Am I remembering right that you mentioned sometihng about disabling the readDocuments stuff?

> On 2020-06-12, at 4:31 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh, sorry, the "run" command is my /usr/local/bin/run script that picks
> a suitable VM. The effect is the same as running the VM executable directly,
> so run the VM in whatever manner you like. I am in the habit of installing
> my user executables (the VM run scripts in this case) in /usr/local/bin/ so
> that they will be in my $PATH.
> 
> Here is what a -doit looks like on my PC. It evaluates the doIt argument,
> and once the image opens you can see the #FOO has been added to the system
> dictionary.
> 
> $ run squeak -- -doit "Smalltalk at: #FOO put: #BAR"
> BAR
> 
> Note the ' -- ' before the '-doit'. However you might decide to invoke
> the command line, you can put ' -- ' before the arguments and they
> should get get passed along to the image.
> 
> Note that this hack is doing the evaluations as the very first thing
> in the startUp sequence, so if you evaluate something that (for example)
> opens an inspector, that inspector is not necessarily going to place
> itself properly in the Morphic world. But it does seem to work, and
> being able to do something like this before anything else gets screwed
> up in the startUp processing might be a handy thing to be able to do.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:07:43PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> OK, the DoItFirst-dtl.2.cs filed in ok. It did however make the image save suddenly take a very long time  - but after save/quit and restartin the save no longer takes ages. Weird.
>> 
>> I had to execute - 
>> 
>> time  /home/pi/Documents/Squeak/sqcogspurlinuxhtRPi/squeak /home/pi/Documents/Squeak/CmdLineTests-TPR-Squeak5.3-19682-32bit.image  -- -evaluate "(3 + 4 + Float pi cubed) asScaledDecimal: 20"
>> 38.00627668029981975905s20
>> 
>> real	0m0.393s
>> user	0m0.086s
>> sys	0m0.283s
>> 
>> a) no idea what the 'run' command might be and it is not on Raspbian
>> b) I'm guessing your 'squeak' script was finding the default named image?
>> c) that time was for a Pi 4, which took about 3x as long as what I image is probably a reasonably modern x64 box? The registered user time was less than double though. Not bad for $35.
>> 
>> I must be doing something wrong when I tried the -doit option though; it faults in CodeLoader>>installSourceFile: Apparently sometihng has lead it to see an HTTPDownloadRequest ... ok, so the ProjectLauncher>>startUpAfterLogin sees that Preferences readDocumentAtStartup is true and that makes the unwarranted assumption that self getSystemAttribute: 2 will provide the document path. Oops. 
>> 
>> 
>> tim
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