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DragNet
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DragNet is a NEXTSTEP utility that provides drag and drop access to
scripts written in perl and popular shells such as sh and csh.
Scripts are created in a special window, that when miniaturized,
creates a drop well on the Workspace Manager's desktop.   When files
are dragged from the Workspace Manager, or any other application that
sources file names as drag events, and subsequently dropped on a
DragNet script icon, that script is executed with the dropped file
names as arguments.

DragNet manages the spawning of separate processes for each invocation
of a script and ensures that multiple instances of a single script are
not executed.  Script output (stdout and stderr) is captured to a Log
panel within DragNet and, if you want, to syslogd.  A Processes panel
provides for the monitoring and control of scripts which are
executing, or queued for execution.


These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.