WBStartEmu
		© 1999-2001 by Stephan Rupprecht
		    All rights reserved.
 

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
 WBStartEmu is copyrighted 1999-2001 by Stephan Rupprecht. 
 All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
 donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is 
 left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage 
 caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the 
 program(s) it describes.


REQUIREMENTS
 Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.5 and
 68020+ cpu.


DESCRIPTION
 Starting with workbench.library v45, tools like wbstart.library
 (by Stefan Becker) are no longer necessary to start a program as if
 it were started from workbench. Because of this I wrote an emu-
 lation of wbstart.library which uses the v45 API to invoke workbench
 programs.
 

KNOWN BUGS
 The original wbstart.library allows you to set the stacksize and
 priority of the program to start. This isn't supported by the
 emulation because of a (current) limitation of workbench.library.
 But it shouldn't be a problem as wb obtains the required information
 from the program icon.
 
 Not a bug but a feature: As a side-effect you can open drawers with
 this emulation, too.
 
 Because of a bug of workbench.library v44, workbench.library v45 is
 required to use this library.
 
 The workbench emulation of DirOpus is INCOMPLETE, so WBStartEmu
 doesn't work with DO.


INSTALLATION
 Copy wbstart.library to your libs: drawer and wbstart-handler to L:


HISTORY
 44.0	first public release
 44.1	Ooops! when copying the struct WBArg, the pointer wasn't 
 	increased thus when passing multiple args the same 
 	argument was passed to the program multiple times.
 	Stupid me, I also forgot to add the TAG_DONE tag to the
 	taglist :(
 44.2	Fixed a very bad bug in the LibExpunge code (referencing
 	to already freed memory). Thanks to Forbid/Permit that this
 	bug never caused any problems ;) Special thanks to Thomas
 	Richter who discovered this bug.
 45.0	because of a bug of wb.library, os3.9/workbench.library
 	is now required to use this library.
 45.1	changed path handling a bit, this hopefully fixes the
 	problem that some programs couldn't be started anymore
 	when this library was used.
 45.1a	added l:wbstart-handler replacement, which uses 
 	wbstart.library.
 45.1b	added wbrun command, l:wbstart-handler is even smaller, now :)
 45.1c	wbrun always returned the errorcode failure (20).
 45.1d  updated l:wbstart-handler, it stays in memory now. This should
 	solve possible problem with AsimCDFS <Patrick Smith>.
 45.2	yet another attempt to fix the last remaining path problems
 	(program not found, program doesn't find its icon). Thanks
 	to Andreas Kürzinger for testing.
 45.2b  added a new release of the wbrun command. Please note this
        is not the os3.9 one! The one included does not require
        OS3.9 nor wbstartemu! New in this release is a better support
        of deficons.

AUTHOR

 Please send bug reports and ideas to:

	Stephan Rupprecht
	Apfeldweg 1
	D44359 Dortmund
	Germany

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	info@stephan-rupprecht.de
	
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