Adding External Tools

It is possible to call up any external program you like from within AnyJ. Tools defined here appear in PopupMenus in the "Tools" submenu. Some of the possibilities are integration of an external CersionControl system such as RCS, CVS, or SourceSave. Note that usually some configurationm work needs to be done to the external Version Control System (especially SourceSafe, RCS) in order to let it work with Anyj properly.

Note that AnyJ looks for a tool named "CHECKOUT" each time you try to edit a read-only file. If a tool named "CHECKOUT" is found, it is executed automatically.

How to add a tool: The values of the "variables" are context dependent: