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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mymenu, ET and SF!
Message-ID: <1660@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 24 Oct 89 10:26:47 GMT
References: <2259@nigel.udel.EDU> <7289@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <20763@usc.edu>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.UUCP (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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| >In article <2259@nigel.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Bin, Lehigh and very Amiga.) writes:
| ||Then when I exit Atalk the mymenu menus disappear.  If I type mymenu it
| ||says Updating menus --- ok.

| In article <7289@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> djohnson@beowulf.UCSD.EDU (Darin Johnson) writes:
| |I don't have ATalk, so I can't tell what it is doing, but I did write
| |MyMenu.  It looks suspiciously like Workbench is getting a NEWPREFS(?)
| |message.

In article <20763@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
| A-Talk III calls GetPrefs at loading time (to get parameters such as RTS/CTS,
| Xon-Xoff or no handshake, and to 'save' the current preferences). It also
| calls SetPrefs on exit (to restore WB colors and other saved Prefs params).

How about a compromise between the two.  Start up A-Talk using an IconX
script or a S: script.  Just call mymenu after done with A-Talk, and all
should be happy.  Takes no extra effort once the scripts are done.

-- 
Jim Wright
jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu