Release 1.1 of xpick xpick is an X11 Athena Widget implementation of pick, from "The Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike. It displays its arguments in a window, lets you select any of them with the mouse and/or shell style pattern, then outputs the selected ones (on standard output) and exits when a command button is hit. To build xpick say: xmkmf make depend make then XFILESEARCHPATH=Xpick.ad ./xpick * or (setenv XFILESEARCHPATH Xpick.ad; ./xpick *) to try it out, and if you're happy with it: make install I've included a shell script 'xapply' to show how you can use xpick as a "wrapper" around Unix commands. xapply applies an arbitrary command to files in the current directory selected via xpick. xpick was developed on a Sun-4, SunOS 4.1.1 and has also been built & run on Encore Multimax Umax 4.3 X11R5 DEC microVax Ultrix V2.2-1 X11R5 Apple A/UX X11R5 Thanks to Brian Totty <totty@cs.uiuc.edu> for the Free Widget Foundation Multilist widget (a version of which I have hacked slightly), and Byron Rakitzis <byron@archone.tamu.edu> for the pattern matching code from his wonderful rc shell. Gerry Tomlinson, June 1993 (gerry.tomlinson@newcastle.ac.uk)
