OSLib 6.70 released

[Erik Groenhuis]

On 4 Aug 2004 Tony van der Hoff wrote:

> Erik Groenhuis <e.groenhuis at xs4all.nl> wrote in message
> <4a4039d94c.root at hop2.xs4all.nl>
> 
> > On 3 Aug 2004 Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> > 

[snip]

> The !Run in !OSLib does that.

How very clever. I never noticed that.

> Now why did you choose to hold SHIFT while
> opening the directory?

Because that is what you do: you want to open the directory of an
application, you hold SHIFT and double click...

> I've tried to make it as foolproof as possible, but I
> guess I can't take deliberate breaking the system into account...

Ah, yes. One fool can do more silly things than a thousend wise men can
prevent. (8-)

Suggestion: maybe a nice icon in a Sprite file will make it look more
application-like and tempt fools like me to start it as if it were an
application.

Having now noticed the !Boot and the !Run file, I now realise that
having several different source trees next to each other is more tricky
business than I thought. This may explain a lot of the problems I had
while compiling on RISC OS.

Next step is to try a freshly booted machine and a freshly loaded tree
and see how it goes.

> I feel it is better to keep the README to a minimum. If there's too much in
> it, at best people get confused; at worst they don't read it.

A valid point, but a tricky balance. Now you have explained how it is
intended to work, I concede.

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Erik Groenhuis http://www.xs4all.nl/~erikgrnh
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