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From: slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey)
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Subject: Re: MEDIT/AMAC under SpartaDOS
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Date: 18 Oct 89 13:43:45 GMT
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In article <5023@cps3xx.UUCP> conklin@frith.UUCP (Terry Conklin) writes:
>Has anyone ever successfuly used AMAC and MEDIT under SpartaDOS?

I never got it to work, I suspect because AMAC can have far more than
7 files open at once, and I suspect in order to do this it ends up
twiddling the I/O system at a lower level than regular software would,
and SpartaDOS probably doesn't look the same as DOS2 in its lower
levels.  The behavior I saw was it would read the first file, but hung
when accessing the first INCLUDE'd file.

AMAC does however run under MYDOS, which has tons of RAMdisk support.
I use AMAC under MYDOS, with the text/program editor I wrote (under
AMAC.)

The reason AMAC has its drive 1 fixation is for the &^*$% copy 
protection.  This subject came up here a week or two ago.

-Stan