Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!um-math!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: (was Re: PC GEM) Message-ID: <767@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 9 Aug 89 01:57:18 GMT References: <8907181313.AA07523@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 22 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!hyc In article <8907181313.AA07523@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> 01659@AECLCR.BITNET (Greg Csullog) writes: %the ICON. In a business environment, this feature is indispensible. Second, %in the DOS environment, I set up batch files like % % D: This batch file is called WP.BAT and I installed % CD:\WORDPROC the ICON for it in the GEMAPPS folder (program % WP %1 ICONs have a variety of forms, I chose the % CD\ typewriter ICON for this batch file). All the % C: program ICONs are in the GEMAPPS folder so I % HELP can launch all apps from one spot. This is GREAT. You can get pretty much the same effect with NeoDesk. You can install the icon for a program anywhere on the desktop, as opposed to just dragging it around to another folder. NeoDesk remembers the pathname to where the program actually resides, and will set the default directory there when you click on the icon. Very handy, and it lets you keep all files associated with a single program in the same folder, which is nice when it's time to upgrade... (I'm using 2.0x something or other, not quite the latest, but pretty fun. And no relation to the authors or their company...) -- -=- PrayerMail: Send 100Mbits to holyghost@father.son[127.0.0.1] and You Too can have a Personal Electronic Relationship with God!