Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: installing applications
Summary: how robust is it really??
Message-ID: <467@electro.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 89 07:44:38 GMT
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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just wondering:

is it possible to install an accessory as an application in the desktop inf
file??? ie: if you install (say X.ACC) as an application that takes a 
*.C file as input, and you then click on a *.C file, will that accessory
(which should have been loaded at bootup time) then take control???

or am i wishing too much from the good old desktop??

also, what is the limit on a desktop.inf file size. i've been using a test file
that is about 1300 bytes long, and the desktop doesn't seem to mind. does the
aes automatically allocate enough memory for the desktop.inf file size, plus
some extra for additional changes made to the desktop information (ie:
adding more drive icons, installing more applications), or is there a fixed
limit on the size?? is this documented anywhere??

finally, does anyone have any information on the meaning of the cryptic
characters in the desktop.inf file? ie: each line of the .inf file begins with
a '#' and then a letter of the alphabet. what is the complete list of
valid characters that come after the '#'?? i remember seeing something in a
compute st, but i can't remember which one.

thanx
y

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

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