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Double left-click the !Edit application to start it running.

!Edit in the Apps folder

In the “Apps” folder, you will notice that all of the applications start with a “!” character. This is how RISC OS can tell that something is an application rather than a regular folder, i.e. if you rename a folder with a “!” at the start, it becomes an application. It’s not quite that simple, of course! Applications also contain a number of other items (e.g. their icon) but on RISC OS, they are pretty simple.

Shift-double-click an application to open it like a folder (rather than run it) so you can see what’s inside. The “Apps” folder isn’t the best example, because most of the applications within it are just links to the real application, which is stored somewhere else. Note: files tend to have square icons, folders all have the folder icon and applications tend to have an irregularly-shaped icon. Applications also always have a name starting with a pling character (‘!’). InRISC

Shift-double-click an application to open it like a folder (rather than run it) so you can see what’s inside. The “Apps” folder isn’t the best example, because most of the applications within it are just links to the real application, which is stored somewhere else.

OS, an application is just a folder containing certain special files and whose name starts with a pling.

Note: files tend to have square icons, folders all have the folder icon and applications tend to have an irregularly-shaped icon. Applications also always have a name starting with a pling character (‘!’). In RISC OS, an application is just a folder containing certain special files and whose name starts with a pling.

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