Topic : User Manual for TeraDesk Author : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic Version : February 2017 Subject : Documentation/Utilities Nodes : 87 Index Size : 2746 HCP-Version : 3 Compiled on : Atari @charset : atarist @lang : en @default : Main @help : @options : -i -t4 +z @width : 75 View Ref-FileContentsMenus and DialogsMenu title: File 4.2.2 Info... TeraDesk When this item is selected, Tera Desktop displays information about the directory (or desktop) object (or objects) that are currently selected: 1. If the selected object is a file, its name, path, the time and date when it was last modified, and its size is displayed. If the file or filetype has been associated with an application, the name of the application is displayed. If the object is recognized as a program (executable) file, the state of its header flags is displayed. The name of the file, its access date and time can be changed. You can also set/unset the Write Protect, Archive, Hidden and System attributes of the file. If the file is write-protected, this attribute must be reset before attempting to change other information related to that file. If time and date fields are cleared, the current system time and date will be set for the file. If the selected object resides on an ext2 or other Unix filesystem partition, user access rights and user/group IDs are shown and settable instead of FAT file attributes. In this case, a set of twelve checkboxes appears, permitting the user to set read, write and execute rights, as well as the special flags (Sticky, SetGID, SetUID) for the world, group and user (owner) respectively. User (owner) and group IDs are also shown and can be set. Note 1: The state of SetGID and SetUID flags should be changed with extreme caution. See the documentation for the Fchmod() function. Note 2: Setting of user access rights and user/group IDs may silently fail when attempted on some (not all) network file systems that have user-id-mapping activated. 2. If the selected object is a folder, its name, the time and date of its creation, the number of files and folders in it, and the number of bytes used will be displayed. Folder attributes (Readonly, Archive, Hidden and System) are also displayed, although they are not settable in TOS. The attributes may however be set e.g. on a floppy disk manipulated in Windows on a PC. On Unix filesystems, partitions access rights are shown instead of FAT attributes, the same as for files. With TOS version 1.04 and above, the folder name can be changed. 3. If the selected object is a symbolic link, its name, the time and date of creation and its size will be displayed. File attributes are also displayed, but changing them will NOT affect the link itself. The path and name of the object the link is referencing is displayed, and it can be edited. Note that if this item is changed, the symbolic link will in fact be deleted and a new one created. 4. If the selected object is a disk volume, the drive letter, the volume label, the numbers of used and available bytes, the total free space on it, and the cluster size will be displayed. If the disk is empty it is possible that the total space and the free space will be different; this is caused by a bug in TOS. If the button 'More' is pressed, the numbers of files (or files and links) and folders on the volume will be displayed. Note that on a large volume this counting may take some time. 5. If no object has been selected, Tera Desktop will display information on the disk volume of the top directory window, if any is open, or on the text file in the top text window if any is open. If there are no open windows, this menu item is disabled. If the selected object is larger than 9999999 bytes, its size will be shown in kilobytes (1 KB = 1024 B) or megabytes (1 MB = 1048576 B), not in bytes; if the size is not an exact multiple of the unit used, it will be rounded to the larger value. If the object is larger than 2 TB (or one billion clusters, if the object is a disk partition), TeraDesk will not correctly display its size. Users should remember that the current version of TeraDesk can not correctly display information about a folder or a disk partition containing more than 32767 files. See TOS version compatibility. It is possible to select more than one object before invoking this menu item; the content of the dialog box will change to show fields appropriate for the selected item types in turn. Selecting 'All' will cause setting of file attributes and/or date and time on all selected file items. Selecting this button when information on a folder is shown will cause setting of attributes, date and time on all files in the folder and its subfolders, but the data for the folders themselves will not be affected. This action is confirmed by the appearance of a dialog in which the user can select whether only file attributes should be set, or time and date, or both. Selecting 'OK' will cause setting of all displayed data for the currently displayed item. Selecting 'Skip' will cancel all changes made for the currently displayed item and show the next selected item. Selecting 'Abort' will cause closing the dialog and cancellation of all changes. The Info... dialog can also appear on the screen as a result of the Format disk... operation (to show the configuration of the newly formatted floppy disk) and also as a result of the Search... operation (to found show item(s) that match the search criteria); in this last case the dialog may contain additional data showing the results of the string search in the shown file. See also: Scrolled text fields Search... Format disk... Set applications...