AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (12/30/88)
David William Wrage (IRPGMR7@OUACCVMB.BITNET) writes: >The Macintosh has this nifty little 'NDA' [...] called FIND FILE. >This little program allows you to select any number of characters >that you wish to search for and lists any names that contain that >particular string of characters. This program goes through all the >available disks, directories, and subdirectories (including RAM/ROM >disks). [...] I thought I would ask as to whether someone would have >it already. I've never seen or written a Find File as an NDA, but I'm considering it. For now, equivalent utilities are available outside the desktop environment. Actually, a lot of the utilities are _more_ powerful than Find File, allowing searching by filetype and auxiliary type as well as a substring of the filename, and restricting the search to the contents of a particular folder. The 'ffind' command in Davex [Shareware from me, $25] works this way, and it even allows you to build script files out of the pathnames of the files found. For example, say you want to delete all the OBJ files with names containing "foo" in the directory /hard2/stuff: > temp;ffind /hard2/stuff -f obj -n foo -o"unlock =;delete =" exec temp The 'temp' file created would contain something like this: unlock /hard2/stuff/proj1/foo.root;delete /hard2/stuff/proj1/foo.root unlock /hard2/stuff/proj1/xyz.root;delete /hard2/stuff/proj1/xyz.root unlock /hard2/stuff/foo.root;delete /hard2/stuff/foo.root unlock /hard2/stuff/xyz.root;delete /hard2/stuff/xyz.root If I get around to writing a Find File NDA, it will probably _not_ be able to work in the background the way the Mac version does, allowing the application to continue running. The biggest obstacle to that is that the foreground application could close the directory files that the DA was reading. mcgurrin@MITRE.ARPA writes: >Along the same lines as a recent posting, does anyone know of a NDA >for the GS that functions like keycaps on the Mac? It's hard to >remember where various symbols are with symbol fonts, and on the Mac >I find keycaps handy. I haven't seen one; Keycaps prsents an interesting problem on the IIgs, since there is no system-defined mapping for the Option key. The most obvious thing it just to add 128 to a character if the option key is down, but not all programs work that way, so the keycaps display would be misleading. Until or unless standards emerge, the best we can hope for is for each application to provide a menu option for displaying something keycaps-like. --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre) (12/31/88)
>I haven't seen one; Keycaps prsents an interesting problem on the >IIgs, since there is no system-defined mapping for the Option key. >The most obvious thing it just to add 128 to a character if the >option key is down, but not all programs work that way, so the >keycaps display would be misleading. Until or unless standards >emerge, the best we can hope for is for each application to provide >a menu option for displaying something keycaps-like. > >--David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs Multiscribe/Appleworks GS does support that arangement, and in fact, there is a keycaps NDA made by Mecc, but not public domain. It works just fine with multiscribe/appleworks GS, and all it does is add $80 to the character. The way it works, is to install its own keyboard interupt driver, and basically, just works like Apple's (except apples is a lot more jmp and so on and so forth in that weird ROM code..) and then it just displays its keyboard mapping.. I think that most programs that don't support this arrangement probably won't support the extra characters anyway.. (for example Orca/desktop) just displays garbage and goes crazy. (Actually I don't even think you can type them in even with this, this was using Styleware's Note pad NDA... That does work just fine.. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ UUCP: uunet!marque!lakesys!dougm Compuserve: 70611,2215 INET: dougm@lakesys.UUCP APLE: DougMac ------------------------------------------------------------------------------