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1 total messages Started by Barbara Zayas Thu, 29 Oct 1992 19:29
Question: Hypertext commands to access "New" files
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Author: Barbara Zayas
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




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