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From: itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Input from keyboard in startup-sequence
Message-ID: <253@ra>
Date: 3 Mar 88 14:00:45 GMT
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Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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In article <820@umbc3.UMD.EDU>, ken@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ken Spagnolo ) writes:
> I would like to have an if-then-else structure in my startup-sequence
> that would prompt me to see if I wanted to load up certain files (or
> whatever).  But I don't know how to get it to wait for input from the
> keyboard during startup.  Even EXECUTE needs to see the args on the 
> command line that calls it.  Anyone pull this off?  Thanx.

Has someone answered this already?  An easy way to do it is:

	ECHO "Enter RAM, NORAM, or NOWB"
	SKIP ?
	LAB RAM
		[RAM stuff here]
	SKIP ALLDONE
	LAB NORAM
		[NORAM stuff here]
	SKIP ALLDONE
	LAB NOWB
		[NOWB stuff here]
	LAB ALLDONE
		[rest of startup-sequence]

Although the above is real simple, the problem with it is typeos.  A typing
mistake causes the "SKIP ?" command to blow up, but there are ways around
that too, but who cares.  If you type wrong, just re-boot.
Also, it seems slows.  My sarcastic guess is that CLI reads the file
one I/O per character.
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