Re: Problems running Basic.system on hard drive

[dmiller@c4systm.com]

In article <5g2ab2$qdn$1@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

> In article <5g26ql$fiv@sf18.dseg.ti.com>,
> David de Sosa <dmds@msg.ti.com> wrote:
> >I have  GS/OS 6.01 on a hard drive with a Ramfast rev C 3.01c card.  When I
> >click on the Basic.system icon, the Basic logo screen appears but there is no
> >cursor (Basic ver 1.5).  If I hit return, then the applesoft cursor ']' 
> >appears.  If I type in a small basic program and run it, it prints out
to the 
> >screen as if the 'trace' command has been activated.  
> 
>     Question: does this program have any statements of the following
> form: 'if (...) then flash'? In one of the old Nibble Magazines (Jan
> 86, or thereabouts), Sandy Mossberg's _Disassembly Lines_ covers a bug
> where a 'THEN FLASH' could force Basic.system into a trace mode.
> 
>     Other than that, I'd recommend making sure that the copy of ProDOS
> and Basic.system are the same between thge working system disk and
> your HD.

Also, David, check if you have a BASIC program named STARTUP in the same
directory as BASIC.SYSTEM.  If you do, it'll run when you launch
BASIC.SYSTEM.  It could be doing something screwy.
-- 
Dave Miller     dmiller@c4systm.com