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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Don't fill your HD (was: format is brain dead)
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Date: 1 Dec 90 00:16:44 GMT
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In <13383@chaph.usc.edu>, aliu@aludra.usc.edu (Alex C. Liu) writes:
>In article <1990Nov29.191350.2273@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes:
>>I have had problems with a full 880k disk! Don't believe me? Take a workbench
>>and stuff it with files as best as possible. Then try to open a shell. It will
>>not open the shell on mine, so I assume that some programs write to the disk
>>for some reason and need a little space. Maybe 5k is enough for a floppy. :)
>
>Well, I noticed that ALL AmigaDOS scripts creates temp file in T:.
>Since the startup-sequence is also a script, then it must write into
>your Boot disk when first starting up the machine. (This is even
>before you get a chance to assign T: to RAM:)

All Amigados scripts do not create a temp file. A temp file is created under
certain conditions. One of those is when another 'execute' is kicked off from a
script. You can avoid the temp file generated by excuting another script by
executing it using a 'NewCLI' or 'NewShell', with the FROM keyword naming the
script you are starting.

>In order words, you can fill you Disk up to 100% if and only if you
>are sure that you are not going to boot from that disk.

The only thing to watch for is the temp file, and that you make sure you have
assigned T: to somewhere else before it gets created.

-larry

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