Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!vdsvax!flash
From: perley@flash (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: vd0: was Re: Canonical List continued
Message-ID: <11854@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Date: 19 Mar 90 14:17:08 GMT
References: <1317@mindlink.UUCP>
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Reply-To: perley@trub.crd.ge.com (Donald P Perley)
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In-reply-to: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)

In article <1317@mindlink.UUCP>, a218@mindlink (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>In article <1315@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor):

>>  CANONONICAL LIST OF MOST USEFUL PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE

>Let us not forget VD0:, Perry Kivolowitz' wonderful asdg.vdisk.device.
>RAM: is OK for transient work files but doesn't survive a re-boot.
>I have never used RAD: and have no intention of ever doing so.

In this case don't you mean *shareware* rather than public domain?

While you may have reasons to prefer it, I wouldn't call it a "must have"
now that rad: comes with the operating system.  I think it was a great
product for WB 1.2.

-don perley




perley@trub.crd.ge.com