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LIRE: A POWERFUL LITTLE TEXT READER
Program by Charles Vassallo, Tregastel, France
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In French, "lire" means to read.
It's also the name of a compact, powerful text file reader that is on
this issue of JUMPDISK. It occupies only 2084 bytes.
To use it with Workbench icons, attach a Project type icon to the text
file you wish to read. Click this icon once and select "Info" from the
pulldown Workbench menu at top left of the Workbench screen. In the Tool
Types box, type
:lire
. . . and click the Save box at bottom left of screen.
Copy this utility to the same diskette as the text file. All text files
on the disk, similarly equipped with Project type icons with :lire set as
the tool type, will also work off the same program.
To use the program from the CLI, type
Only one argument is recognized.
The main worth of "lire" is its small size bytes only) and its original
presentation. Its main drawback is that it has no depth gadget, precisely
because of this presentation.
Because of its small size, it's an ideal candidate to live in the C
directory of Workbench, along with customary AmigaDOS commands. Once it is
there on the boot disk, you may use it to read text files by typing:
lire diskname:directory/file <Return>
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