Re: Prodos startup order?

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

Ruud Dingemans wr1tes:

> Well, I can't find it in any faq or doc, so here goes:
>
> How does one change the startup order in ProDOS? So, if I have
> BASIC.SYSTEM and WAHOO.SYSTEM and the former boots up (first),
> how do you make WAHOO the first one to load? (Without moving
> BASIC.SYSTEM to another directory, of course - that'd be too obvious.)
>
> Regards, Rudy


The easiest way is probably to use ProSel 8 and sort thr directory.
ProSel will let you arrange the files in a directory in whatever
order you want and then write the new directory back to the disk.
The files themselves are not actually moved, only the order in which
the file names appear in the directory.

After ProDOS loads it looks for a file called ATINT (used for 
networking) and loads that file. If ATINT is not present in the main
directory ProDOS then looks for the first file that ends with .SYSTEM 
and loads that file.

Owen