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Author may be reached at:
Enrico Fedrigo
via Giacomo Leopardi, 6
31033 Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso)
ITALY
fedro@sabrina.dei.unipd.it fedro@paola.dei.unipd.it
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Assigns is a preference editor that fills a lack of WorkBench.
Using Assigns you don’t need any more tens of assign lines in your “User-Startup”, it’s all made in a single line (or even less, see section Installation).
Assigns is not an “Assign-Manager”, it has to be used as an utility to start when booting the system, and it handles all your assigns. It can even add assigns and activate them just as c:assign (but these cannot be removed).
I’m thinking about adding assign removal, to make of Assigns a complete independent substitutive utility, but this operation seems to be discouraged even by the operating system manual (see section Future develops).
About this we may note that doesn’t exists a system call meant to remove assignments, neither DEFER or PATH, and then there isn’t a “legal” way to remove them.
Assigns is the first program I made that I decided to leave of public domain, and I’ve been careful following all Commodore standards. Thus the window is an AppWindow font-sensitive, it works with iff files, accepts the command “version”, can be used either from WorkBench or from CLI, and uses the same kind of menus of all the other prefs.
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The installation is really easy:
C: CLIPS: DEVS: ENV: ENVARC: FONTS: HELP: KEYMAPS: L: LIBS: LOCALE: PRINTERS: REXX: S: SYS: T:
SYS:Prefs/Assigns USE
The installation is completed.
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Assign has either CLI and WB interface.
| 5 CLI Execution | (Parameters available in line command) |
Activating the “EDIT” flag or executing Assigns from WorkBench editing window is opened.
Opening the program by icon you can set some tooltypes similar to CLI parameters. Of course these tooltypes may be selected even in the project icons created by Assigns and used to load it.
| 6 ToolTypes | (Icon’s tooltypes) |
To add a new assignment just click on ‘ADD’ gadget of the Assign-List. You’ll be asked for a new Target.
If desired target directory doesn’t exists yet, exit from the file requester with “CANCEL”. This will activate the gadget string for input.
You may choose one of the following types:
ABSOLUTE
DEFER
PATH
You may want to know whether or not an assignment is succesfully activated or not (WARN)
Last you may need to activate immediately the assign, selecting “IMMEDIATE” button. This may be useful to add assigns referred to other assignments: Assigns handles fine even these. If you choose “ABSOLUTE” type you will can add more TARGETS by clicking on “ADD” button. “DEL” button delete the selected target.
Assigns allows even to add targets by choosing the assign from the assign-list and then carry the path (directory o device) icon above Assigns window.
This is useful to select several targets simultaneously.
If the icon was a valid preference file, it’ll be used.
By a single click on a TARGET you can modify its path using the gadget string. With a double click you choose it from a file requester.
From menu you can choose other options.
| 7 Menu | (Assigns menus) |
The last three buttons:
Saves configuration on disk, executes the assignments and exits.
Saves configuration on RAM:, executes the assignments and exits. The configuration won’t be available after a reboot.
Exits without saving or executing assignments.
Obviously, as any preference editor, even Assigns may be started once a time: starting a second instance returns only a “popup” of the existent Assigns window and its activation.
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CLI syntax (available typing ‘Assigns ?’):
FROM,EDIT/S,USE/S,SAVE/S,PUBSCREEN/K,BOX3D/S
- - ‘FROM’
File to be load instead of “ENV:Sys/Assign.prefs”. FROM key may be omitted.
- - ‘EDIT’ [Default]
Once loaded prefs file, opens editing window to allow changes
- - ‘USE’
Once loaded prefs file, executes assignments and exits.
- - ‘SAVE’
Once loaded prefs file, saves it on “ENVARC:Sys/Assign.prefs”, executes the assignments and exits.
- - ‘PUBSCREEN’ <pub screen name>
Opens editing window on indicated public screen.
- - ‘BOX3D’
Around the two groups of gadgets “Assign” and “Target(s)” there is a NeXT-like box. Selecting Yes or No you choose to use or not it.
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The availables ToolTypes (usable even by Assigns’s icons) are:
- - ‘EDIT’ [Default]
Once loaded prefs file, opens editing window to allow changes
- - ‘USE’
Once loaded prefs file, executes assignments and exits.
- - ‘SAVE’
Once loaded prefs file, saves it on “ENVARC:Sys/Assign.prefs”, executes the assignments and exits.
- - ‘CREATEICONS=YES|NO’ [Default = YES]
Choose Yes/No whether or not you want to create icons for the files created with ’Save As...’ from menu (see section Menu).
- - ‘PUBSCREEN’ <pub screen name>
Opens editing window on indicated public screen.
- - ‘BOX3D=YES|NO’ [Default = YES]
Around the two groups of gadgets “Assign” and “Target(s)” there is a NeXT-like box. Selecting Yes or No you choose to use or not it.
You may select EDIT,USE and SAVE even as:
ACTION=EDIT | USE | SAVE
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- • ‘Project’
- - ‘Open...’
Allows to load a previously saved prefs file.
- - ‘Save As...’
Saves assign-lists. If set CREATEICONS YES, an icon is added to the file. The icon may be used to activate the assign-list without starting Assigns. Default tooltype is ‘ACTION=USE’.
- - ‘Quit’
Quits the program.
- • ‘Edit’
- - ‘Read System List’
Reads all present system or custom assignments. You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- - ‘Last Saved’
Reads last saved assignments from ENVARC: You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- - ‘Restore’
Loads last valid assignments from ENV: You lose the currents eventually listed assignments.
- • ‘Settings’
- - ‘Create Icons?’
(Flag) Tells whether or not to add an icon to the file generated by Assigns with “Save As...” option. When starting takes tooltype (see section ToolTypes) CREATEICONS value. Default is Yes.
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The complete distributed Assigns package includes:
Assigns1.1.info Assigns1.1/Assigns • 680X0 version Assigns1.1/Assigns.030 • 68030/881 version Assigns1.1/Assigns.info Assigns1.1/Docs.info Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.doc Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.doc.info Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.guide Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.guide.info Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.dvi Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.dvi.info Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.texi Assigns1.1/Docs/Italiano.texi.info Assigns1.1/Docs/English.doc • plain ASCII docs Assigns1.1/Docs/English.doc.info Assigns1.1/Docs/English.guide • AmigaGuide docs Assigns1.1/Docs/English.guide.info Assigns1.1/Docs/English.dvi • DVI docs Assigns1.1/Docs/English.dvi.info Assigns1.1/Docs/English.texi • TeXinfo sources Assigns1.1/Docs/English.texi.info Assigns1.1/Locale/Catalogs/Italiano/Assigns.catalog Assigns1.1/Locale/Catalogs/Assigns.ct
These files MUST be present.
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Now the program works fine and is reliable, next version will be optimized in memory usage.
I intend to write the next version of Assigns in C++ and I’m beginning to study some objects for programming in AmigaDOS.
Lastly: make of Assigns an “Assign-Manager”, but there are some problems.
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Assigns1.0: first release, full working. Only for betatesters
Assigns1.1: first public release. Changes: localization and some bugs fixed, especially the wrong activation of some gadgets.
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My greetings for the help (tests and suggestions) are for: (1):
Alessandro Borille paride@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Eugenio Castellani aj2@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Fabio D'Alessi phobia@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Sergio Fantinel ik3fan@paola.dei.unipd.it Jacopo Farinato redi@sabrina.dei.unipd.it Gianluigi Nusca gigio@paola.dei.unipd.it Emanuele Verza alien@sabrina.dei.unipd.it
Specially Alessandro and Eugenio for italian to english translation.
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