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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 */
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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.
