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From: hvaalde@cs.vu.nl (Aalderen van Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: TOS or GEM ??
Message-ID: <7208@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 1 Aug 90 09:31:12 GMT
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ripley@tubopal.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert) writes:

>[Stefan asked how to know whether a program was started from a TOS-only
>shell...]
>I didn't try it, but I think this will make applinit return a failure.
>On which occasions can it fail anyway (except this one)?

Every non AUTO folder program can call appl_init() succesfully,
The only way to find out if the program was lauched from a TOS-only shell
(I guess you mean command line shell), is to check the parent basepage
you can find the through the system variable that points to the
OS-header (can't remeber the name, and don't know the location by heart)

Tried to send this to stefan but it keeps bouncing


Harold van Aalderen (hvaalde@cs.vu.nl)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam