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- From: jpr@sun4.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Path *and* ALIAS for Workbench
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.074211.25535@lri.fr>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 07:42:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.124014@hp10.lri.fr> <jbickers.0bms@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Jul22.083156.16631@lri.fr> <jbickers.0bss@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: jpr@sun4 (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
- Organization: Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
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- In article <jbickers.0bss@templar.actrix.gen.nz>,
- jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- Do you really mean it does (with pre-2.0) what I wish 2.0 did ? Wow, I
- didn't
- get that! Any way to port it to 2.0 (in a more efficient way (see
- further)) ?
-
- |> > 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
- |>
- |> > 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
-
- Right for *data*.
- BUT my executable file which are *crunched* with PowerPacker with the *small*
- bootcode wich *requires* this patch to be *effectively* loaded. Sure, this is
- a pain, especially in the making of one's startup-sequence. But thiss
- way, I can
- gain one block for each powerpacked file, and with a 20Mb HD, I have no
- real choice.
-
- |> 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.
-
- See previous paragraph.
- |>
- |> > 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
- |> --
- |> *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
- |> *** "Radioactivity - It's in the air, for you and me" - Kraftwerk ***
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- Jean-Pierre RIVIERE | ///
- LRI - Universite Paris Sud | \\\///
- e-mail : jpr@lri.lri.fr | \///
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