Re: Creating Startup Disks?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>   Using SetStart eats at least 25K of disk space-- 18K for the
>required Control.Panel NDA to load any CDevs, and 7K for the actual
>SetStart CDev. When it's as simple as renaming a file to end in
>'.SYS16' and dropping it in the root directory of the disk, that extra
>25K allows you to put on larger programs or some other, more useful,
>extensions on a disk, etc. On HDs, nobody cares too much about a few K
>here and there, but on 800K disks, that's important.

Right, and I stand corrected...but I am not sure Control.Panel NDA is
needed to load all control panels.

I have had a system set to load Pointless without Control.Panel NDA
and it worked...at least that's how I remembered it.  If I am wrong,
please try it out and post the results.  I just seem to remember it this
way...