CompuServe Thread

I have uploaded to DL10 a program that provides a mouse-driven file requester for use by ARexx programs; it's uploaded as ARXREQ.ARC and is a quick download. It is the file requester we have been using for a while in CoComm, Scheme, and so on. First, you run the program – which you can do from ARexx, though you must give it a moment to allocate it's ports; until Bill updates us with a few more features in ARexx it's rough to do cleanly. The best thing to do is run the program right from the CLI, then use it from ARexx. It takes a parameter that it embeds into it's port-name, so that the various invocations (you can have as many as you want) will be uniquely identified. Further, if you DO run it twice with the same Ident, it will number the port to differentiate it from the other invocation(s) that are running. You can pre-set path, filename, and extension to match; you can also terminate the program from ARexx with 'CLOSE'. There is a simple example of it's use in the archive. Arced with v.22, it's PD – have a picnic. –Ben–