DUMMY_PLUGIN(1)

NAME
dummy_plugin

SYNOPSIS
dummy_plugin [X-options] [siod-options] [filename...]

DESCRIPTION
dummy_plugin is used by applications in the Siag Office package to allow applications that were not designed as plugins to be embedded into documents.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

X-options
    See on-line documentation.

SIOD-options
    See on-line documentation.

FILES

$SIAGHOME/plugins/dummy.scm
    is automatically read on startup and contains the configuration necessary to tell dummy_plugin what to do with different types of files.

$HOME/.siag/dummy.scm
    contains optional Scheme code which should be loaded after dummy.scm. This allows the user to override system-wide sttings for the dummy plugin.

SEE ALSO
On-line documentation, which contains more complete information about the invocation and usage.

DIAGNOSTICS
Most error messages come from SIOD and are printed on the bottom line. See SIOD source and documentation for interpretation.

LIMITATIONS
Due to the fact that the "kidnapped" applications do not speak the communications protol for plugins used by the Siag Office suite, there may be no way to do things that would be expected from normal plugins, such as loading and saving files, printing or even terminating gracefully.

BUGS
Handles out of memory conditions ungracefully. And more.

VERSION
The dummy plugin is part of Siag Office by Ulric Eriksson, ulric@siag.nu.

AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Ulric Eriksson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Major parts of this program are written by people other than myself. There is no reason to re-implement stuff that is already freely available. For copyright information and installation instructions, see the various packages. The sources are hacked by Yours Truly to give the programs a uniform look. If you don't approve of that and/or already have the programs installed, there is no need to install my versions. These are not the original versions. If my modifications break anything, complain to me about it, not the original authors. If the original versions work and mine don't, then don't use mine.

SIOD
    The embedded Scheme interpreter is an extremely small interpreter called Siod, which can be used stand-alone or easily integrated into a program as an extension language. Author: George J. Carrette, gjc@delphi.com