Octagon PC-500, User Manual

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Save and run programs PC-500 user’s manual
Adding your application
To add your application to your SSD, do the following:
1. Three methods of copying your application to the SSD are available. Do
one of the following:
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From a local drive to the PC-500, issue the COPY command.
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From a host drive, download your application by issuing the
TRANSFER command when using PC SmartLINK. Refer to the
section, Transferring files between the PC-500 and your PC in the
Transferring files/remote disks chapter.
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To establish a remote drive and copy from it, issue the REMDISK
and REMSERV commands. Refer to the section, Transferring files
between the PC-500 and your PC in the Transferring files/remote
disks chapter.
2. Add or remove any device drivers for your application. You may want to
do the same for the CONFIG.SYS file on SSD1. Remember to add these
drivers to your drive as well.
3. To autoexecute your application, add your application name to the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. To replace our example program (DEMO.EXE)
with your application, substitute DEMO in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
with your applications’ filename.
Autoexecuting your application
This section describes how to autoexecute your application.
1. To autoexecute your application in SSD1, use the SETSSD command to
define your SSD as the boot device. Since you need to define the order
of SSD1 as the first of the SSDs (and before any IDE drives), enter the
following command:
PC500 C:\> SETSSD SSD1 SSD0 /before
2. Reset the system. SSD1 is now drive C: and your application should
begin execution.
Note If the SETUP option “Boot Sequence” is set to “A: THEN C:”, remove
any floppy in drive A: before resetting the system.
Note We recommend that you leave SSD0 in the SETSSD options or that you
have a copy of SETSSD.EXE on SSD1. This allows you to change your
boot device back to SSD0 when needed.
Note The SETSSD options are not used when W2[9-10] is not jumpered.
Overriding the autoexecution of your application
You may stop the autoexecution of your application by doing one of the
following options: