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From: john@viper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Saving the desktop
Message-ID: <534@viper.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Feb-87 13:49:37 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.534
Posted: Sun Feb 15 13:49:37 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Feb-87 03:47:57 EST
References: <8702131809.AA09685@inria.inria.fr>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In <8702131809.AA09685@inria.inria.fr> didier@seismo.CSS.GOV@lasso.UUCP writes:
 >
 > 
 >In article <8702121512.AA29066@marlin.ARPA> you write:
 >>The desktop.inf should be save to the drive that is currently active in the
 >>GEM Windows.  Try saving the Desktop with only the A drive active.
 >>-- 
 >> dobbs@marlin.nosc.mil         "An adventure is the result of bad
 >>--Lynn                         planning." Admiral Richard E. Byrd
 >
 > What I reported above was with ramdisk C closed and drive A open and active
 >on the desktop (desktop.inf goes in C when saved!). 

 >
 >Didier Giralt                             LAAS-CNRS
 >                                          7 av du Colonel Roche
 >...!seismo!mcvax!inria!lasso!didier       31077 Toulouse Cedex
 >                                          France

Lynn is correct in one respect only.  I agree that it "should" save the
DESKTOP.INF file to the current top window's directory (or to the root
directory of a click-highlighted drive).  Unfortunatately, this is not
what happens.
  (But then, I also think the default working directory should be
be auto-selected the same way, but that's not how the desktop does things
either....)

  The destop.inf file will be saved on the root directory of the A: drive
-unless- a C: drive exists.  (It doesn't matter what windows point where...)
If a C: drive exists, the A: drive will spin (damn fool thing to mislead
users) and then actualy save the file to the root of C:... >

 >*** The Atari ST: great hardware, lousy software and no upgrades.
 >                   Clean up your act, J.T. !!

 I have to agree in part.  Atari's HW is really nice.  The software is ok
and getting better.  Upgrades do exist for the really old machines and I
hope this will continue...  The customer support in general on the other
hand has some serious problems.  If Atari doesn't start giving better
support to it's -existing- user base, it will die (period!).  Not something I
want to see happen to the source of a really nice machine, but definately
what JT deserves if he keeps biting the users who once beleived in him...
  Word of mouth can make, or break, -any- company.  Jack had better learn
this before the rep becomes more than even he can offset.  It doessn't
really matter how nice the new machines are...in the long run, any people
who get screwed will tell their friends, who will tell their friends, etc.
It hasn't gotten bad yet, but if Atari fails to make -economical- upgrades
available to the previous users or to provide tech information at reasonable
prices for the existing machines.......