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LHES Tutorial
Long time ago, in a country far away, very talented man called M.Iwasaki (SPHERE) created very powerfull Filer (file commander) which was way ahead of its time. This great marvel of software was later translated by Eidis and included in the HDD Image V4. LHES, if properly used, allows us to quickly execute mundane tasks and makes the whole X68000 experience much more enjoyable. This article will try to cover the most important and basic aspects of it.
Main screen and Hotkeys
Upon launching, you will be greeted with the following screen:
The functions, which can be seen at the very bottom of the screen, are mapped to F1 - F10 keys. You can get an alternative set of functions by pressing the SHIFT key.
LHES is mostly used for the following things:
- Launching files
- Copying files/directories
- Moving files/directories
- Editing files
- Archiving/Extracting files/directories
Arrow keys | Up and Down key will highlight the next file/directory in the respective direction. Left and Right keys act as PageUp and PageDown |
Enter | Show contents of highlighted directory or execute highlighted file |
Backspace | Go up one directory |
Space | Select files/directories |
CLR (NumLock) | Select or deselect all files in the current directory |
V | View file |
SHIFT+V | View file as Hex dump |
E | Edit file |
SHIFT+E | Edit new file |
F1 | Extract all files in highlighted archive to default EXTRACT path |
SHIFT+F1 | Compress selected files/directories to default ARCHIVE path |
F5 | Change compression/decompression path |
Q | Exit LHES |
I | Show disk information |
DEL | Delete highlighted or selected files/directories |
NumPad 1 | Change to previous drive |
NumPad 3 | Change to next drive |
K | Create directory |
R | Rename file/directory |
C | Copy file/directory |
M | Move file/directory |
A | Change file attributes |
L | Change disk drive with drive selector |
HELP | Show available Hotkeys |