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- -----WBRes----
- 17-Sep-89
- This package contains the dream of many a Workbench user - resident commands
- with aliases available, from Workbench!
-
- In case the wonders of this program escape you then consider the following
- problems :
- 1) you have a disk based magazine, but for every article you wish to
- read, it has to go away and reload the text display program off the floppy;
- solution - make the text display program resident (perhaps in the magazines
- startup code). The program is then available instantaneously without
- reloading from disk each time required.
-
- 2) you copy a bunch of pictures onto your hard disk, now instead of changing
- all their default tools to point to your IFF display program, just make
- your display program resident. Workbench will now find your resident
- display program first, disregarding whatever the default tool pathname is set
- to (ie it will ignore the drive and directory parts of the tool name).
-
- 3) you get a disk full of text files or pictures, but they're all set up to
- use crazy-joes text/IFF display program - again the solution is make your
- text, IFF display etc programs resident, then use the alias feature to
- direct Workbench's requests for crazy-joes program to use your resident one.
-
- Those are the most common applications for resident programs from Workbench,
- that I have a need for, but there are few reasons to stop any other program
- from being made resident.
- Well, there is one **small** problem (:-) the program you make resident must
- be non self-modifying, re-enterant code (same as CLI residency requirements)
- and of course few Workbench tools are, unless they were also designed to
- work from CLI. I suspect TxED might be, don't know aboyt other commercial
- programs. Included in this package are two utilities, Ty (to display text
- files), and Display (to display IFF pictures). Display is one of the
- ILBM programs off the IFF disk from CBM, but recompiled under Lattice C V5,
- with the resident startup stuff, unfortunately there are problems making the
- colour cycling task resident,so I think its disabled in this version.
- You can disable the CRC check, which will allow you to try and use non
- re-enterant stuff, but the results (any Gurus etc) are your problem!
-
- Finally, John has released this as shareware for two reasons :
- 1) He & I think it is a potentially very useful program, and should really
- improve the functionality of Workbench. (Well I like it!!!!!!)
- 2) He needs some money! - we are talking repossessed computers here!!
- (anyone got a vacancy for a good C programmer, with Amiga experience even?)
- Anyone putting out a commercial magazine on a disk etc, who thinks this
- would we a great improvement to their disk, is welcome to negotiate the
- payment of royalties for its use, otherwise use in commercial products
- is not allowed. See documentation file for copyright notice, and
- distribution info etc.
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- o(_)
- / /\ --- Tony Wills
- NZAmigaUG,
- 156c Queens Drive,
- Lyall Bay,
- Wellington 3,
- New Zealand.
-
- ph. (New Zealand)(4)-877-258
- ajwills on BIX
-
-
- NB In case it's not obvious - don't exit from WBRes once you've used it to
- load things, just iconify it (the ICON gadget), it unloads every thing if
- you exit.
-