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From: rubin@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Aztec C configuration.
Message-ID: <4582@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 00:47:54 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 00:47:54 1986
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: using Aztec C with one floppy and Assimilation Ramdisk

> Currently, I am using the Assimilation RD (which dosn't seem to work if it is
> larger than 400K) with /bin, /include, and /lib on the ramdisk.  (I haven't
> figgured out how to make the ramdisk the startup disk.)  The boot shell
> script loads these files from an auxiliary disk which is then ejected and
> unmounted.

I have been using Aztec with the Assimilation Process ramdisk for a while
now (on a Mac 512K); the only way I've found to make the ramdisk the
system disk is with the "Create temporary disk automatically at startup"
command.  Unfortunately it insists on Finder as the startup program.

So, I have it start up with System, Finder and Shell on the ramdisk; when
it boots (running Finder from the ramdisk), I double-click the Shell on
the ramdisk; the Shell's .profile then removes Finder from the ramdisk
and copies in /bin.  The boot floppy can now be ejected and forgotten.

System, Shell and /bin just fit in a 316K ramdisk; those and Finder and
the ramdisk program just fit on a 400K floppy.  Only problem is there's
no room for Edit, I have to use Z (Manx's "vi" clone, which would be
usable if it only had a replace command!!).

Manx seems to be saying "real soon now" (end of March?  April?) for the
HFS-compatible Shell.  Hopefully by that time Apple will have finally
shipped Mac upgrade kits to the dealers....

--Mike Rubin	rubin@topaz.rutgers.edu.arpa.earth.solar_system.milky_way