Re: bsq files

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill Garber wrote:

>"John" <appleiieman@charter.net> wrote in message
>62o600lse8slvdcd0ma82kvb2kjv62usu9@4ax.com">news:62o600lse8slvdcd0ma82kvb2kjv62usu9@4ax.com...
>: OK.  Got the file, now what am I supposed to do with it and
>make it
>: work.  timeii.set works just fine.  what is the sys file for?
>:
>: John
>
>Put the SYS file and the BAS file on a disk
>with ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM and boot it.
>The SYS file should be the program that lets
>ProDOS access your clock in other programs
>that support a clock card.

For the SYS file to patch ProDOS's clock driver, as I expect
it is supposed to, it will need to be the _first_ SYS file in the
root directory.  That will cause ProDOS to run it at boot time,
then it, no doubt, will finish by loading the _next_ SYS file,
which, in this case, will be BASIC.SYSTEM.

You can make it first by copying it to a disk before copying
BASIC.SYSTEM, or by using a utility to re-arrange the
directory order.

-michael

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