On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 10:58:45AM -0500, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Stephen Stafford <stephen at clothcat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> > They aren't.  Looking at what Marcus has provided in his .debs (and it 
> > looks so sensible I have no intention of changing it) there is a little 
> > wrapper called squeak which is executable from /usr/bin.  This wrapper 
> > checks to see if the image exists in ~/.squeak/, if it does then it 
> > uses that image and calls the real executable, squeakvm with that set 
> > as the image file to use.  If it doesn't then it copies the 
> > (supposedly) clean base image from /usr/share/squeak.  The user should 
> > only ever be using his own copy of the image file.  It should be 
> > impossible (unless he bypasses the wrapper) to contaminate the clean 
> > image in /usr/share/squeak.
> > 
> > >
> 
> The wrapper is "inisqueak", right?  That's the name of the script,
> anyhow, that is in Ian Piumarta's distribution.  "squeak" is the VM
> executable itself.
> 
Yes, I used the "squeak" wrapper script till version 2.8, but I changed
the 3.0 packages to use Ian´s "initsqueak".

    Marcus