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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Input from keyboard in startup-sequence (Me too!)
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Date: 3 Mar 88 11:17:48 GMT
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ken@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Ken Spagnolo ) writes:
>Hopefully, this is not a dumb question (I can't find the answer anyway).
>
>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.
     I've wanted the same thing myself.  I figure it must be available, I just
haven't gone to the effort to look for it.  It seems strange to me that this
is not directly supported in AmigaDOS.

                                                        Wade.


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