Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Questions (new to the atari, have a TT)
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.002920.23407@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <22533@netcom.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 1991 00:29:20 GMT
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In article <22533@netcom.UUCP> rodent@netcom.UUCP (Ben Discoe) writes:
> [...]
>My first problem was the apparent lack of a decent shell or editor.

I like using Gulam. It has a command line interpreter, one can write
command shells ( .g files ), it has a ue that I don't use, and a
terminal emulator.  Now, I prefer calling an editor such as STevie
(a near vi clone).  Gulam is available from atari.archive.


>I also sorely need a ramdisk facility of some sort - I've talked to
>atarioids who say they have them, so I assume it's not difficult.
>With 6 meg to kill, and a DOS that Really Thrashes the hard disk,
>I *need* a ramdisk.

There are tons of these around; I think every beginninng programmer has
written one.  However, the best is one I have found is one that happens
to have evolved out of the work of several programmers and gone through
several public versions:  EDISK.  I think that version 2.1 is the
latest. It comes with a program ECONF that "configures" the EDISK
program.  It is the first (and maybe still the only) program to set the
volume id for the ramdisk.  Amusing.  I have not figured out a use for
it though.  Again this program is available from
atari.archive.umich.edu.

Atari.archive.umich.edu is arguably the best archive site around,
certainly the best in North America.  It is both an ftp server and a
mail server.  The folks there are serious about keeping it current.