BeReqFile v 1.0 written by Frederic Tessier (Moebius Technologies Inc.) October 5, 1996 Introduction ============ This is a nice small GUI interface to be use with any shell base utilities that want to call a File Requester. About BeReqFile =============== BeReqFile is quite easy to use as you will see ;-). The goals of this small utils is to open a FileRequester and ask the users to select a specific files! Then it return the files selected to the std. output. Which you can storers in an env. variables and use it in your favorite "bash" script. Here is an small example of how you can use it # You want to call a none GUI friendly apps from the shell # without having to code anything! FILE=`BeReqFile` Apps_Without_GUI $FILE # And there you go, before calling your apps it will prompt # the std. file requester where you can choose the file to open. # Then it will return the selected file in the env. variable FILE # btw the ` is the char on the tilde key ;-) # And a good sugg. if you want it to be accessable from anywhere # put the command in your /bin like i did! Future version : To implement the different parameters of the std. file requester such as filters, save mode etc... * I am now working to build up BeReqChoice, oh btw i got those * ideas after looking at my Amiga and see what some nice utilities * i didnt have on my BeBox yet ;-) Contacting me ============= Email: tessier@moebius.qc.ca Permanent Address: Frederic Tessier 922 Deschamps Ste-Julie, Qc J3E 1N9 Canada (thanks to Steve Sprang for the nice simple README form ;-))