HELP text for SPACE. Author: Jay Jenkins Synetics for E54 Compile and link SPACE, nothing special is required. Edit the .CLD to point to the directory where the .EXE is located, then either include the .CLD in your command table, or SET COMMAND to it. SPACE will create a display chock-full of usefull information on specified disk devices. The information displayed is as follows: Error count, volume set indicator ('*' indicates member of volume set), volume label, physical device, disk type, total disk blocks, number of free blocks, percentage of total blocks that are free (free block percentage). Up to 20 or so disks can be usefully displayed at one time, any more are displayed off of the screen (this is not very usefull). The /TOTAL qualifier can be used to get totals on block count fields. The program may be utilized several ways. The primary mode of usage is to set up the symbol DISKS in SYLOGIN containing disks seperated by commas, i.e. $ disks == "$1$DUA0,$1$DUA1,$1$DUA2" The program uses this symbol if no disks are explicitly specified. You may also designated the desired disks on the command line as in: $ SPACE $1$DUA0,$1$DUA1,$1$DUA2 You can break disks down into groups by setting symbols (I do mine in LOGIN.COM) to perform the above operation on groups of related disks as in: $ devspace == "SPACE $1$DUA7,$1$DUA8,$1$DUA12" $ prdspace == "SPACE $1$DUA1,$1$DUA2,$1$DUA5" $ DEVSPACE <... SPACE info on $1$DUA7,$1$DUA8,$1$DUA12 is displayed> $ PRDSPACE <... SPACE info on $1$DUA1,$1$DUA2,$1$DUA5 is displayed> The program checks for two special characters on the command line also, these must be specified alone, they should not be used in a string of devices: $ SPACE . This will create a normal SPACE display of the current device. $ SPACE \ This will create a one line display of the current device without destroying the current screen contents. The program is coded to use BLINK on the free space percentage of any device that has less than 25% free space. This may be changed by editing the source, but I have found it is a good indicator of when things are getting tight. I really should have added this as a qualifier so that it can be changed on the fly. Guess I either got lazy, got bored with it, or ran out of playtime, I don't know which. NOTE: You may also specify disks by their volume label, rather than physical device. This may be usefull to some, I just use physical devices. $ SPACE USER1,USER2,USER3,SYSDSK The above command will display those disks, if mounted, no matter what physical device they may be mounted on.