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From: davecl@orca.UUCP (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Atari ST Questions
Message-ID: <1701@orca.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 02:58:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 02:58:59 1985
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> 1) Is there a way to set up an application so that it is ALWAYS installed?
>    When you install a program, where is that information saved?
>    What does it mean to install an application? What actually
>    goes on?
Saving your desktop (it's an entry in the options menu) make the installation
of an application permanent.  It works by updating (and if necessary creating)
the file "desktop.inf" which the system checks on a reboot.
The purpose of installing an application is to record some information about
the type of a program (so that you can use just one filename extenstion for
all executables) and to make a link between a file and the program that
handles those files so that you can have the program start up automatically
by double clicking on the file icon.

dgc