Re: GS-OS problems!

[ad406@detroit.freenet.org (Avi S. Drissman)]

In a previous article, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) says:

>It occurs to me that I could write a quickie ASM program to automate this
>process:
>
>$2000:  4C 00 C6    JMP $C600   or...
>$2000:  4C 00 C5    JMP $C500
>depending on which slot I want.  Trouble is, if I store this as a binary
>file, GS/OS refuses to run it, saying that there is "no application
>associated" with the file.  And I can't seem to figure out how to store it
>as a SYS file... I tried "BSAVE BOOT6.SYSTEM,A$2000,L$06,TSYS" and got a
>PATH NOT FOUND error message.  (!).  Any tips on how I might do this?

Isn't the GS fun? For this problem, the only one I can answer, is
that BSAVE will only auto-create a binary file. The command you
give will work if the file BOOT6.SYSTEM already exists. How to
do that, you might ask? Just do:

CREATE BOOT6.SYSTEM, TSYS

Then BSAVEing will work. (Hopefully.)

Bye,
Avi

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