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what is required to start an accessory?

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From: Frank K Carver
Date: Thu, 22 May 1986 17:04
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Hi,

As an owner of Lattice C, I am rather annoyed that I can't write desk
accessories. There is no provision for anything other than a standard 
application startup. What I would really like from the net is some
details of what the ST actually requires when starting an application,
or an accessory, or any other type of program it might support.

I have the First Publishing/Abacus books 'Atari ST internals' and 'GEM
on the atari ST' and they are blatantly developers-pack books. Even for
the assembler-code examples, they say 'and be sure to include your
startup files'. What do these files contain? Is there any chance of
some public-domain versions? Are there any books that explain details
like this?

As far as I am aware, you can't get documentation like this at all
without the developers pack - please prove me wrong!

As usual, any help, pointers etc appreciated. Mail brightens my whole
day.

Cheers,
Frank.
-- 
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Subject: what is required to start an accessory?
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Date: Thu, 22-May-86 13:04:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 13:04:40 1986
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