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- This program is FreeWare. It may be copied and distributed through
- bulletin boards or networks so long as all the original files are included
- in the archive. This program may not be charged for or sold, aside for a
- reasonable media and copying fee (no more than $5), without the permission
- of the author. The author grants Fred Fish the right to distribute this
- program in his disk library.
- This program is Copyright 1994 RG Industries, and all rights to the
- program, the archive, and all associated files are exclusive to the author.
- The author takes no responsibility for the use or misuse of this program.
- All responsibility for use or misuse of this program is taken by the user.
- The author makes no claims that this program will do anything or nothing.
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- FProcess 1.0
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- Copyright 1994 RG Industries
- Author: Frederick Potetz
- March 28, 1994
-
- Requirements: AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.
-
- This is just a small program I wrote in-between work on my other
- programming projects. The coding took me ~2 hours and the debugging, error
- correction, and revision took ~10 hours more.
-
- FProcess is a small utility designed to identify files and run a
- prescribed process on them (ex. Feed FProcess a GIF file and it will run the
- viewer you selected in the prefs file on it.) FProcess can identify filetypes
- in one of three ways.
-
- 1: Initial ASCII code. Maximum of 20 characters.
- (ex. GIF87a would be used for GIF pictures.)
-
- 2: Initial ASCII code with wildcards. Max 20 characters. (? is a wildcard)
- (ex. ??????JFIF would be used for JPEG pictures.)
-
- 3: Filename extensions. Maximum 256 characters. (#+extension)
- (ex. #.MOD would catch any file ending in .MOD)
-
- FProcess can take an argument in a number of ways. FProcess will take a
- file as an argument through a shell (ex. FProcess <file> or FProcess ? for
- a really short template). If called through WB or through CLI without an
- argument it will pull up a filerequester and can take either single or
- multiple files from it.
- FProcess requires the ReqTools.library (v38 or greater) to run. FProcess
- must also have its preferences file in ENV:. The preferences file is named
- "FProcess.Prefs" and should be copied into your "SYS:Prefs/env-archive/"
- drawer. The prefs file is ASCII and must follow the following guidelines:
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- 1: The first line in the Prefs file is the number of file types contained
- in the File.
-
- 2: All filetypes must be preceeded by a blank line.
-
- 3: a filetype consists of three parts, each on its own line.
- a: The filetype (ex. GIF87a Picture)
- b: The ID code (ex. GIF87a)
- c: The action (ex. SYS:GIFViewer)
-
-
- This product is FreeWare. If you find a use for it, then use it with my
- blessing (just don't make a profit on it =). If you feel a need to give me
- something for my effort, then send me mail and tell me what you think.
- Source code is available upon request.
-
-
- Send replies to:
-
- Frederick Potetz
- 117 Creston Drive
- West Mifflin, PA 15122
- USA
-
- P.S.: Many thanks to the creator of ReqTools.Library. Takes a little of
- the hassle out of coding. Fine piece of work.
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- History:
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- Version 1.0: 3-28-1994
- - First Release.
-