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From: meekins@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (timothy lee meekins)
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Subject: Re: Autoload of ProDOS8?
Message-ID: <9011260315.AA22172@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 03:15:41 GMT
References: <1990Nov25.191310.5155@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1990Nov25.191310.5155@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> you write:
>
>   Does anybody know of a file which can be put in the System.Setup
>directory to force GS/OS to load ProDOS8 into memory on the boot? I only
>have one 3"1/2 drive, and it's annoying to switch disks a few times the
>first time you want to run a ProDOS8 program. Since it stays resident
>after that, I assume there must be some way to tell it to load in right
>from the start, to save the disk swapping.
>

I don't know of any existing programs that do this, but it would be very
simple to write a program to do this. Basically, ask the user which
O/S "he" wants, then from quit code, you can to BASIC.SYSTEM or some
other P8 program if "he" wants ProDOS 8, otherwise do a normal quit
or quit to known file such as Finder or Orca shell.

Also, I seem to remember a program published in Nibble a few years back
that would boot to either ProDOS 16 or ProDOS 8, but I think it modified 
the boot block or the ProDOS file itself. It's been awhile since I've
seen it.  

>
>-- 
> Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student  |
> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca    Ad astra! |  S = k log W
> cneufeld@{pnet91,pro-micol}.cts.com             |    Boltzmann's epitaph
> "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" |


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