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WBLaunch 1.0, (c) 1998 Stephen Williams
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1. What is it?
2. What do I need to use it?
3. How do I use it?
4. Acknowledgements
5. Legal
6. The author
1. What is it?
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WBLaunch is a program whose sole aim in life is to launch other
programs from the Shell, simulating Workbench startup. It does this
with the aid of Stefan Becker's excellent wbstart.library.
2. What do I need to use it?
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You need AmigaOS release 3.0 or above. wbstart.library requires this
OS, so I made WBLaunch check for release 3.0 and refuse to start if it
isn't present. You will also need wbstart.library release 2.0 or
greater, a copy of which can be got from Aminet (util/libs/WBStart.lha).
3. How do I use it?
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Copy WBLaunch into your C directory. If your dearchiver junked the
protection bits, then do
protect c:WBLaunch prwed
WBLaunch may, of course, be used only from the Shell ;-)
WBLaunch expects arguments according to the following template:
PROGRAM/A,ARGS/M,VERBOSE/S,PRI=PRIORITY/N/K
PROGRAM is the name of the program you want to launch. WBLaunch will
search your path for this; alternatively, you may specify a full
pathname. For example:
WBLaunch sys:Utilities/Clock
WBLaunch Clock
ARGS are the arguments you want to pass. From Workbench, you'd do
this by holding SHIFT and clicking in turn on the icons of the files
you want to pass as arguments. WBLaunch will attempt to Lock() each
of the arguments you pass, and will only pass on arguments which can
be successfully Lock()ed.
If you specify the VERBOSE switch, WBLaunch will tell you the full
path of the program which it has launched, and the arguments which
have been specified.
The PRI argument may be used to specify a priority for the process to
be started, for example
WBLaunch CPUThrasher pri=-10
Once the Workbench process has been started, WBLaunch will return -
there's no need to run it in the background.
I recommend that you place a line like this in your User-Startup:
Resident name=WB c:WBLaunch
If you do this, you can simulate starting a program from Workbench
simply by prefixing its name with "wb".
Don't use WBLaunch to start Format or DiskCopy. On my machine, it
barfs. I haven't got a clue why. Mind you, I haven't got a clue
why you'd want to use WBLaunch to start Format or DiskCopy in the
first place ;-)
4. Acknowledgements
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wbstart.library is (c) 1991-1996 by Stefan Becker.
5. Legal
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WBLaunch is (c) 1998 Stephen Williams, and released as freeware. It
may be uploaded to FTP sites and bulletin boards. It may be
distributed by PD houses, provided the only charge made is for
distribution. It may be distributed on magazine cover disks and CDs.
No profit may be made from WBLaunch. It is not in the public domain
and may not be altered in any way.
6. The author
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Stephen Williams, sw nysa.u-net.com, http://www.nysa.u-net.com/
Check out http://www.nysa.u-net.com/software/ for other programs
by me.
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