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        DOCUMENTATION FILE FOR POWER UP MESSAGES ON THE 48SX
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Here is my entry for the USELESS PROGRAM OF THE YEAR contest...

This collection of programs provides a cute little power up message on the
display of your 48SX.  Info such as a greeting, time since last boot, time
last booted and kBytes of available memory.  Useful for little else other than
impressing other computer geeks!  All programs are in a directory named
BOOTMESS.  The directory checksum is 14C4 (hex).

The only really useful program included is PRESERVE which take an object from
level 1 and evaluates it.  It then restores the 48SX flags to thier condition
prior to evaluation of the object.  I believe Bill Wickes wrote it.

GREET is a program that places a string on the stack based on the time of day.

SYSUP is a program to run once your 48SX is configured the way you want it.  I
run it after the 48SX restores memory from an archive.  (Note that these
programs must have been in the archive!)  SYSUP must be run before the rest of
these programs can be used.  It creates a list named BOOTTIME.

UPTIM provides a display of information based on the contents of BOOTTIME,
time of day and memory available.  It looks something like this...

GOOD MORNING             (greeting)
Booted: 12/22/90  09:37  (date and time of last boot, when SYSUP was run)
Online: 0.1.1432         (up for 0 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes, 32 seconds)
kBytes: 29.5             (29.5 k bytes of free memory.  1 kbyte = 1024 bytes)

SIGNOFF shuts the 48SX off and allows SYSUP to run when it is turned back on.
You may want to assign SIGNOFF to the OFF key.  You may also want to place
the programs in your HOME directory if you do any key assignments.

Like I said, pretty useless!  What else was I going to do on a boring Saturday
morning?

Kevin Jessup
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