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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]