Welcome To << Paracetamol V1.0 Final Release >> ----------------------------------------------- A Utility for all The Multiple Kickstart Hard Drive Owners out there -------------------------------------------------------------------- At last, Paracetamol is finished after 5 months of Slow Programming and Beta Testing. I hope this utility will prove as useful to everyone else, as it is to me, and please, if you feel the need to send any contribution or for questions, updates or information contact me at the address at the end of this document. The purpose of the Paracetamol Final Version (V1.0) utility is to provide all owners of multiple kickstart machines (be it soft or hardware orientated) the option of booting there machines with a different startup-sequence depending on which version of KICKSTART they have running in their machine at the time. This selection is automatically sensed by Paracetamol depending on what version of Kickstart is running at the time of execution. Paracetamol will even detect Beta test versions of Kickstart (as used by myself) and act accordingly to this. The version of Exec base being used is displayed and the appropriate version of startup-sequence is selected. You may wonder why one startup-sequence is not suitable for all Kickstarts ??? Well, the reason this product was started, is that trying to run such commands as Execute or Runback on varied Kickstarted version machines produced many horrible and annoying recoverable allert massages and software failures, depending on which Kick was installed. So, this product should solve these headaches (hence the name) by allowing a different script for each chip. Startup Selection: ------------------ The startup-sequence selction is achieved by having three different script files in the s directory of your Hard Disk. Startup-sequence1.3 is the one for the 1.3 selection Startup-sequence2.0 is the one for the 2.0 selection. Startup-sequence2.x is the one for the 2.x selection If your normal startup-sequence ends in workbench, with no CLI running, then the normal Startup-sequence should read as below. Paracetamol ;run this first to decide your choice EndCli ;Kills current Cli, as paracetamol works on its very ;own Cli level. This cannot be achieved by simply writing the selected startup-sequence (namely startup-sequence1.3 ,2.0 or 2.x) so that they end in EndCli as this will only end Paracetamol's level of CLi. Experiment, and you'll see what I mean !! Two New Execute's ??: --------------------- The reason that this disk contains in it's C directory two commands labelled Execute1.3 and Execute2.0 is that at the time this program was written, the execute command on a 1.3 workbench disk would Guru a 2.04 machine, and vice versa. Therefore to alleviate the problems that are associated with this, Paracetamol uses the two commands separately depending on which sequence you select. Each Execute command is taken off of the respective Workbench disk, and at present my next project is to write an Execute that will work on any Kickstart machine. Wait and see !!! It's Not For Me!!: ------------------ Now this program may just be your Paracetamol, but some of you may think, Hey! this is of no use to me! Well, to all of you that find it useful, I'm glad that it is of some use, and to all of you that don't, well it's a new ware to spread!! Future Improvements: -------------------- This version is the official release version of Paracetamol, and at present works correctly on every Kickstart machine I have run it on. Please contact me at the below address (NOTE:- I have moved) if you have any problems with this utility, and I will endevour to write future versions to correct this (as yet) unseen of unknown bugs. Please, if you have any ideas or programming tips on this then leave me a Note on the following BBS'S under Galdor. Conspiracey +44 0705 819410 Ghost +44 091 264 5355 The Ultimate Dream +44 0222 495919 City Limits +44 0695 571014 Hope this program may solve some of your headaches. GALDOR T.M.D. 17:10 October 7th 1992 File needed to run this Paracetamol V1.0: ----------------------------------------- (i.e. What do I need, on where, on my HardDrive !!!) (p.s. I will write an Instalation script for the next release, but just back at College at the moment, so Beer & women are beconing !!!!) sys:c/Paracetamol ;actual program in any current directory ;i.e. c/ sys:c/Execute1.3 sys:c/Execute2.0 sys:c/run ;needed for execute (any version !) sys:libs/arp.library ;needed for Run (version 39 +) sys:s/startup-sequence ;see above for note on how this should work. sys:s/startup-sequence1.3 ;script for Kickstart1.3 sys:s/startup-sequence2.0 ;script for A600, A500+ and Kickstart 2.04 ;machines sys:s/startup-sequence2.x ;script for Kickstart2.x machines ;normally run as a software Beta Kickstart Thanks: ------- Firstly, a very large thank you to Spirit of LSD , for his great document on Kickstart testing. Without whose valuable input this program would be much less reliable than it actually is. Thanks To Ash, Astropath, and Nick of TMD for saying all their helpfull coments, and suggesting this utility to me in the first place. Wicked Summer !!! Thanks To Mike & Simon, the greatest Coffee makers in the world !!!! Thanks To Bart & Matt for being mad brothers. Thanks To Martin, whose 120 Meg Hardrive still won't bloody format !!!! Thanks To Mike/TMD for many a trip down the Brickies Arms and his weird taste in music !! Thanks To Jo, who wouldn't know what this did even if I told her !!!!! Glad to be back !! Thanks To Hybrid for laughing at me when my modem f*cked up !!! Thanks To Mr.T. for giving me more software problems than I could ever of dreamed of !!!! Mr Mover author (why bother with protection ??) Finally, Thanks To " DA BOYZ " in our house. The best piss heads I know !!!!! ( Dave, Keith, Frank & Billy ) Plugs: ------ Fancy a change??? Why not try TMD Docs Disks for a fresher taste. Real Docs Disks, not just granulated. Contact any UK BBS to try them out !! Contact Address: ---------------- NoName, 48 Haselmere Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, Hants. England L8R.