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From: cs4344af@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Fuzzy Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: DesTerm Autoboot
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.074452.27805@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 07:44:52 GMT
References: <40937@cup.portal.com> <1991Apr6.210113.24385@bradley.bradley.edu> <1991Apr7.012125.11379@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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In article <1991Apr7.012125.11379@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> iachetta@ec.ecn.purdue.edu (Richard N Iachetta) writes:
>I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before since I've only been reading
>since February but I'll say it anyway in case not and for newcomers who
>get DesTerm 2.00.  The autoboot maker program trashes the file desdocs3.doc.

This is a danger when running any autoboot creator program.  The
autoboot sector is track 1, sector 0, and a good boot maker will check
to see if that sector is in use by another file before using it.  You're
lucky that only a doc file was trashed.

The best way to create an autoboot sector is to format a blank disk,
then run autoboot on it.  Then, check the directory, and it SHOULD show
one less block free than it did before, ie, 663 for a single-sided 1541
disk, or 1327 for a double-sided 1571 disk.  If it does not, that means
that the boot sector has not been allocated by DOS, and when you copy
files to the disk, it will destroy the boot sector when files reach
track 1 (which is when the disk is about 600 blocks full).  To correct
this, try these commands:

	OPEN 15, 8, 15
	PRINT# 15, "B-A:0,1,0"
	CLOSE 15

That should allocate the boot sector against being overwritten.  Beware,
if you validate the disk, this block will be freed up again, and can
then be erased if you write more files to the disk.

After you have a disk with the boot sector on it, filecopoy all the
files to the new disk.

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