[net.micro.atari16] AUTO question

franco@iuvax.UUCP (04/04/86)

Does anyone know how to predict whether a .prg will execute from AUTO
with TOS in ROM?

dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) (04/12/86)

In article <54600047@iuvax.UUCP>, franco@iuvax.UUCP writes:
> 
> Does anyone know how to predict whether a .prg will execute from AUTO
> with TOS in ROM?

TOS will execute files

	<bootdevice>:\AUTO\*.PRG

in the order that they are in in the directory (as opposed to
the order they APPEAR to be in in a desktop window).  You cannot
do AES calls from a program in the auto folder.

Usually the boot device is A:, but that can be changed by the
boot sector, if the boot sector so desires.  Thus, with the DAS
BOOT ROMs, you could boot from B: (or, if you were extraordinarly
lucky or flush, C:).

This works with any version of TOS, be it in ROM or in RAM.


-Landon