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From: herb@hpindda.HP.COM (Herb Gellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Autorun a BASIC program (a request)
Message-ID: <4230001@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 88 17:54:15 GMT
References: <8712282252.AA00986@mitre-bedford.ARPA>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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There is a public domain utility called MENUPLUS that, amongst other things,
has an option to create autorun.sys files to run a BASIC program. The BASIC
program can only be a few lines, but it is used typically to execute a
RUN of the actual program you want. I have used it to create an autorun.sys
to automatically boot up AMODEM - the little basic program I wrote that is
attached to the autorun.sys prints in large letters "LOADING AMODEM", and then
runs AMODEM. The version of MENUPLUS that I have is V5.5. It has one annoying
feature that it tends to change one of the characters in the BASIC program
(randomly?), so it may require minor experimentation.

You should be able to get MENUPLUS (and lots of other goodies) from your
friendly local user group (hopefully you have one!)

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