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From: walrus@wam.umd.edu (Udo K Schuermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Execute script from icon
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Date: 31 Jan 91 20:17:43 GMT
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In article <1222@sjfc.UUCP> bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg) writes:
>I am setting up my new harddisk system on my A500 and don't wish
>to have all my path assigns for Pro-Page, Word Perfect, and NetHack...
>etc, etc hanging around when I don't need them. 
>
>What I wish to do is to click on an icon from the WB and have it
>execute an assign script which does all the dirty work for me. 
>
>==Brett    ...uupsi!cci632!sjfc!bpv9073

Use a PROJECT icon (named, say, Nethack) that runs c:IconX.
Rename Nethack to Nethack3.0 and create a script named Nethack
(which matches the Nethack.info (project)):
	assign nethack: games:nh30
	cd nethack:
	Nethack3.0	; the executable
	assign nethack: remove

If you want to get rid of the window that IconX puts up, add
the following tool type:
	WINDOW=NIL:

The : (colon) is important.  All output will go to the NULL
device, I believe, which must be mounted.

I hope this is clear enough so you can apply it to other
applications, too.

Cheers,
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