#amiga help
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Fkey is an OS2 utility that allows you to program your function keys. The
problem is that if you run a program that also uses the function keys fkey
takes priority, and you cant use the program function keys. Does any one
know of a way to enable fkey while using Wbench and disable it when other
programs are running, without having to quit fkey every time you want to
run a program?
Keir,
Check your documentation for the Commodity Exchange controller program,
CX. You should be able to temporarily disable another commodity with that.
Personally, I find it awkward, but that's the way Commodore designed
commodities.
Hope this helps….
…BobR
Thanks for your help, and yes I find it awkward too. I have another
question concerning a potentially powerful utility – PIPE: As the manual
reads, it looks as if it could operate similarly to the Macintosh scrapbook
but apart from the simple example given in the manual, I cant get any
program to recognize pipe: much less read anything from it. And the CLI
that sent the program through pipe: just sits there waiting. Do you know
any programs that I could pipe something too so that I can further explore
this potentially useful utility?
..Keir.
Keir,
I never use Pipe: myself, as I find it extremely awkward in its
implementation. However, at least one of the tools that I use all the time
uses it (RCS) internally, so I have it mounted on my system. Personally, I
much prefer to use the 'pipe' capabilities provided by ConMan – a shareware
console-replacement written by Bill Hawes, the author of ARexx and WShell.
The main difference (for me) is that Pip:, when running WShell (which I
also use and recommend), acts as I "expect" a pipe to work – I can just
enter the command "prog1 | prog2" to connect the two programs, piping the
standard output of the first program to the standard input of the second.
Using CBM's device, I'd have to enter the two commands: "prog1
>pipe:file1", followed by "prog2 <pipe:file1". Both approaches work, but I
prefer the former.
…BobR