Re: GSoft BASIC on 3.5" disk?

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-it4-this>]

  To: Gene Linkoski
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:53:24 +0000, Gene Linkoski wrote:

> But if this is a trimmed down 3.5" disk, he may not have the Control
> Panel NDA(under the Apple Menu, if installed/enabled).

The Control Panel NDA is 19 KB, the Set Start CDEV is 7 KB and the Start
application is 2 KB for a total of 28 KB from the disk.  This is far
better than the 183 KB that the Finder uses.

It is possible to install GSoft into the System folder of the 3.5" disk
as long as the GSoft.Sys16 file ends up in the System folder and not a
sub folder.  You can then rename GSoft.Sys16 to Start and it will start
up automatically without needing the Finder or the Control Panel/Set
Start/Start file combination.

The best thing to do would be for someone to write a Start program to
put in the System folder that would simply change the prefix to the root
directory of the boot disk and launch the first file it finds that
either has a name that ends in ".Sys16" or is of the S16 file type.

Another option would be to have a text file that could be modified with
the path to the application that the user wants to have started on boot.
This way you could actually launch an S16 program that is in a folder on
the boot disk.  It could also open up the ability to put multiple paths
in the text file so you could have a mini launcher to pick which
application you wanted to run but that would have limited usefulness as
you can't get many applications on an 800 KB disk.  :-)
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