Read_files (the .ace file parser)

Menu items:

• Quit: quits the window.
• Help: brings up this help.
• Print: You could print the window's content (if you wanted to...)

Buttons

• Open File: allows you to choose any file with ending .ace. It opens up a File Chooser window. Double click a file to parse it or use the keyboard to edit the name of the directory. You get those files of the directory ending with .ace or the content of acemenu.wrm if such a file exists in that directory (useful for automatic redirection to subdirectories).
• Read all (hit key F4 to break in): Reads the whole file or until you type F4 to interrupt.
• Read one item: Reads the next object, i.e. until the next empty line.
• Read one line: Reads just a single line, usually the value of a tag
• Skip to next item: skips to the next object.

last edited: July 1994