Re: Creating Startup Disks?

["Otter" <otter@oz.net>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:06:20 -0800, 
Bob and Linda Barrett   <blbarret@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>Okay.  I've now gotten to the point where I have been able to download
>and use programs off the net on my IIgs at the Finder level.  However, I
>want to be able to create bootable program disks for students at my
>school (I don't want them messing around in the Finder) and of course
>for the Apple IIe's I have.
>According to the Apple II FAQ, I simply need to copy ProDOs and a
>Basic.system to the disk to make it work.  Unfortunately, it hasn't.  It
>gets me into AppleSoft Basic, but then I can't seem to access the
>programs I have on the disk.

Startup isn't absolutely mandatory.  To access your programs from the 
Applesoft prompt, you can just enter   -filename if the file is of a 
BAS, SYS or BIN filetype.  Of course, some BIN files are just data and 
not programs, such as hi-res images  (you can view these with either 
the hgr or hgr2 command followed by bload filename, a$2000.)

Additionally, in some later versions of ProDOS, BYE will take you to a 
primitive program selector (it only shows directories and SYS files 
though.)

-- Otter