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From: cs4e3bb@maccs.UUCP (Ray Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Desktop & Dos Problems
Message-ID: <373@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 20:10:16 EST
Article-I.D.: maccs.373
Posted: Thu Jan 15 20:10:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Jan-87 06:38:21 EST
Reply-To: cs4e3bb@maccs.UUCP (Ray Wong)
Organization: DCSS, McMaster University
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      I have a few questions regarding GEM on the Atari that I hope 
someone on this net may be able to answer. (i.e. An urgent appeal for
help )


   1)   Normally when we wish to write to the screen with VDI, we
        are told that the physical workstation has already been opened
        by the DESKTOP application, so we must open a virtual workstation
        instead.
        What I wanted to know is this, a boot time, when the AUTO folder
        is running, VDI and AES, are not initialized, if I wanted to
        create an application program which uses VDI and AES, can I
        initialize them myself by issuing an open physicalworkstation
        and applinit() functions???

   2)   My second question deals with the DOS, when you format a disk
        using the DESKTOP format, is a boot sector created???
        If it is, I can't seem to find it!!! 
        The Abacus Books say it should be at side 0, sector 1, track0
        but when I use a sector editor, that sector certainly does
        not look like what the boot sector should be!!

	Any help on the above questions would be greatly appreciated!!

                          ====> Ray Wong <====