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- PROGRAM NAME
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- Inspect
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- AUTHOR
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- Urban D. Müller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
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- SYNOPSIS
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- Inspect [FORCE] [VIEW] path/filename
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- FUNCTION
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- General file viewer and unpacker frontend for Aminet. Inspect uses the
- path to determine file type. The path is first assumed to be relative
- to AMINETx:Aminet/ and only afterwards interpreted as normal path.
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- The default behaviour (which can be influenced by 'Prefs') is to
- bring up a requester asking you for the destination directory to
- unpack to. Hitting return or clicking extract will do the uncompression.
- The default destination directory can be set in 'Prefs'. By clicking
- 'Set' you can select your destination using a file requester.
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- If the contents of the archive are viewable or startable (pix, mods,
- games, demos), there will be a button in the middle of the requester
- that allows you to do so.
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- Adding FORCE will supporess the requester and extract immediately.
- Adding VIEW will play the contents without showing the requester.
- Adding FORCE VIEW will even start games/demos without asking.
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- Inspect tries to be smart in preloading needed libraries from the CD.
- It loads libraries from the CD if the viewers need them, and it will
- load any libraries that were in an extracted archive. Also, it
- always makes sure that icons created by the extraction process will
- be visible immediately, even if the Worbench window of destination
- directory is already open. Instead of passing a file name on the
- command line, you can also use Inspect as the default tool of a
- Workbench file.
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- Inspect is auto-detaching, use Inspect.ND if you want to wait for
- the termination of the viewing, e.g. in scripts. (Note: ps3m
- autodetaches by itself so Inspect will return anyway).
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- SEE ALSO
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- Prefs
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