GEM-init

deutsche Beschreibung

What is GEM-init?

GEM-init is a software package allowing (limited) multiuser operation under GEM.

init.app must be installed as GEM-shell or GEM-AUTO-start program, respectively. After booting your computer a batch file lets you run things of global interest. After this, login.app will be started by getty.app. Here, each user has to login with his own password using a GEM-dialog, except the password entry of /etc/passwd is empty. After a successfull login, another batch file lets you run user-specific things. Finally, the user's individual desktop application will be launched. After the end of the desktop the login-dialog will appear again.


Features of GEM-init:

GEM-init has the following features, and much more: Just to get an impression - GEM-init opens the following files: The ~ sign is an abbreviation for the home-directory (-> $HOME), from where many good GEM applications read their .inf-files.

GEM-init requires:

An UNIX-compatible filesystem is recommended, e.g. minixfs. It is not necessarily required, but without it you will not have different access rights.

Downloading GEM-init:


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Revised: 10/11/96
© 1996,1997 Ulrich Kaiser/Dirk Klemmt, klemmt@stud.uni-frankfurt.de