CompuServe Thread

Darron, Always happy to help. Why this wasn't in the manual, I don't know. There are a couple of other undocumented things floating around out there, like the /b switch on Amiga-IBM interface. Maybe Rob Peck will document all of these 'missing commands' in his book. Rob, if you read this, how about it? Doug

There is another PD program called CommandReq, that puts up a requestor, and lets you pick YES or NO as to whether a particular command should be executed. It's better than ASK, because it has a timeout feature, that will assume YES or NO, depending on how you invoke it, if you don't select anything within a certain amount of time that you specify. I use it in my startup sequence a lot, for instance to decide whether or not CONMAN and FUNCKEY should be used or not. I give myself 3 seconds to select NO, or else by default, they are active. Leave me a message if it's not in any DL here, and I'll put together an ARC file and upload it.

Darron, Kevin Helms recently uploaded a beautiful little program that allows you to do exactly what you want. It's called Select, (SELECT.ARC in DL 9), and works like this: In a script file, you place the line… select games programming wordprocessor database whatever and when executed, Select puts up a window with all the choices you specified on the command line, plus a CANCEL option, in gadgets. A click on any of the gadgets will execute a file in your S: directory of the same name as you specified. In the above example, 'database' or 'wordprocessor' would be fecthed from S:, and it miht do a few ASSIGNs if needed, perhaps a CD, and run your favourite word processor or database. 'games' and 'programming' would probably have another Select command within them, perhaps something like: select assembler modula-2 C Icon which in turn would fetch script files with the appropriate name and lead you right to what you wanted to do. It's a very nice tool, and I recommend it highly. Regards, Larry.