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- 'RUNAPP V1.1' (c) B. Forrest 1991
-
- After using the very successful and very excellent program 'BACKMENU', I
- realized there was a slight problem. This occured when I wanted to run
- the Swapfile.exe program. I don't have this as an Icon, as I very rarely use
- it, and as a consequence I didn't have it included in my Backmenu.INI file.
- I therefore had to run "Program Manager" and use the 'RUN' menu commmand, OR
- run "File Manager" and execute it from there. This I decided would be the case
- for any software not normally in a group.
-
- To solve this problem I wrote a very simple executable file called
- "RUNAPP.EXE". It was written Turbo Pascal for Windows.
-
- You simply include a line like :
-
- &RUN...,Runapp.exe,(additional path for executable files)
-
- in your BACKMENU.INI file.
-
- When run "RUNAPP" brings up a commandline in which you can type the name of
- any executable file, this includes .COM, .EXE, .BAT, .PIF. The commandline
- is simply executed on pressing enter.
-
- There is also a way of 'browsing' for executable files using the browse button.
- This brings up another dialog box allowing you to select the file to run. Double
- clicking the filename automatically runs it.
-
- I hope people find other uses for this apart for BACKMENU users and you are
- free to distribute it without any sort of cash obligation. The source code can be
- supplied for any inquisitive programmers.