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VIEWER.REXX
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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Copyright notice? For what? Use the very few line in viewer.rexx as you want!
PURPOSE
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This little arexx example ('program' is a word too big :-) ) is very useful in
conjunction with ToolManager.
The script alone get from the command line a file name, and depending on the
extension of that file perfor an action.
The file extension is simply the part of the file name after the last '.'. If in
the file name ther isn't a '.' the the file extension is empty.
The action is simply a call to a viewer with the file name as an argument. For
example, whrn the extension is 'JPEG' i run 'fastjpeg'.
The source is little an simplle, so you can edit it as you want.
ToolManager come in action when you want to improve your Workbench. You can add
in a dock an entry for viewer.rexx. In this way you simply drag the icon of the
file on the image for viewer.rexx, and Toolmanager will run the script with the
name of the file as an argument. Simply and beautiful!
Someone can ask me why I don't use one from the mass of programs for this need.
Simple. I don't want another icon on the Workbench, because I want to use
ToolManager. So is silly (this is only my opinion) to use an external program
to make that when I can make it simply via ARexx.
BUGS
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This document :-( and my English.
HINTS
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Get a copy of ToolManager for all your needs, is old but GREAT!
FUTURE
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What future?
AUTHOR
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Fabrizio Lodi Via Faruffini 43 20149 Milan Italy
lodi@ghost.sm.dsi.unimi.it
http://www.dsi.unimi.it/Users/Students/lodi/home.html