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****************************Doc's House Review******************************
The following notes are VERY IMPORTANT to using this program.
1. All three files (makexe, stdexe, and stdinfo) must be in your
root of the device. The device can be any valid device such
as ram:, dh0:, df0:......but the files must be in the root!!!
2. You can make any program you can imagine....copy things to the
printer, delete entire directories, rename files, move files,
or anything else you can imagine.
For those that wonder how the BBS does some of the external
automatic functions.........this is one of the sneaky little utilities than
is responsible!!!! One such file is the one that deletes bad uploads and
corrects your account history.
I also have another I use to do a lot of printing that I can just
stick in a directory and tell it to print everything in the directory while
I am away.
Have fun with this one 8-) Doc
Doc's House BBS (614) 855-3114
24Hr 200Meg HST 2400 - 19,200
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MAKEXE
Notice: This software may be freely distributed for non-commercial use
as long as Authorship is acknowledged. It is not shareware,
but contributions are gleefully accepted.
W. J. Brownson Jr.
7217 Romford Way
North Richland Hills, TX, 76180
Contents:
This File
MAKEXE - Program to patch/copy stdexe
STDEXE - Shell program which is patched with script-name to execute
STDINFO - Standard icon (no apologies, a graphic artist I ain't)
Makexe is a utility to create small programs and info files to
allow the execution of script files from both workbench and cli.
Use of the program is about as easy as I could design.
Makexe is invoked from CLI with "MAKEXE [FILENAME] [SCRIPTFILE]"
This will create files called [FILENAME] and [FILENAME.INFO].
[FILENAME] will execute the script [SCRIPTFILE]. The new program
may be run from either CLI or WorkBench. If executed from CLI, it
will accept the same arguments that you would pass to an execute file,
but if run from WorkBench it will NOT ask for arguments (yet).
If you don't like the Icons, create your own and rename it to
STDINFO.
Being inherently lazy, I would rather type 'asm filename' instead
of 'execute assemble filename'. These programs evolved from a
simple utility that I created to use for assembling
programs. I found myself editing and reassembling variations of
the same program time after time for special purposes.
Makexe was the answer to that. It patches a standard program (stdexe)
to create a new small program.
With Makexe I can now create the program to assembel a program by:
makexe asm assemble
BUGS: it will always (so far) work from CLI. Some programs which
apparently do not handle output properly will cause the programs
to lock up. Test it from Workbench - its the only way to
find out.
FINAL NOTE:
MAKEXE and STDEXE are written entirely in assembler
and are very small compared to comperable "C" programs.
Source is available for $6 to cover cost of disk/postage.
W. J. Brownson
Computerized Busness Systems
Ft. Worth, Texas