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#AREXX woes…

    25-Aug-92 01:05:33
Sb: #AREXX woes…
Fm: Timothy P Trompeter 73730,1372
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Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble writing an AREXX program to interface Imagemaster with ProPage, and have a fairly basic question. What appears to be happening is that I can get PPage to pass the name of a bitmap file to Imagemaster, which then loads it. The only problem i'm having is that Imagemaster thinks that the bitmap file is called "bitmap" instead of bitmap <notice the quotation marks… That causes my file not to be saved and is currently screwing up the whole thing. I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on how to get AREXX to strip leading and trailing double quotes off of a va character at a time. And since I don't know how long the filename is before i start, it doesn't seem to work to set the position as a template, unless there's a way to set it as "end of line minus one character" Any takers on this one? BTW, i've almost got the IM-PPage interface working; it actually works at present if I manually save the image from ImageMaster; what i want it to do is automatically save the same bitmap (or a new copy of it…) and automatically exit via an F=Key. I'll probably be able to post what i've managed to do in a week or two; looks like it'll be just as nice as the current "HotLink" to ADPro 😉 .. Tim Trompeter…