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Re: Prodos startup order?
Where can I get Prosel. There's one on the Asimov mirror but it I don't
think that it's working correctly, and the Prosel utilities disk is when I
catalog it from Prodos system utilities.
Is there another source for Prosel, preferably the install disk?
Ernest
O Aaland wrote in message <20000604051834.14771.00001786@ng-xb1.aol.com>...
>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
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>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
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