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1.1.1.2 ! root        1: # MiNT configuration file. Edit this with a normal ASCII text editor
        !             2: 
        !             3: # Lines starting with '#' are comments. Other lines are commands for
        !             4: 
        !             5: # MiNT to execute at boot up, or variables that control how MiNT
        !             6: 
        !             7: # behaves.
        !             8: 
        !             9: 
        !            10: 
        !            11: # Here are some variables you can set. First, and most important, is the
        !            12: 
        !            13: # full path+name of the file that contains the version of GEM to execute.
        !            14: 
        !            15: 
        !            16: 
        !            17: INIT=c:\mint\gem.sys
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        !            19: 
        !            20: 
        !            21: #
        !            22: 
        !            23: # OK; other things you can change if you want to. There are reasonable
        !            24: 
        !            25: # defaults for all of these.
        !            26: 
        !            27: #
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        !            29: 
        !            30: 
        !            31: # MAXMEM= gives the maximum amount of memory that any process may use
        !            32: 
        !            33: # (in kilobytes). The default is to make this unlimited, but if you have
        !            34: 
        !            35: # a lot of memory and/or programs that grab more memory than they should,
        !            36: 
        !            37: # try setting this.
        !            38: 
        !            39: # e.g. to limit processes to 4096K of memory, remove the '#' at the
        !            40: 
        !            41: # beginning of the next line.
        !            42: 
        !            43: 
        !            44: 
        !            45: #MAXMEM=4096
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        !            47: 
        !            48: 
        !            49: # SLICES controls how long a process may run before being interrupted.
        !            50: 
        !            51: # The default value (2) is usually best, but if you tend to run
        !            52: 
        !            53: # very processor intensive applications in the foreground, you might
        !            54: 
        !            55: # want to put SLICES=3 (this makes cpu hogs get more time than they
        !            56: 
        !            57: # otherwise would).
        !            58: 
        !            59: 
        !            60: 
        !            61: #SLICES=3
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        !            63: 
        !            64: 
        !            65: # DEBUG_LEVEL controls output of debugging information. The higher
        !            66: 
        !            67: # the level, the more stuff MiNT will spew about about what it's doing.
        !            68: 
        !            69: # The average user doesn't want to hear about this stuff, so the default
        !            70: 
        !            71: # is 0.
        !            72: 
        !            73: # DEBUG_DEVNO is the BIOS device number to which the info should be sent.
        !            74: 
        !            75: # The default is the screen
        !            76: 
        !            77: 
        !            78: 
        !            79: #DEBUG_LEVEL=1
        !            80: 
        !            81: #DEBUG_DEVNO=3
        !            82: 
        !            83: 
        !            84: 
        !            85: # BIOSBUF controls how BIOS I/O is performed. Normally, MiNT tries to buffer
        !            86: 
        !            87: # this to provide a (considerable) improvement in speed. However, some
        !            88: 
        !            89: # applications may get upset by this. BIOSBUF=no turns off all buffering
        !            90: 
        !            91: # for maximum compatibility.
        !            92: 
        !            93: 
        !            94: 
        !            95: #BIOSBUF=no
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        !            97: 
        !            98: 
        !            99: #
        !           100: 
        !           101: # Here are some commands that you can give to MiNT:
        !           102: 
        !           103: # alias d: path        -- make a fake "drive" that actually points to the given
        !           104: 
        !           105:                                        path
        !           106: 
        !           107: # cd path              -- changes MiNT's default directory
        !           108: 
        !           109: # echo message -- print something on the screen
        !           110: 
        !           111: # exec program -- runs a program; you must give the complete path
        !           112: 
        !           113: #                                      and file extensions (e.g. c:\bin\echo.prg)
        !           114: 
        !           115: # sln path link        -- make a symbolic link named "link" pointing to "path"
        !           116: 
        !           117: #                                      "link" must be on drive U: for this to work
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        !           119: 
        !           120: 
        !           121: # Examples follow
        !           122: 
        !           123: #
        !           124: 
        !           125: # Old versions of MiNT used drive letters Q:, X:, and V: to stand for
        !           126: 
        !           127: # the pipe, process, and device directories, respectively. This is no
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        !           129: # longer directly supported, but we can use 'alias' to achieve the same
        !           130: 
        !           131: # effect, as follows:
        !           132: 
        !           133: #
        !           134: 
        !           135: #alias q: u:\pipe
        !           136: 
        !           137: #alias x: u:\proc
        !           138: 
        !           139: #alias v: u:\dev
        !           140: 
        !           141: 
        !           142: 
        !           143: #You could also use "alias" to provide a quick way of getting at
        !           144: 
        !           145: #nested directories, e.g. if you do
        !           146: 
        !           147: #alias r: c:\some\long\path
        !           148: 
        !           149: #then clicking on drive r: puts you into the folder c:\some\long\path
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        !           152: 
        !           153: #
        !           154: 
        !           155: # The "echo" command is really straightforward.
        !           156: 
        !           157: #
        !           158: 
        !           159: #echo Now booting MiNT.
        !           160: 
        !           161: #
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        !           163: 
        !           164: 
        !           165: #
        !           166: 
        !           167: # The "exec" command is used to launch programs. Note that programs
        !           168: 
        !           169: # so launched are started before GEM is, so they must be TOS/TTP
        !           170: 
        !           171: # programs. Most commonly used for starting device drivers.
        !           172: 
        !           173: 
        !           174: 
        !           175: #exec c:\mint\clockdev.prg -a
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        !           178: 
        !           179: #
        !           180: 
        !           181: # The "sln" command may be used to create "links" on drive U:. If
        !           182: 
        !           183: # u:\foo is a link to c:\bar, then u:\foo\foo.txt is another way
        !           184: 
        !           185: # of saying c:\bar\foo.txt. Judicious use of links can make
        !           186: 
        !           187: # re-arranging hard disks and directories painless (if you always
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        !           189: # use the names on drive u:, it doesn't matter where you put
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        !           191: # the actual directories).
        !           192: 
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        !           194: 
        !           195: #sln c:\bin u:\bin
        !           196: 
        !           197: #sln c:\mint\app u:\app
        !           198: 
        !           199: #sln d:\termcap\etc u:\etc
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