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From: jeroen@pluto.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: How am I called? Why O Why...
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Date: 5 Feb 91 13:43:07 GMT
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Reply-To: jeroen@pluto.phil.ruu.nl (Jeroen Scheerder)
Organization: Logic section, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht
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Hi,

I have trouble with a routine posted on the net about a year ago.
The routine *should* distinguish between calls of a program from
the desktop, calls from another shell and from the auto folder.

Here's the routine (_BasPag is a global var pointing to the basepage
of the program):

#define	FROM_AUTO	1
#define	FROM_DESKTOP	2
#define	FROM_SHELL	3

#include <tos.h>

int HowStarted(void)
{
	BASPAG *p = _BasPag;
	register int n = 0;

	p = p->p_parent;
	if((((long) (p->p_tbase)) & 0x800000L) == 0L)
		return(FROM_SHELL);
	while((p = p->p_parent) != 0L)
		++n;
	return((n == 1) ? FROM_AUTO : ((n == 2) ? FROM_DESKTOP : FROM_SHELL));
}

void main(void)
{
	switch(HowStarted())
	{
		case	FROM_AUTO:		Cconws("Auto!");
								break;
		case	FROM_DESKTOP:	Cconws("Desktop!");
								break;
		case	FROM_SHELL:		Cconws("Shell!");
	}
}

The problem is: from the auto folder it writes "Auto!", from a shell
it writes "Shell!" and from the desktop it writes... "Shell!".

Does anyone spot the bug in the source? Please mail me.

Thanx in advance, J.