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From: jetzer@studsys.mu.edu (jetzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: text files in prosel
Message-ID: <109@studsys.mu.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 88 16:58:14 GMT
References: <8804071428.aa09386@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <8705@reed.UUCP>
Organization: Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Summary: BIN to SYS

In article <8705@reed.UUCP>, kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) writes:
> In article <8804071428.aa09386@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook) writes:
> >> me with.  Is there any way to change a BIN file into a SYS file?  Specifically

> SYS files are supposed to load in at $200, and relocate if necessary.
> SYS files are *supposed* to exit via a prodos quit call

> So. . .  If it so happens that you have a BIN file that runs from $200,
> -or- is relocatable, *and* it exits correctly. . .
> then

> bload file,a$xxxx,l$yyyy
> delete file
> bsave file,tsys,a$xxxx,l$yyyy


SYStem files start at $2000, *not* $200.

Also, you cannot save to a SYStem file that does not already exist; you must
create it first.  So, the sequence would actually be

bload file,a$xxxx
delete file
create file,tsys
bsave file,tsys,a$xxxx,l$yyyy

Also note that you do not need the L parameter when you load a file.  In fact,
you're better off not using it to load, because if you mistype the number,
you may wind up not loading in all of the file.
-- 
Mike Jetzer
"If you can't be right, be forceful"