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From: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PowerPacker 2.2a problems
Summary: New version solves problem.
Message-ID: <1937@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 17:29:12 GMT
References: <1989Sep20.221509.4401@edson.ee.UAlberta.ca> <1837@convex.UUCP> <1858@sactoh0.UUCP> <898@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser)
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Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.
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In article <898@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <1858@sactoh0.UUCP> hrlaser@sactoh0.UUCP (Harv R. Laser) writes:
>>What PP needs is a 'config' file to save parameter changes
>>so one can customize the menu choices to his liking and have
>>the program load with those settings each time it's run. 
>
>Actually, you could write a program that you give it the name of the
>screen and window and a menu option.  That program would wait for that
>screen, then that window, then the menu to appear, and then would
[rest of explanation deleted]

Well, guess what.. PowerPacker 2.3a showed up recently (we have
it up on People/Link and by now it's probably everywhere) and
has a "Save Preferences" feature.. ya just set up PP the way you
want it to run everytime, save the prefs from one of its menus,
it writes S:PowerPacker.prefs and then looks for and uses that
prefs file whenever you run it again.  PP's author, Nico
Francois also includes in the distribution archive, a little
program called PPMORE which will read and display PowerPacked
TEXT files directly.  Slick. Now all we need is a PPSHOW to
directly load and display PowerPacked IFF pictures.



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