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Subject: Running a SYS file
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 03:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 03:20:00 1987
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At least you EXEC'd EXEUTIONER under ProDOS.  If you are in
BASIC.SYSTEM (where you have the ] prompt), the program will
execute with:

-EXECUTIONER

(just a little dash will do it.  In fact, that little dash is
a really cute ProDOS BASIC feature.  It'll EXEC a TXT file,
RUN a BAS file and BRUN a BIN file as well as execute a SYS file).

The advantage of a SYS file is that it can be executed without
having BASIC.SYSTEM active.  In response to that nasty ProDOS habit
of asking for a pathname and system file, you can use EXECUTIONER
(if you can remember the VOLUME ID, that's the one I always forget).

Also, if EXECUTIONER is the first SYS file after PRODOS.SYSTEM on
the disk, it will execute when the disk is booted (right guys?  I
use native ProDOS so seldom, I can never remember whether the startup
SYS file has to be something.SYSTEM or not).