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- QuickRUN The Program Manager Shell by Robert Jung
- Another fun 'n FREE O-MayerVare product!
-
- version 2.0 Modified 6/24/1989
-
-
-
- QuickRUN is Copyright 1989 by Robert Jung. This program is in the public
- domain and may be freely copied, as long as this text file, the program
- QUICKR_2.PRG, and QUICKR_2.RSC are distributed together without modification.
-
-
- ****************************************************************************
- * If you read nothing else, PLEASE read the last section of this doc file! *
- * Thank you. *
- ****************************************************************************
-
- A version 2 salute to my best buddy, Captain Drazil;
- Maurice Molyneaux, another fan of Movie Maker/Film Director;
- Dave Small and David Ahl, for the old _Creative Computing_ days;
- and all the people who wrote me or call the O-Mayer V BBS.
-
-
- WHAT IS QUICKRUN?
- =================
-
- If you have a hard drive, you've probably got your files organized into
- different partitions and directories. While that's really neat, it can be a
- real hassle : Either the program you want is nested seven folders deep, or you
- have to scroll through dozens of data files to find it.
-
- QuickRUN is a program manager -- You build lists of ST programs, which
- can then be executed from QuickRUN instead of the Desktop. It doesn't matter
- what the program is, if it's a legal ST TOS program, you can run it with
- QuickRUN. And since QuickRUN is only 18K, it doesn't eat up your memory.
-
- Imagine, just click on FLASH.PRG, and let QuickRUN find it for you!
- Stick all your games in one list, and run them together conviently! Put your
- editor, compiler, linker, debugger, assembler, and other tools all in one list,
- and avoid hopping between windows, folders, or drives. Or use QuickRUN with the
- "Universal Item Selector", put ALL of your ST programs in a list, and use
- QuickRUN as an alternate Desktop!
-
-
- STARTING QUICKRUN
- =================
- To get started, run the file QUICKR_2.PRG. This is a GEM-based program,
- so you'll have to either run it from the Desktop, use the auto-execute feature
- of TOS 1.4, or have STARTGEM run it for you automatically (see elsewhere in
- this archive for information on STARTGEM).
-
- QuickRUN will try to load the file QUICKR_2.RSC. If it is not in the
- same drive/directory as QUICKR_2.PRG, the program will not load.
-
- If there is a file called DEFAULT.QRL in the same drive/directory as
- QUICKR_2.PRG, it will be automatically loaded in.
-
- When QuickRUN is ready, you'll see the main dialog box. There's a
- scrollable window on the left, and a bunch of buttons on the right. Everything
- in QuickRUN is activated by a button, which activates a command :
-
- HELP -- QuickRUN help and information.
- ADD -- Adds a new program to QuickRUN.
- EDIT -- Update an existing entry.
- CLEAR -- Gets rid of one entry, or the entire list.
- ORDER -- Alphabetizes all entries for ease of searching.
- LOAD -- Loads a QuickRUN list.
- SAVE -- Saves the current QuickRUN listing to disk.
- RUN -- Executes the currently selected program.
- QUIT -- Leaves QuickRUN.
-
- You can run a command by either clicking on the button, or pressing the
- first letter of that command on the keyboard.
-
- You can scroll through the list with the arrows/scroll bar, or by
- pressing the up/down arrow keys. Pressing the arrow keys by themselves will
- scroll the list by one name. Pressing the arrow keys with the SHIFT key held
- down will scroll the list in increments of 20.
-
- You can select a file to operate with, by clicking it with the mouse, or
- by pressing F1 - F10 (for files numbered 1 through 10) or SHIFT and F1 - F10
- (for files numbered 11 through 20).
-
- For all commands, information is provided either by a dialog box on the
- screen, or a "what-you-should-do" line at the top of the screen.
-
-
- QUICKRUN COMMANDS
- =================
-
- ADD lets you put a new program into the current list. With the ST file
- selector box, click on the program you want to add. When you actually run the
- program with QuickRUN, it'll use the path (drive and directory nesting) you
- specify here.
-
- EDIT will let you update a listing entry. Click on the filename you want
- to update, then click on EDIT. You can then use the file selector box to choose
- a new filename/path for that entry, just like with ADD.
-
- CLEAR gets rid of listing entries. If you have no filename already
- chosen, CLEAR will allow you to clear the entire list currently in memory. If
- you do have a filename chosen, you can either clear the entire list or just
- that one entry.
-
- ORDER will alphabetize the QuickRUN list currently in memory. Once a
- list is alphabetized, there's no way to "un-alphabetize" it, so be sure you
- want to do this.
-
- LOAD puts a new QuickRUN list into memory. Loading a list will get rid
- of anything you already have, so be careful! Only QuickRUN-generated lists can
- be loaded; any attempt to load an illegal file will be cancelled.
-
- SAVE writes the list currently in memory onto the disk. If you have
- nothing in the list, the command is ignored. Any filename can be used for a
- QuickRUN list, but if no extender is specified, ".QRL" will be automatically
- tagged on.
-
- RUN will execute the currently selected file; this will work exactly as
- if you had run it from the GEM Desktop. If the program is not in the
- directory/path it's suppoed to be (as specified with ADD or EDIT commands),
- QuickRUN will not run it.
-
- QUIT leaves QuickRUN. Anything you have in memory will be erased, so be
- sure to SAVE your work first.
-
-
- WHAT ELSE IS THERE?
- ===================
-
- To tell the truth, there's not much else I can think of to say about
- QuickRUN. All of the commands are obvious, and there are warning prompts
- before anything disasterous can happen.
-
- The only limit to how many programs you can have in a QuickRUN list is
- the amount of free memory you have. If QuickRUN doesn't have the memory for a
- new entry, there's probably not enough memory left to execute anything anyway.
-
- QuickRUN works with the "Install Application" feature of the ST Desktop.
- If you use this feature in conjunction with DEFAULT.QRL, the file you selected
- will be loaded, and not DEFAULT.
-
- This program is completely free, but I really, REALLY, *REALLY* want
- some user feedback! Drop me a postcard or something at the address below, so I
- know that SOMEBODY is actually seeing these things I write. I don't care if you
- have nothing to say, just write SOMETHING. It really makes my day to know that
- someone actually read this file, and not just skipped over it.
-
- Send comments, suggestions, complaints, questions, bribes, or whatever to
-
- Robert Jung
- 740 South Orange Drive
- Los Angeles, CA 90036
-
- Or (even better!) contact me through
-
- THE O-MAYER V BBS
- (213) 732-0229
- 1200-2400 baud, 24 hours
- Atari ST/XE, Spectre 128, PC Ditto
-