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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
Message-ID: <8812100429.AA08669@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 88 04:29:27 GMT
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:>2. chase startup script chains looking for something typical and adding
:>in the commands automatically after ultra-warning operator?
:
I write:
:	Not possible.  For example, my s:startup-sequence on my HD
:executes another startup-sequence conditionaly and then starts a shell
:which does most of the system init.  It is not possible to write an

	Well, I should amend that.  If there were yet another standard
script file for assigns then it would be extremely easy to write an
install program for it.  So if all the companies got together, or
commodore specified a specific file name (s:startup-assigns ?) that will
be executed and that contained *nothing* except assign commands, then
the user need only stick an 'execute s:startup-assigns' in the 
appropriate place in his startup sequence.

	Commercial software install programs would then always add their
assigns only to this file, and can also check to make sure they aren't
adding it twice (i.e. you install the program several times in
frustration).

				-Matt