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     The problem I see in this discussion of s:Startup-Assigns is I don't
want the assignments hanging around indefinitely.  For one thing, another
application might use the same logical device name.  So when I start an
application that requires assignments I execute a little script file that
does the assignments.  For the Lattice C compiler, for example, I execute
StartLC.  StartLC does several assigns (assign LC: Lattice_C_5.0.1/C,
assign QUAD: RAM:, assign INCLUDE: Lattice_C_5.0.2:lib, etc.)  When I'm
through with that application I execute another script file called EndLC
which deletes those logical device assignments (assign LC:, assign
INCLUDE:, assign QUAD:, etc.).  That restores my environment to its
pre-StartLC condition.  Now that I have IconX in WB1.3 I can execute those
files from the Workbench.

     Of course, the foregoing doesn't solve the problem of how to oopy an
application to your hard disk and have the assign statements in the script
files changed automatically.  But I guess you could write a script file
that would copy all the application's files to a directory name specified
as a parameter.  Then it could write a StartApplication script file using
that same directory.

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