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From:Jack York
Date:23 Oct 2000 at 14:24:09
Subject:Re: Amster rexx script usage

Hello Simon

On 22-Oct-00, Simon Mason wrote:

>
>> 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 :)

I had tried that but all it does is start Songplayer.

Jack

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