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From: gt1619a@prism.gatech.EDU (James is just this guy, you know...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Dir listings in AmigaVision
Message-ID: <25027@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 26 Mar 91 16:16:42 GMT
References: <18e0d74e.ARN1acd@adspdk.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <18e0d74e.ARN1acd@adspdk.UUCP> hclausen@adspdk.UUCP writes:
>
>   I've got an AmigaVision programming problem for you clever heads :-)
>
>   For our house presentation system written in AmigaVision, we need to
>scan directories for picture files, the intention being that we can update
>the presentation just by dropping in more ILBM files.

>    Convert the ASCII file into a database file. Since the data is
>guaranteed to be 5 chars/line, it should be quite easy to write a tiny C
>program to make this conversion. Anyone out there with pointers towards the
>dBaseIII format used by AmigaVision?
>
                                                 -Henrik
>______________________________________________________________________________
>| Henrik Clausen, Graffiti Data | If the Doors of Perception where cleansed, |
>| ...{pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!  | Man would see Reality as it is - Infinite. |
>\______cbmehq!adspdk!hclausen___|_________________________________W. Blake___/

O-tay, here's how I'd go about it...
	Make your list with LIST and LFORMAT likr you were doing. In AV, make
a loop that first uses AREXX to read a line from the listing, then copy that
file to RAM:picture.iff, then, in AV, load picture.iff. Continue with this
until you run out of items in the list, then exit the loop...

	Just and idea...

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