Xref: utzoo comp.unix.aux:3262 comp.sys.mac.system:2244 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven!adm!cmcl2!panix!alexis From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Desktop Manager and A/UX 2.0 Message-ID: <1990Nov16.112917.18978@panix.uucp> Date: 16 Nov 90 11:29:17 GMT References: <1990Nov14.201445.1345@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us> Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY Lines: 39 (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >In comp.unix.aux, article <1990Nov14.201445.1345@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us>, > brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us (Brian S. Schang) writes: >< Has anyone tried using the Desktop Manager with A/UX 2.0? If so, >< were the results favorable? >< >Mixed. > >Yes, DTM works fine under A/UX. It is even included automatically, but only >for the "/" disk(s), and you'll have to load DTM a second time (by placing >the INIT into your System Folder) to use it for the MacOS side too. > >The problem is that the Desktop Manager doesn't tolerate crashes very well. >It seems that the A/UX Startup program doesn't close the Desktop manager >files (there's a HFSDispatch selector for this), so you tend to lose some >icons and/or file type to application mappings. >(It also doesn't close the old-style desktop file, but that's usually not a >problem.) I don't follow you. It doesn't close it? When you start A/UX? So what? (Unless you've installed a new file w/bundle in that MacOS session, relatively recently, I don't see what this would have to do with anything.) >I am using the Desktop Manager under A/UX. Your mileage may vary. I am not. But just because I don't use the MacOS stuff all that much when I'm in A/UX, and when I do it's often touching only the Unix volume. If my habits were different, I'd have no hesitation about doing it. One of the ways you can make life a little easier if you _don't_ run DTM with A/UX is to rebuild your desktop every other month _without_ DTM under MacOS. This will create a fairly reasonable desktop for you under A/UX... Of course one or two things may get lost between the cracks, but this is only marginally annoying, not fatal. --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis