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RunAMax by Shachar Shemesh. 11th February, 1992

   If  you  own  a HardDisk and AMax you have probably encountered the fact
that AMax takes the colors to be used by the Mac (when setting the "Colors"
button  to system) from the workbench screen.  This is all fine and well if
you only have a floppy, but if you also own a HD then AMax will usually use
the standard Workbench colors (whatever system this is).  The result is not
as  pretty  and  as Macy as it can get, but rather blue on white or !@#$%^,
depanding if you use 1.3 or 2.0.
   You  can, of course, run preferences before running AMax, and change the
colors  to  something  more  suitable  for AMax use, but that means running
preferences  before  each  and every time you use AMax.  Further more - you
need to manually set the colors each time.

   In  addition to that, if you own a HD you probably want one or more AMax
partitions.   This means having an ugly icon saying "AMAX:!@#$%" on your WB
at all times.
   There  is  a way you can make that partition non Auto-Config (using your
HD  formatter  program),  and  creating a MountList entry that will only be
mounted  before  AMax  is  run,  but this means you cannot run AMax without
first entering CLI and mounting your AMax partition.

   RunAMax  is  a  program  designed  to solve both problems.  It will both
mount  your  AMax partitions, and set the colors to ones that will resemble
the  Mac.  RunAMax is a small Assembly program that is ment to be modify by
you to fit your own taste.
   To  run  AMax  now,  just  type  "RunAMax" from CLI, or double click the
"StartAMax" icon from WB.  The reason for the diffrence is that, due to the
fact  that  it  runs  the "Mount" command, RunAMax only runs from CLI.  ANY
attempt  to  run  it  directly  from  WB  will  Guru in the worst case, and
Software fail in the best case.  To solve the problem RunAMax comes with an
icon that has a reference to IconX.
   In order to change the colors used, change the lines at the start of the
program  defining  BACKGROUND  and FOREGROUND.  Current values are $000 and
$888  respectivly.  Note that the colors AMax will use are reverse order of
these  colors.   To change the partition name or the way you run the actual
AMax  change  the strings with the labels "MountCommand" and "AMaxCommand".
The strings currently reflect the way AMax is configured on my system.  All
you have to do now is recompile and run.

IMPORTANT  NOTE:   Since this program uses IconX, it has a text file called
"StartAMax",  in  addition to the program itself "RunAMax".  If copying the
program from WB, only "StartAMax" will be copied.  "RunAMax" must be copied
from CLI.

   This  program  is completly Public Domain.  You can change it to fit
your  needs,  redistribute  it, recompile it, and generally abuse it as
much as you want, so long as the following conditons are met:

a.  My  name  is not removed from the docs, the source, or anywhere else it
    appears now.
b.  No files are removed from the archive.
c.  No profit is done on this program.

Any comments should be addressed to:
                              Shachar Shemesh
                              17th Herzel st.
                                 Ra'anana
                                  Israel

I also have an account on the Internet that would probably be active untill
the end of this accademic year (1992).
[e-mail]
After that my account will probably be
[e-mail]

The  first  account will still be active then, BUT IT WILL NOT BE MINE!  If
you're not sure, finger it and see if my name appears in the plan.  My name
will not appear in the Real Name field even if the account is mine, only in
the plan.  Protests about this way of doing things should be sent to one of
the following addresses (in that order)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]