 for reporting. (PS: Option for omitting comments already on TODO-list.)
 - Fixed issue, "A block of text appeared in the wrong place in the readme".
 - Fixed a few missing commands in the Template output in help and in manual.
Version 0.980: (Feb 2016)
 - Added MOST aka -M option, same as CLARIFY and -c, but easier to remember.
 - Added SETBLACKBG command for setting the background color to black (pen 1),
 when using a Shell with black background.
 - Added SETNORMALBG command for setting the background color to normal (grey,
 pen 0), when using a Shell with normal/grey background.
 - Added PRINTENV command for printing out the ShowFiles (sf) environment/
 configuration variables.
 - The option REALDATE is now deprecated, please use REALDATES instead.
 - Included all error codes and their meaning to the manual.
 - A number of typos fixed in readme.
Version 0.972: (Sep 2015)
 - Compiled with latest SDK version 53.29.
 - Fixed case sensitive issue with pattern matching. (thanks Guillaume
 (zzd10h) for reporting)
 - Fixed a rare condition where header whould not render correctly.
 - UseCount removed from output, DOS structure no longer support it.
Version 0.971: (Jul 2015)
...//snip//
 (See the doc/manual for more information.)
Thank You
---------
Thank you to everyone giving help, feedback, bug/error-reports and suggestions.
Individual credits are in history body text.
Requirements
------------
AOS4 (requires locale.library V48+ or DOS V50.36+ if locale not available).
AmigaOS 4.1 FE recommended.
Licence
-------
This software is freeware.
Donation
--------
Feel free to make a donation by using PayPal:
marko . seppanen // g m a i l. com (without spaces)
Author
------
Marko K. Seppänen
Homepage
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http://m4rko.com/amiga

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