Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS bugs. Disk related.
Message-ID: <460@electro.UUCP>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:00:23 GMT
References: <763@stag.UUCP> <1426@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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while we're on the subject of TOS bugs, here's a couple that i find peculiar:

when you install an application on the desktop (you know, click on a program,
go to the menu entry for install application, type in the extender for the
program and click install), and then click on a file with the correct 
extender for that application, the desktop seems to stick in a carraige 
return into the commandline for that application.

ie: the commandline buffer in the base page will contain the length byte,
the the filename clicked on, and then a carraige return before the null
termination byte. the carraige return does not appear when you run the 
program from the numerous commandline shells in existence.

is this something that is always gonna be there, or is it a bug in the
original TOS roms?? TOS 1.4 fix/change it???

also, say you were in a couple of subdirectories deep on a drive, and click
on a file with the correct extender for that application. what seems to 
happen now is that the desktop will do a pexec load call to load the program
into memory, change directory back to the directory containing the file you
clicked on, and do a pexec go call. is this a correct assumption??
(this is based upon the fact that only the filename appears in the commandline
in the basepage, NOT the complete path to the filename!!) if it is true,
will this mannerism change in the future?? it is a nice feature if it is true!

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Ignac A. Kolenko (The Ig)          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      

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