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From: FATQW@USU.BITNET (Bryan Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FileReq
Message-ID: <8806150003.AA27945@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 88 23:54:00 GMT
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First of all, there's a new version (1.1) of FileReq coming soon on
comp.binaries.amiga.  Please try not to distribute 1.0 too much as
it has a very serious bug that I overlooked before.  In 1.1 it's
fixed, and I've added the capability to specify a "busy pointer" to
use when it's reading the directory.

In a recent message Peter da Silva wrote:
>Now if the format of the message isn't too incompatible, I'll put a
>port into Browser that looks like this filerequest port but just puts
>your program's name in the Tools menu. So if you have Browser you can
>use it, but if you don't you can just ship this PD program with your
>software.

I don't quite understand.  Could you clarify?

>This is an important point: people should be able to depend on a fallback
>position.

Absolutely.  At least a simple file requester should be provided
internally to every program.

>Too bad he didn't see fit to distribute source.

I wouldn't mind at all distributing the source, but it uses routines
from my special library, which I am not distributing.  However, since
there is so much demand for the source, I might extract the various
routines it uses from the library and stick them right in the file
requester source.  As soon as I have the time, I'll try to do that.

                                Bryan Ford (FATQW@USU.BITNET)