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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany
Date: Monday, 24 Jun 1991 11:27:08 MES
From: <ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91175.112708ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: requirements to use VDI
References: <1991Jun19.112606.20682@convex.com>
 <1991Jun19.161901.1808@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
 <1991Jun20.124043.8248@imada.ou.dk> <10278@star.cs.vu.nl>

In article <10278@star.cs.vu.nl>, hvaalde@cs.vu.nl (Aalderen van Harold) says:
>
>csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) writes:
>>There are good reasons why TTP programs are meant as non-GEM programs.
>>You shouldn't use VDI or AES calls in a TTP program.
>
>And how should we treat GEM programs that take parameters?
>Only way to get the desktop to ask for parameters is to change the extension
>to TTP
>
(1) Most third-party desktops allow this (well, at least Gemini :-)
(2) The new Atari Desktop allows this (extension GTP - GEM takes parameters)
(3) The GEM application *itself* can prompt the user for a command line.
    where's the problem?

>Harold van Aalderen (hvaalde@cs.vu.nl)
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