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From: hsgj@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Dan Green)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Requesting a filename
Message-ID: <419@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 17:24:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: batcompu.419
Posted: Mon Jun  9 17:24:26 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jun-86 01:11:33 EDT
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY
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Keywords: Requesters, Filenames

I would like to have the user enter a filename from my C program.
I have been looking at Requesters, but it appears that they are 
only used for yes/no input.  The Requesters structure seems to
just have pointers to positive and negative text, and the Request()
and AutoRequest() look like they just return a true/false depending
on whether the user's response is DoIt or Cancel.  Please, please
correct me if I am wrong, but that's the way it looks to me.
   So the only way I can think of requesting a filename is to
generate a window that is one text line high, and attach a console
to it in raw mode.  Then I would just watch the input of the usre,
and when I see a CarriageReturn then I would have the filename, and
could close the window.  This seems like a lot of work, especially
since I would probably have to do my own backspace and ^X processing.
   So, is theere a function that I am missing that puts up a standard
get_file_name request?  If not, is the way I am thinking about doing
it the only/best way to go?  Any responses here would be helpful.
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