Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!apple!farrier
From: farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Hmmm.
Message-ID: <1228@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Apr 89 21:30:22 GMT
References: <8904060243.aa28839@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> <12059@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <12059@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> tsang@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Donald Tsang) writes:
>In article <8904060243.aa28839@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SELLSWORTH@HMCVAX.BITNET
> ("Scott, part time fuzzy") writes:
>> [msg deleted]
> 
>You might try copying BASIC.SYSTEM from SYSTEM.DISK onto your telecom disk.
>This contains all of Applesoft's runtime DOS routines ('cat', 'catalog',
>'open', etc).  Think of it as half of what DOS 3.3 gave you.
	
	He already did that.  Half of what DOS 3.3 gave you?  Basic
	is an application and DOS 3.3 was an operating system.  Besides,
	ProDOS gives you alot more than DOS 3.3 did.

>If you don't need to access Applesoft at all, you might not need
>BASIC.SYSTEM.  But some SYS files do require it, because they didn't
>want to rewrite the standard (Pro)DOS commands...

	The ProDOS commands are not contained within Basic.System.  ProDOS
	Basic uses the ProDOS commands, but ProDOS is not located within
	Basic.

If you want a disk that will boot into a ProDOS 8 application, do the following:

	1) Start with a GS/OS system disk (yes, a gs/os disk)
	2) Remove the */SYSTEM/START file
	3) Remove all files of type $B3 (S16) with the ".SYS16" extension
	   from the root directory
	4) Remove all files of type $FF (SYS) with the extension ".SYSTEM"
	   from the root directory.
	5) Place your file in the root directory, it must have a type of
	   $FF, and an extension of ".SYSTEM".  If you want a basic 
	   program to be launched, then leave Basic.System in the root
	   directory and name your basic program "Startup", and place
	   it in the root directory, also.
	6) Remove all the device drivers you dont need from the
	   */SYSTEM/DRIVERS folder.
	7) Remove all the DA's you don't need from the */SYSTEM/DESK.ACCS
	   folder.
	8) Boot this disk.

	With this method, I am willing to bet that you will get boot times
	of between 30 seconds to 1 minute.
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