Short: Watch Amiga Boot Sequence Happen! + More :-) Author: Ron Hackett ronnie@bobsobol.freeserve.co.uk Uploader: Ron Hackett ronnie bobsobol freeserve co uk Type: util/boot Version: 1.62 (03/01/1999) Architecture: m68k-amigaos Extracts from PipeCon.Doc in Archive... 8X/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ The perpose of this program was oridginally to have a more useful alternative to the usual Boot Screen utility. You know how those Pee See things used to boot before W95, screaming through all the output from the execution of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC. 8X\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ I actually find that kind of junk useful, cos I can see what commands are takeing up the most time in my boot sequence and improve them (maby?) and the whole thing usually freezes for a while if it's going to crash, giving me the oppertunity to at least see just how far it definatly DID get through the boot proceedure. 8X/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ What I need (I thought) is some kind of console on a screen other than the public Workbench screen. Well I tried to open a Public screen and place the Shell Con onto that, and it really didn't work all that well. I thought of shoving all this info out to a file that I could look at later, but then that dosn't make booting any more interesting, and if I KNOW the machine is going to crash I'd really rather minimise the amount of HDD work it's doing at the time. 8X\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ It works on three fixed files in RAM: - Con,Note and Exit. 8X/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ You don't even need to use the exit file since 1.1 as you can now issue a BREAK to PipeCon provided you know it's process number, (2?) You may like to look up BreakName on the Aminet! The 'exit' file remains for compatability. If no-one wants it, it may go in version 2. Lines read from note will come up in the Highlight colour (Currently Red? v1.4 May still change) This means you can (as do I) redirect comments from ECHOs out to the note file whilst all other StdIO is sent to Con, or you could send StdErr to Note or (and this seems a really neat idea to me) you could send the output from your fave monitor program (SnoopDOS say) to it. Reasently I have used PipeCon to send the startup output from ADoom or AmigaDoom to it so it looks more professional and a bit more like Doom on the PC. Troble is they both send the AHI sound setup information to the Con: device in a manner not via the 'StdIO', It may be 'StdErr' I haven't checked. Since 1.5 it has aquired a percentage bar. 8X\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ _____ / /| / \ / | / \/ * / \ ----------------- () ___ ___ )( )( o _ o () () - )( )( (_) () )() _ _ )() )()( \___/ ()() ()()/\ /\)()( ___)( \ / ()___ .______________________ ( ()\ \_/ /)( ) __ / | | )( \ |0| / () | | |_) . / . | \ ()/|\/|\/|/@ / . / / |/ ----------------o--. /| / ! .