CE FileCommander Basics Help

CE FileCommander Basics Help

How to
Use CE FileCommander
Use CE FileCommander Game
Use CE FileCommander Telnet Console
Working with FTP servers

Use CE File Commander

How to
Change Panes placement mode
View/Edit File
Search Files
Working with active processes list
Select files for operation
View file attributes
Copy/move selected files and folders
Remove selected files and folders

See Also
Working with FTP servers

Color Lines Game

In this game you should place 5 or above one-color balls in one line.
If you do it then all this balls will be removed from the game board and your score will be increased...
The game ended when all game board will be filled by colored balls.
By using Menu you can:

Start new game
View high scores table
Switch to the FileCommander panes mode
Set show for the next balls color set
Set sound on/off

Change Panes placement mode

The screen may be vertically or horizontally split on two parts (panes).
This placement may be changed by using menu File->Preferences->Check(Uncheck) Horizontal split

View/Edit File

You can view or edit files in build-in hex editor . For use it you need:

select one file in one of the panes.
choose menu option File->"View in HEX" or File->"View/Edit in HEX"

Note: Read only files can be opened only in view mode.

In hex editor you can see 3 columns:

Offset in file
Hex dump of row bytes
ASCII representation of the row bytes set

In view mode you can:

Browse file
Go to the given offset ( by editing first column value)
Make search of the text ( search dialog can be called by click on header control or tap-and-hold method)

In edit mode you additionally can make edit of the hex string.
Changes in current row will be saved after you select other row.

Search Files

You can call search dialog by using menu File->Search Files.
Search will be done in currently selected pane.
In search dialog you can specify:

File mask for file search ( "*.*" for all files)
Text to search ( text or hex dump string if you will check "Search as hex" checkbox)
Applicapable only for local folders. For ftp folders search for text in files function unsupported.
"Search as hex" - if checked then search will be done for binary data defined by search string parameter, if not checked then ASCII and Unicode string will be searched.
"From the root folder" - search will be done from the local or ftp root folder (include all subfolders tree).
"From the current folder" - search will be done from the local or ftp current folder (include all subfolders tree).
"In current folder only" - search will be done in the local or ftp current folder only .

After search will be done the current pane will be filled by the list of found files.
You can work with this list by common manner. To close(reset) search results list you should make double click on first row in list . This pane will be filled by the root folder(for this pane) contents after .

Working with active processes list

You can manage active (running) processes by using menu File->Task Manager. In dialog window you can see list of active processes ( or active processes which have windows (if "Only Windows" checkbox checked)). This dialog contains 3 buttons :

Activate - activate selected process .
Refresh - refresh processes list
Kill - kill current selected process ( please use this option ONLY if you sure that you have right to make it action).

Select files for operation
Program has 2 types of selections:

current selected pane and file(or folder)- displayed as row color inversion in one of panes.
group of two(for each pane) selection sets - displayed as "check" mark near file name. You can select file by using "tap-and-hold" method or by "click" method.

Some operations : view/edit , show file/folder properties are performed for single current selected file . Other file operations are performed on group selected files for current selected pane.

View file attributes

To view file attributes you can select file or folder and choose menu option File->Properties. In this version you can only view this parameters (you can't change its).

Copy/move selected files and folders

To copy or move(copy and delete) files or folders you should make group selection of the files or folders from one of the panes. Then you should choose "Left"->"Copy to Right/Move to Right" or "Right"->"Copy to Left/Move to Left" to perform operation.

Remove selected files and folders

To remove files or folders you should make group selection of the files or folders from one of the panes. Then you need to choose "File"->"Remove" to perform operation on current selected pane.

Use CE FileCommander Telnet Console

To switch the Telnet console you should select menu option "File"->"Telnet".
If you choose this option first time then "Select server dialog" will be initialized . You need to input server name and port. The list of last 20 used telnet servers will be saved for future using.
The telnet client is very simple telnet client (some subset of vt100).
To change font (family and size) and buffer length in lines use "Menu"->"Change Buffer length" and "Menu"->"Change font ...".
Please use "Courier New" font family as the telnet window font. To save buffer data in file use "Menu"->"Save to file ..."
To reconnect to this or other server use "Menu"->"Connect to ..."
The cursor at the end of the text buffer used as connection indication. If cursor is missed then current state is "disconnected".

Working with FTP servers
You can switch file panel to ftp panel on each pane by using "Right"->"Ftp" or "Left"->"Ftp".
On ftp pane you can make all set of operations as on file pane, except :

View/edit files
Search text in files

Copyright Information
(c) AbiSoft Ltd. 2002
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