[Coco] Startup File

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/13/03 7:05:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
robert.gault at worldnet.att.net writes:

> I don't remember anything like a key press that will bypass the Startup 
>  file. However, brute force could be used here.
>  Use a raw disk editor either from a good OS-9 boot or Disk Basic to 
>  change the name of the Startup file on the corrupted disk; S to X for 
>  example. Then when OS-9 starts, it won't find a Startup file.

Say, did anyone else notice an L2 bug, whereby your Startup file could not be 
more than 256 bytes total?  I forget whether too-big a file would cause the 
boot to hang, or just to ignore the extra bytes (usually with an error since 
the last line executed was chopped in half).

My Startup file consists only of the line "Start", and all my commands are in 
the Start file.

Well, I may have found a fix for this some time ago.  But will check next 
time I look. 
--Mike K.