Portlist, The easy way to find that port! 					
	© 1991  Arnie Cachelin, Hyperactive Intermedia

Portlist is in the public domain, do with it what you will.

Portlist simply displays the names of all currently open message 
ports.  It may be hard to remember the exact, case-sensitive name of 
every program's Arexx message port, so this little utility is quite 
handy if you do much Arexx programming.  It requires the gadtools 
library, and thus runs only under AmigaDOS 2.x.   To run Portlist, 
double-click on it, or type 'Portlist' from the Shell. Portlist 
automagically detaches itself from the CLI so there is no point in 
using 'run portlist'.  Click on the refresh button to update the 
display.  Click the close gadget in the upper-left corner to exit 
Portlist.

C Programmers:   I have included the source code, which is little more 
than a LISTVIEW type gadget example.  It uses the gadtools.library to 
create a couple basic gadgets then scrounges a ready-made list from 
the execbase.  I confess this was just an exercise, but I kept using 
the version which listed the port names (see portlist.c for other 
possible execbase lists).  Why not let everyone else use it too!  I 
hope you find it useful, either as a quick intro to gadtools, or an 
Arexx assistant.  If you happen to write code with an arexx port, 
please make it all UPPER CASE, since arexx will make an un-quoted 
portname all uppercase then expect to find it that way.

Arexx Programmers:   This program can be quite handy for finding those 
pesky portnames, but remember not every message port will be happy to 
receive Arexx messages, so use some CAUTION WHEN ADDRESSING A STRANGE 
PORT.

SPECIAL BONUS!!!

	Also included is the All-New ShowLists, a version of PortList 
which cycles through all the system lists.  To make it refresh the 
current list, simply click on the window. 



 Have Fun!

Please send suggestions, bug reports, updates, jobs, candygrams, etc. 
to:



Arnie Cachelin

HyperActive InterMedia

1743 Hayes St.

San Francisco, CA 94117