Juniper Systems Allegro DOS Manual - Manual (Page 176)

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Util: Pressing accesses eight additional utility functions. A
list of the functions is shown in a pop-up box. To select a utility, type the
number associated with it or highlight the desired utility and press
.
1. Terminal Causes the Allegro to act as a dumb terminal. This is
useful if you have a serial device such as a bar code
wand or GPS receiver attached to the Allegro and you
want to verify whether or not the Allegro is receiving
serial data from the device.
2. Editor Executes the Text Editor. Use this function when you are
creating a new text file (must be 64 K or less). After
selecting this function, you must enter a name for the file
to be edited on the second status line and then press
. This text editor function differs from the
edit function, which is used to edit existing files only.
(See Text Editor later in this section for details.)
3. SetUp Executes the DOS SetUp program. (See DOS Setup
Program later in this section for details.)
4. File Filter Displays all or a subset of files on the current directory.
You can set a mask on the types of files you want to
display. For example, if you only want to display files
with the extension .DAT, you would use the File Filter
utility to set the mask “*DAT.” The default setting for the
File Filter is “*.*” which shows all files. When you select
the File Filter utility, the current setting is displayed on
the second status line. If you want to change this setting,
press the (backspace) key to delete the existing
setting and type in the new setting. The File Filter
represents a file specification (1-8 character name). You
can use the characters “?” (for only one character) and
“*” (for any number of characters) in the filename. An
extension can be used to specify a group of files.
5. Sort by Sorts your files by name or by extension. You can
Extension toggle between the two options.
6. Program When you exit from a program, you can choose to
Return Switch have the Allegro return immediately to FileScout or
return to the DOS prompt. If you set it up to return to the
DOS prompt, you must type “Exit” and press
to return to FileScout.
7. Shell to DOS Lets you temporarily access the DOS prompt without
exiting from FileScout. To get back into FileScout, type
“Exit” and press .
8. Boot to WinCE Boots to Windows CE from DOS.