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- /* |_o_o|\\ Copyright (c) 1986 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved */
- /* |. o.| || This program may not be distributed without the permission of */
- /* | . | || the authors. */
- /* | o | || Dave Baker Ed Burnette Stan Chow BBS: */
- /* | . |// Jay Denebeim Gordon Keener Jack Rouse (919)-471-6436 */
- /* ====== John Toebes Mary Ellen Toebes Doug Walker */
- /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
-
- WBRun by John Toebes © 1986 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved
- 235 Trillingham Ln, Cary, NC 27511
-
- Contributions to continue development of this and other fine products for the
- Amiga should be sent to the Software Distillery at the above address.
-
- Other Products produced by the Software Distillery are:
- BLINK - the Turbo-charged Alink replacement
- POPCLI II - Screen saver and Pop up CLI hotkey
- HACK - The Amiga port of the famous UNIX game
- MAKE - A software development tool one shouldn't be without
- KERMIT - The World renown file transfer protocol brought to the Amiga
- ICONEXEC, SETALTERNATE, SETWINDOW - Icon manipulation tools
- TSIZE - A short utility for determining directory sizes.
- All of these are available on our BBS.
-
- Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program provided both this
- documentation accompanies the executable and that no charge is made for its
- distribution. Contributions to the distillery are encouraged. If you wish
- to include this program in a comercial product, contact us first.
-
- WBRun is a program designed to allow any program to be invoked from CLI yet
- behave as if it were invoked from Workbench. Note that workbench need not
- be loaded! This is a boon for people who are short on memory and do not
- wish the extra overhead of workbench.
-
- This permits running programs created with AmigaBasic and TrueBasic (or
- any other application that creates a workbench project icon) from CLI
- as either a turnkey application or even in a startup-sequence.
-
- To invoke a program with WBRun you need to execute the command:
- WBRun <icon1> <icon2> ...
-
- Where <icon1> is the primary program to be run. The name must correspond
- to a workbench Icon. <icon2> and subsequent parameters are taken as
- workbench arguments to be passed to the primary program.
-
- For example:
- To run Initialize:
- WBRun SYS:System/Initialize
-
- To run a program (call it Printit) that takes arguments (normally shift
- clicked on) you would type
- WBRin Printit Arg1 Arg2
-
- To run an AmigaBasic Program:
- WBRun myprogram
-
- Note that the arguments must be qualified if they are not in the current
- directory.
-
- Supressing the Copyright message:
- If you are building a turnkey application that you do not wish to have
- display the WBRun copyright message, you may supress it with the CLI
- redirection features:
- WBRun >NIL: MyApplication
-
- If you do this, you must give credit to the Software Distillery in your
- application.
-
- Known Bugs:
- None so far...
-
- How it works:
- WBRun simulates a phoney workbench by building an argument list of the
- locks and names corresponding to the command line arguments. It then opens
- up the disk object for the first argument to determine the tool type. For
- a TOOL it simply invokes that program, for a Project it determines the
- default tool to be invoked. Once the program to be invoked is determined,
- it does a LoadSeg on it, CreateProc and sends the startup message to the
- newly created task. Finally it waits for the response message from the
- task before terminating. All resources allocated are freed upon completion
- or any error.
-
- The code is written completely in Lattice C under 3.10 taking advantage
- of Blink. Without messages to make it user friendly it is a shade over
- 3K, the messages and minimal IO support raise it to 3700 bytes. Note that
- all this is done without making any serious attempts at optimization.