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From: pds@quintus.uucp (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
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Date: 10 Dec 88 00:46:20 GMT
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In article <9407@gryphon.COM> keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) wonders
how to make installation easier.  In particular, how can an automated
procedure add assignments to your startup-sequence.

Here's an approach that requires Commodore to do something, but
something VERY simple.  Change the standard startup-sequence to include
something like:

EXECUTE S:ASSIGNS

somewhere early on, and move all the standard assigns to S:ASSIGNS.
Then installation scripts can just append to S:ASSIGNS.  Of course,
experienced startup-sequence hackers will move things all around, and
may even delete the EXECUTE S:ASSIGNS line, but they can do the
installations themselves.
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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