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From:Simon Mason
Date:23 Oct 2000 at 00:50:18
Subject:Re: Amster rexx script usage

Hi, Jack

Homer Simpson's little boy, Jack, said:

> I am trying to get the songplayer.rexx script to run from the play
> button in Amster. The problem is with getting the file name
> to the script. If I run the script from a shell it runs fine. But
> when I run it from Amster the file name becomes garbled.
> The docs say to include the file name by using "%f" (with
> the quotes) so the command I am using is rx Path:songplayer "%f".
> But when I look at it from SnoopDos, the file name comes
> out as something like "dh x s. Can someone explain how to
> get this to work?

Mine don't work like that. To get Songplayer to work from Ampster, select it
with the file path button (?) at the end, so that it will look like
"Work:Music/Songplayer/Songplayer"
Works for me, and oh, that %f don't seem to work.

Try it, hope it works for you :)

ttfn,
Simon



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