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Bootselector V2.0 (c) 1992 by Karl Lukas
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After a developping time of about one hour and more than one year of beta
testing (that's why (c) 1992) I'm proud to present a new mindboggling piece
of software to the astonished Amiga-community: (taterataa) Bootselector V2.0.
(Even if it's the first release, it's worth it's 2.0 version number).
The purpose of this program should be self-explaining. The advantage of Boot-
selector - compared to other bootselectors- is it's flexibility. That is, you
have the ability to react on the user's (your) choice from an ordinary shell-
script. I highly recommend to use Bootselector with a hard drive (ok, I guess
that was not necessary to say ;-) ).
DISCLAIMER
I take no responsibility for exploding Amigas and other unexpected things.
DISTRIBUTION (now this is really serious)
This software is FREEWARE. You may freely distribute it as long as the exe-
cutable and this document are kept together. If you distribute it on a disk
you may charge a nominal copy fee which may not be more than $2.30/sFr.3.-/
DM3.- or equivalent INCLUDING THE DISK. GERMAN PD-SELLERS, KEEP YOUR HANDS
OFF THIS PRODUCT IF YOU CAN'T TRADE AT THIS PRICE!!! There are enough people
who can. (Users, please inform me if you paid more than the above price)
THIS DOCUMENT MUST NOT BE CHANGED!!!
INSTALLATION
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o Bootselector needs the reqtools.library to be in LIBS:
o Copy the executable anywhere you like
o makedir SYS:Scripts
o Copy your own shell-scripts to SYS:Scripts. There is no limitation to the
number of scripts you can choose from except disk-space.
o add the following lines somewhere at the end of S:User-Startup:
Assign Scripts: SYS:Scripts
[path]/Bootselector
IF warn
Echo Cancelled...
ELSE
Execute ram:exfile
ENDIF
After you installed everything correctly, a filerequester pops up after every
reset. Press RETURN or click on Cancel if you want to execute the default
startup-sequence. If you select a file from the list and click the OK button,
this file will be copied to RAM:exfile, but it won't be executed. This enables
you to react on other events (e.g. Ask) before you actually execute the
script. You also have the possibility to run Bootselector at the beginning of
S:User-Startup but execute the selected script-file at the end. So things
like the following are possible:
.
[path]/Bootselector
.
. [other Shell commands]
.
IF exists ram:exfile
Execute RAM:exfile
ELSE
[whateveryouwant]
.
All the files in the Scripts: directory will be displayed. So you don't have
to maintain a config-file. It is actually possible to copy small executables
to the Scripts: drawer and execute them by typing "RAM:Exfile", but I do not
recommend to do so.
I've been using Bootselector for more than a year now and there are no bugs!!
... OK?! NO BUGS!!!
(if you have any questions, contact me at
kalle@gis.geogr.unizh.ch
or
Karl Lukas
Konradstr. 51
CH-8005 Zuerich
Switzerland )