Short: Shell help-key macro for ARexxGuide Author: Robin Evans DESCRIPTION ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a little ditty that might be of some limited utility with directory utilities or shells. The opening comment to the program offers a suggestion of how it might be used with WShell. The script takes one argument, a word. It then attempts to find that word in the ARexxGuide cross-reference file. If it is sucessful, the node for the word will be shown. REQUIRED FILES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ARx_Help.rexx Place in rexx: directory. ARx_Guide.xref An AmigaGuide cross-reference file. Place in directory with other ARexxGuide files. OTHER REQUIREMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The shareware file ARexxGuide is required. It can be found on Aminet in the util/rexx directory as file name ARexxGuide1_0A.lha. AmigaGuide (available on Aminet) or Multiview is required to run ARexxGuide. The freeware library rexxarplib.library is useful for this macro, but not necessary. SETUP: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two environmental variables must be set for this file: amigaguide/path May include multiple directories, but one of them must be the full path to the directory where ARexxGuide files are located. Without this env: variable, the macro script will not be able to load ARx_Guide.xref. The current version of the script aborts if that happens. Previous versions didn't check. AmigaGuide would sometimes cause gurus since it was sent invalid information. arexxguide/agcmd Must hold the command used to start whatever utility will be used to launch the ARexxGuide files. It can include a full path, if necessary. The current version of the script aborts if this variable is not set, but doesn't check for the existence of the command. The macro ARx_Help.rexx should be moved to your REXX: directory. The file ARx_Guide.xref should be moved to the directory where the other files in the ARexxGuide archive are stored.