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From: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Automatic Application startup
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.182848.18195@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jan 91 18:28:48 GMT
References: <6408@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: nbvs@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nicko van Someren)
Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK
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In article <6408@ecs.soton.ac.uk> snb90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Brodie SN) writes:
>
>  Is there any way of taking applications and sticking them in EPROMs or
>EEPROMS etc. so that they can be permanently in the machine without
>running until required?  Maybe in the form of a filing system, it would
>then be possible to run the applications without having to access a
>disc. 

I once saw a program that built ROMs for the ROMFS that comes with the Acorn
ROM podule.  COme to think of it I think that it is in the ROMFS itself.
The only problem that I can see is that it will be nessesary to edit all the
!Run and !Boot files of any applications you put in ROM to make sure they do
not try to put temporary files inside the application directory or update
internal configuration files.