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PROGRAM NAME
Inspect
AUTHOR
Urban D. Müller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
SYNOPSIS
Inspect [FORCE] [VIEW] [SINGLE filename] path/filename
FUNCTION
General file viewer and unpacker frontend for Aminet. Inspect uses the
path to determine file type. The path is first assumed to be relative
to AMINETx:Aminet/ and only afterwards interpreted as normal path.
The default behaviour (which can be influenced by 'Prefs') is to
bring up a requester asking you for the destination directory to
unpack to. Hitting return or clicking extract will do the uncompression.
The default destination directory can be set in 'Prefs'. By clicking
'Set' you can select your destination using a file requester.
If the contents of the archive are viewable or startable (pix, mods,
games, demos), there will be a button in the middle of the requester
that allows you to do so.
Adding FORCE will supporess the requester and extract immediately.
Adding VIEW will play the contents without showing the requester.
Adding FORCE VIEW will even start games/demos without asking.
If you specify a path name from inside the archive using SINGLE, only
that file will be extracted/viewd.
Inspect tries to be smart in preloading needed libraries from the CD.
It loads libraries from the CD if the viewers need them, and it will
load any libraries that were in an extracted archive. Also, it
always makes sure that icons created by the extraction process will
be visible immediately, even if the Worbench window of destination
directory is already open. Instead of passing a file name on the
command line, you can also use Inspect as the default tool of a
Workbench file.
Inspect is auto-detaching, use Inspect.ND if you want to wait for
the termination of the viewing, e.g. in scripts. (Note: ps3m
autodetaches by itself so Inspect will return anyway).
SEE ALSO
Prefs