I have no problem with making the mods.  The bigger issue is to
get buy-in from Squeak Central and coordinate it with the next image
format change.

I won't be at OOPSLA.  How far are you from Boulogne or Les Ulis?  I
get their pretty regularly.

-david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Piumarta [mailto:Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr]
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:21 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Self running image for Unix type OS's
> 
> 
> > The next time the image format is changed (soon, if I remember
> > correctly), it would be nice to prepend "#!squeak<nl>".  Assuming an
> > appropriate path, this would allow an image file to be run as if it
> > was a command.
> 
> See the method comment for
> 
>   Interpreter>>readImageFromFile:HeapSize:StartingAt:
> 
> and the comment attached to the initialisation of headerStart in
> 
>   Interpreter>>writeImageFile:
> 
> The required mods (which aught to be be conditional, on the value
> returned by Interpreter>>asciiDirectoryDelimiter for example) are
> trivial, and should be obvious.  Left as an exercise for... anyone
> called David.  ;^p
> 
> (Alternatively, buy me a beer at OOPSLA and I'll do them while I'm
> drinking it. ;o)
> 
> Ian
>