NOW VERSION 1.24 FASTER!

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                             GaRpA_RASP !     V1.24
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                       by Carl Harrison (c) CopyRight 1997

                 Written in AMOS_Pro V2 Compiled in August 1997



Every fancied having a "different" Amiga EVERY time you booted up ?

Do you run a BBS? Would you like random log-on and log-off ANSI screens?
Would you like different UPD or IFX settings EVERY bootup?
Would you like different WorkBench Backdrop, Window and Picture on EVERY
bootup?
Would you like random worms samples?
Would you like random worms levels?

Any program that uses an external data file can be RASP'd (especially
nice wb commodity type programs)


R.A.S.P. "Random Amiga Settings Program" only requires three pieces of
information to work. These are;-

		Source Directory
		WildCards (MulTiSearCh) i.e. no need for *.* or #?
		Destination Directory and Filename

In the Source Directory, RASP can read upto 500 entries per "3 pieces of
information". Once run, RASP will plough through a text file (see  below)
actioning 3 pieces of information at once until the end of the text file
has been reached or an error occurred - in which case RASP will end and
control will return back to your Amiga. PLEASE NOTE: RASP is pretty much
crash proof. It won't crash because of your setup, if anything it will only
tell you what piece of information was processed last before the crash
thus helping you debug your config file.



THE Ultimate Random Amiga Settings Program.
             -      -     -        -
R.A.S.P.

What is it?

It is a CLI program that reads in three pieces of information at a time.
These are;-    (1)  Source Directory (must have / at end)
				
               (2)  Wildcards (use one space for ALL files or in-string
                    search for wildcards i.e. IFF/SND or JPG will pick all
                    IFF/SND or JPG files.)

               (3)  Destination Directory and Destination Filename
                    i.e. Data:Pics/defaultWBbackground.Pic


       Holds upto 500 objects PER directory for randomisation !!!!!!
                           UNLIMITED DIRECTORIES!!!!

INSTALLATION
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Chuck it somewhere in yer Startup-Sequence or User-Startup.

(I put it in after setpatch and before PICBOOT and IPREFS)

The only argument required is the script file location (file enclosed).


example on how to make a random WorkBench Backdrop script.
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Copy a picture and rename it to WBBACK.PIC and put it anywhere you want.

In WBPATTERN (prefs) choose the above picture.

Have a directory of pictures, datatypes only relevant if yer have 'em
so just put in pictures that yer datatypes support.

In the script file, the first three lines should be for the above;-

HD1:PICTURES/
IFF
HD0:THE_DIRECTORY_AND_NAME_OF_THE_WBBACK.PIC

Thats It! Simple. (To cover ALL wildcards, have a SPACE instead of the
wildcard-associated-letters, and you can repeat this as many times as you 
want! ALL random settings YEHAAA!

This program is E-Mail Ware. Please E-Mail me just to show your appreciation
of my work. Thanks. Long Live yer Miggy!

WoRkBench-ThEmEs    -    AVAILABLE FROM AMINET NOW!
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Have FUn, as I certainly did in making this product.

E-Mail me with yer suggestions to

                      garpa@southwales.u-net.com

Version Modification History
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There are now two versions available in this archive. One is the graphical
version with the progression bar, the other, a quiet non-graphical (slighly
faster too (coz of the non-graphical presence)).

Garpa_rnd		Graphical Version
Garpa_rnd2	Quiet Version

V1.23	-	Hard-Drive COPY routine re-wrote for approx 35% increase in
boot-up speed. Routine modifications has allowed a drop in nearly 10k of
program space, although the program still takes up as much memory (not much
anyways so doesn't really matter - bit of a perfectionist i think.... ;)

V1.24	-	"directory snooper" routine optmised. Used more machine-code
related instructions to speed up directory reading. Speed increase of about
200%. All I need now is an extremly FAST copy command....Any ideas? ;)

This program should work on all WB2.0 and above Amiga's.

Program tested on   CD32 020 SX32 10MB RAM
                    A1200 18MEG RAM Blizzard 4 030 50Mhz 68882 50Mhz

                    Support Amiga! Release E-MAILWARE !



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 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  712    1352  52.7% -lh5- eeb4 Aug 24  1991 RASP.info
[generic]                22363   24164  92.5% -lh5- 41c6 Aug 24  1991 RASP/c/Garpa_RND
[generic]                11280   12564  89.8% -lh5- 4ac3 Aug 24  1991 RASP/c/GaRpA_RND2
[generic]                  197     338  58.3% -lh5- 92cf Aug 23  1991 RASP/File_ID.Diz
[generic]                  577    3842  15.0% -lh5- 4fd9 Aug 11  1991 RASP/File_ID.Diz.info
[generic]                28913   46948  61.6% -lh5- 624f Jul 27  1997 RASP/libs/amos.library
[generic]                 2163    4289  50.4% -lh5- ab51 Aug 24  1991 RASP/ReadMe_RASP.Doc
[generic]                  576    3842  15.0% -lh5- 8881 Aug 12  1991 RASP/ReadMe_RASP.Doc.info
[generic]                  305    1554  19.6% -lh5- c33f Aug  8  1997 RASP/s/randomscript.script
[generic]                  579    3842  15.1% -lh5- 8221 Jul 27  1997 RASP/s/randomscript.script.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        10 files   67665  102735  65.9%            Sep 10  1997