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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GEMSTART.ASM
Message-ID: <759@atari.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 15:59:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: atari.759
Posted: Mon Jun 15 15:59:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 05:34:23 EDT
References: <474@its63b.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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in article <474@its63b.ed.ac.uk>, csan@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Andie) says:
> 
> One of the ST magazines I read ( I think is was Atari ST user ) is crying out
> for the GEMSTART assembler program which was posted months ago to start a GEM
> application from the AUTO folder.

I want to forestall any confusion, here...  The only file *I* know of
called GEMSTART is the C runtime startup code which is the first file
in your link statement when you use Alcyon C.  I wrote a new and improved
version of this shortly after I came to Atari.  This file does have something
to do with GEM applications (there are binding counts, for one thing)
but not much, and certainly nothing to do with starting GEM applications
from the Auto folder.

If there is a program which does this, I would be interested to hear 
about it, but I would also like to encourage a NAME CHANGE.  To me,
and to a lot of Alcyon C users (this is the C with the Development Package),
GEMSTART means "Startup code for GEMDOS."  What about STARTGEM?

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