HFP 1.0
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History:
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As a betatester of HippoPlayer, an ultimate module player for any Amiga
computer, I've had long talks and mails to K-P Koljonen - author of Hippo.

He became somehow lazy (not!) => older & much clever ;)

Something had to be done and finally I've put all my REXX knowledge
into a short script, then put in more lines, and more lines...

Now it's quite big (5kB), more than the icon by Jofa/vECTORs
(BTW:ultimate graphician - I love his paintings!) - the work took
whole 2 days and a bit more days to test it drastically for errors.


Features:
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This player loads Hippo if it's not loaded already.

Plays commandline parameter (just to allow Filemaster/DOPUS handling)
or plays its "musical slideshow". All the variables that can be set
are in the script HEADER - modify the values freely, time in seconds.

Player terminates on CTRL-C (if ran by "rx", I prefer "rxnil" without
any output), when the Hippo is STOPPED by either STOP, EJECT, CLOSEGADGET
or if the script is restarted (sets CLIP variable to let the older
script know it's time to "go home" ;))

Player can play multimodules in random order (1st song first, then
the rest in random order, timeout if too long on the starting track) -
I couldn't find better solution on this (but I think it's much better
than that one implemented in Hippo). There may be some ugly "bugs" or
"features" they someone may not like - please contact me and we can
find a solution!

Bugs:
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NONE, but I couldn't get the "rexxsupport.library" working together with
this script - hints, helpers anywhere?


This player requires:
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* HippoPlayer at least v2.23
* NO automatic start-up program in Hippo
* at least one Hippo program

* play mode "module repeatedly"
* display mode "Time/duration, len/pos"

* working AREXX environment ;)


Thanx:
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         K-P Koljonen for Hippo - hope you like my script ;)

   (BTW: you should implement the features of the script in Hippo,
            dude, this is just a stupid workaround! :^))


                          signed off Eli0t

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO     CRC       STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 1590    5943  26.8% -lh5- 4a5c Mar 23  1980 hip-rexx/hip
[generic]                  546    5003  10.9% -lh5- 694d Mar 17  1980 hip-rexx/hip.info
[generic]                 1225    2291  53.5% -lh5- 0215 Mar 19  1980 hip-rexx/hip.readme
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 Total         3 files    3361   13237  25.4%            Jul 10  1996