Mr Pointy v1.00 (released 9/9/94) ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Program and related files are (c) 1994 BlobbySoft. This is a little shell for network points. It works on all machines in all screen modes. Keyboard shortcuts are available if you use Let 'Em Fly. I recommend that you set up your ST-Med rez palette so that the third colour is grey. Yes, grey! Use VDICOLORS.CPX to do this. If you prefer to stick with yucky red but would like the colours to look right in Mr Pointy, let me know and I'll add a little palette save/change/restore system. This will be no trouble at all, the reason I haven't done it already is because I think you should have colour 2 as grey ALL the time, not just when you use this point shell! :] Quick dox! ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Shift-click on a button to configure that program. There are eight buttons for pre-defined programs, and nine for user-defined utilities. In the configuration screens, you can click on most text fields to bring up a file selector. If a program's extension is T?? then the program will be executed as a TOS program, otherwise it will be executed as a GEM program. To use the file request system you must specify the 'base folder' for the outbound folders. On my system, all my outbound folders (eg: TURBONET.064, NEST.05A, etc) are found in F:\POINT\, so I put in F:\POINT\ as my 'base' folder. The file request generator is simple to use. You can click on the little button to the side of the node address to load up an old file request from disk. Notes ÿÿÿÿÿ This program is BlobbyWare. You are free to use the program on the condition that you will send BlobbySoft a netmail/email and say what improvements you'd like to see in the program. If you can't think of any changes you'd like, just say hello! If you like the program, tell me, and if you don't like it, give me some reasons and maybe I can improve Mr Pointy to match your requirements. :] Thanks to Kevin Osborne and Robert Darling for pointing out that Mr Pointy didn't work on an ST. It had to tried the program on my old STFM and found about 4 problems, thankfully only was my fault, the others were due to inconsistences between AES versions. My netmail addresses are: 90:104/100.3@nest.ftn 51:504/1.3@atarinet.ftn 100:1012/0.1@turbonet.ftn 2:254/86.2@fidonet.org My internet email address is coops@arcade.demon.co.uk A Divvy's Guide! ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ It's all very simple. In the main dialogue box, there are eight pre-defined programs. To configure them, hold the shift key and click on any of these eight buttons and you'll enter a new dialogue box which allows you to set the program's path and filename, along with the parameter that will be passed to it. You can click on either of the textfields to use the file selector. The left/right arrows allow you to move through the eight programs. On the main screen there are also six buttons for user-defined utilities. Again, you can configure these by shift-clicking on any of the six buttons. You configure the utility programs in much the same way as you configure the main programs. The difference is that the name of the utility is editable. This name appears on that utility's button in the main screen. Known problems ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ The file-request system is a bit dodgy! I might change it later. If you can work out when it loads in an old request packet and when it doesn't, you understand it better than I do! :] Future improvements ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ I hope to add a simple windowed-dialogue box system for the next version... But don't get your hopes up, I may suffer from TLOEDTACOS syndrome. (Total lack of enthusiasm due to a crap operating system :] )