Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro.com!ignac
From: ignac@electro.com (Ignac Kolenko)
Subject: Re: passing to PRG (was: Re: requirements to use VDI)
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.175028.29851@electro.com>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
References: <9106211947.AA02697@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <10283@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 17:50:28 GMT

In article <10283@star.cs.vu.nl> hvaalde@cs.vu.nl (Aalderen van Harold) writes:
+AAron@sun.soe.clarkson.edu writes:
+++ And how should we treat GEM programs that take parameters?
+
++Either use a CLI after desktop, a cooler desktop (ie: Gemini!!!), or write
++a .PRG that asks for parameters then runs your program and passes the
++parameters you just entered (sounds like it might be short, quick, weekly
++for Double Click eh?)...
+
+This does not solve the problem, if I buy a commercial program like
+1st word, adimens (exec.prg and init.prg) that accepts parameters
+I would like to be able to give them even from the standard desktop
+So the desktop should provide the oppurtunity to do so.
+I understand that renaming it to .TTP is not the right way. But can't I 
+fool around in the desktop.inf file to make the desktop ask for parameters
+for a GEM program and still startup that program as a GEM application?
+May be use the extension GTP or so?
+


you can install a program like first word as an application accepting
files with *.DOC extenders. Thus, whenever you double click on such
a file, the commandline that is sent to 1st word by the desktop already
has the filename in the commandline. this may not be the most elegant
way of passing a commandline to a gem program, but it is accesable from
the standard desktop. note as well that this method of passing a commandline
only works for passing the name of only a single file, nothing more, nothing
less. DC, where are you????!!!!! :=) :=)



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