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Subject: Re: [MiNT] Patch for xaloader.prg
From: Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>
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On 2 mar 2010, at 23.47, Paul Wratt wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2 mar 2010, at 14.10, Paul Wratt wrote:
>> 
>>> just remember that mint's default folder is the current version of the
>>> kernel (after the check for c:/mint)
>> 
>> This does not apply in this case, because the loader in question loads the kernel - which in turn decides the sysdir.
> 
> so you have an inf/cnf file yes? If so, this will help.. it makes it
> more flexible

No. It's a kernel loader. It loads binaries based on the CPU type, unless a default kernel binary is available. This means that it's launch before the SYSDIR exists. The SYSDIR is a property of the kernel.

> do you have a working app yet, from your posts it sounded like you did

Yep. I posted the source to get feedback, but tbh it seems noone looked at it.

Binaries for xaloader.prg and mintload.prg can be found here:

http://www.shoggoth.se/mintload.tgz

-- PeP