Re: SIS chopping pages...

[joko@DELETE.THIS.concentric.net]

Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com> wrote:
>  Joko@!Delete.This!concent chanted almost zenlike:

>  JT| As a member of the Spectrum Internet Suite v1.0 and 1.1 beta test
>    | team, I'd like to suggest that your friend get in the habit of
>    | _ALWAYS_ Shift-Booting before running SIS.

> So how do you get the Marinetti CDEV in memory if you are shft-booting?

SIS works from a dial-up shell account, so I just dial into my ISP using
Spectrum. Marinetti allows you to make a PPP connection, but then you'd
need to telnet to a shell to run SIS, so why bother if you already have a
dial up shell account?

So, a better question would be: How the heck do you do a shift-boot AND
load DAs or Cdevs?

Simple!

ShiftyList to the rescue!

Sheppy wrote a utility program which allows you to assign what
add-ons you want loaded with a shift-boot. ShiftyList lets you have sounds
and startup pics and DAs and Control Panels.

So, when I do a Shift-Boot for Spectrum, I actually do load Pointless and
NiftySpell. Pointless so that the screen looks good; NiftySpell so that I
look good ;-)

Although there have been two recent updates to ShiftyList (it's now at
version 2.0.2) there is a v2.0 demo avalable on the Sheppyware site at
http://www.sheppyware.net

Check it out; you may find it useful. I liked it so much, I distribute it
for Sheppy ;-)

Joe Kohn
http://www.concentric.net/~joko