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From: braner@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: questions about the desktop
Message-ID: <209@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 00:21:10 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.209
Posted: Thu Feb 19 00:21:10 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 04:13:48 EST
Reply-To: braner@batcomputer.UUCP (braner)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: faulty desktop.inf causes intermittent rebooting?

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Old question:
Computers are supposed to behave the same way when running the same
program over again.  Why is it then that many times, but unpredictably,
my ST aborts the booting process and reboots, usually _after_ all the
AUTO folder programs have run their course but before the desktop appears?

New question:
On disks that boot with ETERNAL and AUTODISK, I save a DESKTOP.INF that
opens a window on the RAMdisk rather than the floppy.  Can anybody tell me
why I get some wierd characters between the two '@'s on the line that says:

	#M 07 00 00 FF D RAM DISK@ `^^^A@ 

(where by ^^ I mean the ASCII code $1E, and by ^A I mean the code $01)
in the original DESKTOP.INF as saved by the desktop program?

(- I fixed up the line to say:

	#M 07 00 00 FF D RAM DISK@ @ 

and it works just fine!)

The new question may or may not be related to the old question, but I have
noticed no aborted boot-ups on that disk since I fixed that line!  The
desktop program is, after all, what is supposed to run next after the AUTO
folder contents, and I would guess that the desktop program reads DESKTOP.INF
before it displays the desktop image!

- Moshe Braner