Overview:
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  This appicon redirects files to multiview (OS3.0+ only) or other viewers.
It features additionally a filerequester and lha support, i.e. view
contents of a lha archive.

Installation:
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  Move view and view.info to wbstartup. Easy, eh ? The haviest part will be
the installation of the NewIcons package (on Aminet of course) to see a real
icon, or, second best method, to create your own icon ;).

Preparation:
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  Before you start view, you should set the tooltypes to fit your needs:

COMMAND

  Full path and name of the fileviewer (e.g. sys:utilities/multiview). If you
don't have OS3.0+, try to find a viewer that doesn't make use of datatypes.
afaik, whatis.library and supporting programs can help (take a look at
Aminet). Also, VT is a great viewer if you want to use view only for pics.

ICON

  The image (.info file) for view's application icon. I recommend the icon
of multiview, i.e. sys:utilities/multiview (.info must be omitted !)

LHA

  The archiver you wish to use for viewing of .lha archives and the correct
options (you might want to use "lha v").

Usage:
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  When you start view, an icon (the appicon) appears on your workbench. The
contents of the files of wich you drop its icon on it will be shown
by the chosen viewer. If you double click on the icon, a file requester will
pop up.

  To quit view, cancel the filerequester and press on the YEP button of the
upcoming requester. The GOMF button will take you back to where you was before.

Technical:
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  View uses asl.library for the filerequester.
External programs are executed by dos' Execute(). No I/O filehandles are
provided yet, so you will not be bothered with error messages (hey, this is
a feature :). This could be changed in the future.

  To stay that simple, no piping is done, i.e. output of the LHA command
is redirected to t:view.tmp and the viewer gets that file to show it.

Future:
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  I am working on demand, if you think something is missing in this program,
feel free to write me an e-mail. Much better: Do the changes on your own.
For this reason, I place this very simple program (incl. source) in the
Public Domain. Before you start, ask me for my latest version since I
upload updates very rarely. This holds for every projects of mine, of course.

Enjoy,

Thomas

 PERMSSN  UID GID  PACKED    SIZE  RATIO        CRC        STAMP       NAME
----------------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
rwx------   0/0         0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24 19:56 view/
rwx------   0/0         0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24 19:57 view/doc/
rwx------   0/0      1247    2486  50.1% -lh5- ae2e Jan 24 19:57 view/doc/view.readme
rwx------   0/0         0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24 19:57 view/src/
rwx------   0/0      1434    4470  32.0% -lh5- 00c7 Jan 24 19:57 view/src/view.c
rwx------   0/0         0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24 19:58 view/wbstartup/
rwx------   0/0      4221    8680  48.6% -lh5- 3349 Jan 24 19:57 view/wbstartup/view
rw-------   0/0       842    2037  41.3% -lh5- 63b1 Jan 24 19:58 view/wbstartup/view.info
----------------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total    8 files    7744   17673  43.8%            Jan 24 20:04

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
drwx------     0/0           0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24  1996 view/
drwx------     0/0           0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24  1996 view/doc/
-rwx------     0/0        1247    2486  50.2% -lh5- ae2e Jan 24  1996 view/doc/view.readme
drwx------     0/0           0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24  1996 view/src/
-rwx------     0/0        1434    4470  32.1% -lh5- 00c7 Jan 24  1996 view/src/view.c
drwx------     0/0           0       0 ****** -lhd- 0000 Jan 24  1996 view/wbstartup/
-rwx------     0/0        4221    8680  48.6% -lh5- 3349 Jan 24  1996 view/wbstartup/view
-rw-------     0/0         842    2037  41.3% -lh5- 63b1 Jan 24  1996 view/wbstartup/view.info
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 Total         8 files    7744   17673  43.8%            Jan 25  1996