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- Short: Picks a file randomly based on a wildcard
- Type: util/misc
- Uploader: simes@amdev.demon.co.uk (Simon Brown)
- Author: simes@amdev.demon.co.uk (Simon Brown)
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- FilePick - yet another Uselessware product from Amazing Developments.
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- WHAT IT DOES
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- Give it a wildcard, and it'll give back a file picked randomly from all those
- which match the wildcard. File - Pick. Marvellous. Useful for all those people
- who like to have random WB backdrops or random samples played on bootup. Me,
- in fact.
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- WHY IT'S GREAT
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- Werl. I wrote it, for a kick off. It can handle up to 300 files, which should
- be enough for just about anyone. And it's fairly small.
- And it's free.
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- HOW TO USE IT
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- filepick <wildcard>
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- where <wildcard> is a standard AmigaDOS wildcard string, such as #?.iff,
- Work:Wossnames/pictures/blimey/deep/directory/this/#?.ilbm, and so on.
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- It prints out the filename it chooses, so you can use backquoting to pass it
- to a command, e.g. "DSound `filepick sounds:StartupSamples/#?.8svx`".
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- N.B. It uses the T: directory to do something or other, so make sure that
- this is assigned somewhere cunning, OK?
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- OTHER STUFF
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- FilePick is freely distributable copyright (c) 1994 Amazing Developments/Simon
- Brown and all that malarkey. Use it, give it to your mates, throw it on the
- fire, stick it up your left nostril, brutally assault Whigfield with it, I
- don't care.
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- Just remember yer old mate Simes if you should win the lottery.
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- Simes.
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