Introduction

   Introduction

   This  project  is  a  result  of  frustration due to one of asl.library's
 pecularities  -  putting  directory  names at the end of a file list in the
 file  requester.   One can hardly find an explanation for this behavior and
 in  my  opinion  that's  one  of  the  reasons that attract people to other
 requester  libraries  as reqtools.library by Nico Francois.  When Commodore
 released  Kickstart 3.1 and there was still no sign of change, the idea was
 born to patch asl.library in some way and to let the end user to decide for
 himself.   After just a few hours of fiddling with the code I had a working
 ASL which used environmental variable to determine if directories should be
 here or there.  This version was only released to few friends.
   But  as  I had a recompilable code, why not to improve the ASL even more?
 This  is  exactly what I did, making it completely configurable by means of
 preferences  editor  written by fellow programmer Marcin Orlowski.  Now see
 the  features .


 This new asl.library has been tested on the following equipment:

 A4000/040/25, 850MB HD, 18MB RAM, CyberVision 64, Kickstart 3.0
 A4000/040/40, 3.4GB HD, 50MB RAM, EGS Spectrum, Kickstart 3.1
 A1200/020/14, 80MB HD, 2MB RAM, Kickstart 3.0

   As  you  can  see  we were not able to test it on plain 68000 - we simply
 couldn't find one running OS3.0+ in our town.  Feedback from both 68000 and
 68060 users is thus especially welcome.


   Giftware

   This  product is released under the concept of giftware - what means that
 if  you  use  it you should send something to us - even email will do - but
 even  then  you are only allowed to use this yourself - no PD company apart
 from  FredFish  or  Aminet  can  include  this patch in their offer without
 contacting us first.

   Final note

   Please  bear  in  mind that english is not our native language, thus this
 documentation  can  contain some grammar and/or spelling errors.  Please be
 overlooking  with  them,  or even better - send us a mail, so we can fix it
 ASAP.  Thank you.