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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Help with Desk Accessories: accessory loaders.
Message-ID: <679@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Nov-86 09:13:48 EST
Article-I.D.: imagen.679
Posted: Sun Nov  2 09:13:48 1986
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References: <1745@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> <699@chinet.UUCP> <448@atari.UUcp>
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> In article <699@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) writes:
> > In article <1745@alvin.mcnc.UUCP> ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan) writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > [For the great stone-eating mons..  ]
> > >
> > >....Is there some
> > >way of putting a *desk acc. loader* into my AUTO folder, which would
> > >load the accessories?  
> > 
> > I believe that I have a file that will do that.  As soon as I verify
> > that the critter runs(I have never ran it before) I will post it.
> 
> It seems unlikely that the critter will run, since the desktop
> and AES have not been initialized at the time \AUTO folder
> execution takes place.  Doing an AES call from an AUTO program
> will likely result in a crash ->thud<- and an endless cycle of
> reboots.  Life is like that sometimes.
> -- 
> 
> -Landon Dyer, Atari Corp.		        {sun,lll-lcc,imagen}!atari!dyer

sorry to disagree landon but if the program in question is acc_load
that was posted to the net awhile ago, it works just fine allowing
the user to even select which .acc are to be loaded
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