Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!telxon!davidw
From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problems with ARP-filerequestor and wildcards (HELP)
Keywords: ARP, Amiga, CRobots, File Request, Gads()
Message-ID: <486@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 15:21:46 GMT
References: <942@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de>
Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Organization: TELXON Corporation, Akron OH
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	I tried to reply to you before, but I couldn't get through
from the site I was at. Hopefully this will get to you. I don't do the
wildcards quite the way you do, but on the other hand I don't have a
problem, either :-)
	I did the wildcards within the ARP filerequester itself, bu
using the filename field. I did this in CoreWar and in CRobots, and it
has worked very well. Basically, I set the mask to the file names I
want, and reset it after I have copied out the filename the user selected.
This also has the advantage of keeping the direcory the user may have
selected, but turning on the wildcards in the directory the next time
through. Should the user not want the wildcards, they are free to click
in the file name box, and the mask dissappears automatically.
	I also have worked with the ARP command-line wildcard functions,
and while they are not as easy to use as the file request functions, they
too work flawlessly, and are quite easy to use, once you get the
hang of it.
	I can send you the portion of CRobots that does the file reuesting,
and also the command line handling, if you want.

		Dave