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- The following notes are VERY IMPORTANT to using this program.
-
- 1. All three files (makexe, stdexe, and stdinfo) must be in your
- root of the device. The device can be any valid device such
- as ram:, dh0:, df0:......but the files must be in the root!!!
- 2. You can make any program you can imagine....copy things to the
- printer, delete entire directories, rename files, move files,
- or anything else you can imagine.
-
- For those that wonder how the BBS does some of the external
- automatic functions.........this is one of the sneaky little utilities than
- is responsible!!!! One such file is the one that deletes bad uploads and
- corrects your account history.
- I also have another I use to do a lot of printing that I can just
- stick in a directory and tell it to print everything in the directory while
- I am away.
-
- Have fun with this one 8-) Doc
-
- Doc's House BBS (614) 855-3114
- 24Hr 200Meg HST 2400 - 19,200
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- MAKEXE
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- Notice: This software may be freely distributed for non-commercial use
- as long as Authorship is acknowledged. It is not shareware,
- but contributions are gleefully accepted.
- W. J. Brownson Jr.
- 7217 Romford Way
- North Richland Hills, TX, 76180
- Contents:
- This File
- MAKEXE - Program to patch/copy stdexe
- STDEXE - Shell program which is patched with script-name to execute
- STDINFO - Standard icon (no apologies, a graphic artist I ain't)
-
- Makexe is a utility to create small programs and info files to
- allow the execution of script files from both workbench and cli.
- Use of the program is about as easy as I could design.
-
- Makexe is invoked from CLI with "MAKEXE [FILENAME] [SCRIPTFILE]"
-
- This will create files called [FILENAME] and [FILENAME.INFO].
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- [FILENAME] will execute the script [SCRIPTFILE]. The new program
- may be run from either CLI or WorkBench. If executed from CLI, it
- will accept the same arguments that you would pass to an execute file,
- but if run from WorkBench it will NOT ask for arguments (yet).
-
- If you don't like the Icons, create your own and rename it to
- STDINFO.
-
- Being inherently lazy, I would rather type 'asm filename' instead
- of 'execute assemble filename'. These programs evolved from a
- simple utility that I created to use for assembling
- programs. I found myself editing and reassembling variations of
- the same program time after time for special purposes.
-
- Makexe was the answer to that. It patches a standard program (stdexe)
- to create a new small program.
-
- With Makexe I can now create the program to assembel a program by:
- makexe asm assemble
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- BUGS: it will always (so far) work from CLI. Some programs which
- apparently do not handle output properly will cause the programs
- to lock up. Test it from Workbench - its the only way to
- find out.
-
- FINAL NOTE:
- MAKEXE and STDEXE are written entirely in assembler
- and are very small compared to comperable "C" programs.
- Source is available for $6 to cover cost of disk/postage.
-
- W. J. Brownson
- Computerized Busness Systems
- Ft. Worth, Texas
-