AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (03/07/88)
>Date: Tue, 1 Mar 88 04:28:14 GMT >Reply-To: Info-Apple@BRL.ARPA >From: Joel Sumner <ndmath!thelink!oliver@iuvax.cs.indiana.EDU> >Subject: ECP 16 > >This is an inquiry to anyone who has ECP 16... Is there any way that you can >just make it AUTO-BOOT instead of having to activate it through the desktop >or finder... I know it is done on much commercial software (to just leave the >selector out and run the program).. Is is possible to do with ECP 16?? >Thanks... I like the shell but I use it so infrequently (almost never) because >I hate running through the desktop first... > >Joel Sumner.. >FidoNet 1:277/3 Your inquiry is actually about ProDOS in general, not about ECP. By putting a SYS file with a name ending in ".SYSTEM" or a S16 file with a name ending in ".SYS16" in the main directory of your disk, ProDOS will run it automatically when you boot. (I don't use ECP--if the filetype is EXE rather than S16, just change it to S16 using the "filetype" command in ECP.) PorDOS runs the FIRST ".SYSTEM"/".SYS16" file it finds, scanning from the beginning of the directory, so you may need to copy the first file off, copy ECP.SYS16 onto the disk, and copy that other ".SYSTEM"/".SYS16" file back on--this way the one you want will be first. Finally, there is one complication for ProDOS 16 users: Before scanning for a startup program in the main directory, it checks for a file called START inside your SYSTEM directory. If it finds START, it runs it instead of scanning the directory. So RENAME or DELETE SYSTEM/START. (The START provided on System Disk 3.1 as shipped from Apple is a tiny application that checks potential free memory and runs either */SYSTEM/FINDER or */SYSTEM/LAUNCHER.) --David A. Lyons a.k.a. DAL Systems PO Box 287 | North Liberty, IA 52317 BITNET: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS CompuServe: 72177,3233 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2