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From: csc21824@unsvax.UUCP (Jay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
Message-ID: <410@unsvax.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 88 21:38:18 GMT
References: <9407@gryphon.COM> <1410010@hpcvca.HP.COM> <9910@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: csc21824@unsvax.uucp (Jay)
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Center
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> Your approach requires a person's startup-sequence chain to somewhere
> be modified *specifically for each manufacturer* in addition to adding
> the execute files for each:
> 
> if exists s:ea_startup
> execute s:ea_startup
> endif
> if exists s:aegis_startup
> execute s:aegis_startup
> endif
> if exists s:newtek_startup
> execute s:newtek_startup
> endif
> etc.

Nope, just keep them all in the same directory, then do this

list >ram:startfiles S:configscripts LFORMAT="Execute %S%S"
execute ram:startfiles

and all those scripts get executed.  This assumes WB1.3, but I think that
will be a safe assumption in the future.
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	This space for Rent		     Eric J. Schwertfeger
					     CIS  [72657,1166]
					or   csc21824%unsvax.uns.edu
Disclaimer:These are just the mad ramblings of a man forced to use
	   vi once too often, and as such, should be ignored.