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Author may be reached at:
Enrico Fedrigo
via Giacomo Leopardi, 6
31033 Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso)
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Paths is a preference editor that fills a lack of WorkBench.
Using Paths you don’t need anymore tens of path lines in your “User-Startup”, it’s all made in a single line (or even less, see section Installation).
Paths may be useful both for the boot and for adding or removing global or local paths during your works.
Paths is the second program I made that I decided to leave of public domain, and I’ve been careful following all Commodore standards. Thus the window is an AppWindow font-sensitive, it works with iff files, accepts the command “version”, can be used either from WorkBench or from CLI, and uses the same kind of menus of all the other prefs.
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The installation is really easy:
C: S: SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System SYS:Prefs SYS:WbStartup
SYS:Prefs/Paths USE
The installation is completed.
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Paths has either CLI and WB interface.
If you start the program from WB you will be able to change only global paths, while starting it from shell you will be able to change even shell’s own local paths without interfering with global workBench paths. In “Preferences” mode you will modify the path list for the next boot or even the current (local or global) list. You can change mode from ”Preference” option in the “Project” menu.
Important: when changing paths from “Preferences” mode, they will be added (without double paths) to the currents ones; otherwise they will entirely substitute the old ones.
| 5 CLI Execution | (Parameters available in command line) |
Activating the “EDIT” flag or executing Paths from WorkBench editing window is opened.
Opening the program by icon you can set some tooltypes similar to CLI parameters. Of course these tooltypes may be selected even in the project icons created by Paths and used to load it.
| 6 ToolTypes | (Icon’s tooltypes) |
To add a new path just click on ‘ADD’ gadget. You’ll be asked for a new Target. ”DEL” button deletes selected destination.
List order is really important: the directory that includes the common use commands should be first in list. You may change the order simply by selecting one by one the paths and chosing “First”, “Up”, “Down”, “Last”. These actions allow to move the selected path to top of list, up/down of one place and at bottom of list.
Paths allows even to add targets by carrying the path (directory or device) icon above Paths window. This is useful to select several targets simultaneously.
If the icon was a valid preference file, it’ll be used.
By a single click on a TARGET you can modify its path using the gadget string. With a double click you choose it from a file requester.
From menu you can choose other options.
| 7 Menu | (Paths menus) |
The last three buttons:
Saves configuration on disk (ENVARC:), executes the changes and exits.
Saves configuration on ram (ENV:), executes the changes and exits. The configuration won’t be available after a reboot.
Exits without saving or executing assignments.
Obviously, as any preference editor, even Paths may be started once a time: starting a second instance returns only a “popup” of the existent Paths window and its activation.
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CLI syntax (available typing ‘Paths ?’):
FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,PUBSCREEN/K,BOX3D/S,PREFERENCE/K,GLOBAL/K
- - ‘FROM’
File to be load instead of “ENV:Sys/Path.prefs”. FROM key may be omitted.
- - ‘EDIT’ [Default]
Once loaded prefs file, opens editing window to allow changes
- - ‘USE’
Once loaded prefs file, executes paths and exits.
- - ‘SAVE’
Once loaded prefs file, saves it on “ENVARC:Sys/Path.prefs”, executes the paths and exits.
- - ‘PUBSCREEN’ <pub screen name>
Opens editing window on indicated public screen.
- - ‘BOX3D’
The gadgets have a contour, there is a NeXT-like box. Selecting Yes or No you choose to use or not it. (This is not an Amiga standard)
- - ‘PREFERENCE’
By default the program allows to change a preference file and add paths. Selecting this flag you get the exact image of all present system paths (local and global) and you can change, add or remove.
- - ‘GLOBAL’
By default a shell starting Paths works on local paths. Selecting this flag you can edit global paths.
You may change local/global mode even from the program, changing it with the CYCLE-gadget.
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The availables ToolTypes (usable even by Paths’s icons) are:
- - ‘EDIT’ [Default]
Once loaded prefs file, opens editing window to allow changes
- - ‘USE’
Once loaded prefs file, executes assignments and exits.
- - ‘SAVE’
Once loaded prefs file, saves it on “ENVARC:Sys/Path.prefs”, executes the assignments and exits.
- - ‘CREATEICONS=YES|NO’ [Default = YES]
Choose Yes/No whether or not you want to create icons for the files created with ’Save As...’ from menu (see section Menu).
- - ‘PUBSCREEN’ <pub screen name>
Opens editing window on indicated public screen.
- - ‘BOX3D=YES|NO’ [Default = YES]
The gadgets have a contour, there is a NeXT-like box. Selecting Yes or No you choose to use or not it. (This is not an Amiga standard)
You may select EDIT,USE and SAVE even as:
ACTION=EDIT | USE | SAVE
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- • ‘Project’
- - ‘Open...’
Allows to load a previously saved prefs file.
- - ‘Save As...’
Saves paths-lists. If CREATEICONS is YES, an icon is added to the file. The icon may be used to activate the paths-list. Default tooltype is ‘ACTION=USE’.
- - ‘Quit’
Quits the program.
- • ‘Editor’
- - ‘Read System List’
Reads all present system or custom assigned paths. You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- - ‘Preference’
Switch from Preference mode, in which you can edit preference file and paths will be added to the selected environnement, to the second mode in which you can modify actually present paths in the selected environnement.
- - ‘Last Saved’
Reads last saved assignments from ENVARC: You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- - ‘Restore’
Loads last valid assignments from ENV: You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- • ‘Settings’
- - ‘Create Icons?’ (Flag)
Tells whether or not to add an icon to the file generated by Paths with “Save As...” option. When starting takes tooltype (see section ToolTypes) CREATEICONS value. Default is Yes.
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The complete distributed Paths package includes:
Paths1.0.info Paths1.0/Paths • 680x0 version Paths1.0/Paths.030 • 68030/881 version Paths1.0/Paths.info Paths1.0/Docs.info Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.doc Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.doc.info Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.guide Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.guide.info Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.dvi Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.dvi.info Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.texi Paths1.0/Docs/Italiano.texi.info Paths1.0/Docs/English.doc • plain ASCII docs Paths1.0/Docs/English.doc.info Paths1.0/Docs/English.guide • AmigaGuide docs Paths1.0/Docs/English.guide.info Paths1.0/Docs/English.dvi • DVI docs Paths1.0/Docs/English.dvi.info Paths1.0/Docs/English.texi • TeXinfo sources Paths1.0/Docs/English.texi.info Paths1.0/Locale/Catalogs/Italiano/Paths.catalog Paths1.0/Locale/Catalogs/Paths.ct
These files MUST be present.
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Now the program works fine and is reliable, next version will be optimized in memory usage.
I intend to write the next version of Paths in C++ and I’m beginning to study some objects for programming in AmigaDOS.
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Paths1.0: first public release.
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My greetings for the help (tests and suggestions) are for: (2):
Alessandro Borille paride@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Eugenio Castellani aj2@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Fabio D'Alessio phobia@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Sergio Fantinel ik3fan@paola.dei.unipd.it Jacopo Farinato redi@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Gianluigi Nusca gigio@paola.dei.unipd.it Emanuele Verza alien@sabrina.dei.unipd.it
Specially Alessandro and Eugenio for italian to english translation.
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