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- !LoadBasic / !RunBasic
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- LoadBasic is an application which automatically re-directs RUN <Basic File>
- operations to load the file, i.e. double-clicking on a BASIC program loads
- the file rather than runs it. As this is not always convenient (Nearly all
- applications will fail while this is in effect) the load effect is disabled
- by double-clicking on the LoadBasic application, upon which its name and icon
- change to RunBasic to flag the change. Double clicking on RunBasic will
- re-enable load-on-double-click.
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- !Twin / !Twin132
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- Enables BASIC to find Twin whichever disk it is stored on. Before the
- application can be used, both Twin and Twin132 must be copied into the
- application directory. Whenever the application is first displayed in a
- directory viewer it will set an operating system variable Alias$Twin to run
- Twin from that directory, i.e. from BASIC the TWIN command will prompt a disk
- change (if nescessary) and will run Twin in the normal manner. When !Twin is
- run (double-clicked) it will re-name itself to !Twin132, and will cause the
- 132 column version of Twin to be run on future uses of BASIC's TWIN command.
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- RISC-OS hints and tips.
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- In the September issue of Archive, Gary Atkinson gave a hint on using
- Filer_OpenDir and Filer_CloseDir from within applications. A rather shorter
- means of doing this is listed below:
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- OSCLI "SET Alias$FOD Filer_OpenDir <Obey$Dir>"
- OSCLI "FOD"
- OSCLI "UNSET FOD"
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- Or:
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- OSCLI "SET Alias$FCD Filer_CloseDir <Obey$Dir>"
- OSCLI "FCD"
- OSCLI "UNSET FCD"
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- This can be used in OBEY files by ommiting the OSCLIs and quote marks. To
- open a sub-directory of an application use:
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- OSCLI "SET Alias$FOD Filer_OpenDir <Obey$Dir>.SubDir"
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