NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/apps/9552

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Kenneth McGaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
Subject: Re: Drag and Drop Compression
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 20 Dec 92 19:13:05 GMT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (David M Kreindler) writes:
>I called IBM Tech Support the other day, and asked 'em to tell me how an
>app could be set up to accept multiple files via the drag-n'-drop method
>from the desktop.  I was told that it's a 'program design issue': i.e.,
>if you want to be able to drag multiple files to a single application,
>and have the application run (as a single invocation of the program) on
>the bunch of files passed, you have to *write* the program that way --
>there's no way to set up the WPS to pass multiple arguments to a single
>program by the drag'n'drop method if it wasn't designed as such from
>scratch.  FYI.

Could someone write a small program (WPS/SOM aware) to accept multiple
files being dropped onto it, and then pass all of these to any arbitrary
app such as zip.  I once tried something similar with REXX.  If n files
were dropped onto the program object for this REXX script, n instances
of this script would start.  However, the first one would open up a
system wide queue, and the others would know that they were not the first
one since the queue would already exist.  They would each write there
argument to the queue, and then the first one would pass all of these
arguments to zip.  I never got it working write since timing was a
problem.  Perhaps it would have been easier with named pipes, but I
have no experience with named pipes.

Ken.

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M. Ken McGaugh
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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