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Req V1.0c
History:
At the party 3 me and my friends sat next to some crazy swedes or
norwegians, who had a lot of GIF pictures and used a little program
called ZGIF to show them with.
But ZGIF should always be called with a filename and wasn't able to put
up a requester itself, so it was a real pain in the ass to use, so urged
by the swedes or norwegians (or whatever) and my friends I coded a
little proggy to put up a reqtools-filerequester and call ZGIF with the
results.
Then a few days after the party (when my brain began functioning again)
I thought: Why only ZGIF? Why not add requester to any command?
And so Req was born.
Usage:
It's so easy to use that you'll probaly figure it out by yourself,
however one of my own fauvorite usages is as an alias:
alias AG "Run Req >Nil: Pat=#?.Guide AmigaGuide"
also some of my friends have come with interesting usages:
Req Req Req ; lets you pick command plus to arguments.
you can also use [] like in alias:
Req xpack [] method SQSH
Bugs:
There are probably no bugs in this program (I know you're not supposed
to say that sort of things, but both me and my friends have been using
it for a few years now)
To Do:
Well thare are a few things that I've wanted to do with Req that I've
never done.
option to lets you pick directories
usefull when for example unpacking with Lha or LZX or something.
quiet option so you could use it like addreq "memacs `req quiet`"
who in the world wants to start memacs????
make it breakable when selecting several files.
handle filenames with spaces.
currently you'll have to use filenames, that doesn't have spaces in
them. (No I can't just enclose filenames in quotes no matter if they
contain spaces ot not, because a lot of commands doesn't handle
qoutes).
Distribution:
This is freeware, spread it as you like or delete it if you don't like.
In fact I really don't care what you do to this program, so feel free to
resource it, spread it without the doc (it only just got a doc now - two
years after I made it) and generally misuse it in any way you like.
Disclaimer:
I take no responsibility for your use or misuse of this program or any
damages caused by using it whatsoever.
If this program turns out to cause you any misfortune whatsoever I don't
wanna hear about it.
Contacting the author:
If there are any special features, that you would like me to include in
this util, please feel free to contact me:
Finn Nielsen
Main Internet address: zznyyd@diku.dk
Secondary Internet address: zznyyd@m-net.arbornet.org
WWW Homepage: http://www.diku.dk/students/zznyyd/
Don't look for any snail-mail address, cause I'm not gonna give it to
you.
Also included in this package is a Dir-command of mine (in my own
opinion (and in some of my friends) the only Dir command worth using,
but try it out yourself). I'm currently working on version 2.00 of it,
which will have many more features and totally replace xDir, xfdlist and
C='s Dir.
Message to Jess Sosnoski:
Sorry to put down you're very first C program like this, but using a
command that fills that much and relies on another command to put up an
ugly ASL requester really is crap.