18. Program Options
(First click on a category on the tree, then click
on a sub-category).
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General
Audible Alert |
Enable audio alert
Makes sound after major tasks such as file transfer
and data save. It is useful especially when the mode is set to auto-sync.
In that case, locally modified files are transferred to the remote host
in the back ground and an audio confirmation becomes very convenient. |
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General
Keystroke mappings |
Allows you to map the keystrokes to main functionalities
of the program. |
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General
Trace Info |
Allows you to view intermediate steps of text conversion.
Useful to trace any problems from the conversion engine. It affects performance. |
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Text
Conversion
Work mode |
Allows you to chose one of the two mode of text conversion
- (1) Interactive mode, (2) Batch mode, as default mode. If the default
is set to Batch mode, Text
Conversion  button will open the Batch
mode dialog, while Shift+ would open the Interactive
mode dialog. The converse follows. |
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Text Conversion
Close Dialog |
Close Library dialog after clicking Export
button. Used exclusively for convenience. |
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Editor/Telnet
Editor |
Specify editor to open files
If you double-click on an file item in the list,
it is opened in Notepad
(by default) or in the editor of your choice. Specify the absolute path
and name of the editor's image in this field. USe browse button to locate
the image if necessary. For example,
C:\Program Files\TextPad
4\TextPad.exe
will open files in TextPad.
Note, only the files whose extensions are listed
here are opened through Notepad (or TextPad). All other files are opened
by Windows shell. |
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Editor/Telnet
Click |
Use
single click to open files
If this control is checked, you can open a file in
your editor of choice using a single click, instead of a double-click. |
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Editor/Telnet
Telnet |
Specify telnet client of
choice
When you click on Launch telnet  button,
image specified here will be launched for the telnet session. This is
convenient when you have a pre-configured telnet client and you want to
use it straight from TextMaestro. |
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 Aha!
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It is convenient if the editor of your choice has
the option of launching 'single instance'. In that case opening a file
from TextMaestro by double-clicking on it will have just one instance
of the editor.
For TextPad
this is how you set single instance.
Select Configure | Preferences... | General
(first item on left tree) | Uncheck Allow
Multiple instances to run (second item on right side). |
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Auto-Update
Files |
Auto-update icons for modified
files
If this control is checked, TextMaestro enters in
an auto-update mode where it checks every second if any of the current
session files have been modified by any applications in the local system
since the files were last transferred or mounted to the session. If such
files are found, they are considered 'dirty', and their icons are changed
to .
In similar fashion, if a file is missing from the
local area, it assumes  icon.
If this control is not checked, then the user is
expected to click on Get
status of local files button from FTP
toolbar occasionally and determine the 'dirty' and/or missing files. |
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Auto-Update
Basket |
If this control is checked, files from the current
basket are checked. Otherwise, all the baskets are checked.
If you have a lot of baskets full of files in current
session, you are better off with this item checked. That way, it will
save some CPU required for auto-update. |
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Once the 'dirty' files are determined manually or
by auto-update), information about them is stored aside and they can be
readily transferred to the corresponding remote systems by clicking on
Manual sync to remote
 button found on FTP
toolbar. |
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It is customary to have Auto-update
icons for modified files checked. Then you can work on the session
files and if any files are modified, auto-update will mark the modified
files with 'dirty' icon. Then you hit the Manual
sync to remote button to transfer these modified
files to the remote system. However, if you feel that clicking on Manual sync to remote
is one too many step, then click on Auto-sync button found in Main
toolbar. In that mode, the 'dirty' files will be transferred to the
remote system automatically. |
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Caution: |
If you have a relatively slow PC and the session
has a lot of files (say 1000), then this Auto-update
icon feature may cause unacceptable hick-ups. In that case it is
recommended not to check on this control. Instead, use Get
status of local files button from FTP
toolbar occasionally. |
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Auto-Update
Turn Off |
If a session contains a large number of files, auto-update
may become very cpu-intensive. To avoid this undesirable situation, you
should specify a limit under this option so that if your session contains
files more than the limit, auto-update will automatically turn off. Strongly
recommended 1000 (default) or less. |
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FTP Options
Record
Info |
Record remote file information
after each FTP
If this control is checked, TextMaestro records the
remote modification time of files just transferred to or from remote system.
To receive the remote modification time, FTP needs to send one extra command
to the remote systems, which amounts to about 10% extra time. |
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Consider the Get
status of remote files  button in FTP
toolbar. For this feature to work, the above check-box needs to be
checked. The following discussion will clarify as to why.
After a file is transferred to or from the remote
system, its modification time of the remote copy is requested and noted
in TextMaestro data manager. Later when you click on Get
status of remote files button, TextMaestro requests and receives the current modification
time of remote copies of the session files. This information is compared
with the modification time that were recorded earlier after file-transfer.
Any discrepancy in this comparison marks the corresponding file with icon to denote that this file had been modified in the remote
system by a third party after it was transferred.
In addition, files with icons can
be transferred to the local area by clicking on Manual
sync to local  button. |
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FTP
Options
Mark Binary |
Specify file extensions (separated by blanks) to
denote the files that to be marked as binary when being added to the session.
After a file is marked as binary it will be always transferred under BINARY
mode, unless you toggle it back to ASCII. After a file is marked as binary,
it assumes one of these two icons  or  ,
where the former denotes the file has been transferred at least once,
and the later, file has never been transferred. |
