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[Translation from the German text 'CLI.liesmich'. Translation by Markus
Illenseer, proofread by Jürgen Weinelt]
Because you have found this file, you probably don't use the Workbench,
but the shell to browse the Meeting Pearls CD-ROM.
--- Required Assigns ---
First of all you should start the script "SYS/S/Meeting-Startup" to set
some search paths and some assigns.
--- finding software packages ---
With the help of pgrep (found in C/pgrep) you can search for arbitrary
expressions in our indices. The manual of pgrep can be found in
'Pearls/dev'. Please note that pgrep does not just search for strings but
also for AmigaDOS-patterns and can be run on all Kickstart versions since
1.2. The pattern.library must be present though. If you use
AmigaDOS-Patterns, the search will obviously take more time to complete
than the search for a simple string.
Example:
pgrep Misc Index/Path_Short
All software packages containing the word 'Misc' in the path or short
description will be found and displayed.
As a shell-user you certainly have quite a lot of other interesting
possibilities for further use of the output! To help you there, we wrote
three small tools which are capable to work column-wise on text files and
are fully pipeable. These tools can be found in the C-drawer.
copycolumn: Takes stdin and writes characters from char <n> to <m> per
line to stdout.
deletecolumn: Takes stdin and writes the remaining characters from <n>
to <m> to stdout.
insertcolumn: Inserts a string from stdin from char <n> per line. This
can be the same string or consecutive lines of a file.
Therefor the following constructions are possible:
pgrep Misc Index/All | deletecolumn 67 51 | deletecolumn 149 41 |
deletecolumn 200 1000
We recommend that you wrap these tools into some macros or aliases to fit
your personal use.
--- Copying software packages ---
You should use the script 'CopyToHD' to copy software packages to your
hard disk drive. You can find it in the SYS/S-drawer.
The parameter FROM and TO should be self-explanatory. You specify the
desired source and destination drawer. USEMETATOOL installs some stuff
for MetaTool on your harddisk. As CLI-User you probably won't want to
specify this argument.
The script expects that some environment variables are set. It requires
one environment variable for each metatype. Each of these variables
contains a string which will be set into the defaulttool of each icon
which contains the corresponding metatype as tooltype. Just set FPMTTEXT
to your favourite text viewer, FPMTGUIDE to AmigaGuide or MultiView etc.
If you have installed Matthias' MetaTool, it is probably useful just to
specify 'METATOOL' as argument. The MetaTool will be loaded and will use
the configuration file to decide which program to start. Please read the
manual for MetaTool.
CopyToHD does not only copy drawers, it also repairs the protection flags
and the filenotes that were lost during the ISO9660 mastering. Also all
the default tools ":C/MetaTool" will be replaced according to your
parameters and depending from the tooltype METATYPE.
And now - enjoy your new Meeting Pearls CD-ROM!
Angela Schmidt
[Translation by Markus Illenseer, later changes by Angela Schmidt]