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Welcome to the Block interface doc's.
Block was written for those of you that are not programmer's but
do have more than one application that you would like to use
from within Opus. Example, opus only allow's 1 keyboard editor
to be defined. If you, like myself, have more than one editor
that you like to use depending on what or where your at, your
just out of luck.
Block uses a block.ctl file to pull its program information
from. You can have up to 10 different programs with or without
command lines to use.
Structure of a line in the block.ctl file:
name<space>path<space>command line<return>
EXPLAIN PART:
name -:
Name is what you want to see in the menu. It doesn't have to be
the true name of the program. Its only restriction is that it
can contain NO SPACES!
path -:
Path is the total path including the name of the program that
you want to run providing this is the selection you want to
make. It to has only one restriction, NO SPACES!
command line -:
This is the command line that you want to pass to the program.
It's only restriction is that it is limited to 80 - (what every
the lenght of path is). Spaces are allowed here.
If no command line is needed then you have to have the word NONE
(all cap's) there anyway. Remember, NONE must be in ALL CAPS.
This program does little, well actually it does no error
checking at all. Why?
Simply because I want it to take as little memory as it can. You
will have invoked one command.com to get to it, and a second one
to get to the program selection. This takes memory so I'm trying
to keep it as small as I can.
Example of a block.ctl file:
Edwin c:\opus\edwin msgtmp
WordStar c:\wordstar\ws msgtmp
Opus_Control_file_Compiler c:\opus\opus_ctl opus
Fido_Fam c:\opus\fido_fam NONE
File_Requester c:\opus\request NONE
BLOCK.EXE can be defined in your opus.ctl file as either the
keyboard editor, the Message O)utside command, or the O)utside
File manager. Or if you want, all of them.
OH! Almost forgot, if you want to exit without selection
anything, just press ESC. Also how to make selections....you can
use the arrow keys(Up&Down) , the space bar, or if your names are
all different, just press the first letter of the selection you
want. Other wise, once you have the bar over the one you want,
just press return and away you go.
Released to the Opus(tm) public domain library Aug 2, 1987.
Enjoy, The Wizard