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- short: some tiny utilities for ToolManager 2.0
-
- tm_tools
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- I eventually got around to installing ToolManager on my system. ToolManager
- is an excellent program-launching environment by Stefan Becker.
-
- The tools included are:
-
- GAsk a graphical 'ask' for use from scripts
- InsertKey inserts a keystroke into the input stream
- IconKill deletes an icon using DeleteDiskObj
- Kill.script shell-script to delete files
-
- GAsk was written primarily for a Delete icon, to confirm deletion. It may
- be useful elsewhere. Usage is GAsk <prompt>; quotes are not required around
- the prompt. e.g. 'GAsk Really delete file?'
-
- InsertKey was written so that clicking a dock icon would open another dock.
- I'm sure Stefan will in a future version include a 'docks opening docks'
- option, but for now, InsertKey fills a gap. Usage is InsertKey <key> where
- key is a standard (commodities-style) key description. For example, I have
- the hotkey 'lcommand 1' set to bring up a specialised dock. In my main dock
- I have an Exec object with (CLI) command 'InsertKey lcommand 1', so that I
- can bring up the other dock without recourse to the keyboard.
-
- IconKill is a small program to delete icons. It IS NOT written by me, but
- is Copyright © 1991 by Jarto Tarpio, and was taken from the AppServer
- package. I've included it as it's used in my Kill.script. See IconKill.doc
- for more details.
-
- Finally, Kill.script is a small Shell script attached to a dock-icon so
- that any files/directories dropped over it are deleted. It can only take
- one file/directory at a time, because a file containing a space would be
- interpreted as two files, and in the worst-case scenario, these files could
- actually exist and be wiped unintentionally.
-
- These programs (except IconKill) are placed in the public domain; they have
- no warranties attached whatsoever (especially Kill.script). Use them at
- your own risk.
-
- To compile the C programs you need Lattice 5.10 (or above?). Just 'execute'
- them to get them compiled.
-
- You have been listening to...
-
- Martin Scott email: mws@castle.ed.ac.uk
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 628 254 59.5% 01-Nov-92 18:04:42 tm_tools.info
- 412 332 19.4% 01-Nov-92 17:46:00 tm_tools/GAsk
- 1667 831 50.1% 01-Nov-92 17:44:38 tm_tools/GAsk.c
- 680 483 28.9% 30-Jan-92 21:48:52 tm_tools/IconKill
- 2039 975 52.1% 01-Nov-92 17:43:40 tm_tools/IconKill.doc
- 463 230 50.3% 01-Nov-92 18:05:22 tm_tools/IconKill.doc.info
- 448 338 24.5% 01-Nov-92 17:05:54 tm_tools/InsertKey
- 1792 890 50.3% 03-Nov-92 11:18:06 tm_tools/InsertKey.c
- 187 137 26.7% 01-Nov-92 14:27:02 tm_tools/Kill.script
- 2049 1095 46.5% 01-Nov-92 18:03:08 tm_tools/ReadMe
- 463 233 49.6% 01-Nov-92 18:05:32 tm_tools/ReadMe.info
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- 10828 5798 46.4% 03-Nov-92 11:01:42 11 files
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