[comp.sys.acorn] TWO

J.W.Harley@newcastle.ac.uk (Jon Harley) (06/20/91)

From m90rjw@uk.ac.oxford.ecs:
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This is being posted by a friend for me, please reply to me not him...

Having written !Larger (a sort of Task organiser, Sticky backdrop utility,
Virtual desktop program), I was very interested to see an advert for a 
proggy called TWO (Task and Window Organiser) by Ian Copestake Software,
which appears from the ad to do more or less what !Larger does.

Is there anyone out there with a copy of TWO? Even better, is there someone
with !Larger and TWO? I would like to know what TWO does that !Larger
doesn't (if anything), so I can improve it.

If you do not have a copy of !Larger, and you would like one, either mail me,
or retrieve it from the Newcastle info-server. If you have any ideas as to
 how !Larger can be improved, please let me know.

For those of you using !Larger, I have a little utility, to make printing
text from the desktop simpler.

1) Create a directory called !Printer (or whatever)
2) If you want, save a pretty sprite in !Sprites
3) Create an Obey file containing the following command, and save it in the
   directory as !Run

Copy %0 Printer: ~C ~V %*1


4) Drag this new directory onto the !Larger backdrop, and set the Drag Onto
   flag.

Whenever you drag a text file onto the icon on the backdrop, it will be
printed out as raw ascii. The application does not claim a wimpslot to run, so
there should be no problems there. (And it works with any version of Clib :-) )

This works in the same way as dragging a text file to a window opened by
"Filer_OpenDir Printer:". Presumably this should also work for other devices
such as Serial:, or Vdu: (I haven't tested this)

I hope this is of some help to someone,

Robin

P.S. Please be prepared for a slow response if you try and contact me, as I
am away from University for the Vac, so all my mail has to be redirected to me.

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