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From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Atari ST Questions
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 11:25:45 EDT
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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?

a) Select the application, install the application, save the desktop.
b) It is saved on your system disk's resource file.
c) It means that GEM is informed about the run time requirements for
this particular program, i.e., is it a GEM application, or is it A "TOS"
application. If it is a TOS application, and you select TOS- takes parameters,
you can pass arguements to the program. If you save the desktop after
installing an application, all of this data is stored in a resource file.

> 2) Is there a way to set up a disk, so that you can boot up to TOS i
>	(or CPM68k), rather than having to re-boot from GEM? A lot of us would 
>   rather work with command lines rather than the mouse, and don't want to 
>   keep swapping floppies in order to get back to GEM.

Not that I know of. It would be nice though.
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						Mark Roddy
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