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Standard adjustments
From version 1.80c this section consists of several tabs:

Colors:
In the upper right is the drop-down gadget containing some predefined
color-schemes. You may want to use this if you changed resolution to
8Bit temporarily.
Below this you can see the four possibilities of files:
File not selected
File selected
Dir not selected
Dir selected
Below are:
Path of inactive directory window (Destination)
Path of active directory window (Source)
Statusbar
- Single click on the name sets the color in the colorbox to the foreground
color of the selected item.
- Double click sets the colorbox to the background color
- The color of the colorbox can be changed using the three sliders or
by clicking on the box itself. This invokes the Windows colorrequester.
- Clicking on Forecolor or Backcolor sets the foreground color or
background color of the item right of the button.
- Double-clicking on the window itself sets the colorbox to the background
color of the window, clicking on 'PCOpus backcolor' sets the background
color of the window and the statusbar.
The 'Directory Entry Test...' is a mirror of a line in the directory windows.
Use the left slider to adjust the size of the line, the right slider to adjust the
fontsize. Double-click on the line to change the font. Windows 95 seems to
substitute some of the fonts. Don't know how to prevent this.
You therefor can not use all fonts. Further you should only use non-proportional
fonts. It works fine, but look quite ugly.
Checkbuttons:
- Use Filetype color:
Selected files that represent a known filetype keep their foreground color,
Only the background color of selected files is used.

Misc
- Displaywidth of Filename:
here you can change the width of the displayed filenames
- Chunk:
Size of chunks copied. A larger value may result in speed-increases during copy.
Originalvalue is 32768. Best results with 65536, at least for me.
Below this is a button that changes the format of the memory display in the
title of the PCOpus window:
- ISO Offset
This gadget allows the adjustment of the offset PCOpus uses to read ISO images.
The Background: We came across a CD that Win95 could not read. Inside the ISO image you can read :CeQuadrat Joliet Formatter 1995.
So this image was created by WinOnCD. It uses UniCode filenames. The only way to read this CD was by
reading out the ISO image and using 2048 as offset. We do not know if this is a CD specific problem or some new
standard of protected CDS that even the OS can not read, anyway, use this option with extreme caution, for standard ISO images
this should be set to 0 and for WinOnCD(DAO??)-BIN-images + CloneCD and Blindread-images to 8.
The probable offset for an image can be
automatically calculated by double-clicking on the text-field and selecting the image.
- ISO Address
This is used if session >1 from a Multi-Session CD is used. The value needed here is the start of the session in BLOCKS in DECIMAL !
This value is display in the CD-info of your favourite CD-writer software (Easy-CD does it, at least). For standard images, this value
must be 0 !
- Show in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes.
This setting affects the display of the size of the drives and the free space on them, too.
- Buffers:
Number of buffers available for directory buffering. You may use any number from 1 to 100.
- Languagefile:
This allows the selection of the language file PCOpus uses. At the moment
english and german are available.
Double-click on the gadget to select a file. You may enter a filename
without path if the language file resides in the PCOpus directory.
I would be thankful for any help translating PCOpus to any other language.
Preferably Kisuaheli and Japanese :-)
- De-Encode-Key:
You may enter a password to use with De-Encode-Copy. Be sure to keep
this password somewhere. If you forget it, you may have troubles in decoding
your encoded files. It is saved in the configuration file

Misc 2
Checkbuttons have been sorted alphabetically, I did not find any useful
groups.
- Allow SHIFT for multiselect:
With this option checked you can select a
directory-entry by clicking on it or pressing space, move the cursor to
another entry, press shift and click on this entry. All files between
the first selected entry and this one will be selected or deselected,
depending on the selection first made.
- Auto Notification:
When this option is on, PCOpus will reread the directories if any change is made on them
from outside PCOpus. The dirs are not reread if any files are selected (adjustable with Auto Notification: Ignore selected files now). The disadvantage is,
that PCOpus will always jump to foreground if directories are read.
- Auto Notification: Ignore selected files
When this option is on and Autonotification is on, too, PCOpus will always read a modified directory, ignoring
any selected files. If off, PCOpus will only reread directories when no files are selected.
- Cursor follows click:
If checked, the cursor that can be moved with the
cursorkeys is set on the entry that is clicked with the mouse.
Attention: If you move your mouse slightly while clicking, PCOpus will interpret this 'click' as a 'move'. Therefore the cursor is not always moved to the file you clicked on.
- Delete non empty directories:
If this option is off, the user will be asked if he is sure to delete a directory that
contains files or other directories. If this option is on, every directory will be
deleted regardless of files or directories inside.
- Disable Directorybuffering:
This disables the directory-buffers.
Well, does not make THAT much sense, but if you need it ...
- Disable Timer
This completely disables the internal timer. No free memory will be displayed and
Autonotification will not work when this option is on.
Helpful if you are trying to burn CDs and your Computer is not the fastest one.
- Exit at once:
If this option is checked, PCOpus will terminate immediately on
exit. The user will not be asked if he wants to save the configuration or
change his opinion.
- Handle dropped files directly:
If you drag and drop files from outside PCOpus into PCOpus and this option is
checked, the first file dropped will get a simulated double-left-click and the program
or command you assigned to L-L is executed. Press any Qualifier (Shift, CTRL, Alt)
when dropping the file to prevent this handling.
- Ignore 'Read-Only' flags:
With this option on 'read-only' files are treated as normal files.
Switch it off and be bored with a request if a read-only file should be deleted or not.
- Keep defective files:
If an error is encountered and this option is checked,
then the destination file is not deleted but kept. At least as much as
possible. For safety reasons this setting is NOT SAVED !
- Keypress moves Directorydisplay:
With this option on you can move to
directoryentries by pressing a letter-key on the keyboard. For example
pressing 'm' moves the display and the cursor to the first file beginning
with 'm'. Shift and 'm' moves to the first directory beginning with 'm'.
This is only useful if Sort by name is activated.
It is possible to enter more than one letter, if the time between keypresses
is less than 1 second. You can enter 'win386.swp' to move directly to this
entry (if it exists). Press 'Backspace' to delete any entries you made already
and start with a new search or wait more than 1 second.
- Parent from Root shows Drives:
If this is checked and 'Parent' is called
from the root of a drive, the drivelist will be displayed.
- Rename to move:
If you select Move and the source and destination
drives are the same (for example: move c:\windows\system to c:\temp),
the files are not copied and deleted, but renamed. This is considerably
faster, of course. With this option on you can move your Windows
directory to anywhere on the same drive. Please take care !
- Disable Content-checking when displaying:
When this is on, PCOpus will not check the files for their contents to determine the correct filetype.
The color of files will not be set to the correct color as a result. When double-clicking a file and when using
'FileInfo' the check is done, of course. This is considerably faster, of course.
- Reread always:
With this button checked, the Source is always re-read when
deleting or moving files. With this button off, successfully moved or
deleted files are only removed from the internal buffer. This is
considerably faster and much more convenient, but if a directory was
changed by another program, these changes do not take effect.
If the number of files left in the window is smaller than the number
of lines displayed per window, the
directory is always re-read. This is quite fast and the user is on
the safe side.
If an error occurs during moving or deleting files,
the directory is re-read, due to the internal handling.
- Reread drivenames:
When this option is on, PCOpus always reads the drivenames when displaying the drivelist.
This results in a slightly longer time to display the drives but all names of drives are correct
(especially those of CD-Roms). When this option is off, the drivelist must be refreshed to get
all current names.
- ReRead if same:
If this option is checked and the source and destination
path are the same, both sides will be updated if one side has changed.
If one or more files are selected in the destination, this display will not
be updated.
- Replace all files on copy:
Always replaces existing files without asking the user. Leave it off if you don't like it
- Save Windowposition:
If on, the position of PCOpus on the screen is saved.
If off, PCOpus will be centered on the screen on startup.
- Stick at position on Reread:
With this option on the display is moved to the position where it was before
when a 'reread' of the directory is performed.
- Use DOS 8+3 Names:
Only the short names are used, no long filenames.
With this option on, all programs are able to process the selected files.
Since the long filenames may be long :-) and can contain spaces not
all programs are capable of using them. Please make sure that it is
possible that a directory has a long name. If you want to access a file
in this directory check this option in the root of this drive and
enter the directory where the file is located afterwards.
The need for this option has been widely reduced since external calls
are mostly done using 8+3 names.
- Autosense Filename length
with this option on, PCOpus will look for the longest name in the directory
and adjust the display to fit this name.
- Allow Pictures in Buttons:
When this option is on, it is possible to use nearly an picture (GIF,JPG, BMP, I CO, CUR ...) as
background of a command-button. If activated you will experience a slight flickering when
moving the command-button-slider. Also there will be a significant speed decrease in updating
the buttons if you use many and/or large pictures. You may use any size of pictures, though.
It looks quite impressing when using a large picture as background of a button and only one
button in the bank itself !
If you like those little pictures/icons found in many programs, we recommend to define quadratic buttons, perhaps
without a text on them. But as always, you may define whatever you want !
- No Tooltips in Dir-Windows
When this option is on, no text will appear if the mouse stays over an entry in the directory-windows.
Some users found those texts a bit annoying
- Show Bytes/Sec
When this option is on, PCOpus will show the byte-rate per second when the copy-requester is visible, the time elapsed and
the complete time needed is displayed also.
- Set 'A'-flag on copied files
When this option is on, the 'A'rchive-flag is set on all files copied.
- Right Button activates Pop-Up Menu
When this option is on, clicking on the right mousebutton in a directory window will activate the pop-up menu. ALL functions
and commands that need a right click, like Filetypes and the Drive-List can no longer be called in the usual way ! Leave this off, if
you are a true PCOpus-User :-)
- Enter invalid archives
When this option is on, PCOpus will display an empty directory if an invalid archive was to be entered. This is very helpful if you have batch-
commands that rely on being INSIDE archives.
- Autoadjust displaywidth of filenames
When this option is on, PCOpus will automatically adjust the display of filenames in the directory windows: Names will be left-aligned and sizes will
be right-aligned always, even if the window is resized.
- Draw border around buttons
When this option is on, PCOpus will draw lines around the commandbuttons (as it has been prior to version 2.16d), if off, no borders will be drawn,
but the button the cursor is over currently will be highlighted.
be right-aligned always, even if the window is resized.
- Use Tray when minimized
When this option is on, PCOpus is put to the system-tray when minimized. Right-click on the icon in the tray and 'Restore' afterwards to make
the window visible again.
- Allow write access on CD
Switch this on, if you are using Packet-CD drivers. Those drivers should report the drive as CD-Rom (what is correct), but are writeable.
PCOpus declares CD-Roms as read-only if this option is off.
- Buttons at top of window
When this option is on, the buttons are displayed at the top of the window instead of the bottom. Some people requested this.
- Copy to ISO: Do not set new filesize
When this option is on, PCOpus will not overwrite the current filesize with the one when files are copied into an ISO/FCD image.
This solves some 'certain' problems :-)
- Hide System and Hidden files in dir-display
Switch this on to hide all System and Hidden files.
- Display average data rate for the last 10MB during copy
If on, it does exactly this. It displays the speed for the last 20MB processed during copy, delete, etc. !
- Use automatic ISO-Offset calculation
If on, PCOpus will automatically try to calculate the correct offset for the image. It takes slightly longer (around 1 second) to open the image then,
but there is no need to pre-set the ISO-Offset anymore.

Bank
This lets you configure your buttonbank.
You can select the number of vertical buttons, the number of horizontal buttons
and the gaps between single buttons. Should be quite self-explaining.
You can set the function for a third mouse-button here, too. You will have to switch off double-click emulation for the third button
in your Windows-settings.
Due to space problems, some options have been moved here:
- Enable k separators in Dir window
If this option is on, the sizes of files and directories are displayed with a dividing point after each 3rd digit. 12345 Bytes will be
displayed as 12.345
- Delay after DOS-calls
This is the time in milliseconds PCOpus sleeps before checking if a batch-files execution has ended. Do not set this to very small values (below, say, 10),
because it could slow down your system a bit.
- Delay after WIN-calls
This is the time in milliseconds PCOpus sleeps before checking if a Windows-command execution has ended. Do not set this to very small values (below, say, 10),
because it could slow down your system a bit.
- Internal double-click time (for RL, LR, LcL, LcR)
This the maximum time allowed between two mouse-clicks to recognize this as double click. LL and RR double-clicking inside the directory windows is not affected by
this value, since Windows handles this on its own. Also affected by this value is the time that the right button must be down to NOT recognize it as a right-click, when
'Right-click activates pop-up-menu' is activated. Right of the gadget is a command button where you can test the time by double clicking on it.
- A drop-down gadget allows you the selection of the sliders to use next to the buttons.

Paths
Here you can define the paths to your prefered ASCII and HEX editors and
viewers and your favourite Virus-Scanner.
Below this is a wide drop down gadget containing all your drives and
your preferred directories.
On entering this configuration window, the path of your active directory
is displayed in the gadget. Click on it and press 'Return' to add this
directory to your preferred directories list. These directories will be
accessible via Alt-F1, Alt-F2 or Select Drive. It is quite
convenient if you have your text files saved in a directory like
Y:\WINDOWS\WORD\TEXT\PRIVATE\ME\FOOBAR and you want to get there as fast
as possible. These directory definitions are saved with the configuration.
Assigning names:
You can enter a certain directory inside the field with your keyboard, too.
You may want to add a 'name' or description for this directory. For the case
above, you may want to use 'Texts2' as a description. Do this by using a '>'
behind the directory and then then name you want to use.
i.e.: Y:\WINDOWS\WORD\TEXT\PRIVATE\ME\FOOBAR>Texts2
You can assign names to drives (C:\, A:\), but these names are NOT saved !
Below this is the startup-directory definition. You can define a startup-
directory for the left and the right window. Double-clicking the text-
gadget will bring the path from the directory-definition gadget to the
startup text-gadget. Of course you can enter a directory by yourself.
It is also possible to enter 'home' or 'current', where 'home' is the
directory where the PCOpus executable is located and 'current' is the
current directory you are in when starting PCOpus.
Below this is a drop-down gadget that displays the current temporary
directory. The drop-down list containes the following directories to select from:
- Application directory
- Windows Temp directory
- current path
- current Temp directory.
Of course you can enter any directory you like. If the path you entered does not
exist, PCOpus will use the path you used before changing.

Archive
This allows setting of archive paths and options.
You can enter your path to ARJ, LHA, PKZIP, PKUNZIP and RAR executables,
WinRAR is supported, too.
You do not need to enter something for the archivers if the executables
are in your DOS (or Windows) path.
Checkbuttons:
- The Checkbuttons on the far right can be used to deactivate DLL-support for de-packing.
- The 'No PK' Button switches on support for ZIP2.2 instead of PKZIP when packing to ZIP-files. ZIP2.2 supports long filenames !
- The 'Use WinRAR' switch affects ZIP-archives only. If checked, WinRAR will be used instead of PKZIP, UNZIP or ZIP 2.2. WinRAR supports ZIP files from version 2.50.
- Parent only in Archives:
With this button checked, the Parent-function on
the far left and right of the PCOpus Window does not exit an Archive that
is displayed. It is considerably safer (to safe time) to leave this on.
Otherwise it is possible that you will have to wait quite a long time again,
until the archive that you left accidently is read again. Well, YOU asked
for this.
- Archivet. auto check:
Enables automatic checking for archivetypes (LHA, RAR, ARJ, ZIP). PCOpus will recognize these types by itself.
- Stay in Archive Requester:
The Archive Requester is not exited if 'Test',
'View' or 'View .DIZ' is selected. May come in handy.
- 'Copy' extracts files directly:
with this option on, files inside archives are extracted to the destination
directory directly. All subdirs above the current directory from inside the archive are created, if no DLL is used for extraction, any
existing file will be overwritten without warning. Use this only if you
have to extract single large files from an archive.
- Keep extracted files:
as long as we have no possibility to check if commands we called are still running.
we implemented this switch. If it is on, files that are extracted to the temporary directory
from archives will not get deleted by PCOpus directly. This way you can benefit from
the speed increase that results from the use of the unarchive-DLLs. But you have to
delete the files from the temp-directory manually. If you have many archives to look
through, you can switch this on. After your work is done, delete the unnecessary files
from the temp-dir and switch this option off.

Pop-Up
The Pop-Up-Menu is a Context-Menu-Like Menu. It can be accessed by holding the right mouse-button down for slightly more than half a second. When the 'Shift'-Key is held down when the right button is pressed, the menu is opened immediately.
The size of the menu can be changed and is saved with the configuration.
The configuration is done here. The following items are available:
- '^'-Button
moves the selected item in the Pop-Up-Menu-List upwards
- 'V'-Button
moves the selected item downwards
- '---'-Button
adds a dummy item that has no function. It can be used to divide up the menu a bit or for some descriptions
- 'X'-Button
deletes the selected item from the Pop-Up-Menu-List
- Pop-Up-Menu List
this is the menu as it will appear on screen. You can rename items by clicking on the item, changing the name in the gadget below the list and pressing
return.
If you click on an item, the function associated with this item will be highlighted in one of the two lists on the right.
- Internal Commands List
This is a list of all available internal commands. Double-click on an item to add this command to the Pop-Up-Menu-List.
- Buttons List
This is a list of all available buttons. Double-click on an item to add this button to the Pop-Up-Menu-List. Please note that the position of the
button is saved in the Pop-Up-Menu, not its function. So you should have a look on the Pop-Up-Menu after changing buttons that are available over
the Pop-Up-Menu. We used this approach to save some unecessary space with duplicate definitions.
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