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- Short: Shell help-key macro for ARexxGuide
- Author: Robin Evans
-
- DESCRIPTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- This is a little ditty that might be of some limited utility with
- directory utilities or shells. The opening comment to the program
- offers a suggestion of how it might be used with WShell.
-
- The script takes one argument, a word. It then attempts to find that
- word in the ARexxGuide cross-reference file. If it is sucessful, the
- node for the word will be shown.
-
- REQUIRED FILES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ARx_Help.rexx Place in rexx: directory.
- ARx_Guide.xref An AmigaGuide cross-reference file. Place in
- directory with other ARexxGuide files.
-
- OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The shareware file ARexxGuide is required. It can be found on Aminet in
- the util/rexx directory as file name ARexxGuide1_0A.lha.
-
- AmigaGuide (available on Aminet) or Multiview is required to run ARexxGuide.
-
- The freeware library rexxarplib.library is useful for this macro, but not
- necessary.
-
- SETUP:
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Two environmental variables must be set for this file:
-
- amigaguide/path May include multiple directories, but one of
- them must be the full path to the directory
- where ARexxGuide files are located. Without
- this env: variable, the macro script will not
- be able to load ARx_Guide.xref. The current
- version of the script aborts if that happens.
- Previous versions didn't check. AmigaGuide
- would sometimes cause gurus since it was sent
- invalid information.
-
- arexxguide/agcmd Must hold the command used to start whatever
- utility will be used to launch the ARexxGuide
- files. It can include a full path, if
- necessary. The current version of the script
- aborts if this variable is not set, but doesn't
- check for the existence of the command.
-
- The macro ARx_Help.rexx should be moved to your REXX: directory. The file
- ARx_Guide.xref should be moved to the directory where the other files in
- the ARexxGuide archive are stored.
-
-