Subject: Re: Easy Assigns for IBM/Amiga Imagine?
Date: Fri, 13 May 94 23:02:32 CDT
From: wilks@lbm.com (Stephen Wilkinson)

Lesk@cc.snow.edu (Lesk) spoke, saying:

> Uh uh! nope! nadda! and anything else! I got amiga dos so I would not have
> to go through such cryptic garbage as this! It's bad enough that our
> texture names are reduced to eight chars, I am sure not going to change my
> system to conform to MSdos constraints!
> 
> However I do think an arexx or c++ application could be written and shared
> that would convert those file paths automatically between machines. I like
> the idea of sharing projects, I do not like the idea of confining and
> limiting O.S. structures.

I agree whole-heartedly. 'Nuff said. BTW, the tool exists to do what you
want if you agree on standard names. It was called 'splat' and it came
with SAS 6.x where x < 3. It will replace occurances of a string
with another string in any file (text or otherwise). All you need is:

AmigaName -> IBMName
--------------------
Textures:    T:
Effects:     X:

Or whatever... Once the standard is drawn up, you could ask that
projects you post used this scheme.. Then both PC and Amiga owners
could more easily share projects. Splat could search all your files and
replace "Textures:" with "T:" for you or vice versa (could be risky
going PC->Amiga since "T:" might crop up in the binary data) If splat
is not distributable, then all you need is a simple program to parse
staging files.

Stephen
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