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Subject: Re: GS manuals
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 10:11:23 EST
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Current ProDOS manuals are probably quite relevant for ProDOS 8.  ProDOS
16, however, may have some undocumented features (bugs :-)).

Unfortunately, GS manuals will probably be slow in coming.  Evolutionary
machines, in their early stages, usually lack documentation for extended
features.

As far as I can ascertain, ProDOS 1.1.1 and ProDOS 8 are virtually identical.
Only slight changes have been made.  The rules for ProDOS 1.1.1 as far as
startup programs are as follows:

The file ProDOS boots first.  Next, the first SYS file in the directory with
a .SYSTEM extension (e.g. BASIC.SYSTEM, BACKUP.SYSTEM) will run (the inter-
preter).  One interpreter, BASIC.SYSTEM, will automatically run the file
STARTUP (BAS), if it exists.

Hope this information helps at all.

Timothy F. Sipples

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