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From: wilts@cavax.ab.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Crazy AmigaOS idea
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Date: 22 Sep 89 16:47:26 GMT
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John Lindwall                            johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
writes:

>  1) Grab a couple of files to transfer to another system.
>  2) Drop them on the modem icon (or xmodem icon, or whatever).
>  3) Double-click on the icon to open it as a window.
>  4) Watch the icons (or file names) disappear as the files are transferred.
>
>Also, it would be nice if the modem device could be connected by the user to
>a specific communications program.  Being able to drop an file icon on the
>modem window and have the system call up, for example, ATalk III to transfer
>the file.
.
.
                                                                   Of course,
>this would require the user to do some script-writing, but it could be very
>elegant once done.

You can simply add an icon for an ARexx script under 1.4 (or currently if you
want to purchase ARexx) and write the script to do exactly that. You are
prepared to write the script so there doesn't seem to be a problem. If you want
to do it today, you could purchase ARexx and use the VLT program from the Fish
disks and you can do it for even less money.  Of course, Marco would rather you
buy Atalk III  :-)

I believe that even though ARexx will be bundled with the 1.4 release, it is
still a good buy today since you will get a good manual and can start using it
immediately.  There are example scripts on the disk to help you get started and
ConMan 1.3.2 is there as a bonus.  The public domain rexxarplibrary and
rexxmathlibrary bindings are there as well.  Things like rx 'say GetFile()' are
rather short to pop up the ARP file requester and output the name of the
selected file.

        .../Ed          (Wilts%CaVax.AB.CA@UncaNet.Bitnet)
Ed Wilts                        (403) 234-1007
Sr. Systems Analyst, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada