It is a pity that most shells (such as GULAM,  Mark Williams  Co.'s 
MSH,  MUPFEL  etc.  ) do not have an inbuilt feature to access any  desk 
accessories that may be loaded.  To come out of the shell to the desktop 
to  access an accessory and then to re-enter again with  the  consequent 
long rehashing time can be tedious.

     The answer,  of course,  is to have a tiny GEM program that  simply 
displays a Menu Bar,  and so give access to the Desk Accessories. Such a 
program is so trivial, it would appear, that no one has bothered to send 
one  in to the archives - although I personally know of people who  have 
told me they have compiled one for themselves which they use regularly.

     So recently I also compiled such a utility  viz.  ADA ( Access Desk 
Accessories ),  for this purpose. I could have done with this years ago! 
- and so I think this tiny program (1.5 kbytes) deserves a place in  the 
archives  - provided (as I believe - but I could be mistaken!!)  that  a 
similar  tool does not already reside there.  For the  curious,  it  was 
compiled  with Mark Williams C,  stripped of its Symbols with  REMOVSYM, 
and finally packed down to its current size with the POMPEY Packer.

     With ADA.PRG stored in one of the PATH directories of GULAM, for
example, all that is necessary to access the Desk Accessories is to type

	gem  ada

                                        Cheers,   W. Alan B. Evans,
                                                  [wabe@ukc.ac.uk]