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- KICKDATE(1) AmigaOS Programmer's Manual KICKDATE(1)
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- NAME
- kickdate - saves date to kickstart disk
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- SYNOPSIS
- kickdate set | get | getset
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- DESCRIPTION
- Kickdate saves and retrieves the current system date stamp
- to the first sector of the kickstart disk. This is handy
- for A1000 users with autobooting hard drives, since it
- can save the system time across system resets and power
- cycles.
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- kickdate set
- Writes the date stamp to the disk.
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- kickdate get
- Reads the date stamp from the disk.
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- kickdate getset
- Reads the date stamp from the disk, and stays
- resident, updating the date on the disk every
- five mintues.
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- The intended use is as follows:
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- In your startup sequence, place the command
- run >nil: kickdate getset
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- type
- kickdate set
- kickdate getset
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- Now you are all set.
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- Kickdate is carefull not to scribble onto non-kickstart
- disks. It can be removed by sending it a CTRL-C (by
- using the break command).
- BUGS
- Removeing it can take up to five minutes.
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