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From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Input from keyboard in startup-sequence
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Date: 7 Mar 88 20:45:24 GMT
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In article <3668@cup.portal.com> roger@cup.portal.com writes:
$>In article <3397@cbmvax.UUCP> schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS) writes:
$>$In article <820@umbc3.UMD.EDU> 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.
$>$>
$>$  Why not use the "ASK" command? If you combine it with "IF" & "ELSE"
$>$  you have exactly what you need. Here is a quick & dirty example:
$>$
$>Probably because WE don't have 1.3 software yet.  BTW when will 1.3 hit
$>the stores???
$>
$>Hans
$
$Funny, MY 1.2 WorkBench disk has ASK on it.  In the C subdirectory.
$It is even documented in the manual.  But then this 1.2 disk came with 
$my 2000.  It was not on the 1.2 disks that I got with the Enhancer 
$Package that I bought when I still had the 1000.
$

As a whole ASK does not yet exist... true it can be stolen from a friend
who has a 500/2000 but for the 1000 croud ~150K machines it is a part of the
1.3 upgrade.  If CA would give all Amiga owners permission to use the
additional files found on the 500/2000 WB then we can all mee at your
house and copy your WB disk :-).

Hans