Atari Faicon030 Owner's Manual page 75

Fa/con030 Owner 's Manual
Note: When installing multiple applications, selecting Skip causes Install
Application to skip over the application identified on the Application name line.
All the current settings are retained.
Sel ecting a Default Directory
Every program that work s with support i ng fi les ( e . g . , resource files or help fi les)
needs a way to look for those fi les. Desktop Confi gurations tel l s your computer
which directory should be the default. This i s where the program accesses files if
the program assumes that they are not i nstalled.
Using Install Appl ication to ass i gn a default d i rectory to a specifi c app l ication
overrides the Desktop Configuration ' s assignment for that application.
You can set the default d i rectory to Top W i ndow, or Appl ication ( the directory
in w h ich the program res ides).
Some programs do not l ook for fi l es in any l ocation other than the default
d irectory. For these programs, select Top Wi ndow, and make sure that the
program file and a l l support i ng fi les are in the top w i ndow.
Sel ecting Parameters
B efore an open app l i cation can use a data fil e , it must first find and open the fi le.
Most programs enable you to search through a l l e x i st i ng d i rectories to l ocate and
open a desired fi le.
These programs h ave no preconcei ved ideas about the location of files. For these
programs you would choose Full Path, so the entire path name of the fi l e is used
when a file is opened.
Other programs already have pre-e x i sting partial paths . Th i s means that the
program contains a partial path name that it uses every time the program searches
for a file. A parti a l pathname con sists of the drive identi fier, and all appl icable
directories. On ly the file name and extension i s input for the search. All files
must be in the specified d i rectory, or they cannot be located.
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