Spoon Documentation by Tasmaniac
Spoon Documentation by Tasmaniac
SPOON
The utensil designed to handle the SAUCE
By Tasmaniac of ACiD Productions
What is SPOON?
SPOON is a utility to add SAUCE to your files. If you dont know
what SAUCE is, you may want to check out SAUCE.TXT. In short, SAUCE
stands for Standard Architecture for Universal Comment Extensions.
SAUCE adds a full description to ANSi, Graphics, sound and several
more types of files.
In case you dont like SAUCE. SPOON will just as easily help
you to remove SAUCE.
What is SPOON ?
After a long time of managing with SPOON, SPOON was
developed. It provides an improved user interface over the original
SPOON, and has several handy features that simply HAD to be there...
Things like detecting the size of several of the most common image
types.
How does it work ?
SPOON is a very straightforward utility.
After typing SPOON at the DOS prompt, SPOON will load the list
of files in the path and present them to you. You can use the
Up/Down cursor keys to select the file you want. You will notice
the right window stating either NO SAUCE indicating the selected
file has no SAUCE, or it will contain the full SAUCE details.
Pressing Enter will select the file, and will put SPOON in SAUCE
edit mode, where you can modify what you want. SPOON will do its
best in autodetecting as much as possible. If a file already has
SAUCE, no autodetection occurs.
Pressing Enter on a directory will make that directory active.
Pressing Del on a SAUCEd file will delete the SAUCE information.
SAUCE Edit mode
The edit mode works like most input screens. You can type the text
you want in the appropriate fields. Pressing F2 will allow you to
Select the Datatype and Filetype.
Esc brings you back to the file selection without saving any
modifications. F10 will save the SAUCE information and bring you back
to the file selection.
Customizing SPOON
SPOON has very little SAUCE-related specifics hard-coded. Most of
the SAUCE specs are defined in SPOON.INI, which you can modify to
your liking. In addition to adding new filetypes and new
datatypes, you can modify the list of autodetected authors, and
the types of files youll be using. Check out SPOON.INI for
further details. Everything for customizing SPOON is explained in
there.
History of SPOON
1.00 : Initial Release of SPOON
1.10 : Fixed a bug in dealing with SAUCEd files with over 10
lines of extra comment
Added dimension detection of JPG format
1.20 : Added dimension detection of ANSi format