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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40 Folder Bug *BACK* in TOS 1.4?!
Summary: Atari never said it was F I X E D, only improved.
Message-ID: <879@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 20:22:03 GMT
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> 
> A WARNING TO ALL TOS 1.4 USERS!!!
>  
> Despite what Atari has said about the 40 folder bug being fixed in TOS
> 1.4, IT ISN'T!  Actually, the "40 folder" problem in previous
> versions of TOS may have indeed been fixed, but in reducing the amount
>  
> I STRONGLY recommend using FOLDRXXX.PRG or CACHENNN.PRG in your AUTO
> folder. FOLDRXXX.PRG seems to work since the added buffers are put at
>  
> Fix a bug, create a bug. That's Atari for you. Oh, well....
> -- 
> Diane Barlow Close
>       {nosc, ucsd}!crash!canada
>       canada@crash.cts.com
>       Free Canada -- Trade Mulroney

Diane,  ATARI has stated from the beginning the 40 folder bug was being reduced
to levels of improbability, not removed.
Further, in the Developer docs (I know, you didn't buy them; I did) it further
states that lots of recursion in subdirectoried will definitely require using
FOLDRXXX.PRG.

Someone once said that any program larger than a page is never fully debugged.
I'm sure that there still reside bugs with TOS 1.4, but its reality, not the
"ATARI" syndrom that will cause them.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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