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- Short: Simulate WB startup from Shell
- Author: Stephen Williams (sw@nysa.u-net.com)
- Uploader: Stephen Williams (sw@nysa.u-net.com)
- Version: 1.0
- Type: util/cli
- Requires: AmigaOS 3.0+, util/libs/WBStart.lha
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- WBLaunch 1.0, (c) 1998 Stephen Williams
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- 1. What is it?
- 2. What do I need to use it?
- 3. How do I use it?
- 4. Acknowledgements
- 5. Legal
- 6. The author
-
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- 1. What is it?
- --------------
-
- WBLaunch is a program whose sole aim in life is to launch other
- programs from the Shell, simulating Workbench startup. It does this
- with the aid of Stefan Becker's excellent wbstart.library.
-
-
- 2. What do I need to use it?
- ----------------------------
-
- You need AmigaOS release 3.0 or above. wbstart.library requires this
- OS, so I made WBLaunch check for release 3.0 and refuse to start if it
- isn't present. You will also need wbstart.library release 2.0 or
- greater, a copy of which can be got from Aminet (util/libs/WBStart.lha).
-
-
- 3. How do I use it?
- -------------------
-
- Copy WBLaunch into your C directory. If your dearchiver junked the
- protection bits, then do
- protect c:WBLaunch prwed
-
- WBLaunch may, of course, be used only from the Shell ;-)
-
- WBLaunch expects arguments according to the following template:
- PROGRAM/A,ARGS/M,VERBOSE/S,PRI=PRIORITY/N/K
-
- PROGRAM is the name of the program you want to launch. WBLaunch will
- search your path for this; alternatively, you may specify a full
- pathname. For example:
- WBLaunch sys:Utilities/Clock
- WBLaunch Clock
-
- ARGS are the arguments you want to pass. From Workbench, you'd do
- this by holding SHIFT and clicking in turn on the icons of the files
- you want to pass as arguments. WBLaunch will attempt to Lock() each
- of the arguments you pass, and will only pass on arguments which can
- be successfully Lock()ed.
-
- If you specify the VERBOSE switch, WBLaunch will tell you the full
- path of the program which it has launched, and the arguments which
- have been specified.
-
- The PRI argument may be used to specify a priority for the process to
- be started, for example
- WBLaunch CPUThrasher pri=-10
-
- Once the Workbench process has been started, WBLaunch will return -
- there's no need to run it in the background.
-
- I recommend that you place a line like this in your User-Startup:
- Resident name=WB c:WBLaunch
- If you do this, you can simulate starting a program from Workbench
- simply by prefixing its name with "wb".
-
- Don't use WBLaunch to start Format or DiskCopy. On my machine, it
- barfs. I haven't got a clue why. Mind you, I haven't got a clue
- why you'd want to use WBLaunch to start Format or DiskCopy in the
- first place ;-)
-
-
- 4. Acknowledgements
- -------------------
-
- wbstart.library is (c) 1991-1996 by Stefan Becker.
-
-
- 5. Legal
- --------
-
- WBLaunch is (c) 1998 Stephen Williams, and released as freeware. It
- may be uploaded to FTP sites and bulletin boards. It may be
- distributed by PD houses, provided the only charge made is for
- distribution. It may be distributed on magazine cover disks and CDs.
- No profit may be made from WBLaunch. It is not in the public domain
- and may not be altered in any way.
-
-
- 6. The author
- --------------
-
- Stephen Williams, sw@nysa.u-net.com, http://www.nysa.u-net.com/
-
- Check out http://www.nysa.u-net.com/software/ for other programs
- by me.
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