Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!wsflinn
From: wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: anybody know how to "hook" into MORE?
Message-ID: <12054@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 01:35:49 GMT
References: <2315@hcr.UUCP> <1135@electro.UUCP>
Reply-To: wsflinn@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Scott Flinn)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <1135@electro.UUCP> ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko) writes:
>In article <2315@hcr.UUCP> miken@hcr.UUCP (Mike Nemeth) writes:
>>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"? or am i just fingerpainting
>>with Prep H...
>
>
>ya, this is actually easier than you most people think. simply use some sort
>of desktop.inf editor (ie: QUIKINF.PRG, a fine Quick Utility) to edit
>the installed applications for your machine. simply pick your favorite text
>editor as the installed application, and set the application mask to be 
>what ever document you want to look at: [etc.]

This method is mainly satisfactory, but suffers from one major drawback:
the program must load from disk before it runs.  I no longer have anywhere
near enough memory to keep a ram disk installed, but I do have enough to
store a TSR that provides a decent 'more' and print utility.  The supplied
'more' utility runs directly from ROM ... can something in desktop.inf be
changed to tell it to run some code from a different place?

Cheers,

--
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