Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ardent!rap
From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Iconx questions
Summary: and for even more fun...
Keywords: window size format, cd
Message-ID: <729@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 18:13:28 GMT
References: <1097@esunix.UUCP> <275@antares.UUCP>
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <275@antares.UUCP>, jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) writes:
> In article <1097@esunix.UUCP> blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes:
> >2) How can I do an assign to the the current directory?
> 
> 'ASSIGN HERE: ""'.  Two quotemarks with nothing between them is an alias
> for the current directory.


And, from what I recall from the 1.3 documentation, there is now the
ability to use the special character combination "$$" to represent
the current cli number.  SO you can have more than one incantation
(execute script) running from ICONX, each of which has the following
line in it:

   'ASSIGN HERE<$$>: ""'

ASSIGN's are global, so you have to come up with a unique name, otherwise
the two scripts would collide with each other when referring to the global
value.  By using the $$ capability, you might get a HERE2: running from
one script and a HERE3: running the other, each referring to a separate
directory somewhere in the system, and therefore each able to find its
own unique set of files, providing ICONX a way to run multiple programs
without problems.  Note that ICONX always does a CD to the directory
in which its icon is located (very handy) which makes the "" reference
as the current directory work fine.

I have not yet tried to use this capability, but as I understood, it
went in really near the end of the 1.3 evaluations (possibly not in
any of the Gamma versions at all, but I believe it was in the Omega's...
I did not hear about it until just before I got the 1.3 documentation).

Please check the DOCS, I hope I remembered it right.  If so, it will
surely be an additional useful tool for execute-script writers.

Rob Peck