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Topic       : User Manual for TeraDesk
Author      : Wout Klaren, Henk Robbers, Djordje Vukovic
Version     : February 2017
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         Menu title: Options

4.5.2  Set program types...                                   TeraDesk

With this  menu option  you can  determine  which  files  Tera Desktop
recognises as executable, and various features for these filetypes can
be set. A dialog box is displayed in which one can:

1.Toggle a flag which  indicates whether Tera Desktop  will wait for a
keypress  after a TOS or TTP program has finished. This is useful when
such  programs  write  something to the screen and you want to read it
at leisure.

2. Toggle  a  flag which indicates  whether Tera Desktop will redirect
output to GEMDOS standard handle 2 to the screen.  This is useful e.g.
when using programs compiled with GNU C.

3. Set  which  files  or file types contain programs.  A small listbox
window  contains a list of file name masks; you can scroll the list or
select  an  entry.  Any  file  which  matches  one  of  the  masks  is
recognised  by  Tera Desktop  to be a program. You can add a new mask,
edit  one  already  there which  you  have selected, or delete the one
selected by clicking on the appropriate  button.

See The listbox dialog for more details.

If you add  or edit a name mask,  The program type dialog box  will be
shown in which you must define the file type and and other information
for the program type being defined.

Beside the filetypes  explicitely  specified in this  dialog, TeraDesk
treats as executable (i.e. programs) all files without name extensions
for which the 'execute' rights are set, and such files are  assumed to
be of the  .TTP  type.  This capability  is available  only  for files
without  name extensions  (i.e.  with  names  not  containing  the "."
character) and only in  Unix filesystems that recognize access rights;
therefore it is disabled in single-TOS.

If you are running Tera Desktop in low or medium screen resolution and
TOS 1.0, this menu item may not be visible  due to limitations of this
TOS version.

See also:  Info...  Types of program files  The program type dialog
TOS version compatibility  Supported screen resolutions
Supported Protocols