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Article #1722

Re: Really useful utility.

#1722
From: Dave Griffiths
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 05:42
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In article <1992Apr14.021006.14309@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>
>I'm always full of ideas, but rarely have enough time to even begin on  
>them all. This time, though, there is something that would be so useful  
>that I figured I should share it. I'd do it myself, as it would be really  
>easy, but unfortunately I am desperately pressed for programming time for  
>the next five months.
>
>The idea is this: a Services-only application, which I have dubbed "Peter  
>Piper". It would take a selection and pass it through a UNIX pipe, just  
>like in Edit, except it would work with any application. There would be  
>access to the pasteboard. The things I would use it for are:
>
>1) Quoting messages in Mail, a la MailHelper
>2) Passing things through awk so that I could get, say, only the 3rd  
>column in a whole tab-separated array of numbers
>3) Appending something to my quotes file automatically
>4) Non-text stuff?? Image processing?? Adding stuff to a sound database?  
>Who knows?
>
>That's just off the top of my head. It would make use of a file in my home  
>directory, called something like .peterpiperc, to get the things to add to  
>the menu.
>
>I really would like to see this, as it would make my NeXT about, oh, maybe  
>a zillion times more useful. I just can't do it until August at least.  
>Really, it would only take about a day.
>
>Maybe I'll do it anyway. But the idea is here, you don't even have to give  
>me credit. Just do it! :-)
>
>-Anthony

OK. :-)

This sounded such a good idea I couldn't resist, so here it is. My
apolgies for bandwidth wasting, but it's really pretty small and
I don't have internet access.

It does pretty much what Anthony describes. The output (if any)
is copied to the selection pasteboard. Your scripts can also
take file names as an argument, and I've included as an example
a one line script to uncompress a file which you can call from
the file viewer. There's also a one line awk thingy to quote
your mail messages as in MailHelper.

Dave Griffiths

PS: I left the "Peter" out of the name: we already have a
    Stuart and a SimonSays!

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From: dave@prim.uucp (Dave Griffiths)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Really useful utility.
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