SFILE.DOC - Comments on how to use the SuperFILE program.


	 NOTE:	Set  equate  CKLBR YES to have the program  check 
               all  library  member files (can take a  very  long 
               time on huge systems) or CKLBR NO to have it  skip 
               over libraries.  Call the former SFILE.COM and the 
               latter  FILE.COM.   It might be beneficial to have 
               one  of each online as they are each under  3k  in 
               length.
					- imh


SuperFILE  is based on SD-81.ASM.   It was originally written  by 
Gary  Shaffstall who wanted an easy means of looking for files in 
libraries  as  well as in normal directory listings  provided  by 
DIR, SD and other similar programs.


SuperFILE  allows  full wildcard searches of the directories  and 
all library & archive files on your system for a requested file.
Unless  a  disk  drive  is specified,  it starts looking  at  A0:  
regardless where you start from.   It then  searches through  all 
the allowable user  areas on A: and continues until all available 
drives and user areas have been checked. If a drive is specified,
it starts at the 0 user area on that drive and  quits when it has
looked at all allowable user areas on that one drive.

The program can be aborted at any time with a CTL-C, CTL-X, k, K, 
x  or  X  at which time it prints a summary of the  work  it  has 
already completed.

		A0>SFILE ? <ret>		1)
		A0>SFILE MOD*.* <ret>		2)
		A0>SFILE C:MOD*.* <ret> 	3)

	1) displays a small help guide
	2) looks  on all allowable drives and user areas starting 
           with A0:
	3) looks on all allowable user areas only on B:

Recent changes allow 32 user areas to be checked rather than  the 
original limit of 16.   (ZCPR3 and TurboDOS,  etc. allow extended 
user  areas.)  An equate also allows system files to be displayed 
- this is controlled by the wheel byte to limit their display  to 
the SYSOP,  if using ZCPR or ZCMD to have a wheel byte.   Setting 
the  USELC  (use lower-case) option will put the following  bytes 
into lower case to show the status of that file:

		A0>HELLO.COM
		  	   m = archive bit (on some systems)
			  o  = system file
			 c   = read-only file

(These attributes can all be shown in lower case without a  wheel 
byte on private systems that do not use ZCPR or ZCMD, etc.)

The program handles up to 16 disk drives and up to 32 user areas, 
each.   Most will select the maximum user for each available disk 
by inserting the appropriate value into the table at the start of 
the source code file.   You may easily do this with DDT, however, 
starting at 0103H for the first drive.  Be sure to put in the hex 
value  for  your maximum user area for each drive.   Put in a  FF 
(0FFH) for each drive that is not used or available - this lovely 
feature  allows the user to skip drives - some systems  (such  as 
HEATH/ZENITH) have drives that are not sequential.

If you have used DDT to patch the file, save 12 pages for the new 
file.

				- Irv Hoff W6FFC
				  (415) 948-2166 - voice