Daniel_B_Hankins@cup.portal.com (08/18/88)
Good afternoon from a new subscriber. I am beginning to put together a
collection of disks with programs gleaned from here and from Fred Fish's
library. Fear not! For lo, I anticipate very little distribution of these
disks. I have no desire to become, as Fred has, a major disk distributor.
These disks are primarily for my own use, and will be distributed by hand
to my friends, locally. I am not responsible for what happens after that.
Anyway, to get to the point: I am trying to make these disks as iconic
as possible. The less CLI I have to deal with, the happier I am. Does there
exist a program or programs like Xicon or IconExec that will allow me to
run commands from the icon, *** and *** use extended selection to provide
CLI command line arguments for the commands in the script or 'CMD=' line?
I envision an extension to Xicon something like this:
CMD=:diff/diff &1 &2 >&3
where &1 and &2 are the first and second files associated with the icons
in the extended selection, respectively. This would allow me to make
even heavily line-oriented commands icon-able.
I appreciate any help that can be provided.
Dan Hankins
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left."