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From: jmc@ptsfa.UUCP (Jerry Carlin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: AUTO Folder and System Initialization
Message-ID: <1287@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-May-86 11:25:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  1 11:25:46 1986
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In article <8604300420.AA12861@ohio-state.ARPA> terrell@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Eric Terrell) writes:
>This evening I wrote a little program to set the system time and date for my
>520ST...

>Since I wanted this program to be run at boot time, I placed it in a folder
>named AUTO.  When I booted up, my program was run, but the time and date
>were unchanged by my program.

There is a public-domain date and time program that I am using that works.
I'm not sure what the difference is but it is possible to set the date
and time 'permanently' in spite of when programs in AUTO run.
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