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
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.