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Article #3Question: Hypertext commands to access "New" files
From: Barbara Zayas
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:29
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:29
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I want to define a hypertext command that does the equivalent of clicking the FM main menu's "New" button. (I want to have the user click one button and have FM display a "New" (NoName version) of a particular file.) Is this possible? The only potential workaround that I can think of is to define a system message that copies the template file (with a Unix command) but I don't think it's possible to include multiple hypertext commands on one line. (It's easy enough to do the system message (resulting in a copied file) but then the user would have to click another button to open the copied file and I want to avoid multiple buttons for this one (simple) process.) If I could, I'd do something like this: message system cp file.a file.b ; gotolink file.b:my.link but this doesn't appear to be a legal FM hypertext command. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. Barbara "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!" --Stephen Hawking
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Newsgroups: cmu.cs.framemaker,comp.text.frame Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bjz From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas) Subject: Question: Hypertext commands to access "New" files Message-ID: <1992Oct29.192903.19233@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213 _USA_ Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:29:03 GMT Lines: 34