kiberkli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Berkling) (12/02/90)
Hi, does anyone know of an INIT that displays a desktop pikture
that comes from a volume that is not the systemfolder.
In other words I have lab macs which boot of a locked disk and load
a RAM disk. I'd like to display a desktop that can be updated and
therefore the file has to be on a server.
Even an INIT that does desktops will be fine, only I have to able to
chage the path (Backdrop does not work here) to find the right file.
Thanks for your help.
I can be reched at kiberkli@rodan.acs.syr.edu or
kiberkli@sunrise.acs.syr.edupeirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) (12/03/90)
In article <1990Dec1.205221.1371@rodan.acs.syr.edu>, kiberkli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Berkling) writes: > > Hi, does anyone know of an INIT that displays a desktop pikture > that comes from a volume that is not the systemfolder. > In other words I have lab macs which boot of a locked disk and load > a RAM disk. I'd like to display a desktop that can be updated and > therefore the file has to be on a server. > Even an INIT that does desktops will be fine, only I have to able to > chage the path (Backdrop does not work here) to find the right file. I *think* DeskPicture is able to get it's picture file off an AppleShare server *IF* the AppleShare server is automounted. I know Public Folder can make available a folder on an AppleShare server if it is automounted and the the author of DeskPicture (Clay Mackel) and I shared a few lines of code for getting at other volumes at startup time. -- michael, author of Public Folder & friend of the author of DeskPicture -- Michael Peirce -- {apple,decwrl}!claris!outpost!peirce -- Peirce Software -- Suite 301, 719 Hibiscus Place -- Macintosh Programming -- San Jose, California 95117 -- and Consulting -- (408) 244-6554