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Subject: TWL: Nav software ( was: Computer OS's & Stability)
From: Richard Quarles (rquarles@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 01 2002 - 08:55:44 EST
Arild said:
>>The ultimate chart system is one which will recover from a power loss
>>and come back up running with the same screen display as that shown
>>before the power loss or crash. This recovery should take no more than
>>five seconds and should not require any operator intervention whatsoever,
>>except perhaps to press the ON button to start the process.
>>None of the present generation of laptop chart software does this. At
>>this time only the dedicated charrt plotters work like that.
>>WHY??
>>Why can we not get a software package which has that option built in.
>>( Please don't tell me about user configured autoexec.bat files etc.
>>The average boater does not have the skills and confidence to write such
>> subroutines and codes for their computer )
On a Mac OS computer, it is a simple matter to place an alias to the
program in question into the start-up folder located in the system
folder. That program will then launch when the system is restarted.
Whether the program will start back at the same place it was is not
clear and may be a function of the program and how it is set up to
initialize. If it is properly set-up, it should return to the same
window it left.
Rick Quarles
Barric II, Nordic Tug 32-147
New Bern, NC
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