Re: fish menu

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Morris:

> The addendum to Fishout written by Carl enables one to produce many fish dat
> files. But what I want to know can a routine be added to Fishout that stores
> all these fish files and create a menu of them, of course through U2.

One obvious thing is to collect these files in a single directory and issue a
DIR command or, if you have descriptive comments at the top of each file, a
DIRL command.

There is also a U2 routine called FILEMENU (command HELP FILEMENU for
usage information). Basically the way it works is that you write your own
menu of filenames, with descriptive comments if you like, and FILEMENU
displays the menu and allows you to call any file listed there. The advantage
over a DIR command is that the files in the menu need not be in a single
directory; they can be scattered all over your disk, and you don't need to
remember where they are. Take a look. (And, yes, you can have multiple
filemenus.)

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Carl Distefano
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