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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga novice needs help...
- Date: 28 Feb 96 13:59:40 +0000
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- Hi, Ronald J. Hall , on 24-Feb-96 11:43:56 you scribbled....
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- > Also, I found a little program called ARQ on one of Amiga Formats cover
- > disks...(it adds really neat animated requestors) You can get it to run
- > by double-clicking on it, which brings up the one-line shell and hitting
- > return. It says in the docs that you can run it automatically, but how?
- > I tried putting it in the WBStartup drawer-no go. I tried creating a
- > user-startup file to run it, but that wouldn't work either...I tried
- >
- > arq
- > run arq
- > execute arq
- > s:run arq
- > s:execute arq
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- run >nil: arq
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- > but everytime it does run but with an output window that "hangs" and it
- > won't continue on with the rest of the boot process..
- "run" makes it run in the background...
- ">nil:" stops it trying to output to the window
-
- > And finally, about assigns...I put BattleChess on my HD3: partition.
- > What kind of an assign would I have to make to get it to run from there
- > and not look to df0: ??
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- assign df0: dismount
- assign df0: HD3:battlechessdir
-
- but I'm guessing there.....
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- Mike
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