Eric Auer wrote: > Good morning Shane :-) Morning.
>> BAT opens as text by default on purpose, >> as it's very easy for people to double-click BAT >> files and start applications that might break the GEM >> desktop session. > > Hmmm make it harder for BAT to break the session then? > Why are normal COM / EXE less problematic here? OpenGEM uses lots of BAT files. If someone went and double-clicked one of those BAT files they could freeze their system, as GEM would load twice etc. >> Yes, I believe we have icons for applications. >> Generally EXE display with a generic executable icon. > > So this is why icons for DOS apps are a problem? > Making an icon seems to be easy, but connecting it > to a non-deskwork app seems to be the problem? EXE looks like EXE to GEM. I cannot tell the different between different applications, just file types. Of course, you can use the GEM settings.app to play with how an individual application is featured, creating a specific icon for that. Shane ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
