Atari ST Questions

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3 total messages Started by William S. Sinclair Tue, 27 Aug 1985 19:14

#983

Author: William S. Sinclair
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1985 19:14

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This seems to be asked by a lot of people, so I am posting it here for
general interest. There are two questions:
 
1) Is there a way to set up an application so that it is ALWAYS installed?
   When you install a program, where is that information saved?
   What does it mean to install an application? What actually
   goes on?
 
2) Is there a way to set up a disk, so that you can boot up to TOS (or CPM68k),
   rather than having to re-boot from GEM? A lot of us would rather work with
   command lines rather than the mouse, and don't want to keep swapping floppies
   in order to get back to GEM.

 
                                      Bill Sinclair 213/647-1753

Re: Atari ST Questions

#986

Author: Dave Clemans
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1985 06:58

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> 1) Is there a way to set up an application so that it is ALWAYS installed?
>    When you install a program, where is that information saved?
>    What does it mean to install an application? What actually
>    goes on?
Saving your desktop (it's an entry in the options menu) make the installation
of an application permanent.  It works by updating (and if necessary creating)
the file "desktop.inf" which the system checks on a reboot.
The purpose of installing an application is to record some information about
the type of a program (so that you can use just one filename extenstion for
all executables) and to make a link between a file and the program that
handles those files so that you can have the program start up automatically
by double clicking on the file icon.

dgc

Re: Atari ST Questions

#991

Author: Mark Roddy
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1985 15:25

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>  
> 1) Is there a way to set up an application so that it is ALWAYS installed?
>    When you install a program, where is that information saved?
>    What does it mean to install an application? What actually
>    goes on?

a) Select the application, install the application, save the desktop.
b) It is saved on your system disk's resource file.
c) It means that GEM is informed about the run time requirements for
this particular program, i.e., is it a GEM application, or is it A "TOS"
application. If it is a TOS application, and you select TOS- takes parameters,
you can pass arguements to the program. If you save the desktop after
installing an application, all of this data is stored in a resource file.

> 2) Is there a way to set up a disk, so that you can boot up to TOS i
>	(or CPM68k), rather than having to re-boot from GEM? A lot of us would 
>   rather work with command lines rather than the mouse, and don't want to 
>   keep swapping floppies in order to get back to GEM.

Not that I know of. It would be nice though.
-- 
						Mark Roddy
						Net working,
						Just reading the news.

					(harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)

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