| From: | Dave Clarke |
| Date: | 7 Sep 2001 at 02:22:37 |
| Subject: | [D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement |
Once upon a time, 07-Sep-01 10:27:53, Steve & Ulli Bowman spoke thus about
'[D5] Re: Opus' Format replacement':
>I guess that means .module files can't be ARexx scripts?
They can, as long as they don't try and replace DOpus defined menu sets, (eg.
the main screen menuitems like 'Format Disk', 'Delete', etc), since there
seems to be no way to pass along the needed arguments.
However, in those cases where a DOpus defined menuitem requires _no_
arguments, I see no reason why an ARexx module cannot be used.
Also, any module which adds it's own commands but not to DOpus menus, eg.
ftp.module.
>Or have it call an ARexx format.dopus5 perhaps. That must be real simple
>to do in C.
Have it call Format directly, why go through an ARexx module?
>But yes, to update it to be NSD compliant would tackle the problem at its
>root. Especially as the format.module is better than the OS3.9 format.
>IMHO. Would that be a very time consuming task Greg/Jon??
>BTW, wasn't there once an ARexx compiler years back?
RexxPlus, there was a movement to buy the rights/source to the program a
year or so ago on the ARexx ML, (US$15-00 * 100 people, IIRC), but not enough
interest generated IIRC. However I would love to get a copy, even if it does
blow out the size of your ARexx script by anything from 8-20 times :)
Dave