riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) (10/31/90)
I have just downloaded and started to use wsmooth.exe, a windows3 ascii file reader. Good program except for one very annoying thing: they aped the notepad and made *.txt the default for listing the contents of directories instead of using *.*. I was able to do a kindergarten hack on notepad.exe to change the default of *.txt to *.* but similar attempts on wsmooth.exe fail. Has anybody else been successful? Carl Riehm P.S. Can you imagine anyone writing a program in which you can change the color to any of a seemingly infinite number of choices, and not allowing a user to change the default file listing?
tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) (11/02/90)
In article <272E2703.24750@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes: >I have just downloaded and started to use wsmooth.exe, a windows3 ascii >file reader. Good program except for one very annoying thing: they aped >the notepad and made *.txt the default for listing the contents of >directories instead of using *.*. I was able to do a kindergarten hack >on notepad.exe to change the default of *.txt to *.* but similar attempts on >wsmooth.exe fail. Has anybody else been successful? If someone will post or e-mail the source code (which is provided in the Nov. 13, 1990 ish of PC Mag) we can tear into it with gusto! (I would have keyed it in myself, but my employer prefers me to work on things that might possibly bring in revenue :-) ) (Looking at the code, the change is trivial. On page 512 on the right column (bottom) the variables od_defspec and od_default_extension are hard coded to "*.txt". BTW, I don't know for sure, but it appears that the first command line argument to WSMOOTH may be a filespec. A quick test could confirm this in a moment. If so, a PIF file could be created to always start WINSMOOTH with a filespec of *.*) Tom Rombouts Torrance Techie tomr@ashtate.A-T.com V: (213) 538-7108
tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts) (11/02/90)
In article <1558@ashton.UUCP> tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts) writes: >In article <272E2703.24750@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes: >>I have just downloaded and started to use wsmooth.exe, a windows3 ascii >>file reader. Good program except for one very annoying thing: they aped >>the notepad and made *.txt the default for listing the contents of >>directories instead of using *.*. I was able to do a kindergarten hack >>on notepad.exe to change the default of *.txt to *.* but similar attempts on >>wsmooth.exe fail. Has anybody else been successful? > >....BTW, I don't know for sure, but it appears >that the first command line argument to WSMOOTH may be a filespec. O.K., I was wrong. Sorry. The first command line argument is an optional literal file name, not a file spec. HOWEVER, I now do have the entire source code and makefile. (Although I have not personally had the time to compile it.) I would be happy to mail the soucre (about 60K or so) to an appropriate archive site. Tom Rombouts Torrance Techie tomr@ashtate.A-T.com V:(213) 538-7108
twb@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.w.beattie) (11/02/90)
Wsmooth accepts a filename argument but won't expand wildcards! OOPS! The *.txt default is pretty lame, particularly since it can't be changed. --- Tom Beattie att!hoqaa!twb t.w.beattie@att.com
weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) (11/04/90)
In article <1990Nov2.144431.12478@cbnewsh.att.com> twb@cbnewsh.att.com (thomas.w.beattie) writes: > > >Wsmooth accepts a filename argument but won't expand wildcards! OOPS! >The *.txt default is pretty lame, particularly since it can't be changed. >--- >Tom Beattie >att!hoqaa!twb >t.w.beattie@att.com Did you compile this yourself? If you did, you probably need to link in a certain object module to do the globbing. Under MSC, I believe it's called setargv.obj. Neil -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Weisenfeld * University of PA -- CSE 1991 * |\ | | | C.E.T.S. Network Support * weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu * | \ | | /\ | Coordinating Consultant * weisen@gynko.circ.upenn.edu * | \| |/ \|