051332@UOTTAWA.BITNET (John Turnbull) (03/15/88)
Regarding the PD program FILEFIX.ACC recently posted on ATARINET: I love it -- I want to have its children... (For those of you that have not seen this GEM, its a replacement File Selector box that is installed from a desk accessory. It manages to replace the normal - buggy - File Selector generated by a fsel_input() call with a much more versatile version, similar to the demonstration program FSEL.PRG posted some time back. For those of you with a monochrome system, it is a 'must have'.) On the subject of children, what attributes would I like? 1) Well, it is such a good program, there ought to be a colour version. 2) It would be nice if it would automatically install the new File Selector without the user needing to go to the desk option, and firing it up manually; ala ROCP.ACC. You don't really expect that people will want to return to the old File Selector box after using yours. 3) The default filename extensions are a little C-ish, could they be changed to something a little more generic like .PRG, .TTP, .TOS, or for users of communications packages .UUE, .ARC, .PRG. As long as they are three character filename extensions, the user can jump in with a disk editor and modify them to their own needs. I used Simon Poole's DLII.PRG to change the .BSC to .DO(blank), and the new version managed to find all the FLASH .DO files on my disk. A user cannot easily change a one character default filename extension to a multiple character extension. Thank you again for this program, and I hope that you may be able to incorporate some of these changes in any future revision. /JT John Turnbull, NetNorth: 051332@uottawa 30 Somerset Ave, BITNET: 051332@uottawa Dept. of Biology, ARPAnet: 051332%uottawa.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu Univ. of Ottawa, UUCP: ...!psuvax1!051332%uottawa.BITNET Ottawa, Ontario, JANET: 051332%uottawa@rl.earn CANADA, K1N 6N5. ICBM: 45 25' 33'' N 75 39' 05'' W