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Re: Help with Desk Accessories: accessory loaders.

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From: Landon Dyer
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1986 03:58
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In article <699@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) writes:
> In article <1745@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
> >
> >
> > [For the great stone-eating mons..  ]
> >
> >....Is there some
> >way of putting a *desk acc. loader* into my AUTO folder, which would
> >load the accessories?  
> 
> I believe that I have a file that will do that.  As soon as I verify
> that the critter runs(I have never ran it before) I will post it.

It seems unlikely that the critter will run, since the desktop
and AES have not been initialized at the time \AUTO folder
execution takes place.  Doing an AES call from an AUTO program
will likely result in a crash ->thud<- and an endless cycle of
reboots.  Life is like that sometimes.
-- 

-Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		        {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer

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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
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Subject: Re: Help with Desk Accessories: accessory loaders.
Message-ID: <448@atari.UUcp>
Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 22:58:58 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.448
Posted: Fri Oct 31 22:58:58 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 01:14:07 EST
References: <1745@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> <699@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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Keywords: desk accesories, loaders