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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).
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- 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.
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- 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!!!
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- 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:
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- 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]
- .
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- IF exists ram:exfile
- Execute RAM:exfile
- ELSE
- [whateveryouwant]
- .
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- 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.
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- 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
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- kalle@gis.geogr.unizh.ch
- or
- Karl Lukas
- Konradstr. 51
- CH-8005 Zuerich
- Switzerland )
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