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Short: Suite of progs to do useful things with files
These programs make and search databases created from Amiga directory
trees. It is much faster to search one of these databases for a file,
than it is to search the filesystem. Also, you can use these programs
to do something with all the files which match a pattern, or with
random files.
Uses :
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- Finding a file, when only part of its name is known
- Choosing a file at random
++ Playing a random sound sample, either from a script (see the
examples), by a hot key (using FKey and the scripts) or
a cron program (and the scripts). My amiga plays a random
sound sample every quarter hour, between reasonable hours,
to keep me awake. Look for CyberCron.
++ Choosing a random background picture (for WB3.0 or via NickPrefs).
1. Set up a directory of background images
2. Make a (hard) link to one of them,
eg. "MakeLink sys:prefs/presets/BGPic.pre sys:wbpics/Maddonna hard" :-)
3. Use WBPattern or NickPrefs WBPicture to load BGPic.pre
4. In your startup-sequence, before IPrefs or NickPrefs,
insert the lines:
delete >NIL: sys:prefs/presets/BGPic.pre
utilities:dbentry >NIL: dh0:dirdbs/WBPics.db random
pre="makelink sys:prefs/NickPrefs/wbpic.link " post=" hard" execute
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John Matthews
tribble@gphs.vuw.ac.nz
11-March-1993