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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Autobooting in low rez with Superboot
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Date: 5 Dec 90 01:18:25 GMT
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bill@mwca.UUCP (Bill Sheppard) writes:

- I've been unable to make the autoboot feature of Superboot 6.0 with 
- TOS 1.4 work properly - anyone know if this is a TOS limitation? It
- works in medium rez, and in low rez DESKTOP.INF does have the 
- filename I want to autoboot, it just doesn't do it. Any ideas?
 
I had problems with this at first too with both resolutions; perhaps 
this may clear things up though.  (I'm assuming that TOS 1.4 
and 1.6 write and read DESKTOP.INF *identically* because I have 1.6.) 
It seems that Superboot likes to write #Z 01 C:\AUTO\NEOLOAD.PRG@
(this is the line that tells Rainbow TOS which program to autoboot) at
the top of DESKTOP.INF instead of on the fourth line where the desktop
writes it when you 'save desktop.'  So to avoid the confusion, I
edited both med and low res DESKTOP.INF files so that the #Z line is
fourth.  Therefore, instead of Superboot writing the #Z line, it's
always there in DESKTOP.INF; if I don't want anything autobooted, I 
just hit HELP and then F3 to disable the autoboot.

In short (what I should have said at the beginning :^), make sure 
that the #Z line is the fourth one in DESKTOP.INF.  I hope this works.

BTW, I rarely save the desktop, even with NeoDesk's .INF files.  I 
find it's easier to just edit the files in a text editor.

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