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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: anybody know how to "hook" into MORE?
Message-ID: <5440068@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Oct 89 17:55:58 GMT
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Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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i am not enamoured of the "more" command. i have my own version that
is more to my liking (ie. i can search forward/backward, back up a
page, choose another file, ...). does anybody know of a way to call
a user defined piece of code instead of the routine that gets called
when i doubleclick on a file and choose "show"? 
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I have a way to do this, but it's pretty kludgy. First, let me state I am
doing this is in Neodesk 2.04; I haven't tried it in the TOS desktop. Even in
Neodesk, I don't think this is supposed to work. So here's what I did. I
first installed my preferred "more" as an application for two file suffixes.
The problem is, that's not enough, I need about a dozen suffixes. So, I
edited the neodesk.inf file and found the line that installed the
application. I duplicated this line as much as I needed immediately below the
existing line, and changed the suffixes in the duplicate lines. Well, what do
you know, but it worked - have my preferred more installed for a dozen
suffixes! I've been doing this for a couple of months, and nothing has gotten
upset about it yet.

Well, I know you can *try* to do the same thing to the TOS desktop.inf file,
but I have no idea if it will work.

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Copyright (c) 1989 by Andrew Cassino.
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