BD 2.00.A :: Documenation

Some cool tricks.
If you rename the BD.EXE file in the "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND" folder you can change the command name. For example, if you rename BD.EXE to LS.EXE, you will have to type "ls" in the DOS prompt to run the BD program. You can rename this to just "D.EXE" so that you have to type less.
Another trick is available for UNIX users. Run BD with /ls option and you will get the display using UNIX's LS command's colouring scheme - Folders have blue colour, executable have green colour etc.
BD can display small Icons for the files if run with /i option.

Command Line Options
Just run BD with /? option to see all the Command Line options.

/f	Shows only files
/d	Shows only directories
/i	Shows icons
/h	Show hidden files
/s	Show system files
/nocolor	Shows content without colour
/noext	Don't display the file extensions
/v	Vertical Display
/l OR /ls	Shows linux 'ls' command's colours.
/? OR /help	Shows the help screen

The user can set the colour scheme for any file type. All this should be given as command line options ever time BD is executed. The command line options are shown below.

File Type	Extension	Text Colour Setting	Background Setting
Folder	-	/dir <color>	/dir_back <color>
Executables	exe,bat,com	/exe <color>	/exe_back <color>
Text Files	txt,doc	/txt <color>	/txt_back <color>
HTML Files	htm	/html <color>	/html_back <color>
Pictures	jpg,gif,bmp,tga,png	/pics <color>	/pics_back <color>
Music	mp3,mid,wav	/music <color>	/music_back <color>
Scripts	vbs,js,pl,cpp,c,jav,py,tcl,xml,mak,vb,php,h	/source <color>	/source_back <color>
Video Files	mov,asf,dat,avi,mpg,mpe	/video <color>	/video_back <color>
Compressed	zip,cab,tar	/zip <color>	/zip_back <color>
Others	.	/others <color>	/others_back <color>

Example : If you want to see all exe files in green colour and music files in white colour with gray background, then you should give the command -
bd /exe green /music white /music_back lightgray

Now if you like those settings better than the default settings, you should make a batch file with the below content in it.
bd %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 /exe green /music white /music_back lightgray
and save it to a file called(for example) "ls.bat" in C:\Windows\Command folder. Now every time to type 'ls' in command prompt, you will call BD with the specified command line options.

Colour Settings
You can use any of these colours to replace the '<color>' in the above list. The colours are NOT case-sensitive so WHITE and whItE are the same. You can also give the colour code in the place of the colour. For example, 'bd /pics blue' is same as 'bd /pics 1'.
One thing to remember is that you should give only the first 8 colors in the chart as the background color. You can give any colour as the text colour.

Another problem with this option is that you can give the same colour as background and as text colour. For eg. if you give "bd /zip red /zip_back red" all you see is a red strip. You will not be able to read the text in the background whose colour is same as the text colour.

Colour Name	Colour Code	Use as Background
BLACK	0	Yes
BLUE	1	Yes
GREEN	2	Yes
CYAN	3	Yes
RED	4	Yes
MAGENTA	5	Yes
BROWN	6	Yes
LIGHTGRAY	7	Yes
DARKGRAY	8	No
LIGHTBLUE	9	No
LIGHTGREEN	10	No
LIGHTCYAN	11	No
LIGHTRED	12	No
LIGHTMAGENTA	13	No
YELLOW	14	No
WHITE	15	No

What's New?
These are the changes in V 2.00.A

Added support for diffrent attributes(System, Hidden and Read Only). It can be shown in a varity of background colours.
The colours of all file types can be configured using the command line.
Each filetype can have a background colour.
Gave option to exit program at every screen fill.
Giving a wild card as argument will not show the folders.
Lots of changes in the code.
Lowered the file size of bd.exe

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