Re: dirty trick possible only with GNO; another reason to buy it...

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <fmlinCC3BxE.8y2@netcom.com>, Frank M. Lin writes...
> 
> By using GNO/ME's namespace features, you can boot Winter Games with out
> moving it to the root directory nor renaming the volume, simply add a
> line to /etc/namespace, in my case, it's
> 
> :winter.games	:elf:arcade.root:winter.games
> 
> Then you just cd /winter.games and then start the game...  Nasty isn't
> it? :)  I haven't tried with ProDOS 8 games ( like Zany Golf, Task Force
> ) yet, I kinda doubt it'll work with them...

    Naw, namespace (and the rest of GNO) disappears when you enter
ProDOS 8.  For a couple of months, I couldn't figure out why none of my
ProDOS 8 programs were launchable from GNO.  It turns out I was
specifying their pathnames using named prefixes.  Of course, once P8
gets control, /usr/apps/ansiterm makes no sense.... ;-)
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