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PROGRAM NAME
Inspect 1.1
AUTHOR
Urban D. Müller (umueller@wuarchive.wustl.edu)
SYNOPSIS
Inspect [VIEW] path/filename
FUNCTION
General file viewer and unpacker frontend for Aminet. Inspect uses the
path to determine file type. The path is first assumed to be relative
to AMINETx:Aminet/ and only afterwards interpreted as normal path.
The default behaviour (which can be influenced by 'Prefs') is to
unpack the file name passed to RAM:
The VIEW option will change the behaviour in tha case of archives. If
the contents of the archive are viewable (pix, mods), they will be
viewed after extraction, and deleted after the viewing has finished.
Renaming the Inspect program to View has the same effect as using the
VIEW option.
Inspect tries to be smart in preloading needed libraries from the CD.
It loads libraries from the CD if the viewers need them, and it will
load any libraries that were in an extracted archive. Also, it
always makes sure that icons created by the extraction process will
be visible immediately, even if the Worbench window of destination
directory is already open. Instead of passing a file name on the
command line, you can also use Inspect as the default tool of a
Workbench file.
Inspect is auto-detaching, use Inspect.ND if you want to wait for
the termination of the viewing, e.g. in scripts. (Note: ps3m
autodetaches by itself so Inspect will return anyway).
SEE ALSO
Prefs