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- Welcome to ScanGuide.
-
- What Is ScanGuide?
- ------------------
-
- Current version: 1.0
-
- ScanGuide is a small CLI tool I put togther after reading a post in the UseNet
- Amiga newsgroups about how oen could misuse the @onopen and @onclose commands
- supported by AmigaGuide to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting Amiga user. Tricks
- like formatting someone's harddisk or deleting all his files when he opens
- or closes an AmigaGuide document isn't my kind of humor.
-
- So I created ScanGuide. Just feed it the path and filename of an AmigaGuide
- document (say one from an archive you just downloaded) and it'll scan that
- document and report all lines containing @onopen and @onclose commands. Then
- it is up to you to check these lines for possible nastyness. The optional ALL
- parameter will make ScanGuide also search for " rx ", " rxs ", 'address command'
- and " system " commands. As these an be misused as well unfortunately. The WARN
- parameter has been added to facilitate script use. When used, all the output is
- suppressed and ScanGuide will return WARN (5) if it detects suspect lines and
- OK (0) if none are detected. The example AG script below shows how to use the
- ScanGuide program to scan every AmigaGuide file before it is passed on to the
- MultiView tool. Id it's clean, it'll display. If suspect lines are found, then
- MultiView will display these. If you don't want the suspect line sto be shown
- but just have Multiview not load the guide, replace the t:amigaguide.suspect
- part after Scanguide with WARN. Like in the 2nd script
-
- Just snip the script from between the lines, name it eg. C:AG and then just type
- Protect C:AG +s. Also make sure ScanGuide is in your path. Now all you need to
- do is type AG followed by the filename of the AmigaGuide document that you wish
- to view. Eg, AG myfile.guide
-
- ----------- AG -(with suspect display)------
- .key guidefile
- ScanGuide <guidefile> ALL > t:AmigaGuide.suspect
- if WARN
- MultiView t:AmigaGuide.suspect
- else
- MultiView <guidefile>
- endif
- --------------------------------------------
- ----------- AG -(without suspect display)---
- .key guidefile
- ScanGuide <guidefile> ALL WARN
- if NOT WARN
- MultiView <guidefile>
- endif
- --------------------------------------------
-
- Usage:
-
- ScanGuide <AmigaGuide file> [ALL] [WARN]
-
- That's about all. It's a freebie people, no charge! Just my contribution to
- making life a bit safer for 'Amiganoid lifeforms'. Now If you really feel it
- deserves renumeration, then check out the text below.
-
- 21st January 1996
-
- Paul Kolenbrander
-
- UseFul Adresses:
-
- e-mail: paul@serena.iaehv.nl
- WWW : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul
-
- HTML-Heaven Support Page: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/heaven.html
- ScanGuide Support Page : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/amiga.html
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