From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Mar 2 03:56:40 2010 Message-ID: <592CF927B4E443FC915A82991EC823A7@mercatus.local> From: "Jo Even Skarstein" To: "mint_list" References: <72454075-6FA5-46CA-A174-A3AE573771A6@gmail.com> <20100301222525.bcb94ec5.mandin.patrice@orange.fr> <04F5AE6B-D53F-4EE1-BA57-9BA46392BD13@gmail.com> <1B8C9039-CFB4-4675-9E79-5D1CC4F54DAC@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for xaloader.prg Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:54:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00D6_01CAB9EE.4D238950" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8089.726 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8089.726 X-EsetScannerBuild: 6677 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: joska@online.no Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Dette er en melding med flere deler i MIME-format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D6_01CAB9EE.4D238950 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_00D7_01CAB9EE.4D23B060" ------=_NextPart_001_00D7_01CAB9EE.4D23B060 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MiNT can execute programs from the autofolder, which is something I take = advantage of. Editing mint.cnf is a pain compared to using a = boot-manager. Btw. $SYSDIR is set by MiNT, so it's hardly useful to a program that = loads MiNT=20 Jo Even From: Miro Kropacek=20 Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:28 AM To: Peter Persson=20 Cc: Patrice Mandin ; mint Mailing-List=20 Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for xaloader.prg I definitely agree with all this, but right now I'll prefer doing = something which can be used "today" :) Of course, feel free to begin with what suits you best :) I've written a loader which loads kernel binaries from /mint/ and = allows the kernel to process the remainder of the auto folder (some ugly = DTA magic was needed, but it's the same ugly magic that's already in the = kernel init code (init.c, get_my_name()). Why all this hassle? Shouldn't mint.prg be the last program to execute = from AUTO? (the rest should be from mint.cnf or xaaes.cnf) #define MINTDIR "c:\\mint" There's better way -- env variable called SYSDIR (try echo $SYSDIR in = shell :) --=20 MiKRO / Mystic Bytes http://mikro.atari.org ------=_NextPart_001_00D7_01CAB9EE.4D23B060 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
MiNT can execute programs from the autofolder, = which is=20 something I take advantage of. Editing mint.cnf is a pain compared to = using a=20 boot-manager.
 
Btw. $SYSDIR is set by MiNT, so it's hardly = useful to a=20 program that loads MiNT 3D"Smilefjes
 
Jo Even

Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:28 AM
To: Peter Persson
Cc: Patrice Mandin ; mint = Mailing-List=20
Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for xaloader.prg

I definitely agree with all this, but right now I'll = prefer=20 doing something which can be used "today" :)
Of course, feel free to begin with what suits you best :)

I've written a loader which loads kernel binaries = from=20 /mint/ and allows the kernel to process the remainder of the auto = folder (some=20 ugly DTA magic was needed, but it's the same ugly magic that's already = in the=20 kernel init code (init.c, get_my_name()).
Why all this hassle? Shouldn't mint.prg be the last program to = execute from=20 AUTO? (the rest should be from mint.cnf or xaaes.cnf)

#define MINTDIR      =20  "c:\\mint"
There's better way -- env variable called SYSDIR (try echo $SYSDIR = in shell=20 :)

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