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- Portlist, The easy way to find that port!
- © 1991 Arnie Cachelin, Hyperactive Intermedia
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- Portlist is in the public domain, do with it what you will.
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- Portlist simply displays the names of all currently open message
- ports. It may be hard to remember the exact, case-sensitive name of
- every program's Arexx message port, so this little utility is quite
- handy if you do much Arexx programming. It requires the gadtools
- library, and thus runs only under AmigaDOS 2.x. To run Portlist,
- double-click on it, or type 'Portlist' from the Shell. Portlist
- automagically detaches itself from the CLI so there is no point in
- using 'run portlist'. Click on the refresh button to update the
- display. Click the close gadget in the upper-left corner to exit
- Portlist.
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- C Programmers: I have included the source code, which is little more
- than a LISTVIEW type gadget example. It uses the gadtools.library to
- create a couple basic gadgets then scrounges a ready-made list from
- the execbase. I confess this was just an exercise, but I kept using
- the version which listed the port names (see portlist.c for other
- possible execbase lists). Why not let everyone else use it too! I
- hope you find it useful, either as a quick intro to gadtools, or an
- Arexx assistant. If you happen to write code with an arexx port,
- please make it all UPPER CASE, since arexx will make an un-quoted
- portname all uppercase then expect to find it that way.
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- Arexx Programmers: This program can be quite handy for finding those
- pesky portnames, but remember not every message port will be happy to
- receive Arexx messages, so use some CAUTION WHEN ADDRESSING A STRANGE
- PORT.
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- SPECIAL BONUS!!!
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- Also included is the All-New ShowLists, a version of PortList
- which cycles through all the system lists. To make it refresh the
- current list, simply click on the window.
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- Have Fun!
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- Please send suggestions, bug reports, updates, jobs, candygrams, etc.
- to:
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- Arnie Cachelin
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- HyperActive InterMedia
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- 1743 Hayes St.
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- San Francisco, CA 94117
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