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Dear WOA
Got a prob. WOA uses the PPMore tool and I don't have it. Please could you use another tool
Rod, Email

Neil Says...
Yep, we use WOAView now, you can set up your own text viewer to view our articles now. Just double click on the WOAView tool in the root of this issue and it will install itself to C: and let you enter a text viewer. Then you are ready to read the articles.



Dear WOA
You keep going on about this Amorphous company on your website and you keep updating your site to say you will get the site up and running properly. Who exactly are Amorphous. When will you get the webpage up and running?
Jayne, Email

Neil Says..
. Ahh. Someone actually reads our site. We get so little reader interaction that we have to assume that no-one reads either the mag or the website. A lot of these letters have been been written after I provoked people to write em.

Anyway, Amorphous is no longer run by Leon Brown. He now runs Electronic Dreams who are also part of Trogladite Software now and producing software for the wonderful Amigas For Schools project. Anyway, you can contact Leon at either Email, or post and I'd choose post if you're in the UK since all emails come to me and get passed on by post anyway.

Electronic Dreams
Leon Brown
43 Gwydir Street
Liverpool
Toxteth
L8 3TJ

Email leon.brown@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk


Dear WOA,
Great mag, I've been wondering (ever since issue 2) whether you are going to do a tutorial for Lightwave. I've just aquired it and am having trouble using it. What d'you say?
Sarah, Email

Neil Says...
About the tutorial. I don't have any versiion of Lightwave, so I'm not exactly qualified to do a tutorial on it, but I'll ask around and hopefully, you'll see a Lightwave tutorial appearing soon. Oh, and thanks for the nice comment at the start of your letter
:-)



Dear WOA,
The WOA website is a bit bare, don't you think? The counter thingy doesn't seem to work on an Amiga and there's actually no survey to fill in when you click on the 'WOA Survey 99' link. Are you planning on doing anything about it soon?
Alan, Email

Neil Says...
Yes. Remove the survey link, get the counter working and that's it really :-) You might like to subscribe to the WOA eGroup by going to www.egroups.com/list/woa-dm/ as that will have more info and loads of other crap. And we've got the WOA99 poll in the mag. PLEASE send it back!



Dear WOA,
After the wonderfully informative article about the list command, I have been having a few problems when using list. I'm trying to get List to generate a script to copy icons from somewhere to files in a directory, but it's not going too well. I'm trying this
List TO=Ram:Script Work:Stuff/ Lformat "Copy Icons:big.info %s"
But it doesn't work at all well. What's going wrong?
Chris, Email

Neil Says...
Well, by some huge coincidence, I have been doing exactly what you want to do to this issue of WOA, changing all the icons to Newicons. Anyway, I can tell you what you're doing wrong.
First of all, Lose the equals sign between the TO and the Ram:Script because you don't need it. Work:Stuff/ needs to be changed to Work:Stuff/~(#?.info) so you don't give an info file it's own icon. Then your LFormat statement should read "Copy Icons:big.info %s%s.info". So the whole line should read
List TO RAM:Script Work:Stuff/~(#?.info) LFormat "Copy Icons:big.info %s%s.info"
That means if you had a file in Work:Stuff/ called myfile, then that particular line of the script you had generated would read
Copy Icons:big.info Work:Stuff/myfile.info
The reason you need %s%s by the way, is because %s on it's own just returns a file name and not the directory it's stored in.

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