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- From: dgc3@ellis.uchicago.edu (milovan djilas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Startup-Sequence (was Re: AppMenu applications)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.000224.27529@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 00:02:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug29.180844.13754@head-cfa.harvard.edu> dj@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Diab Jerius) writes:
- >But! There's the rub! one cannot start ParM in the OS2.0 approved fashion,
- >namely in s:user-startup or in WBStartup. one must wait until after
- >LoadWB which means altering s:startup-sequence. granted, that's not
- >too terribly difficult, but the whole point of user-startup was to avoid
- >that. i get around it by backgrounding a job (from user-startup) which
- >waits 20 seconds and starts up ParM. inelegant, granted, but i don't
- >have to worry about mucking about with s:startup-sequence.
-
- The default s:startup-sequence has never, under any OS
- version/revision, been something I wanted to keep. (It's too
- (nastily) standard for taste.) I've never heard that not altering the
- s-s, but only the user-startup, is the "OS2.0-approved" way of
- changing a startup, but it's more baloney if it is. Sounds like
- you're going out of your way to avoid doing something that's perfectly
- acceptable. The only part of startup-sequence you shouldn't play with
- (unless you know precisely what you're doing) is the stuff before
- IPrefs and the first conceivable screen output -- you can fix yourself
- up so that you never get your default prefs that way, if you're not
- careful. Otherwise, there's nothing sacred about the s-s. To me, u-s
- is just a way of modularizing your startup. (I actually execute about
- 6 scripts in turn before my boot shell quits and gives me the Csh.)
-
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