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    From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Wed May 13 12:27:23 2020
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    Hi! Is there a GUI for the 2M utility's 2MF format utility? I have a batch file that supplies often-used switches but want extra.
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  • From JJ@jj4public@vfemail.net to comp.os.msdos.misc on Thu May 14 13:08:09 2020
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    On Wed, 13 May 2020 12:27:23 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:
    Hi! Is there a GUI for the 2M utility's 2MF format utility? I have a
    batch file that supplies often-used switches but want extra.

    It's DOS, for Pete's sake. Use TUI, not GUI. GUI is just a waste of
    resources for something which doesn't require graphics. If you meant GUI for Windows, then you're in the wrong newsgroup.
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  • From R.Wieser@address@not.available to comp.os.msdos.misc on Thu May 14 09:33:24 2020
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    Harry,

    Is there a GUI for the 2M utility's 2MF format utility?

    Not that I know of .

    I have a batch file that supplies often-used switches but want extra.

    I would suggest either finding a program which can wrap a GUI - or, as JJ mentioned you probably mean, a TUI - around your commandline program, or
    write such a TUI yourself.

    In the last case, almost any BASIC would do the job.


    But, have you already thought of the possibility of adding your own
    switch(es) to the batch file ? One simple batch argument can cause the 2MF to be called with a complex set of switches (which you do not want to
    remember or type in every time).

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser


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  • From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Thu May 14 04:06:40 2020
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    I meant TUI. I can create my own TUI using VBDOS. I just wanted to know if there is already one. :)
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  • From JJ@jj4public@vfemail.net to comp.os.msdos.misc on Fri May 15 10:12:43 2020
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.msdos.misc

    On Thu, 14 May 2020 04:06:40 -0700 (PDT), Harry Potter wrote:
    I meant TUI. I can create my own TUI using VBDOS. I just wanted to know
    if there is already one. :)

    If you think making TUI frontend using VBDOS is still too tedious, I'd
    suggest using script based TUI such as:

    - 4DOS powered batch file. No need to use 4DOS to replace COMMAND.COM. Use
    it only as (extended) interpreter.

    - Batch file with the help of Norton Utilities' BE (Batch Enhancer) or other TUI helper tools.

    - Batch file with ANSI escape codes (from ANSI.SYS).

    There are likely several tools exist already for TUI. e.g. like what most
    BBS server programs can do, but they may lack flexibility if compared with using 4DOS.
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  • From Robert Riebisch@Robert.Riebisch@arcor.de to comp.os.msdos.misc on Fri May 15 14:46:23 2020
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    Harry Potter wrote:

    Hi! Is there a GUI for the 2M utility's 2MF format utility? I have a batch file that supplies often-used switches but want extra.

    There is 2MF Shell. Freeware made in 1995 by Grant Botes.

    v1.2: ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/utildisk/2mutls1b.zip
    v1.1: http://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/diskutil/2mfshl11.zip

    Never used it, but at least it starts on my Windows XP laptop. ;-)

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    Robert Riebisch
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  • From Harry Potter@rose.joseph12@yahoo.com to comp.os.msdos.misc on Fri May 15 07:15:13 2020
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    Thank you. I was willing to create a front-end, though, because VBDOS supports a TUI with dialog boxes. :)
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