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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Path *and* ALIAS for Workbench
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0bss@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 23 Jul 92 11:30:03 PST
- References: <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr> <jbickers.0bms@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Jul22.083156.16631@lri.fr>
- Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG
- Lines: 57
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- Quoted from <1992Jul22.083156.16631@lri.fr> by jpr@sun4.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere):
-
- > Hey, all of you who answered. First thanks you for this. But then, you
- > forgot the
- > *real need* for an handling of *alias* for the *workbench* !
-
- I did NOT forget. That was the main reason I wrote wbres - the
- path and resident stuff were just extra. I had a text reader
- called "ty" that I wanted to use when going through Fish disks,
- because the version of "Less" on those disks at the time sucked -
- I also wanted to use "ty" on a number of other PD disks, where
- they had used tools like "most", "muchmore", etc.
-
- Then I wanted to use Carolyn Scheppner's "display" program to
- show pictures, instead of "ShowILBM", "ViewILBM", "ShowPic", etc.
-
- So I set up aliases from these names to "ty" and "display", wrote
- a script to set everything up when I started Workbench, and etc.
-
- > Now I can tell you that I still use 1.3. Thus I was not aware of the
- > new PATH handling of 2.0.
-
- Then check out wb-back, a set of CLI tools that broke up WBRes
- into seperate programs. I made that lot free (I think).
-
- > |> My 1.2 program worked by trapping LoadSeg(). Under 2.0, this means
- > |> my patch would get called many times for a single user invocation
-
- > I never heard of that program.
-
- You have now.
-
- > Beside, I already have LoadSeg patched cause of Powerpacked-library
- > executables.
-
- You don't need to patch LoadSeg to run PowerPacked binaries. If
- you are, you're going about it the wrong way. You only need it to
- load PowerPacked DATA into programs that don't understand
- PowerPacker - and you don't even need that for most utils. MODs
- can be played back with Multiplayer, pictures can be displayed
- with programs that use the iff.library (and thus XPK), anims have
- ppanim, text files have ppmore and the newer version of MuchMore,
- etc.
-
- Explain more about why you're using PowerPackerPatch, and perhaps
- people will be able to suggest better applications.
-
- > That might explain a little more why none has registered...
-
- Yeah well. WBRes existed some time before PowerPackerPatch. I
- always thought the reason no-one registered is because the people
- who typically use Workbench didn't understand what it did. :)
-
- > Jean-Pierre RIVIERE | ///
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