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From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: DOS 3.3 question
Message-ID: <1990Mar14.051525.28048@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 05:15:25 GMT
References: <1441@mountn.dec.com>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <1441@mountn.dec.com> shatara@memit.enet.dec.com (Chris Shatara) writes:
>Question how do I specify that I want the "HELLO" program to be executed 
>at startup.  If you couldn't guess, I hardly ever use DOS 3.3 so I have 
>ZERO documentation on it.

Sounds to me like they didn't supply an unaltered copy of DOS 3.3.  If you have
a sector editor (Copy II Plus has one), you should find the name of the startup
program in track 1, sector 9.  This is an ordinary string with the high bits
set and no length byte, unlike ProDOS.  Change the string to "HELLO" followed
by as many spaces are needed to erase the old name.  Write the sector back to
disk and reboot.  All should work with no problem.

(This, of course, assumes that you have DOS 3.3.  If you have Pronto-DOS or
Diversi-DOS, the location of the filename may be different.  Get back with
me and let me know if it worked.  If not, I'll take a look at Pronto-DOS and
Diversi-DOS and find the addresses of the startup filenames for them.)

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