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- MicroBrowser 1.1
-
- The latest in
- great hacks with bad documentation
-
- Written By:
- Eric J. Schwertfeger
-
- Released into Public Domain
- August 1, 1989
-
-
- MicroBrowser is a very simple utility intended for those times
- that you just want a quick look at what files are where. All it does
- is open a file requester from the arp.library, bringing the WorkBench
- to the front, and optionally submit the selected file to a CLI program.
- Please note that you must have arp.library version 34 or later in order
- to run MicroBrowser.
-
- To run MicroBrowser, type mb at the cli prompt. If you want to
- keep MicroBrowser around, then you will want to run, ARun, or RunBack
- it. If you provide a hotkey for it (using the KEY XX option, where XX
- is the hexadecimal value of the RAWKEY), then MicroBrowser will not
- open the initial file requester, but go straight to waiting for the
- hot key.
-
- Using MicroBrowser is fairly straight forward. Once a File
- Requester is open, you operate it like any normal requester. When
- you are done, clicking on the close box or on the "Cancel" gadget
- causes MicroBrowser to exit completely, if not running in HotKey mode.
- Clicking on the "OK" gadget, however, causes the requester to go away
- and for the selected file to be inserted into the command string and
- then run.
-
- The basic format of the command follows this. After MicroBrowser can
- come up to three options, in any order. First is the command. This
- is the command string you want the file name inserted into. If there are
- any spaces in the command, you must surround the command with quotes.
- If the filename can be added to the end of the command, this is all
- you need to do. If the filename must come in the middle of the command
- string, on the other hand (ie, "Copy FILENAME to prt:") then you need
- to insert a "%" character in its place (in the last example, this
- would be "Copy % to prt:").
- The next option is a title for the requester. This is used by
- the keyword TITLE followed by a single word, or a string in quotes.
- This will set the window title of the Arp file Requester to whatever
- string is given (ie. 'TITLE "File to Read"').
- The final option is hotkey mode, where the user supplies the rawkey
- code of a key, and MicroBrowser opens its requester every time this
- key is hit in combination with the left-amiga key. This option is
- set up by the keyword KEY, followed by the decimal representation of
- the rawkey code. The rawkey codes for the function keys are 79 + the
- number of the function (ie. F1 is 80, and F10 is 89)
-
- Getting a File Requester is very simple. Either run MicroBrowser
- without giving it a hot-key, or press the Left-Amiga key along with
- the hot-key (F10 by default).
-
- The Author can be contacted on RC BBS, at (702) 364-8721, or on
- Compuserve at [72657,1166]. Please send any bug reports to either
- of these places.
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