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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:


Main screen	Main screen with SHIFT key pressed

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

*Navigating

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