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- AUTOPICS by Nick Ruppert 5-22-87
- will call your viewing program to display all the pics in a directory
- having the user-specified extension (such as .pic or .ham).
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- In essence, any picture viewing program will become a slideshow without the
- bother of a script.
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- It will now default to uShow and .pic.
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- USAGE: autopics [viewing_prog] [extension] [start (optional)]
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- It is no longer necessary to type in all the filenames nor to prepare a
- script file to view your pics. Find a program to display the pics and
- add a suffix to differentiate them from other files and to separate
- different formats. Use AUTOPICS along with your viewing programs, and
- all the pictures with the indicated extension will cycle through once.
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- Copy your pictures to a disk or directory in the order in which you wish
- them shown. (LIST will show the current order.) Autopics will start with
- the first pic in the directory unless you specify a starting picture name.
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- [Viewing_prog], [extension], and [start] must be one-word (no spaces) names,
- but case is unimportant.
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- For example, if you had both nudes (suffix ".npic") and regular pics (suffix
- .pic) in the same directory, cd to the directory, and then:
- [autopics uShow .pic] would just show the reg pics,
- [autopics uShow .npic] would show just the nudes, and
- [autopics uShow pic] would show everything.
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- To stop viewing a picture and cycle to the next, do whatever your viewing
- prog requires to QUIT. (For uShow, the spacebar or a mouse click -- for
- Showham, pull down the screen and close the window). To end the program
- prematurely, a properly timed CTRL-C will work, or simply remove the disk.
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- I am very impressed with uShow and have made it a default along with ".pic".
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- For questions & comments, I can be reached thru
- PSA BBS (sysop Dorothy Dean)
- 414-278-5390
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- Additions for version 2...
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- Amiga wildcards (? & #?) can be used for the optional starting filename, but
- not for the [viewing_prog] or [extension], which still must be typed in full
- unless utilizing the defaults. (This is because I am using Manx functions
- which would be too much trouble to rewrite).
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- You can now specify the optional start without typing all the args by using
- "s=" as a prefix to the [start] (which must be the last arg). Thus,
- "autopics2 s=k#?" would default to "uShow" and display the first ".pic"
- starting with "k".
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- Suffixer2 will save some effort by automatically adding the suffix of your
- choice. Version 2 will also remove a suffix (for instance, if you want to
- change .iff to .pic).
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- Nick Ruppert 5/23/87
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