Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!str-va!cabr07 From: cabr07@vaxa.strath.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: !ArcFS Message-ID: <1991Jun26.180022.11966@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Date: 26 Jun 91 18:00:22 GMT References: <1991Jun25.101456.2486@kingston.ac.uk> Organization: Strathclyde University Physics Lines: 31 In article <1991Jun25.101456.2486@kingston.ac.uk>, cs_b151@kingston.ac.uk (Jeffries S R) writes: > The very first disc I look at works ok, but on trying the next one > the archive remains closed. This is because if an application has the same > name it does not read the !boot file but assumes it is the same as the last > one. > > So coming back to my original question is there anyway around this with > out having to rename every !ArcFS application on every disc. > > Thanks for any help > > Steve The Arc knows the application has been seen before if a sprite called !application exists in the wimp sprite area. If you want the boot file to be run every time you just need to remove the line IconSprites .!Sprites from the !Boot file, so you won't see a fancy icon for your application but it will run the !Boot file every time it sees the app. Gordon. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |G.N.Sinclair | JANET: G.N.Sinclair@uk.ac.strath.vaxa | |Physics & Applied Phys Dept| BITNET: G.N.Sinclair%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@UKACRL | |Strathclyde University | UUCP: G.N.Sinclair%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@ukc.uucp | |107 Rottenrow |Internet:G.N.Sinclair%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk| |Glasgow G4 0NG, Scotland | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------