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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Prob. in booting ProDos (ATINIT)
Message-ID: <30003@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 May 89 23:37:45 GMT
References: <8904300936.AA26944@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8904300936.AA26944@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pnet51!pro-hysteria!wtaylor@nosc.mil writes:
>whenver I boot my pro-sel modified ProDos on my HD, it says cannot load
>ATINIT .. now what does this mean.. it just freezes up, as if there were no
>system files in the boot directory. also, what is BINSCII (or however it is
>spelled)

This only happens in a couple of instances - when the file ATINIT exists in
the root directory and is not of file type $E2, or when the file exists, is
of the proper file type, and can't be read (disk errors).

At least, that's the only times it's *supposed* to happen.

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