Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Re: TT desktop & prices Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 90 18:40:28 GMT References: <7739@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> <2295@atari.UUCP> <1990Sep14.140529.1831@chinet.chi.il.us> Lines: 35 [In article <1990Sep14.140529.1831@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes ... ] > In article <2295@atari.UUCP> mui@atari.UUCP (Derek Mui) writes: >>- there's a new and fast GDOS >> >>Here are additional features that Tomas Felner missed: >> >>- Support GEM takee parameter ( GTP ) type. > > My understanding is that existing compilers don't support passing parameters > to GEM applications. Am I mistaken? Is this going to be supported somehow? > > Steve J. Some may not support parameters. Others do. Sozobon (dLibs with GEMFAST or GEMQ) allows parameters -- there is no separate GEM startup module. There are existing GEM application that take args; I think First Word is one of them. I would like to see a Desktop that allowed me to drag a data file to a program icon. That would let me install my own print output formatter or communications program on the Desktop as if it were a device. I believe the IXI desktop for Unix works that way -- perhaps others do, too. As an aside -- I'd like to thank Derek for posting the info on the TT Desktop. With the TT finally hitting the dealers, and the recent drops in chip costs, things are really brightening up. I stopped by the local Atari dealer the other day and was pleased to see 4-megabyte STs selling for $895 or so (sans monitor). Add Pagestream (running off a RAMdisk) and a Deskjet and you have a very nice little desktop publisher. -- Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota (moving soon to Marine on St. Croix) steve@thelake.mn.org plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve