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Article #10691Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1988 14:01
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1988 14:01
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In article <9910@gryphon.COM>, keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) writes:
> Your approach requires a person's startup-sequence chain to somewhere
> be modified *specifically for each manufacturer* in addition to adding
> the execute files for each:
> if exists s:ea_startup
> execute s:ea_startup
> endif
..
You don't need to be so baroque. Try this:
list >ram:manufacturers_startup s:#?_startup lformat "execute %s%s"
execute ram:manufacturers_startup
Or just have each program, when it's run for the first time each session,
run a quick little CLI session:
if(access("ram:my-startup-sequence") == FAIL) {
copyfile("s:my-startup-sequence", "ram:my-startup-sequence");
Execute(
"Newcli \"CON:0/0/640/200/Installing Me\" from ram:my-startup-sequence",
NilFH, NilFH);
}
Or even have it use s:my-init-file directly, like Browser, DTerm, WKeys,
and even the new Amiga Shell do.
--
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness Message-ID: <3143@sugar.uu.net> Date: 23 Dec 88 14:01:25 GMT References: <9407@gryphon.COM> <1410010@hpcvca.HP.COM> <9910@gryphon.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 29