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MiNT 1.04

# MiNT configuration file. Edit this with a normal ASCII text editor

# Lines starting with '#' are comments. Other lines are commands for

# MiNT to execute at boot up, or variables that control how MiNT

# behaves.



# Here are some variables you can set. First, and most important, is the

# full path+name of the file that contains the version of GEM to execute.



INIT=c:\mint\gem.sys



#

# OK; other things you can change if you want to. There are reasonable

# defaults for all of these.

#



# MAXMEM= gives the maximum amount of memory that any process may use

# (in kilobytes). The default is to make this unlimited, but if you have

# a lot of memory and/or programs that grab more memory than they should,

# try setting this.

# e.g. to limit processes to 4096K of memory, remove the '#' at the

# beginning of the next line.



#MAXMEM=4096



# SLICES controls how long a process may run before being interrupted.

# The default value (2) is usually best, but if you tend to run

# very processor intensive applications in the foreground, you might

# want to put SLICES=3 (this makes cpu hogs get more time than they

# otherwise would).



#SLICES=3



# DEBUG_LEVEL controls output of debugging information. The higher

# the level, the more stuff MiNT will spew about about what it's doing.

# The average user doesn't want to hear about this stuff, so the default

# is 0.

# DEBUG_DEVNO is the BIOS device number to which the info should be sent.

# The default is the screen



#DEBUG_LEVEL=1

#DEBUG_DEVNO=3



# BIOSBUF controls how BIOS I/O is performed. Normally, MiNT tries to buffer

# this to provide a (considerable) improvement in speed. However, some

# applications may get upset by this. BIOSBUF=no turns off all buffering

# for maximum compatibility.



#BIOSBUF=no



#

# Here are some commands that you can give to MiNT:

# alias d: path	-- make a fake "drive" that actually points to the given

					path

# cd path		-- changes MiNT's default directory

# echo message	-- print something on the screen

# exec program	-- runs a program; you must give the complete path

#					and file extensions (e.g. c:\bin\echo.prg)

# sln path link	-- make a symbolic link named "link" pointing to "path"

#					"link" must be on drive U: for this to work



# Examples follow

#

# Old versions of MiNT used drive letters Q:, X:, and V: to stand for

# the pipe, process, and device directories, respectively. This is no

# longer directly supported, but we can use 'alias' to achieve the same

# effect, as follows:

#

#alias q: u:\pipe

#alias x: u:\proc

#alias v: u:\dev



#You could also use "alias" to provide a quick way of getting at

#nested directories, e.g. if you do

#alias r: c:\some\long\path

#then clicking on drive r: puts you into the folder c:\some\long\path



#

# The "echo" command is really straightforward.

#

#echo Now booting MiNT.

#



#

# The "exec" command is used to launch programs. Note that programs

# so launched are started before GEM is, so they must be TOS/TTP

# programs. Most commonly used for starting device drivers.



#exec c:\mint\clockdev.prg -a



#

# The "sln" command may be used to create "links" on drive U:. If

# u:\foo is a link to c:\bar, then u:\foo\foo.txt is another way

# of saying c:\bar\foo.txt. Judicious use of links can make

# re-arranging hard disks and directories painless (if you always

# use the names on drive u:, it doesn't matter where you put

# the actual directories).



#sln c:\bin u:\bin

#sln c:\mint\app u:\app

#sln d:\termcap\etc u:\etc

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