Re: Goodbye GS/OS (was:Aliases in GS/OS)

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

andrew.roughan suggested:

>Simon Williams <DON'Temail@luddite.ca> wrote in message
>news:<1213181.YYNYKHMJ@news.telusplanet.net>...
>> The Apple-Ctrl-Esc control panel doesn't seem to remember it's settings,
>> which I presume is because the battery is shot... I'm willing to bet 
>> that Wal-Mart doesn't stock these batteries, so is there any modern 
>> equivalent that can be shoe-horned into place?
>
>As an alternative to purchasing a battery and fiddling with a
>soldering iron, you may like to consider a software alternative.
>Richard Bennett's ILTS can restore Battery settings on startup. It
>sticks itself inside the ProDOS System file (the actual ProDOS 8, not
>the GS/OS Prodos loader). Seeing as you have ditched GS/OS, it may do
>what you need.
>It can do a couple of other neat things too.
>http://cgi.zipworld.com.au/~kashum/rjbutils.pl?cmd=downloads
>http://www.zip.com.au/~kashum/textpage/lib/ilts.shk

Cool idea--but it certainly won't keep time!

-michael

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