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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: ok, now how do I make a backgrounder for GS/OS?
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Date: 30 Sep 89 03:28:43 GMT
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Muchas Gracias, Dave, but where can I get an NDA, say, that implements this?
Come to think of it, does the system (5.0.1) recognize something like a file
in system.setup called deskpicture (or something like that) or do I have to
write something myself?

To get this running, I would have to:
     get a 32006 byte handle
     read in the file
     call Message Center w/ type 2
     and exit.

now I doubt a P8 application (which is all I am confident about being able to
write right now) can do the handle allocation part, or does the P8 loader just
allocate all of banks 0-1 (makes sense I guess)? In any case the best solution
is an NDA that lets one select a new picture and optionally save it back onto
the boot disk (assume automatic installation on bootup), so I get back to the
original question:

Is there anywhere I can get an NDA to do this?

Thanks in advance from anybody with the info. If nobody knows of one I will be
learning NDA programming soon anyway so my first project will be such an NDA to
be released as FreeWare.

Mural, by the way, has no ____Ware marking on it, so I am treating it as Free
in the abscence of evidence to the contrary. If anyone would like, I will
run it through ShrinkIt and Binscii and post.

Todd P Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
toddpw @ CITROMEO (bitnet)