BenchTrash 1.80

Global trashcan for WB, eject support

Short:        Global trashcan for WB, eject support
Author:       thomas.richter@alumni.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Uploader:     thomas richter alumni tu-berlin de (Thomas Richter)
Type:         util/wb
Version:      1.80
Requires:     3.9 recommended
Architecture: m68k-amigaos >= 2.0.4

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BenchTrash is a MAC-like implementation of a global workbench trashcan.
Ejection of dropped devices is supported, but requires an additional program
(e.g. "Park", included in this distribution). BenchTrash is very compact
and written in 100% assembly language, plus it's 100% free.


New in version 1.75:

Release 1.73 was the last official release, back then copyrighted by Amiga
and included in Os 3.9. By contract, copyright returned to me after two
years, hence this version is again a freeware release distributed under my
original licence.

As far as the features are concerned, nothing changed. This release only
fixes a bug for drawing the trashcan icon which did not set the condition
codes correctly when returning from the image drawer of intuition.



New in version 1.76:

The reaction-based user interface did not honor the CENTER tooltype/command
line argument due to an oversight. This release fixes this glitch.

Otherwise, nothing else changed.



New in version 1.76.1:

This version only fixed the installer script that tried to pick the
NewIcons from the wrong position. It now refers to the "Icons" directory
as it should.


New in version 1.76.2:

This release only re-packages the 1.76.1 version, hopefully correctly
this time.


New in version 1.76.3:

This release only re-packages the 1.76.2 version, hopefully correctly
this time.


New in version 1.77:

The %N pattern of the EJECT tooltype expands now to the volume name in
case the icon matches a handler that does not run on a physical
device. This allows BenchTrash to shut down handlers such as those
implemented by Lha.


New in version 1.80:

BenchTrash tries now to preserve links when moving objects to other
volumes. If the global trashcan is on the same volume as the object(s)
to be deleted, then objects are only moved, not copied. The available
stack determines now the maximal recursion depth. The stack size of
the BenchTrash supervisor is now inherited from the started process,
and thus can be set by the stack size of the BenchTrash
icon. Softlinks and links to directories are no longer copied if the
global trashcan directory is on another volume. They are just deleted.
The requester for the global trashcan directory had the wrong title
which was not localized correctly. Now a gadtools version of
BenchTrash is included as well if you do not want to use
Boopsis/Reaction. It is otherwise identical. The version number was
not fully updated throughout all texts. BenchTrash has now been
streamlined and optimized a bit, making the binary shorter, though
otherwise functionally identical.

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Thomas,	
	September 2026