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From: toebes@sas.UUCP (John Toebes)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Executing programs from icons
Message-ID: <139@sas.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 08:50:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 30 08:50:07 1986
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Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC
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Summary: Program may be CLI specific

In article <4457@decwrl.DEC.COM>, haden@bisque.dec.com writes:
> I have a got a question on Amiga-Dos.
> How can I execute a program (say xx) from a icon created by the Icon-ed. 
> Xx runs without any problem from CLI. I created an Icon with Icon-ed. It's  
> got the name xx.info. When I double click the Icon, the Amiga crashes.
> It seems I miss a link between the two files xx and xx.info.
> Thanks for the help.
>                               Steven
There could be two problems - one the program does not have a startup that
allows it to run from workbbench (the likely scenario) OR the ICON that you
created is not of the right TOOL type.  What you can do to first figure it out
would be to copy the CLI.INFO icon file (it is a known executable) and rename
it to whatever (xx.info) you want to run - this eliminates any confusion over
the type of tool that IconED thinks you have created (or it wants you to
create).

If this still fails, then the LIKELY problem is that the program is CLI specific
requiring EITHER to be started from CLI and incapable of receiving the startup
packet that WORKBENCH sends it to start going (Likely scenario), OR it has a
dependancy on running from CLI due to calls to Execute() or munging of known
AmigaDOS structures.  For these programs (of which there are a few) I wrote and
posted a utility called ICONEXEC which runs programs in this latter category.
I know it is available on the Fred Fish disks and should also be on the
Software Distillery BBS: (919)-471-6436
                                   -John
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